About Immoscout etc.: Often the apartments are still leased to tenants when you try to find the next tenants. So they just have to take the pictures with furniture and stuff in them. Or for example a few years ago my landlord sold the apartment I live in. Of course he needed pictures, but since I was still living there (and planned on continuing to do so, which fortunately the new owner also wanted), he couldn't expect me to remove everything just for the pictures. Of course I cleaned and tidied up as good as I could, but that's it. So, yeah, my furniture and clutter was on the pictures as well and that's also how interested people looked at the apartment when they came here to look at it in person.
the laptops at my (german) company all come with an inbuilt little slider in front of the cam and IT instructed us to shut it when we're not in a meeting.
I want to pronounce that a Rettungsgasse is not only formed once the rescue vehicle arrives. It's supposed to be the standard when you enter a traffic jam. There's always a free lane. 😉
You are right. And the strange thing I notice in the video shown is that the cars get right back into the Gasse after the ambulance has passed. They are supposed to remain in their place to form the emergency access space. Because the ambulance might come back and expects to use the same way out. Or more emergency vehicles will need it.
Also, it is not at all exclusive to Germany: you find it all across Europe, especially in the south. But I'm not surprised that it is not a thing in Florida, given the humid weather.
All depends on where you live. If you live someplace like New York City, can smell like smog. I found this out the hard way😂. Not everywhere has the space to dry clothes in their home, and everyone doesn't have a basement.
about the privacy: you go to the public sauna voluntarily and in full knowledge, that you will be as naked as everyone else. In being there you gave your consent to being seen naked. If you don't want that, don't go to the public sauna. If however someone has access to your webcam, they can spy on you without your consent. And there you have it: consent makes all the difference. Greetings from Hannover, Germany.
And access to your web camera without consent is much more frequent than people think. There are both companies and government agencies that want to gather everyone's face pictures without their consent, and there are tricky software enabling such access. To boot, I never use a webcam, but one cannot buy a notebook without it.
@@Daneelro many laptops have LEDs next to the webcam, indicating if the camera is on. that LED is usually not software operated, meaning that it will turn on as soon the camera is powered on. that way, there is no way to bypass that LED and turn on the camera without you noticing.
Clean houses. When I worked on the ambulances, I was continually amazed at how tidy the homes were of people who were in the middle of a freaking emergency situation. Like, they're having a heart attack and they absolutely did not have time to clean their home and it's spotless.
agree, think it was a good concept and easy to get it (Rettungsgasse) - first I was struggeling a bit where to move, but puplic reminders made this very clear. I would promote 👍🏼
Sun light will break down the smelly organic compounds collecting in the bed sheets. We can smell the broken down fragments and interpret that as "fresh".
Well, I mean, personally, I see the sense in putting tape over your webcam. That’s not paranoia. It’s prudent. It comes down to a matter of _choice._ Sitting, nude, in a sauna is a matter of _choosing_ to be on display, but when you turn off your webcam, you expect _privacy._ That’s why they started making models of computers with a piece you could physically _slide_ across the webcam if you did not want it to be used. It puzzles me that such a feature is not more _standard._ I mean, we _all_ have an expectation of privacy when we’re not deliberately using our webcams and no amount of hacking can move _that._ Just as you don’t want a total stranger to be able to dictate whether you walk around, wearing clothes, in your own _living_ room, you don’t want a total stranger hacking into your _webcam._
Expectation of privacy. That's what it comes down to. It just occurred to me, the same attitude drives having blinds in your window. You don't _mind_ having them open, but it's so incredibly nice being able to _close_ them when you want to. If what goes on in my home does not _affect_ anyone else, then it does not _concern_ anyone else.
Wer das Prinzip vom Internet verstanden hat, weiß es ist wie ein Spiegel, aus dem jeder der weiß wie, rausschauen kann. Wer denkt er ist sicher auf seiner Seite, ist wohl naiv, deutsche sind pessimistisch, außer bei schlechtem Regierung würde ich meinen.
Hello Hayley, nothing smells better then cold, fresh Air. The Rettungsgasse also exists in Austria. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Than you can blame a ``Hutfahrer´´, the Nightmare of every Driver. Have a nice Weekend. Servus. 😊😊😊
When I bought my house, I flat out told my parents I don't want a dryer. No need for it. Didn't go over well, they talked me into buying it anyway because it would be stupid to just have a washer. Now, how many times I use it? Very little. I just make a make-shift clothesline and toss everything on my upstairs handrail 🤣Not quite outside , but better than a dryer
If I remember correctly, most of these photos are of things lying around, mostly of rental apartments. Be it for sale to a new landlord or pictures for new rentals. Remember that the current landlord/manager and a real estate agent have no right to enter the apartment to take such photos without the tenant's consent. An agent is well aware that such chaos can have a deterrent effect. I'm not sure whether the Chaos Computer Club* suggested that additional security can be created by preventing password entries from being spied on via the hacked camera access. *organized hackers who investigate data leaks and other security deficiencies. Oh yes, the entire bedding in the window: as far as I know, this is more of a southern German thing and/or is more likely to be found in rural regions. Emergency lanes are mandatory throughout the EU. In the city, however, it is often narrow due to a lack of space, and the emergency vehicles then drive over oncoming traffic.
