THINGS YOU WILL ONLY FIND IN GERMANY

[@HayleyAlexis]

I see a few people complaining about the AI generation translation, this is a new feature that KZbin has introduced. If you do not like it you are able to turn it off via the settings gear in the bottom right hand corner of the video

[@AnnaLee33]

Hayley, wie soll einen der Postbote oder Besucher finden, wenn kein Name an der Tür steht, und es mehr Parteien und Briefkästen gibt...? :) Und ich finde es ebenfalls schrecklich, wenn Leute Fotos von einer Wohnung machen, wo nicht alles weggeräumt ist. Ich finde es "asozial".

[@HayleyAlexis]

@AnnaLee33 Wir haben ein "Mehrfamilienbriefkasten" bei uns in unsere Community und da sind keine Namen :)

[@brucemcpherlain1903]

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.

[@Daneelro]

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.

[@DanVibesTV]

@@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.

[@qobide]

@@DanVibesTV While this is a very important design, it hinges on you having a look in that direction. Especially if its a webcam that is always looking into a room (iMac e.g.) you might totally miss it, if you are focussed on other things in the room.

[@Daneelro]

@@DanVibesTV That's true (my work notebook has that LED, though my slightly older private notebook doesn't), but if the access lasts 0.02 seconds, that LED won't help protecting your privacy.

[@BirdBrain0815]

In addition to those valid points, on a broader level, it’s not a matter of fear, there‘s just simple risk management at play here: Your risk of something happening is the likelihood of the event times the worst possible damage. So, the damage may depend on what an attacker can see through your camera (e.g. in what states of undress you may be in front of your computer, we‘ve all got those scam mails.) The likelihood may be low (though not as low as you may think.) So, you may conclude, your individual risk is not very high. And then you think about how much it costs to eliminate the risk or at least mitigate it. If the cost is really high, you may decide it’s not worth the effort for a low risk. But the thing here is, the effort is very very low. It hardly costs anything to eliminate the risk. Now, if you do video calls 90% of the time you’re on the computer and if you don’t have a camera slider, you may consider the effort too high to put the tape on and off all the time to protect those 10% of the time you REALLY want the camera off. But most people I know are not like that. For them the tape is a really cheap way to eliminate a risk you just don’t need to live with. (And btw., do I feel like basic risk assessment should be taught to every kid in schools? Absolutely!!!)

[@sashimster3243]

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.

[@MyriamSchweingruber]

Rettungsgasse means rescue lane in English, and it exists in other European countries as well. It should be made automatically when there is a traffic jam.

[@blondkatze3547]

The advantage of drying your laundry outside is that it smells nice and fresh and you also save electricity from the dryer.

[@HayleyAlexis]

Yes! I also think the clothes last a lot longer that way.

[@blondkatze3547]

🙂👍💙@@HayleyAlexis

[@Daneelro]

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.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

@@Daneelro And most certainly used in Scaninavia as well.

[@jessicaely2521]

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.

[@maddinar6727]

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. 😉

[@V100-e5q]

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.

[@Rdlprmpf12]

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.

[@martinhuhn7813]

Yep. Also: no, it isn´t something, that you would only see in Germany, it is pretty common if not universal in Europe.

[@aphextwin5712]

@@martinhuhn7813I just recently tried to look this up and this the chronology and territorial extent I gathered. There probably is some ambiguity in how to exactly this is defined in law and what kind of penalty is applied if you don’t form this emergency corridor: 1971 (West) Germany 2012 Austria, Hungary 2018 Czech Republic, pre 2019 Luxembourg, Slovenia* 2019 Poland 2020 Belgium 2021 Switzerland* 2022 Lithuania, Croatia pre-2024 Slovakia

[@AnnaLee33]

hab ich noch nie gehört, dass man während eines Staus eine Rettungsgasse bildet. Dafür ist die Kriechspur rechts frei.

[@cadeeja.]

I scrolled through some of the comments, and since I haven't seen any comment like it, I will leave it ^^ Airing out the duvets and pillows has the purpose of getting them dried out from the night sweat. Every person sweats out an average of a couple of hundred milliliters of sweat (let's say about a cup full), and it's good against Milben (don't ask me for the English word), when the fabrics and fillings are cold and dry, just for that fact. :)

[@rawfish_8.3u]

Milben are 'mites' in English

[@HayleyAlexis]

You know I never thought of the sweat aspect... but you have a very valid point!

