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That's how you know no one in charge has a real life, they're all so disconnected from the reality of the bottom 90% that they think this is how we live. Same
by toasty228 9d ago
That's how you know no one in charge has a real life, they're all so disconnected from the reality of the bottom 90% that they think this is how we live.
Same with the "airpod live translation" thing, they probably spent more time implementing/testing it than the feature has been used in real life
- xattt 9d agoThe demo of the woman at the train station listening to a concert promoter in Spanish, taking a flyer, saying “thank you” in English and walking away came off as quite geocentric.
- Jtsummers 9d ago> came off as quite geocentric Did you mean to use another word here? I mean, the vast majority of people are still on Earth so many things are geocentric and that's rarely considered a problem.
- embedding-shape 9d ago> Did you mean to use another word here? Hazarding a guess at egocentric considering it's just two characters next to each other swapped, and happens to fit.
- xattt 9d agoI am mortified. I was going for something along the lines of ethnocentric. Thank you :)
- Jtsummers 9d agoStopping to listen to someone is not very egocentric. Without the headphones (in the scenario) she would have just ignored him or politely declined the flyer. So either way, wrong word.
- ValentineC 7d agoI'd have expected some gesturing to the AirPods or to a phone, and not assuming that the flyer person would know that those magical earbuds would translate everything he said.
- dullcrisp 9d agoThey’re making an oblique reference to Pope Urban VIII.
- Caracas288 9d agoYeah, they're always leaving the Martians out!
- brookst 9d agoMan I love live translation. I was traveling in the Middle East and went to see a movie and… it worked. My Spanish is mid, my Italian is barely there, my Arabic is near zero. It’s hard for me to imagine not wanting language barriers to disappear.
- testdelacc1 9d agoThis reminds me of the last time I saw an Arabic movie. It was last week. I used subtitles.
- Ar-Curunir 9d agoOh yeah, the real world has subtitles, right?
- brookst 8d agoAre you saying I should have asked the theater to project subtitles?