l already blocked all communities that are explicitely dealing with domestic US-only stuff.
There are lots of those, so if I stumble upon US-defaulting posts in the remaining general communities, l sometimes can’t stop myself bringing some international perspective into them… 🤷♂️
“abolishing ICE would make it harder to have a cold drink”
Wouldn’t work in the same way because this kind of ice is:
a) not a unspecified 3-letter-acronym
b) completely lowercase
c) not a term being valid only in a limited geographic region
We should also try to abalish those…
Funnily I didn’t know of the ICE engine abbreviation until recently.
Let to some confusion reading an “ICE cars cannot be transported on Rhine” post.
First thought of the railway cars and after reading the article was convinced it was talking about cars for the immigration guys…
abolishing ICE would improve city air quality tho
lt would increase car traffic, so quite certainly no.
Is ICE a transit agency somewhere?
A type of train connection, the ICE-(Intercity-Express)-Network.
Do you like think ICE is public transportation or something?
Sure, Intercity Express.
But apprently we are talking about US inmigration politics instead, as l got from another comment already…
Abolishing ICE will accomplish nothing except making moving between cities harder.
We have to improve and expand the network instead to be able to also provide better regional connections.
I don’t know… But I am not visiting Reddit much any more.
Today I did, though, and the only F1 meme was a clearly hand-crafted one about the health state of Michael Schuhmacher in contrast to the (presumable?) state of the F1 fanbase.
Looked like the exact opposite of astroturfing to me…
The vessel’s operator reports they plan to offload some of the vans and then will make another attempt to reach Rotterdam with the remainder of the cargo.
Didn’t know before that “ICE” can also be a abbreviation for “Internal Combustion Engine”, so that just has been some word confusion.
But now looking at the article again (which doesn’t mention the motor type at all) I can’t help but wonder (and please be honest):
Did you add the “ICE” in the post’s heading for dramatic effect by yourself?
Correct.
That was new to me.
The only (widespread) meanings of “ICE” I knew about up to now:
Very first thought on seeing the heading was the train cars, which after looking at the article didn’t make sense, so it had to be the second one, which would have made sense.
The article did mention neither, I now suspect a little bit that it was added by OP for dramatic effect (climate connection), without having an actual source.
Ok, didn’t know that abbreviation.
It’s a good example why one should omit using three-letter-acronyms, even if knowing them oneself pretty well, as others might not.
“ICE” already had three widespread meanings I knew about up to now (the US immigration guys, the German trains and “In-Circuit-Emulator” from my work environment).
Now I learned that there is a fourth I didn’t know about, and who knows how many more…
On a side note:
I rechecked the article, and it mentions nowhere that the vans involved have been the ICE-variants of the Sprinters.
Heading of the original article is also different, so I am wondering where the ICE in the heading of the post came from.
How does ICE come into play here?
Are they using Mercedes Sprinters?
But it was not even said that the overseas target was the US…
I am German, so I may also have a different experience, based on the common base language the Swiss and I are speaking.
Schwytzerdütsch seems to posses a tendency to use long vowels, and this also bleeds into Swiss people speaking “normal” German, which gives a very distinct stretched kind of pronunciation.
This might have caused part of the stereotype.
Might be that they are additionally often speaking extra slow on purpose when speaking German to a German, so that we have a better chance to understand what they are saying.
Maybe depends on region.
I had a tech project with a local ski equipment supplier, and he and my other contacts at his company all spoke in a heavy, really slow going dialect, just like from the movies.
Also, they often tackled problems differently. Slower paced, but more deeply thinking about the next step to be taken.
Collided somewhat with my more agile way of wild brainstorming and quickly start doing stuff…
But that quite certainly might not be the case for more urban Zürich inhabitants, who probably are just totally annoyed by this stereotype. :-)
Ever had a telephone call with a Swiss person?
“Grüüüüütziii Muuuuultipleeexer… Thiiiiiis iiiisss Johaaaaan speeeaaakiiiing, let’s staaaart it sloooowly, will weeee?”
Sometimes, stereotypes are just true. ;-)
This meme has layers:
+41 is the country code of Swiiiiitzerläääänd… 😆
Asking questions on how to access an AI image slop generator might be considered ragebait on Lemmy ;-)
Or wrong software:
https://www.cobrasolutions.com/software/COBRALandingPage.aspx
As someone who grew up at a time when wood/brown-coal powered stoves still were the dominant form of heating in my part of the country, I am not surprised in the slightest.
Especially during atmospheric inversion weather during autumn you probably could have used a modern car engine as a air regeneration unit, as the car exhaust would have been cleaner than the original air the motor consumed.