[@effektgeraeteinfo]

And the sun helps reducing bacteria with it’s ultraviolet light

[@cadeeja.]

@@rawfish_8.3u Darn. Right. As a Minecraft player I could have known that :D

[@cadeeja.]

@@HayleyAlexis

[@ninjaXladyXjae]

Zuckerberg was caught taping his laptop camera as well 😂

[@heavydragonoil1325]

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.

[@Flo-vn9ty]

Because he knows what is technologically possible and what you can do with the data from these cams. People often wonder why I'm not very active on social media, although I'm an IT professional. What they don't understand: it's not despite being an IT professional, it is because I'm an IT professional. I know what the companies behind the social networks can do with the data they collect. Things the average user can't even imagine.

[@lazyperfectionist1]

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._

[@lazyperfectionist1]

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.

[@LythaWausW]

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.

[@maxbarko8717]

I experienced it differently as a „Sanitäter“. There were situations I avoided touching anything.

[@luckyvanilla388]

Everybody should have a best friend like you ❤️

[@HayleyAlexis]

hahahah... I am a hot mess of a friend but I love my friends so much!

[@luckyvanilla388]

@@HayleyAlexis And I'm sure they love you back as well!! I mean how couldn't they??

[@ladyalexandra2980]

My laptop, bought in Austria, made for Austrian/German market, has a little thing built in, to move over the camera lens. No more tape needed. ;-) And sure it is always in the "covered" position.

[@carolejean8110]

The same for my laptop in France and when I was in Ireland, maybe it’s an European thing, but I'm happy with it

[@Mapaed]

For number five - the clutter in the pictures on the real estate websites: In my perception - german homes and flats are mostly cleared out of literally everything if somebody is moving. The rooms then are empty - taken over "Besenrein" (cleaned out by broom). Often even previous inhabitants take the whole kitchen with them when they move - because they own it. Or try to sell it to the new renter/owner at a certrain price ("Ablöse"). New owners often start with putting new paint on the walls - and else. Renovating the whole thing. New tiles, new carpets, parquet and else. Moving into a house, or an appartment already fully furbished / designed is very uncommon in Germany. I would guess 95% (or even more) of the new owners, the new renter would bring their own funiture and other stuff while moving. So the most important thing for a real estate is the ground plot of it - and the impression how bright or dark it feels. Everything else would be packed up and moved when the new inhabitants get the keys after signing ...

[@mareiketje4899]

Love your hair like this!

[@HayleyAlexis]

Thank you so much 😀

[@jess_spring]

There are laptops with movable camera covers so I don't think only the Germans cover their webcams...

[@Jessi62681]

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.

[@FrogeniusW.G.]

Off topic question: Where/how did you get that magnifying glass symbol? 😅

[@volkeralbiez8732]

For the camera cover. See it this way, if you go to a sauna a small amount of people see you naked and its your choice. If someone hacks your camera (and that has already happend) the complete internet can see you if the video is published online. May be you can life with it but think of babys/teenagers where the picturs/video is used for paedophilia and stays forever in the internet and can also be used for bullying (and sadly both had happend also in Germany).

[@hartmutfeige548]

My Dell has a little Slider to switch off the mic and cover the cam.

[@boelwerkr]

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".

[@jrgptr935]

Jeder Aquarianer weiß, daß UV-Licht antibakteriell wirkt, und das ist der wirkliche Grund, warum man das Bettzeug aus dem Fenster hängt. Every aquarist knows that UV light has an antibacterial effect, and that is the real reason why you hang the bedding out of the window.

[@annelarsson6152]

In Sweden we often pay somebody to do homestyling before the pictures are taken to make our look beautiful/clean and decorative. Also somebody to do the thorough cleaning before. Often through Realtors office. There is competition esp in the cities. A chaotic and not clean home will fall out/be rejected.

[@1201suddenturn]

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 👍🏼

[@georgesand1160]

I grew up in Wolfratshausen...and now I hear you have lived there for a while. That gave me memories...😊Thank's!

