Posted on 07/22/2025 12:41:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Thanks for retaining the useful timestamps!
Regards,
I do understand that the timestamps are useful—IN YouTube.
The reason is when you are in the video itself, and go to the Timestamp popup, you can click on it and the video will commence playing from that time.
However, it makes harder to read (in my opinion) when you copied that data from YouTube and then paste it (as text) into a post on Free Republic.
I guess you can read around it, as Sunken Civ desires to keep using it. It’s his post, and I respect that. I only offered a suggestion and am not upset it won’t be used.
Thanks! The limitations of the YouTube transcript include odd punctuations, goofy spellings, random line lengths, and on occasion non-English text.
Some FReepers have used various AI gizmos to really clean it all up, and I’m grateful that they’re willing to do that from time to time, particularly on very long videos. OTOH, I’m not ready to join the Borg collective just yet and give some possibly bad actors out there in Cyberia my contact information.
I’ve found that complaints emerge about the transcript, or about the lack of transcripts, and I’m done with worrying about it. The fact that the text is shifted down with the ‘small’ tag never seems to be a complaint, but I started that because even a ten minute vid transcript can be quite a bit longer otherwise.
When I have looked at long videos, I have found using time numbers useful when checking back on a tidbit of information that went past too quickly.
The thing I find annoying is the phonetic transcription of some words. I kept seeing reference to a river or valley variously named Ryan or Rine, I hope this was a reference to Germany’s Rhine River and that I am spelling that right.
That’s the YouTube/Google/AI speech recognition doing that.
I can understand that feeling, I am just glad my mother’s parents came here over a century ago from East Prussia. My grandfather was a marine engineer in the Kaiser’s Navy and didn’t like the political direction being followed, so took my grandmother to the US around 1890. She left 7 siblings behind, except her homely sister later came to help her with 6 children while my grandfather was working at sea. They died before I was born so I only knew my Tanta Lena. From my childhood in WW2 I have vivid memories of helping remove my fathers business samples from his car so he could do his sky watch duty after work, helping pull the air raid shades, stomping to flatten tin cans for war scrap, and taking bacon fat to the butcher for nitroglycerin.
My mother and sisters had visited Germany several times in the the early 1030s since they had teaching jobs and ocean liner fares were very cheap during the depression. An aunt married a German furniture factory owner, and ended up stuck in Germany throughout WW2. I remember Tanta Lena and my mother having long worried talks in German so I could not understand what they were saying. I only was told as an adult that they were worried about their relatives there, none of whom were Nazis. My grandmother’s sisters, a Dentist and Gynecologist retired in Berlin, had committed suicide when the Russians came in and revenged themselves on the German women. In 1948 my aunt and cousins finally got back to the US. Later she received a letter from her husband saying he would not be coming as he had a severe heart condition, and to not be a burden to anyone he committed suicide. So a lot of family worry and distress as a child that I did not understand.
My grandmother came from a family that Shirer’s book referred to as the impoverished Prussian nobility. Her father had the honorific von in his name. He dropped that when he lost most of his land in 1871 when a potato blight forced him to sell his land to buy costly potatoes to meet his army contracts for the Franco Prussian war. My son recently had his DNA checked for ancestry with a service that also gives info on both parents. My maternal half included German and Baltic DNA, but also 6 to 9% DNA from the far, far, east. I wonder what tribal group that was likely to have been as certainly the Prussian area had seen conquest from the east by people who would have helped father the ruling class. I also wonder about much earlier ancestry as I have two shoveled upper incisors and very large molars. Unfortunately, the service he used did not test for Neanderthal or native American. My husband was 1/16th Cree Indian, and had the massive muscles, and red hair, very blue eyes, and volatile temper that suggest possibly more than the usual amount of Neanderthal DNA. I guess one of these days I will have to be tested to find out. I wonder if the VA hospital would still have any of my husband’s blood as he died 20 years ago. Could a service use an old hat or brush?
So AI is only somewhat smart. It recognizes sounds but not Geographic context. I guess people will be needed a while longer. ;-)
Of course not! Because they definitely would have been honest and told you if some of them had been Nazis, right? Because no one ever lies about that sort of thing, right?
My maternal half included German and Baltic DNA, but also 6 to 9% DNA from the far, far, east.
I would be very suspicious about anything told to you by those DNA-testing companies. They have a political agenda, and are eager to convince you that you have a [insert member of a "marginalized minority"] in the woodpile!
Regards,
I have post cards and letters in German, some day I should get them translated, but my family here was anti Nazi, and members of the German side were dentists, doctors, nurses, archi ftects and engineers, not lawyers and politicians. My family here was anti Nazi, and anti Communist. I am told my grandfather helped prepare a major ocean liner as a troop ship to carry our men to WW1. On both sides of my family were idealists who managed to build something prosperous and then lost it through idealism. If there had been active Nazis in my mother’s family I would have learned from their anger and disapproval over the years.
Schande über Dich! You should have gotten them translated twenty years ago!
Nowadays, the translation wouldn't be the problem - rather, it would be deciphering the old-style Standardschrift (often mistakenly referred to as "Sütterlinschrift").
but my family here was anti Nazi, and members of the German side were dentists, doctors, nurses, archi ftects and engineers, not lawyers and politicians. My family here was anti Nazi
But of course they were! I mean, it's not as though there would have been any reason for them to hide or minimize the truth, now would there?
I am told my grandfather helped prepare a major ocean liner as a troop ship to carry our men to WW1.
Just as every person with a drop of Indian blood claims to be descended from an "Indian princess" or such - never from a low-ranking tribesman.
This phenomenon in genealogy is referred to as amelioration.
Regards,
You might wonder how I knew as a child that my family was anti-Nazi. One sign was my mother’s tradition of taking me out for a little treat after we took our bacon fat to the butcher for use in nitroglycerin. As we waited and nibbled at the restaurant table She would show me the lists of ships and planes of Germany and America. These lists had symbols of ships and airplanes and she would have me count them. When the numbers were bigger for German craft destroyed, she would express satisfaction and praise my counting skills. She would also praise me for stomping the tin cans flat and tell me how they would help our defense industry (in simple words since I was only 5 to 7 years old in this period).
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