On the cars moving over for emergency vehicles, it's also the rule in the US and 99% of drivers pull over (I've been driving for 45 years in the US) and the difference is that in Germany the penalty is a lot higher than in the US. In the US, in most states it's a fine. In Germany, it's a fine and you loose your license for a month. Thats a huge incentive. The tape on the laptop or PC web cam is very common in the US as well. As for the real estate pictures, here in the US if seen both tidy and messy house pictures. We once looked at a home, and the owner couple was sitting there watching TV!. When we sell a home, for pictures we remove all personal items, but some folks don't.
It's a law to pull over, but it isn't a law to make a passageway between 2 lanes. In the US you are supposed to pull over to the right. Germany you make a passage way by cars pulling off to the left and right. In parts of South Florida they make a passage way. I was sitting at a red light (there was only 2 lanes) and an ambulance was coming. Cars pulled over to the right and left as far as possible. It created a 3rd lane for the ambulance.
I watched „love it or List it“, which was Producer in Canada and / or US. At the beginning the homes were very cluttered and messy. I was very surprised that the hadn‘t tidy up the space… In larger cities and in Northern Germany it isn‘t common „die Bettdecken zu lüften“.
Yes, its usefulness is a function of weather and air pollution, thus generally a more rural and more southerly thing, and in fact much more common in countries to the south of Germany.
You are allowed to hang dry clothes in Florida. Florida statute 163.04 overrides any homeowner's association's rule that forbid hang drying clothes. That you don't have the space is another matter.
I am not allowed to hang here because of mold concerns and living in a high humidity area. There is a plethora of information regarding this on the Florida Department of Health's website if you are interested in reading. Just because you are "allowed" to do something doesn't mean it is smart or you won't have to deal with the consequences. If I were to hang my clothes on my balcony or inside of the home and a mold inspector was able to trace back the damage to my clothing I would be liable for the costs associated with that (which can be tens if not hundreds of thousands of $$ worth of damage).
Having lived in states from east to west including in south Florida, I can tell you that not all states perform as poorly as Florida when it comes to yielding to emergency vehicles. As for poorly kept homes in listings, we have those in the USA too, and those are called the houses that either won't sell or have to be deeply discounted.
yea... I have noticed that smaller towns tend to do a little better than major cities when it comes to emergency vehicles. I think the difference between the USA and Germany is that the houses that look like junk in Germany are probably still going to be purchased, without a deep discount.
The Bettwaesche on the windowsill really surprised me too. I'm a Lueften fanatic, addicted to fresh cold air, but I don't want birdpoop on my duvet, just as I don't want spiders joining me at night from living on my windowsill. Also, my Bettwaesche is white and my windowsills are not clean. Do people clean their windowsills thoroughly before doing this? Re: airdrying. I went 7 years without a dryer and there is nothing I miss about bathtowels so stiff they stand up on their own. Ouch.
If you air out your duvet on a daily basis, your windowsills are clean. My Mama did it, my Dad do it every day and if its raining the whole stuff is put over a chair right behind the open window.
@@HayleyAlexis What happens there in New Jersey with the permanent drones-alert since last November? That is really creepy. We also had some drone-appearances in Germany (over the nuclear power plant in Stade, over a chemistry park in Brunsbüttel, over the US Airbase in Ramstein, in Bavaria some days ago) and in Danmark, but not as intense as in the USA. I am not sure if they are really drones or maybe something else... I watched in the US TV-news, people also see flashing balls on the sky, objects that are too large for drones and other weird stuff? 🤔
After talking about German privacy I totally thought you were sneaking in to check Mike's computer without him. Also, in the US, we do tend to have the most massive fire trucks and ambulances in the world. Smaller vehicles would help the Rettungsgasse thing a lot. Like, do we really need a full-on ladder truck to deal with "I've fallen and I can't get up!"??
Bullshit. You can do it people chose not to. In Downtown Miami FL I was sitting at a red light and a massive ambulance and fire truck was behind the line of traffic (there were only 2 lanes). Cars pulled as far as they could to the left and right as possible. They created a 3rd lane for the vehicles.
When we were buying a house a few years ago we were very put off by the state of some of the houses the realtor took us to look at. Extremely cluttered, with furniture from the 1960ies and untidy kitchens and bedrooms. The realtor explained that this was on purpose to give you an idea how it looks furnished or lived in. Myself, I don’t get it. I would rather look at clean, empty rooms than dirty ones filled with old stuff.