[@HayleyAlexis]

I enjoyed it tremendously :)

[@NataschaO]

Those photographs of messy houses might be of spaces suddenly vacated by an old person dying or moving into residential care. I don't think most people would be comfortable with all their private stuff on display (see second topic, lol).

[@HayleyAlexis]

That could be a valid point. A lot of the ones I see are of family homes that have children (usually a bedroom or 2 with toys) and to be completely honest I understand when you have small children why the house might not be in perfect shape.

[@koabua1973styria]

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. 😊😊😊

[@Marissa_tm]

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

[@HayleyAlexis]

I miss the crisp freshness I had in Germany when hanging my clothing to dry!

[@frankheilingbrunner7852]

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.

[@MichuKaiou]

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.

[@MichuKaiou]

If the link fails search for "Spanner-Hacker im Kinderzimmer".

[@rrssna]

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.

[@HayleyAlexis]

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).

[@helgaioannidis9365]

​@@HayleyAlexisI live on a Greek island and am familiar with humidity and mold. I get the problem about drying clothes inside the house, but outside??? How???

[@HayleyAlexis]

@@helgaioannidis9365 Where should I dry them? On my balcony that has a cover? Mold also grows outside. Plus Greece does not have the same humidity levels as Florida. Where we live it gets to be about 90% (with no rain) and from a simple Google search the highest Greece as awhole has is 68%.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

@@HayleyAlexis hi Hayley, I live on an island. In this very moment the air humidity outside is 96% and it's not raining. Greece has a very diverse climate within the country. In Florina at the moment people are skiing and where I live some people have a swim in the sea in a bikini. I've always been drying my clothes on the balcony. I'm not sure if I know what you mean with "has a cover"... would you mind explaining? I hope you didn't get the impression I wanted to criticise you btw, that was not my intention, I'm just used to Greek communication which is more direct than German communication 😅

[@HayleyAlexis]

@@helgaioannidis9365 Doing a quick map radar check it looks to be that in the area of Greece (many islands included) it is raining or there is a weather advisory, so yes the humidity level would be higher. It is also important to note that humidity levels rise in the evening. I actually looked from Skiathos all the way down to Gavdos and no island had a 96% humidity rate without rain. Gavdos is actually under a rainfall/thunderstorm advisory and the humidity level still isn't at 96%. I would love to know which island you are living on right now where the sun is shining, people are swimming in the ocean, and the humidity level is 96%... with no rain? Also the highest temperature at the southernmost part of Greece (island) is about 13 degrees Celsius with a low of 6 degrees celsius, who is swimming in that weather or sitting outside in bikinis in that weather? The warmest water in the Aegean Sea right now is in Marmaris (Turkey) with a temperature of 18.9 celsius (which is about the temperature of Florida water). I have been to a few Greek islands during winter and have seen no one swimming in the water during this time. Your story just doesn't add up. I don't mind having a conversation but to blatantly be misleading to try and prove your point doesn't validate anything you have said.

[@NoNeedTo...]

Hoch die Hände Wochenende!

[@HayleyAlexis]

**Tanz**

[@NoNeedTo...]

@ 'yes ma'am, i can boogie…'

[@janpracht6662]

@@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? 🤔

[@1972Ray]

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.

[@jessicaely2521]

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.

[@aphextwin5712]

This became law in (West) Germany in 1971. But the harsh penalties are a relatively recent phenomena. Until 2017, there was only a Verwarnungsgeld (a lesser kind of fine) of 20 Euro, after that it was raised and categorised as a Bußgeld (a slightly more serious fine) and in 2020 the driving ban was added.

[@horstschmitzberger6989]

It goes dry…. Feels much better After be dryer in sun….smell fresh 😎🇩🇪🇺🇸😇🍀✌️

[@manub.3847]

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.

[@friebor]

Please google "Mark Zuckerberg covering up his webcam". If he does it we all have to do that.

