Weil ich kein Bock hab, von Ami-Kultur überrannt zu werden? Meinetwegen.

Both the US troops in Germany and the German speakers in the US speak English, they don’t need a translation. I don’t want a version tailored to me, I’m questioning why this one exists if they wouldn’t put thd effort in to tailor it to anyone.

I’m talking specifically about the translation. Are you saying the German and other versions are meant for a US audience?

That does make the process clearer, yes. Thank you.

If you’re implying I should read the article: I have.

I don’t get it. The kid called the wrong number - and that’s why that tracking thing exists. Huh?

What exactly are they “tracking” anyway?

Edit: in case you decide to continue reading this trainwreck, I only ask this one courtesy of you: be aware that my issue is with the translation and nothing else, least of all the tracker itself. Cheers.

Personal gripe: Looking at the actual tracker page noradsanta.org, I thought it was a funny idea to translate this very USian thing into other languages without, apparently, accounting for local traditions. It says, for example, that in most countries Santa Claus only comes when children sleep, between 9pm and midnight on 24th Dec. That’s not true for German traditions: we get our presents in the evening on Christmas Eve. He also doesn’t come down any chimneys. (In some places there isn’t even a “Santa Claus” who brings the presents but a kind of angel child figure vaguely associated with Jesus.)

Yes, it says “most countries” but the cynic in me can only see this as a kind of cultural imperialism where the US/Anglosphere tradition is given priority over any local one. I don’t even celebrate and I’m still annoyed…

(The translation is wonky in places too (“Jetzt kannst du mit dem Verfolgen des Weihnachtsmannes beginnen”), even ignoring the content not being localised, but oh well.)

If nothing else, it’s “look at all these people using our services, that’s proof we’re awesome, even on the free tier, so imagine what you’ll get if you pay us!” ¯\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

Christmas is one of a number of important rituals that are distributed between cultures and spaced out in specific intervals over the year to keep Dread Cthulhu sleeping so no it can’t be postponed. When Santa is sad that he won’t be able to deliver gifts, he doesn’t give a crap about the kids who’ll be so very sad they’re not getting the newest Barbie Pony Slaystation, he’s really deathly afraid of what’s going to happen to the world.

modern revival of a similar invention featured at the 1970 Osaka Expo

I wasn’t seriously asking why, I was pretending to be offended that antifascists from eastern regions of Germany (“Ost”) are supposedly more important than those from western regions :) this whole affair is obviously ludicrous and nothing but an excuse to persecute and intimidate their opponents.

Antifa Ost

What, why specifically them? Are we not good enough? Time to burn some cars, comrades!

(dear friends in the US administration: this is a joke.)

What do you mean, “using AI”? Did you vibe-code? Does the AI help with journalling? If the latter: who wants that?

So they skipped the Dalek phase, huh?

Surely we can find welfare policies to cut. I mean, do your kids REALLY need to eat EVERY day? /s

Edit: Why’d you delete…? That was a valid question.

Well yes. But the person I responded to implied they’d be in favour of taxing the rich even if the money wasn’t needed elsewhere - in this hypothetical, utopian case I wouldn’t give a shit about their taxes. (Again, I know they were being facetious, I’m just mad at this woman right now and don’t want to see the humour in it)

I get the joke but seriously, I couldn’t care less how much money they hoard if it wasn’t desperately needed elsewhere. Taxing the rich is neither for shits and giggles nor for the sake of it.

Edit: man, I wish I’d learn to keep my stupid mouth shut instead of always inadvertently provoking misunderstandings.

Blablabla I don’t care about her life story, wtf does she mean “for the sake of it”? Nobody wants to raise taxes for shits and giggles!

Oh, is that Bielefeld’s twin town?

Edit: : is not ’

Okay, up until this I was willing to believe all the nonsense you’ve come up with might in fact be what a real person alive today might realistically think but now you’re reaching.

Ah, if you INSULT a police officer, that’s what’s punishable. That’s actively antagonising them, not just not liking them.

Mind you, I don’t think insulting a police officer should hold any more severe punishment than insulting anyone else. So yeah, that’s bullshit.

I’m in Germany, there’s a common myth that “Beamtenbeleidigung”, insulting an official, is a criminal offence. It’s not - if you insult anyone, regardless of their job, they can sue. Police are just more likely to actually go through with that because they have a reputation to uphold.