Same goes for German real estate with no kitchen in them. No one in the USA is able to imagine this place as a functional, working kitchen when looking at a room devoid of any cabinetry, appliances, etc. Germans (well, most of them, I think) can do exactly that. But I have seen houses in the USA left to be sold with things in them that would be considered "Sperrmüll" over here, or even crazy hoards of stuff and clutter from floor to ceiling. Much, much worse than a kitchen or bathroom on a German real estate page that had been photographed because people still actually live there.
I think that is maybe a difference then because garbage is "expected" "anticipated" or not a concern for the average American but God forbid someone have a messy closet or bathroom... it's the end of the world 😂
You can, a lot of family members and friends hang their clothes out to dry but I can not in my apartment because of moisture control. I live in a high mold area where excess moisture is the known evil. Our day-time humidity level is Germany's night-time humidity level (humidity is usually higher at night). Also hanging clothing out to dry here can get mold growth if not done properly so it makes no sense.. Plus we have millions of insects that would fly and nest in our laundry.
I don't hide my phone camera but think about all smart TVs worldwide. There are many adult platforms where are tons of very privat footage of living rooms, bedrooms, children's room's and so on, to get an idea. The 'actors' of course had no clue about. But it comes the day they'll probably find out in a random taxi, where the driver was asking for a selfie because he became a huge fan of them😁.. This cam have no needed use cases for us while it can secretly abused pretty simple. Take a black Edding marker, 2 seconds later..done! It feels more relaxed at home😉
I'm German-Canadian and decades ago I taped a small piece of aluminum foil over the camera in my iMac. When I replaced that iMac, the new one got the same thing. I thought it was just me.
Dear Haley, I like looking at other people's houses on sake ans I always wonder why peole do not clean their houses before taking photos for the website....😮
About the webcams: Point is, IF someone really takes control (though I wouldn't know how), then that person can see your place, probably different rooms, the kitchen, probably overall. He could see if there are valuable things for ex. Which might be an invitation for burglary. Besides that - well, on bad hair day I wouldn't like to be seen by unknown persons 😉😊
@@HayleyAlexis That's fine :-) But probably there are people moving the laptop and tablet randomly thru the place. I myself use it sometimes in the living, either on the table or on the sofa, sometimes in the kitchen.
The most common examples of access to webcam without consent are ad companies or spy agencies mass-gathering face pictures for their facial recognition databases.
Actually happened a few years ago, when I was living in a student dorm (about 200 small apartments, everyone had shared internet) here in Germany. It was the first and only time my laptop camera activated by itself. My laptop was on standby, I wasn't working on it, suddenly the small light that shows the camera is activated was on! I closed my laptop after noticing. Turns out, that day, several other student's cameras also activated like mine. A week later, I heard there had been burglaries in a few apartments in our dorm! Could be a coincidence, but...
@@HayleyAlexis Im Homeoffice sitze ich manchmal im Schlafanzug vor dem Rechner. Das müssen bei einer Teams-Sitzung nicht unbedingt alle Kollegen und Chef wissen. Und man vergisst immer mal irgendwas auszuschalten :D
The pictures are "messy" to make them believable, to show that home is "real". When you look at sterile home picture that tells you that this is a real home, ready to rent/buy, you go there and it's nothing like that. The pictures just showed it in the best possible way. One person started it, was successful with it and now everyone does it the same way.
The tape thing stems from a series of webcam hacks, which resulted in undressing and thus topless (or worse) teenage (or even younger) girls being filmed without them realizing it and the footage ending up on child porn websites.
i never understood why we Germans put our Names on the mailbox. there are other more private methods i've seen pretty much everywhere around the world.
Hayley, with respect to the web cam, there are people all over the planet who can hack your device's camera. For them, it isn't difficult. AND Unfortunately there's people who live to "SEE YOU" With respect to the laundry, the Sun does a wonderful job at freshening laundry... It's MUCH better than a dryer cycle. Articles smell better and are actually CLEANER from the fresh air and sunlight. In some states, not moving out of the way of emergency vehicles can get you substantial fines. I always say, it the vehicle were on its' way to assist you or your loved one, you would want NO ONE to hinder its' progress. There are some places where a police patrol vehicle will follow and emergency vehicle watching for violations.... (it also increases public revenues for the city, county and state!)
And I just find it bizarre that U.S. people always seem to hang out their flags for drying. I really don't want to know that they are doing with them all nicht that they need to be aired so much. The difference in the real estate market is that one does not buy or sell but just rent. And the people who are living in the appartment atm most of the time only have rented it, too, and do not care a bit when their landlord asks them to tidy up for some nice pictures for the future person who will rent the place. They have no benefit of making it nice and shiny, so why should they?