[@bryonyvaughn2427]

I think this American is more German in orientation. I upgraded from a Post-it note to an adhesive slider on my laptop. I use a PO Box and, when I need packages delivered to a physical address, give them the address of the post office and add “#XYZ,” XYZ being the number of my PO Box. I also refuse to have tracking games on my phone. Despite living in an apartment without a means to charge at home, I don’t have charging apps on my phone. I use plastic cards from the charging companies. They can have the info of where, when, and how much I charge but they cannot have the information of what everywhere my phone goes. I learned the airing out of mattresses and linens from my grandmothers who grew up before the age of commercial mattresses. They line dried everything but my mother didn’t. I learned the habit and benefits of line drying things from, in my apartment complex, being surrounded by my Chinese national neighbors. I used to take off shoes in my home but got rigid about everyone else doing it due to my neighbors. I have a little bench by my door with a basket of fresh footies for unprepared visitors. I also got in the indoor/outdoor clothes mindset from them, changing as soon as I get home. I just won’t freak out of someone sits on my made bed with outdoor clothes on. What got me indifferent to nudity was having kids. I grew up with a thoroughly internalized and religiously shame-based model of modesty. After my second child was born and I labored naked in front of my MIL, I didn’t care. Parts is parts. Some people have big parts while others have little parts. Some have firm parts and others have floppy parts. Some have rough parts while others have smooth parts. They’re all just parts. None of it matters. 🤷

[@piccadelly9360]

Rettungsgasse , ich habe es oft in der USA gesehen , es entsteht dann wenn die Polizei ein Auto verfolgt 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Sonofthebits1]

The webcam thing should not need any explanation.... "If you are not paranoid, that does not mean that THEY are not watching you... !" ;-)

[@HayleyAlexis]

i guess they can watch me... there arent any interesting things to see... just my double chin on full display

[@FrogeniusW.G.]

That's the reason why I don't want a Alexa or Siri etc.

[@Gerrit2686]

@@HayleyAlexis It is not about the harmless things you do. It is about the definition of harmless. Systems, societies, change. Harmless changes.

[@jpack85]

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.

[@HayleyAlexis]

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.

[@LythaWausW]

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.

[@judith6133]

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.

[@TierchenF95]

4:29 The difference is: when you're naked in the sauna there are no cameras. You're in a protected space. Since you are registered with the address anyway and the mail has to arrive, the name on the mailbox is not a problem. But if you are not physically there, you need to know all of this. It's a bit about control over the image and access to data.

[@lynnsintention5722]

It is because of where you lived in Germany that you saw pictures like that..I live in Saschsen and here all pics are of empty apartments it is rare that any furniture is seen let alone anything from the previous renter...Here we have lots of empty apartments But in West Germany and Bavaria or in Big cities the market is completely different. Apartments are hard to find and realtors know that people are sp desparate to get a reasonably prived apartment they will overlook how it looks at the moment. I have moved 5 times in Germnay since 2006 and only once seen pics of an apartment that still looked lived in and it was completely clean. Generally I find Germans to be way more orderly and clean than AMericans and I miss the chaos of the USA because in Germany I feel like no matter how I try it will never be enough!

[@HayleyAlexis]

I actually looked in the whole of Germany (there aren't that many houses available compared to the USA).

[@TrillianaEM]

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]

I guess but I don't keep anything of value randomly on display in my webcam's background 😂

[@TrillianaEM]

@@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.

[@Daneelro]

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.

[@riversong9333]

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...

[@hh-kv6fh]

@@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

[@joannunemaker6332]

I enjoyed this video. 😊❤

[@qobide]

Regarding the apartment pictures. Wenn i am the renter ready to move out, i have no benefit in tidying up so my landlord can have pretty pictures for the portals. For some people it might be very important, to others not even close. And since you usually completely furnish the apartment you are renting yourself (renting with furniture is still the exception) you usually only care about the floor plan, window placements, floor covering etc. when you have a look at these pictures. Might be an inspiration, but all will be gone anyway when you move in.

[@frankheilingbrunner7852]

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.

[@GlenHunt]

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!"??

[@jessicaely2521]

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.

[@theopuscula]

Privacy line for me gets drawn when someone films me butt naked without my consent and this could more easily than some Americans think be happening through my own webcam.

[@robert48719]

What would be Rettungsgasse in English? Maybe something like Emergency improvised get-through lane?

[@maddinar6727]

Rescue alley? 🤭

[@VivienLg]

​@@maddinar6727 😅😅😅

[@thomasschumacher5362]

It's an emergency lane. Let's not over complicate things by being too literal

[@aphextwin5712]

Emergency corridor is the term used in several European publications, including by NGOs like the European Transport Safety Council.

