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But school shootings, obesity, healthcare, and oil, though.
Source: Am American.
Same tbh
Don’t forget police murdering people and doing highway robbery.
I prefer bringing up that in US “democracy” some votes count more than others. When trump won, more people voted for Clinton and for some reason yanks seem to be totally ok with this.
We are not ok with this, but changing the way it works is a herculean task. The people that it currently works for are very invested in keeping it that way.
But why is nobody even protesting it? Seems kind of a cornerstone of democracy, no? How could anything coming out of this system have any legitimacy?
Because it’s easier for people to pretend already being busy (focusing on and protesting nonsensical and completely irrelevant shit) vs actually focusing on the primary and relevant things that are actually impacting their lives.
This is the most honest reply so far.
In America politicians choose their voters
Are those voters people with agency or just cattle? You realize your group is a lot bigger than the group that you watch exploiting you, right?
It happens in Spain too. Huge difference in the number of votes needed in Barcelona to get a representative, compared to rural provinces.
When they stop being huge fucking problems, we’ll stop making fun of you for them :P
It’s low hanging because it’s overweight.
I have a solution for the gun violence problem in schools. Print simple steps on common causes and solutions to the underlying social and mental contributors. Put these up in every door, hallway and classroom in every schools. Then these poor misguided kids would have troubleshooting.
Ow. That hurt.
don’t forget the lack of the metric system!
Which ruined looking for recipes online and using Google search operators to filter put american recipes is irritating because you have to fine tune and repeat based on the google results until all american recipes are filtered out
My tip is to search for it in another language.
I only know English and am currently learning japanese but I can only form & read simple scentences in japanese and haven’t learned how to do complex ones yet
And what if I don’t know a language other than X and English?
Let your browser translate the webpage for you. Or maybe you have luck with YouTube auto captions.
More than than it’s worth.
I did it. It’s troublesome.
That one is fun because you concede most of it but then win an argument that fahrenheit is better (Celsius and fahrenheit are both arbitrary but at least fahrenheit scales itself so the range most people use daily, weather, is 0-100)
while you’re correct they’re both arbitrary scales and I’ve heard this argument before but still think it’s a dumb argument.
Water freezes 0 water boils 100, i guess it fits the base 10 thing.
I think you feel the human 0 to 100 idea works because it’s what you’re used to. 0 to 40 works fine for me to intuitively know how hot or cold it is becuase it’s what i grew up with too. Neither can be argued that one is more right.
although it really makes sense for the USA to just finally switch because it’s long been decided by the rest of the planet this is the better way to measure things. https://media.tenor.com/SD-5sdtUX8QAAAAM/simpsons-homer.gif
Yes I know that water does certain things at the “nice” numbers in Celsius. Who cares though? What’s so special about water? I’m not boiling water that often, and in my life I’ve never checked the temperature of water when doing so or have had to care about specific numbers then. Of all substances why does water get to be the one we base everything around?
i guess it’s just one of those cool science observations water freezes (and technically melts) at 0 and boils at 100 (at sea level). it fits the base 10 and we just think it’s neat.
i mean probs we should be using degrees Kelvin if we want to be less arbitrary. I’m down for the switch.
Where the hell do you live that the temperature goes between 0 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit daily?
That is not what I mean. I mean in daily life, most temperatures will fall in that range. That does not mean every day you see them all.
OK, and in daily life most temperatures will fall within 0 to 100C too…
Not at all. I have lived in two different time zones where I’m dealing with subzero Celsius temperatures for several months of the year.
And I have lived in two different time zones where I’m dealing with temperatures over 100F for several months of the year
I think he’s missing the important part of that 0-100 scale… It marks fairly decently what isn’t safe for people without proper precautions. I’ve gone out below freezing and while it isn’t pleasant by any mean, you aren’t super fucked until you get super low. Likewise, get above 100 and it quickly stops becoming safe for humans without frequent breaks and such
Wrong.
A middle eastern dude would tell you a 100 is fine and a northern canadian will probably tell you to stop bothering them because they are turning into a puddle.
And at the same time, we europeans who have been in the USA (so we just don’t follow what media wants us to think) love so many things in the USA. Are the States flawed? Yes. Are Europeans country flawed too? Absolutely. I don’t like the bullying the world thing, but I’m happy I’m on ‘tesm bullying’ and not ‘team Russia’ or middle east.
yeah, true.
-Most Americans.
I see two memes right next to each other of Americans crying about being meme’d on… This is why you guys are so fun to bully.
Americans when they don’t shut the fuck up about their politics and everyone starts mocking them(we don’t mock them enough)
every society in the world is falling apart So it takes the edge off by mocking other countries.
except for those more civilized people up in the Nordic regions. they’re doing good with the whole Utopian human rights thing.
It’s weird seeing this meme without the tits
I’m from Asia and honestly it’s really tiring to hear people keep making fun of Americans.
It was never funny to bring up shit like children fucking dying from school shootings in a snarky comment, and I think any reasonable person with actual, genuine concern for the world’s problems understands that if all we had to do was give, everyone would well have fucking received already.
Americans mentioning Europeans seem to want to blow themselves up at the drop of a hat.
Wut?