All my mother's family in Germany and a great many of her friends of her generation were know as 'Putzenfrau' (sic) (Putzfrau), who religiously cleaned their homes such that it was always immaculate, so maybe presenting your house 'au naturel' is a reaction to that. I'm not sure which of those I prefer.
You should travel more. Is it possible you have only been in the USA and Germany? Because lots of the things you think only happen in Germany are quite normal elsewhere, it's just the USA that is weird.
Well if you think about it, anyone who wants to can easily hack themselves into your laptop, phone, wifi, camera etc. I for example tend to take my phone to the bathroom with me when I take a shower but I wouldn't want some weird hacker to f.e. see me dancing naked in the bathroom after my shower. I know it is highly unlikely but I understand why people want to make sure things like that can't happen.
That's what I've thought when she mentioned that she thought the father of the au-pair family might be paranoid. It seems that a lot of people, especially Americans, have forgotten about Snowden or simply don't want to hear the truth.
ok privacy again. here we go with my last name on the doorbell , you probably can do nothing excapt knowing where I live. but with other informations combined you can go cracy on my dime. so americans are pretty cool with privacy and getting filmed in public, so it wouldn't be too crazy if someone hacks your webcam and records everything you do in your home, right? ... and mabye uplaods it to some questionable website for others to... let's say.. having fun with it. sure we do go naked in the sauna, but noone there cares and it's a hygene topic because of the swimsuit fabric the wood moulds, and noone wants there to sit on. but beeing recorded in secret and sold is a total different topic and not uncommon, and since there is no light at the laptop cam, covering is the easiest option.
I don't think it is a realistic scenario that someone would start watching you through the webcam. There are ways to prevent this, but they are not popular or well-known among most users. My guess is that a phone is a more realistic spying device than a computer. On my old phone, the microphone would sometimes turn on by itself, and I knew this because it occasionally started producing an echo sound on its own. I am also the type of person who avoids installing new apps after purchasing a phone.
Nice to know that this camera paranoia is German (or maybe Europe) only. Why this is: Several cases where cameras and microphones on smart phones were activated without being visibly activated (i.e. indicator light not on), and used to spy. It actually happened, and was in the news. We may not had a news on that when it comes to Laptops or i simply missed it, but the trust is lost and will never be regained. There is a historic reason on top of this from the DDR time why the paranoia has an actual foundation... And one it is on a webcam it is possibly on the internet :D. You learn that when dealing wit the military too: The webcam of laptops has not just to be deactivated or glued over, it has to be REMOVED. Only a non existing camera, i.e. "See, there is the empty spot where the camera and microphone once was" is actually 100% not recording.
Wahrscheinlich hast du im Audiotrack 'Deutsch' stehen. Dann bekommst du eine AI-generierte Übersetzung, die sich natürlich gruselig anhört. Warum das bei manchen Videos eingestellt ist, habe ich noch nicht herausgefunden, es nervt jedenfalls. Kann man aber problemlos ändern unter Einstellungen - Audiotrack.
About Immoscout etc.: Often the apartments are still leased to tenants when you try to find the next tenants. So they just have to take the pictures with furniture and stuff in them. Or for example a few years ago my landlord sold the apartment I live in. Of course he needed pictures, but since I was still living there (and planned on continuing to do so, which fortunately the new owner also wanted), he couldn't expect me to remove everything just for the pictures. Of course I cleaned and tidied up as good as I could, but that's it. So, yeah, my furniture and clutter was on the pictures as well and that's also how interested people looked at the apartment when they came here to look at it in person.
the laptops at my (german) company all come with an inbuilt little slider in front of the cam and IT instructed us to shut it when we're not in a meeting.
I want to pronounce that a Rettungsgasse is not only formed once the rescue vehicle arrives. It's supposed to be the standard when you enter a traffic jam. There's always a free lane. 😉
You are right. And the strange thing I notice in the video shown is that the cars get right back into the Gasse after the ambulance has passed. They are supposed to remain in their place to form the emergency access space. Because the ambulance might come back and expects to use the same way out. Or more emergency vehicles will need it.
And it's not only for the rescue vehicles, it's also for the tow truck. If it doesn't work, the jam never ends.
Yep. Also: no, it isn´t something, that you would only see in Germany, it is pretty common if not universal in Europe.
The advantage of drying your laundry outside is that it smells nice and fresh and you also save electricity from the dryer.
Yes! I also think the clothes last a lot longer that way.
🙂👍💙@@HayleyAlexis
Also, it is not at all exclusive to Germany: you find it all across Europe, especially in the south. But I'm not surprised that it is not a thing in Florida, given the humid weather.
@@Daneelro And most certainly used in Scaninavia as well.