[@Good_run]

Don‘t you know the fairytale of Mother Hulda in the US? It doesn‘t work without the habit of putting out your blankets and pillows out in the morning. 😊

[@HayleyAlexis]

I have never heard of it before..... Now I have to google what it is

[@kdmuller5884]

Das hört sich nach Frau Holle an, einer alten deutschen Märchenfigur..

[@dorisschneider-coutandin9965]

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.

[@HayleyAlexis]

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 😂

[@Phiyedough]

Another thing in the "land of the free", you can't hang out washing to dry!

[@HayleyAlexis]

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.

[@insulanerin7601]

Of course I have tape on my webcam. In a sauna, there are maybe 8 other people and I can see them, we are all in the same situation. On the web, millions of anynomous potential creeps / criminals.

[@Daneelro]

I also have my laptop webcam taped... and I'm not even German!

[@slappedhappy9549]

💎again!💪🏼

[@annamc3947]

I wonder why the realtor or landlord doesn’t try to make the place look nice so they get a higher price? Houses here in California are now staged by realtors with all-new furniture and decorations. When we sold my parents’ house it looked nothing like when they lived there. The realtor even advised removing the refrigerator to make the kitchen look bigger.

[@HayleyAlexis]

No... There is no real incentive to do so because someone is most likely going to buy the house with or without the stuff because the inventory is so limited. I believe on the real estate website I looked at in Germany there were about 180,000 homes. In the USA that number is about 1.4 million if I am not mistaken. So even when calculating the population percentage there are still more homes available in the USA compared to Germany.

[@Caljostro]

If your driver license costs a couple of 1000s USD/EUR, you better learn something from it. And you are more motivated to not have it taken away again for disobeying the rules.

[@HayleyAlexis]

Very valid point!

[@StormEight]

Hayley you are right. Real estate pictures are very often much more professional in the States. Many Germans, even Real Estate Agents, are too mingy, to mandate professional photography.

[@HayleyAlexis]

Yeah that might be true. I notice that more expensive homes in Germany tend to have better pictures.

[@stefanhorst3310]

Endlich mal jemand der nicht alles beschönigt 😂😊

[@tanial.williamson8082]

Rettungsgasse means “rescue lane”.

[@martyw.5412]

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.

[@EvaCornelia]

As for the clutter in the pictures. It doesn't bother me at all. On the contrary, if I see pictures of an apartment which is actually a home of a family, I can relate much more and it's easier for me to imagine that this could also be a home for me. I can easily imagine this place without the clutter and imagine how I might arrange everything and if I could feel comfortable there. Pictures of homes that look like a furniture store rather turn me off.

[@PremiumGerman]

The Webcam thing is not an exclusive german thing. You will find lots of americans that will do that as well. Heck there are even laptops with privacy shutters

[@stpaley]

i have always witnessed and always under the belief that when an emergency vehicle is coming up behind you i need to merge onto the right lane (but i am always in the right lane unless i have to turn left) weather permitting my laundry is hanging on my clothesline, and after winter my electric pad, and blankets will be out there too a few years ago my brother's family wanted to visit my new house but i was working so much i couldn't clean it first so i postpone them currently there is a post-it taped over my camera eye now am i from the US or german?

[@totallyasmr]

Actually it's mostly forbidden by house rules to hang anything over the balkony. Nontheless a lot of people do it anyway.

[@AnnetteLudke-je5ll]

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....😮

[@_Yannex]

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😉

[@Saiege]

I think all of these are found in america.... Covering your cams has been a thing since early-mid 2000s. We are legally supposed to also clear the lanes for emergency vehicles, which is punishable by law. So if a cop sees you not yielding for EMS/fire etc. They will pull you over and give you a ticket. Ive also seen plenty of home/apartment pictures as well where it shows everyones clutter and mess they are trying to sell. So yeah, nothing really unique here for me

[@alfonsfalkhayn8950]

A simple question......are there dating sites for each races in the US of A - for each ethnicity its own- and if so could you recommend one for us coloureds here in Europe?

