Comment on America

hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  American here. I use 24h time, vastly favor roundabouts over traffic lights, and I would rather poop at home with my bidet attachment than get paid to poop at work. I’m not exactly your average American, but there are probably millions of us. The world mostly hears the loud dipshits because they are loud and their thoughts are dipshit enough that people who hear them feel the need to tell somebody about what a stupid dipshit take they heard from some loud dipshit.

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’m also an American. Those are examples from personal experience.

    When I was growing up the dipshit town where my family lived was thinking about installing a roundabout instead of the series of 4 lights in front of the Walmart. The level of genuine panic it caused was insane. Huge groups at city council meetings with signs worried about car insurance rates going up because of “all the accidents it will cause!” Needless to say, it didn’t happen. Meanwhile, roundabouts work just fine for the rest of Earth and I’ve only ever seen one accident in one, due to construction.

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    • bridgeburner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why on earth would anyone be afraid of roundabouts? Like they aren’t even more complicated than traffic lights to understand.

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      • criscodisco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Says someone that grew up with them. And they are a little more complicated than “green means go, red means stop”. Efficiency and simplicity aren’t synonyms.

        Personally I’m glad we are getting more of them. When I lived in England, and where I learned how to use them, I could see their effectiveness. This was long before they started gaining in popularity in the US. Living in the US, you may have only seen them in pictures, or in a scene in a movie, so it just looked like an absolute clusterfuck if you didn’t know what was going on. Now, I just wish people here would fucking signal properly when using them because that is really the key to maximizing their efficiency.

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    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Roundabouts should decrease premiums, as they essentially eliminate Tbone collisions

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      • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Won’t somebody think of insurance companies!?

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  • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is poetic

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    did someone mention dipshittery? i have a card in case you need me

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are countries in Europe that don’t use bidets. Not even a handheld bidet shower. In those countries they don’t even wash their ass or cooch the old school way unless they are from a migrant family.

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• robocall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bidets are slowly growing in popularity in the USA. But only for home installation, I haven’t seen them in public restrooms yet.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  hey we’re getting better at roundabouts
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• Danquebec@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My wife is from.Colombian and not used to the 24 hour system.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Does she refer to it as “hora militar” though?

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    • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No. She just says “in French” for the 24 hour system, and “in Spanish” for the 12 hour system, since that’s where she noticed the difference in our context.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Technically she’s still American. Just South American.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i just got in an argument with all of lemmy not half an hour ago in my head and earlier than that in reality that no one else gets to claim american because i don’t know. i was on your side on this argument.

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      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Maybe because of the caveat “technically” giving readers easy distinction between geographic American and the American nation? Or maybe just the bad luck of hitting the hivemind wrong.

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Either using both or mostly issuing 24h is a thing in the Eastern hemisphere, so Europe, Africa, and Asia. It’s not universally applied, but there’s lots of places that use it on things like telling you when a TV show will be on, for example.

    Par example

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