All depends on where you live. If you live someplace like New York City, can smell like smog. I found this out the hard way😂. Not everywhere has the space to dry clothes in their home, and everyone doesn't have a basement.
about the privacy: you go to the public sauna voluntarily and in full knowledge, that you will be as naked as everyone else. In being there you gave your consent to being seen naked. If you don't want that, don't go to the public sauna. If however someone has access to your webcam, they can spy on you without your consent. And there you have it: consent makes all the difference. Greetings from Hannover, Germany.
And access to your web camera without consent is much more frequent than people think. There are both companies and government agencies that want to gather everyone's face pictures without their consent, and there are tricky software enabling such access. To boot, I never use a webcam, but one cannot buy a notebook without it.
@@Daneelro many laptops have LEDs next to the webcam, indicating if the camera is on. that LED is usually not software operated, meaning that it will turn on as soon the camera is powered on. that way, there is no way to bypass that LED and turn on the camera without you noticing.
Clean houses. When I worked on the ambulances, I was continually amazed at how tidy the homes were of people who were in the middle of a freaking emergency situation. Like, they're having a heart attack and they absolutely did not have time to clean their home and it's spotless.
I experienced it differently as a „Sanitäter“. There were situations I avoided touching anything.
agree, think it was a good concept and easy to get it (Rettungsgasse) - first I was struggeling a bit where to move, but puplic reminders made this very clear. I would promote 👍🏼
Sun light will break down the smelly organic compounds collecting in the bed sheets. We can smell the broken down fragments and interpret that as "fresh".
Well, I mean, personally, I see the sense in putting tape over your webcam. That’s not paranoia. It’s prudent. It comes down to a matter of _choice._
Sitting, nude, in a sauna is a matter of _choosing_ to be on display, but when you turn off your webcam, you expect _privacy._ That’s why they started making models of computers with a piece you could physically _slide_ across the webcam if you did not want it to be used. It puzzles me that such a feature is not more _standard._ I mean, we _all_ have an expectation of privacy when we’re not deliberately using our webcams and no amount of hacking can move _that._
Just as you don’t want a total stranger to be able to dictate whether you walk around, wearing clothes, in your own _living_ room, you don’t want a total stranger hacking into your _webcam._
Expectation of privacy. That's what it comes down to. It just occurred to me, the same attitude drives having blinds in your window. You don't _mind_ having them open, but it's so incredibly nice being able to _close_ them when you want to. If what goes on in my home does not _affect_ anyone else, then it does not _concern_ anyone else.
Everybody should have a best friend like you ❤️
hahahah... I am a hot mess of a friend but I love my friends so much!
Zuckerberg was caught taping his laptop camera as well 😂
Wer das Prinzip vom Internet verstanden hat, weiß es ist wie ein Spiegel, aus dem jeder der weiß wie, rausschauen kann. Wer denkt er ist sicher auf seiner Seite, ist wohl naiv, deutsche sind pessimistisch, außer bei schlechtem Regierung würde ich meinen.
Hello Hayley, nothing smells better then cold, fresh Air. The Rettungsgasse also exists in Austria. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Than you can blame a ``Hutfahrer´´, the Nightmare of every Driver.
Have a nice Weekend. Servus. 😊😊😊
When I bought my house, I flat out told my parents I don't want a dryer. No need for it. Didn't go over well, they talked me into buying it anyway because it would be stupid to just have a washer. Now, how many times I use it? Very little. I just make a make-shift clothesline and toss everything on my upstairs handrail 🤣Not quite outside , but better than a dryer
I miss the crisp freshness I had in Germany when hanging my clothing to dry!
Another advantage of air-drying is that you're not breaking the fibers in the cloth and gradually turning your clothes and bedding into lint.
The webcam thing should not need any explanation....
"If you are not paranoid, that does not mean that THEY are not watching you... !" ;-)
i guess they can watch me... there arent any interesting things to see... just my double chin on full display
If I remember correctly, most of these photos are of things lying around, mostly of rental apartments. Be it for sale to a new landlord or pictures for new rentals. Remember that the current landlord/manager and a real estate agent have no right to enter the apartment to take such photos without the tenant's consent. An agent is well aware that such chaos can have a deterrent effect.
I'm not sure whether the Chaos Computer Club* suggested that additional security can be created by preventing password entries from being spied on via the hacked camera access.
*organized hackers who investigate data leaks and other security deficiencies.
Oh yes, the entire bedding in the window: as far as I know, this is more of a southern German thing and/or is more likely to be found in rural regions.
Emergency lanes are mandatory throughout the EU.
In the city, however, it is often narrow due to a lack of space, and the emergency vehicles then drive over oncoming traffic.
Rettungsgasse , ich habe es oft in der USA gesehen , es entsteht dann wenn die Polizei ein Auto verfolgt 🤣🤣🤣🤣
On the cars moving over for emergency vehicles, it's also the rule in the US and 99% of drivers pull over (I've been driving for 45 years in the US) and the difference is that in Germany the penalty is a lot higher than in the US. In the US, in most states it's a fine. In Germany, it's a fine and you loose your license for a month. Thats a huge incentive. The tape on the laptop or PC web cam is very common in the US as well. As for the real estate pictures, here in the US if seen both tidy and messy house pictures. We once looked at a home, and the owner couple was sitting there watching TV!. When we sell a home, for pictures we remove all personal items, but some folks don't.