[@HayleyAlexis]

I don't believe in dating based on ethnicity or skin color

[@alfonsfalkhayn8950]

@HayleyAlexis but I do....since I am a half-caste ! Quadroons and Octeroons would fit me too. No 'Pinkys' or 'Sistas', I am afraid!

[@Princessmom9]

I've seen some houses for sale in the US that looked like they were infested with mice and roaches. Piles of dirty clothes everywhere, dirty dishes piled up, clutter in every room.

[@blablavo]

logitech webcams and lenovo laptops come with mechanical webcam covers, btw. So, not exactly a German thing.

[@noobdernoobder6707]

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?

[@junimondin]

😂😂😂 thank you so much. I am German and I wonder how you know me. 😂😂😂 greetings from Bavaria Allgäu ❤

[@MsCaro79]

We're not catfishing houses.😂 Where exactly is Mike from, is it Munich or somewhere in the surrounding countryside?

[@HayleyAlexis]

He probably won't ever say where he was born etc etc but it's the countryside outside of Munich

[@APCLZ]

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.

[@HayleyAlexis]

Just using numbers is the best option!

[@hardig5760]

Very handsome and enjoyable for your local post and parcelservices and other deliveries. 😅

[@aphextwin5712]

Well, remember phone books? There was a pre-internet and even a pre-computer era. Privacy laws in (West) Germany originally were about limiting what personal data government was allowed to collect and processed. Where everybody lived was data the state already had.

[@aphextwin5712]

I also feel there is some safety aspect. I cannot fool somebody to mail something to my mailbox that carries somebody else’s name.

[@MartinTheBear]

Everywhere in Europe you have to give space

[@jpack85]

We have to in the USA too, but Florida doesn't follow the rules.

[@aphextwin5712]

There is a difference between having to give way for emergency vehicles and having to form an emergency corridor whenever traffic slows down to a crawl regardless of the presence of any emergency vehicles and getting fined if you don’t do so even if it just a normal traffic jam. Having a law about this also ensures that everyone knows between which lanes this emergency should be formed and thus enables consistency.

[@elsafischer3247]

I’m laughing because you are right about ALL the things you are saying

[@HayleyAlexis]

❤❤❤

[@stks11]

Covering the camera with tape is not just a german thing. I've been doing that for a long time. I'm in the U.S.

[@einfachisi1401]

Rettungsgasse = rescue alley :-)

[@tho_she_be_but_litl]

Genuine question: do Germans cover the cameras on the front of their phones, too?

[@HayleyAlexis]

I don't know a German that does that but they probably exist.

[@folkehoffmann1198]

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.

[@Vernon1960]

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!)

[@boelwerkr]

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.

[@meinich5488]

Rettungsgasse: Denmark, Sweden, Netherland, Luxemburg, France ist normal Not only in Germany.

[@elkeschuettner3769]

In Austria also....

[@timwinterberg2900]

4:33 er sieht selbst aus wie ein Hacker 😂

[@HayleyAlexis]

😂😂

[@rogerblumenstein1238]

Rettungsgasse is emergency lane.

[@aphextwin5712]

I’ve seen ‘emergency corridor’ being used in a number of places. It probably removes a bit of ambiguity the term ‘emergency lane’ carries as the latter term might also be used for the shoulder.

[@jodyspower8565]

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 🫣😂

[@zaldarion]

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.

[@clivewilliams3661]

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.

[@HayleyAlexis]

Been to 5 continents and many countries but thaks for the assumption

[@benedikt616]

I must say I enjoy your videos. Having once lived in a binational relationship myself, I know that looking at the differences can be entertaining (hope that that´s an accurate description). Another difference I just came across when reading about a US politician and business man who has the total of nine children with his wife (they already had 5 own and decided to adopt 5 more in 2010). Sounds sweet. But then, in 2023, the wife filed for divorce. In 2024, a judge ordered that her husband had to stay away from her, because allegedly, when he was visiting her in what had been their family home, he followed her from room to room and refused to leave at night. I of course don´t know whether those allegations were true - I guess they were. But it strikes me that the decision to have that many children had not been based on love and love alone then. Not only Germans, but all Europeans wouldn´t have any sympathy for a couple that would decide whether they want children and if so, how many on the basis of factors divergent from the intactness of the relationship and the wellbeing of the children. Think that´s a legacy of feudal times, when the nobility still married and started families because of all sorts of factors - apart from love? Not in the US of course, but in almost the complete rest of the world. The western countries that once had an aristocracy have not taken their attitudes towards marriage and family from those circles (perhaps the UK is a little bit different, though). Instead, the value systems of the bourgeoisie prevailed - including the focus on romantic love. Is the US different here?

