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One giant step forward towards peace on earth. The day every Russian or Chinese can listen to English-speaking news in their native tongue will have a massive

One giant step forward towards peace on earth. The day every Russian or Chinese can listen to English-speaking news in their native tongue will have a massive impact on how tight a leash their local thuggish governments can keep on them. Conversely, the day every American finally has access to non US-controlled world news automatically translated to English will be a giant step towards the US finally understanding how the rest of the world functions, and perhaps they'll finally become capable of deciding democratically to stop meddling in other people's affairs.

cooper_ganglia 3y ago
Perhaps I’m a bit too cynical about my own country, but I don’t see a day in the near future where the average American even cares about factually correct news instead of ideologically validating news, let alone going out of their way to translate foreign news to better understand the world; The people who care enough to do that are already doing that with existing technology. Making it more accessible probably won’t change too much, unfortunately.
- fennecfoxy 3y ago
  Unfortunately, flag-carrying is hard-coded into our firmware. :/ It does make me laugh to think of some fun places we can stick USB cables to initiate a DFU.
fennecfoxy 3y ago
I'm not sure, it will definitely improve things, but insofar as the informational warfare part of the republican party in the US has shown us in the rest of the world, both Democrats and Republicans speak English and therefore the real barrier seems to be ideological rather than communication. The only real solution is to remove our human/animal nature; a lot of people only care about something if it directly affects them. A lot of hot topic issues in the US at the moment seem to circle around controlling others (abortion, gay rights) and the freedom to do what you want even if it affects others (guns, owning an oversized vehicle).

cooper_ganglia 3y ago

Perhaps I’m a bit too cynical about my own country, but I don’t see a day in the near future where the average American even cares about factually correct news instead of ideologically validating news, let alone going out of their way to translate foreign news to better understand the world; The people who care enough to do that are already doing that with existing technology. Making it more accessible probably won’t change too much, unfortunately.

fennecfoxy 3y ago
Unfortunately, flag-carrying is hard-coded into our firmware. :/ It does make me laugh to think of some fun places we can stick USB cables to initiate a DFU.

fennecfoxy 3y ago

I'm not sure, it will definitely improve things, but insofar as the informational warfare part of the republican party in the US has shown us in the rest of the world, both Democrats and Republicans speak English and therefore the real barrier seems to be ideological rather than communication. The only real solution is to remove our human/animal nature; a lot of people only care about something if it directly affects them. A lot of hot topic issues in the US at the moment seem to circle around controlling others (abortion, gay rights) and the freedom to do what you want even if it affects others (guns, owning an oversized vehicle).