It's a law to pull over, but it isn't a law to make a passageway between 2 lanes. In the US you are supposed to pull over to the right. Germany you make a passage way by cars pulling off to the left and right. In parts of South Florida they make a passage way. I was sitting at a red light (there was only 2 lanes) and an ambulance was coming. Cars pulled over to the right and left as far as possible. It created a 3rd lane for the ambulance.
I watched „love it or List it“, which was Producer in Canada and / or US. At the beginning the homes were very cluttered and messy. I was very surprised that the hadn‘t tidy up the space…
In larger cities and in Northern Germany it isn‘t common „die Bettdecken zu lüften“.
Yes, its usefulness is a function of weather and air pollution, thus generally a more rural and more southerly thing, and in fact much more common in countries to the south of Germany.
My Dell has a little Slider to switch off the mic and cover the cam.
You are allowed to hang dry clothes in Florida. Florida statute 163.04 overrides any homeowner's association's rule that forbid hang drying clothes. That you don't have the space is another matter.
I am not allowed to hang here because of mold concerns and living in a high humidity area. There is a plethora of information regarding this on the Florida Department of Health's website if you are interested in reading. Just because you are "allowed" to do something doesn't mean it is smart or you won't have to deal with the consequences.
If I were to hang my clothes on my balcony or inside of the home and a mold inspector was able to trace back the damage to my clothing I would be liable for the costs associated with that (which can be tens if not hundreds of thousands of $$ worth of damage).
There are laptops with movable camera covers so I don't think only the Germans cover their webcams...
It goes dry…. Feels much better After be dryer in sun….smell fresh 😎🇩🇪🇺🇸😇🍀✌️
Having lived in states from east to west including in south Florida, I can tell you that not all states perform as poorly as Florida when it comes to yielding to emergency vehicles.
As for poorly kept homes in listings, we have those in the USA too, and those are called the houses that either won't sell or have to be deeply discounted.
yea... I have noticed that smaller towns tend to do a little better than major cities when it comes to emergency vehicles.
I think the difference between the USA and Germany is that the houses that look like junk in Germany are probably still going to be purchased, without a deep discount.
The Bettwaesche on the windowsill really surprised me too. I'm a Lueften fanatic, addicted to fresh cold air, but I don't want birdpoop on my duvet, just as I don't want spiders joining me at night from living on my windowsill. Also, my Bettwaesche is white and my windowsills are not clean. Do people clean their windowsills thoroughly before doing this? Re: airdrying. I went 7 years without a dryer and there is nothing I miss about bathtowels so stiff they stand up on their own. Ouch.
If you air out your duvet on a daily basis, your windowsills are clean. My Mama did it, my Dad do it every day and if its raining the whole stuff is put over a chair right behind the open window.
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Wochenende!
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@@HayleyAlexis What happens there in New Jersey with the permanent drones-alert since last November? That is really creepy. We also had some drone-appearances in Germany (over the nuclear power plant in Stade, over a chemistry park in Brunsbüttel, over the US Airbase in Ramstein, in Bavaria some days ago) and in Danmark, but not as intense as in the USA. I am not sure if they are really drones or maybe something else... I watched in the US TV-news, people also see flashing balls on the sky, objects that are too large for drones and other weird stuff? 🤔
What would be Rettungsgasse in English? Maybe something like Emergency improvised get-through lane?
Rescue alley? 🤭
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It's an emergency lane. Let's not over complicate things by being too literal
Please google "Mark Zuckerberg covering up his webcam". If he does it we all have to do that.
After talking about German privacy I totally thought you were sneaking in to check Mike's computer without him.
Also, in the US, we do tend to have the most massive fire trucks and ambulances in the world. Smaller vehicles would help the Rettungsgasse thing a lot. Like, do we really need a full-on ladder truck to deal with "I've fallen and I can't get up!"??
Bullshit. You can do it people chose not to. In Downtown Miami FL I was sitting at a red light and a massive ambulance and fire truck was behind the line of traffic (there were only 2 lanes). Cars pulled as far as they could to the left and right as possible. They created a 3rd lane for the vehicles.
When we were buying a house a few years ago we were very put off by the state of some of the houses the realtor took us to look at. Extremely cluttered, with furniture from the 1960ies and untidy kitchens and bedrooms. The realtor explained that this was on purpose to give you an idea how it looks furnished or lived in. Myself, I don’t get it. I would rather look at clean, empty rooms than dirty ones filled with old stuff.