[@Flo-vn9ty]

I think covering the web cam is not just a German thing. Nowadays, many laptops even have a builtin cover for the web cam. I'm pretty sure the manufacturers don't do this just because of the German market. And no, you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to do that. There were actually a lot of cases where people hacked web cams and spied on other people, especially children.

[@jrgptr935]

Ich glaube noch keinen Klapprechner gesehen zu haben, der nicht schon mal durch ein Pflaster an dieser Stelle ... eh... geheilt worden wäre. I don't think I've ever seen a folding computer that hasn't been through a plaster at this point ... eh... been healed.

[@treehugger01982]

About the camera...didn't you read Edward Snowden's book...or watch the movie at least?!? 😂 🧐

[@HayleyAlexis]

....... no? 😂 is this a trick question?

[@treehugger01982]

@HayleyAlexis nope 😘, you really have to read / watch it and get educated about the NSA 😎

[@animalfriend6413]

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.

[@poissonpuerile8897]

There are indeed computer viruses and spyware that access webcams - many American parents buy the latter and spy on their own kids. To scoff at covering webcams is to be profoundly ignorant of the reality of the threats that exist. To laugh at those that protect themselves from this is just plain dumb.

[@CorinnaPocher-Osterode]

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“.

[@Daneelro]

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.

[@jjinwien9054]

You "lie" on a comforter, not "lay"

[@HayleyAlexis]

I honestly could care less

[@XLV750RD01]

@@HayleyAlexis couldn't

[@HayleyAlexis]

@@XLV750RD01 I pray none of yall make mistakes in the comment section because I will point them out ❤ I am like a dolphin or raven.

[@jjinwien9054]

Dear Hayley, I am sorry to have corrected you and I see that you were miffed. However, on my part, it was just a comment on the USA education system, where grammar doesn't seem to be taught anymore. It is just as important in English to speak grammatically correct as in German. Just ask your guy what it's like to hear wrong endings or bad conjugations in German. If you go to school in Germany, grammar is an important part of their language education - in the USA grammar as fallen by the wayside and has become a symptom of the poor K-12 schooling in the States.

[@HayleyAlexis]

@jjinwien9054 it is has not as*. Spelling and grammar go hand in hand ❤

[@tanial.williamson8082]

Those were only FOUR things, NOT FIVE.

[@Sampler19]

Mark Zuckerberg tapes his webcam, too.

[@thomasschumacher5362]

Can't fact check that

[@Sampler19]

@@thomasschumacher5362 Edit: Oh, right, maybe there'll just be a community note. xD

[@ludwigguanipa3816]

🤣🤣🤣

[@travelvideos]

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.

[@JouMxyzptlk]

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.

[@ralffischer3965]

Kann mir das Video echt nicht ansehen. Eine ganz grausige Computerstimme spricht deinen Text auf deutsch. Automatisch Synchronisiert, nennt sich das wohl. In meinem Browser finde ich keine Einstellungen das zu deaktivieren. Schade. Musste leider abbrechen.

[@HayleyAlexis]

Denn ist das dein Problem und nicht mein Problem. Irgendwas stimmt nicht mit deine Einstellungen- nicht mit mein Video.

[@TheMAmeph]

Im Video "Einstellungen" öffnen (das Zahnradsymbol), dann "Audiotrack" und auf Englisch (original) ändern. Diese doofe auto-Übersetzung ist so ein mehr oder weniger neues feature von KZbin, das aus irgendwelchen Gründen für manche Leute bei manchen Videos auftaucht, ich verstehe es auch nicht. Man kann es scheinbar nicht zentral abstellen, sondern muss es für jedes Video einzeln ändern. Bei mir zB lief hier automatisch das Original, aber gestern bei einem anderen Video eines anderen Kanals direkt die doofe AI-Voice...