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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 with the "airpod live translation" thing, they probably spent more time implementing/testing it than the feature has been used in real life

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Man 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.

This reminds me of the last time I saw an Arabic movie. It was last week. I used subtitles.

Oh yeah, the real world has subtitles, right?

Are you saying I should have asked the theater to project subtitles?

The 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.

> 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.

> 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.

I am mortified. I was going for something along the lines of ethnocentric. Thank you :)

Stopping 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.

I'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.

They’re making an oblique reference to Pope Urban VIII.

Yeah, they're always leaving the Martians out!

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