Same goes for German real estate with no kitchen in them. No one in the USA is able to imagine this place as a functional, working kitchen when looking at a room devoid of any cabinetry, appliances, etc. Germans (well, most of them, I think) can do exactly that. But I have seen houses in the USA left to be sold with things in them that would be considered "Sperrmüll" over here, or even crazy hoards of stuff and clutter from floor to ceiling. Much, much worse than a kitchen or bathroom on a German real estate page that had been photographed because people still actually live there.
I think that is maybe a difference then because garbage is "expected" "anticipated" or not a concern for the average American but God forbid someone have a messy closet or bathroom... it's the end of the world 😂
Another thing in the "land of the free", you can't hang out washing to dry!
You can, a lot of family members and friends hang their clothes out to dry but I can not in my apartment because of moisture control. I live in a high mold area where excess moisture is the known evil. Our day-time humidity level is Germany's night-time humidity level (humidity is usually higher at night). Also hanging clothing out to dry here can get mold growth if not done properly so it makes no sense.. Plus we have millions of insects that would fly and nest in our laundry.
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I don't hide my phone camera but think about all smart TVs worldwide. There are many adult platforms where are tons of very privat footage of living rooms, bedrooms, children's room's and so on, to get an idea. The 'actors' of course had no clue about.
But it comes the day they'll probably find out in a random taxi, where the driver was asking for a selfie because he became a huge fan of them😁..
This cam have no needed use cases for us while it can secretly abused pretty simple. Take a black Edding marker, 2 seconds later..done! It feels more relaxed at home😉
I'm German-Canadian and decades ago I taped a small piece of aluminum foil over the camera in my iMac. When I replaced that iMac, the new one got the same thing. I thought it was just me.
Dear Haley, I like looking at other people's houses on sake ans I always wonder why peole do not clean their houses before taking photos for the website....😮
About the webcams: Point is, IF someone really takes control (though I wouldn't know how), then that person can see your place, probably different rooms, the kitchen, probably overall. He could see if there are valuable things for ex. Which might be an invitation for burglary. Besides that - well, on bad hair day I wouldn't like to be seen by unknown persons 😉😊
I guess but I don't keep anything of value randomly on display in my webcam's background 😂
@@HayleyAlexis That's fine :-) But probably there are people moving the laptop and tablet randomly thru the place. I myself use it sometimes in the living, either on the table or on the sofa, sometimes in the kitchen.
The most common examples of access to webcam without consent are ad companies or spy agencies mass-gathering face pictures for their facial recognition databases.
Actually happened a few years ago, when I was living in a student dorm (about 200 small apartments, everyone had shared internet) here in Germany. It was the first and only time my laptop camera activated by itself. My laptop was on standby, I wasn't working on it, suddenly the small light that shows the camera is activated was on! I closed my laptop after noticing. Turns out, that day, several other student's cameras also activated like mine. A week later, I heard there had been burglaries in a few apartments in our dorm! Could be a coincidence, but...
@@HayleyAlexis Im Homeoffice sitze ich manchmal im Schlafanzug vor dem Rechner. Das müssen bei einer Teams-Sitzung nicht unbedingt alle Kollegen und Chef wissen. Und man vergisst immer mal irgendwas auszuschalten :D
Actually it's mostly forbidden by house rules to hang anything over the balkony. Nontheless a lot of people do it anyway.
The pictures are "messy" to make them believable, to show that home is "real". When you look at sterile home picture that tells you that this is a real home, ready to rent/buy, you go there and it's nothing like that. The pictures just showed it in the best possible way.
One person started it, was successful with it and now everyone does it the same way.
Everywhere in Europe you have to give space
We have to in the USA too, but Florida doesn't follow the rules.
The tape thing stems from a series of webcam hacks, which resulted in undressing and thus topless (or worse) teenage (or even younger) girls being filmed without them realizing it and the footage ending up on child porn websites.
If the link fails search for "Spanner-Hacker im Kinderzimmer".
I also have my laptop webcam taped... and I'm not even German!
i never understood why we Germans put our Names on the mailbox. there are other more private methods i've seen pretty much everywhere around the world.
Just using numbers is the best option!
Very handsome and enjoyable for your local post and parcelservices and other deliveries. 😅
Endlich mal jemand der nicht alles beschönigt 😂😊
Rettungsgasse is emergency lane.
Hayley, with respect to the web cam, there are people all over the planet who can hack your device's camera. For them, it isn't difficult. AND Unfortunately there's people who live to "SEE YOU"
With respect to the laundry, the Sun does a wonderful job at freshening laundry... It's MUCH better than a dryer cycle. Articles smell better and are actually CLEANER from the fresh air and sunlight. In some states, not moving out of the way of emergency vehicles can get you substantial fines. I always say, it the vehicle were on its' way to assist you or your loved one, you would want NO ONE to hinder its' progress. There are some places where a police patrol vehicle will follow and emergency vehicle watching for violations.... (it also increases public revenues for the city, county and state!)
Rettungsgasse: Denmark, Sweden, Netherland, Luxemburg, France ist normal
Not only in Germany.
In Austria also....
And I just find it bizarre that U.S. people always seem to hang out their flags for drying. I really don't want to know that they are doing with them all nicht that they need to be aired so much.
The difference in the real estate market is that one does not buy or sell but just rent. And the people who are living in the appartment atm most of the time only have rented it, too, and do not care a bit when their landlord asks them to tidy up for some nice pictures for the future person who will rent the place. They have no benefit of making it nice and shiny, so why should they?
Rettungsgasse = rescue alley :-)
We're not catfishing houses.😂
Where exactly is Mike from, is it Munich or somewhere in the surrounding countryside?
He probably won't ever say where he was born etc etc but it's the countryside outside of Munich
All my mother's family in Germany and a great many of her friends of her generation were know as 'Putzenfrau' (sic) (Putzfrau), who religiously cleaned their homes such that it was always immaculate, so maybe presenting your house 'au naturel' is a reaction to that. I'm not sure which of those I prefer.
You "lie" on a comforter, not "lay"
I honestly could care less
You should travel more. Is it possible you have only been in the USA and Germany? Because lots of the things you think only happen in Germany are quite normal elsewhere, it's just the USA that is weird.
Been to 5 continents and many countries but thaks for the assumption
Mark Zuckerberg tapes his webcam, too.
Can't fact check that
Well if you think about it, anyone who wants to can easily hack themselves into your laptop, phone, wifi, camera etc. I for example tend to take my phone to the bathroom with me when I take a shower but I wouldn't want some weird hacker to f.e. see me dancing naked in the bathroom after my shower. I know it is highly unlikely but I understand why people want to make sure things like that can't happen.
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About the camera...didn't you read Edward Snowden's book...or watch the movie at least?!? 😂 🧐
....... no? 😂 is this a trick question?
@HayleyAlexis nope 😘, you really have to read / watch it and get educated about the NSA 😎
That's what I've thought when she mentioned that she thought the father of the au-pair family might be paranoid. It seems that a lot of people, especially Americans, have forgotten about Snowden or simply don't want to hear the truth.
ok privacy again. here we go
with my last name on the doorbell , you probably can do nothing excapt knowing where I live. but with other informations combined you can go cracy on my dime. so americans are pretty cool with privacy and getting filmed in public, so it wouldn't be too crazy if someone hacks your webcam and records everything you do in your home, right? ... and mabye uplaods it to some questionable website for others to... let's say.. having fun with it.
sure we do go naked in the sauna, but noone there cares and it's a hygene topic because of the swimsuit fabric the wood moulds, and noone wants there to sit on. but beeing recorded in secret and sold is a total different topic and not uncommon, and since there is no light at the laptop cam, covering is the easiest option.
I don't think it is a realistic scenario that someone would start watching you through the webcam. There are ways to prevent this, but they are not popular or well-known among most users. My guess is that a phone is a more realistic spying device than a computer. On my old phone, the microphone would sometimes turn on by itself, and I knew this because it occasionally started producing an echo sound on its own. I am also the type of person who avoids installing new apps after purchasing a phone.
Nice to know that this camera paranoia is German (or maybe Europe) only. Why this is: Several cases where cameras and microphones on smart phones were activated without being visibly activated (i.e. indicator light not on), and used to spy. It actually happened, and was in the news. We may not had a news on that when it comes to Laptops or i simply missed it, but the trust is lost and will never be regained. There is a historic reason on top of this from the DDR time why the paranoia has an actual foundation... And one it is on a webcam it is possibly on the internet :D.
You learn that when dealing wit the military too: The webcam of laptops has not just to be deactivated or glued over, it has to be REMOVED. Only a non existing camera, i.e. "See, there is the empty spot where the camera and microphone once was" is actually 100% not recording.
Was soll die AI Stimme?
Hä?
Wahrscheinlich hast du im Audiotrack 'Deutsch' stehen. Dann bekommst du eine AI-generierte Übersetzung, die sich natürlich gruselig anhört. Warum das bei manchen Videos eingestellt ist, habe ich noch nicht herausgefunden, es nervt jedenfalls. Kann man aber problemlos ändern unter Einstellungen - Audiotrack.
Not me, a German, watching this with my camera covered 🫣😂 It’s a valid concern haha
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I was not aware that a lot of Germans to the tape thing. I thought it was just me 😂😂😂😂. We listen and we don’t juggle 🫣😂
Meine Liebessprache ist ein gut getimtes Wortspiel und ein ständiger Vorrat an Schokolade💋
Gotcha Michael! 💻🩹 😉😂
Yep, no or less immo pimping in germland.