What’s German for “trying too hard?”
America is fucked
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ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Oh look a cyclist bitching about shit
NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’m not an American but I’ve lived in Washington for years. Every time an Ambulance is moving with its siren on, people move to the side of the road to let it pass. This guy is just inaccurate.
ZMoney@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Manhattan has gridlock that prevents this. There’s no space to move into.
easily3667@lemmus.org 3 hours ago
He clipped the video as someone was moving out of the way, too
PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
Eh, feels like he’s playing up the stereotype of the eternal German.
"…WE DON’T DO ZIS IN GERMANY! YOU BUILD HOUSES WITH WOOD? WE DON’T DO ZIS IN GERMANY. YOU DON’T SEPARATE GLASS FROM RECYCLING? BUT WE DO ZIS IN GERMANY!!!
I’m allowed to say that, I’m Germany myself. We are obnoxious and tone-deaf fuckers.
easily3667@lemmus.org 3 hours ago
Agreed
Tja@programming.dev 10 hours ago
There’s tone deaf and there’s common sense, life saving practices.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
This. I absolutely prefer to be a tone-deaf fucker among tone-deaf fuckers if that means my ambulance arrives timely after someone tried car buttsex at 260 kmh. (162 mph)
What, speed limits? Don’t you dare touch my freedom.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is a funny clip and an accurate depiction of NY congestion.
But, I live in a major city and weake way for ambulances. If it’s this bad we’ll end up with civilians running red lights or cops on motorbikes to unfuck gridlock.
I myself ran a red light last week in rush hour to GTFO when I hear sirens. Just turn on my hazards, slow roll into the red light. Cars were already stopping for me so I was safe, then pulled over.
This is really just making fun of NYC traffic and how fucked it is.
msage@programming.dev 1 day ago
Ja?
Aux@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
To be fair, with the congestion that severe, the ambulance should use helicopters. Like they do here in London.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
Good luck finding a spot to land somewhere close within Manhattan. Unless you happen to have the heart attack next to a car park (or the central park) that also happens to not be heavily used right now there’s hardly any spot to safely land.
in London and other cities it’s less of a problem given we don’t build that many high rise buildings and got more big old market places and small parks.
Aux@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
A chopper can land safely on any road cross. And NY has shit loads of them. Then it’s a 1 minute walk.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I speak perfect english but still use „ja”, ja?
riot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Das ist der Weg
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
how else would we know he’s German
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
I assumed it was some weird YouTube thing he was doing. None of my German friends use that haha.
tromars@feddit.org 1 day ago
Wenn die Polizei vorbei fährt, ja! (ja)
dann halt ich erst mal an, ja! (ja)PlexSheep@infosec.pub 19 hours ago
Ja sonst ist es nicht authentisch genug. Aber war schon witzig.
guy@piefed.social 1 day ago
I get imense stress from having an ambulance behind me even if there's plenty of room to pass on the side. Immediately plotting where to go if it needs to go exactly where I am.
I can't imagine having an ambulance behind you and going 'Meh, I'm driving here.'scytale@lemm.ee 1 day ago
This happened to me once. It was a main road with heavy traffic. I pulled over to the right to let the ambulance pass, but because of traffic, I was effectively sitting on the right lane. Apparently the ambulance wanted to move to the right lane because they were gonna turn right at the corner up ahead. I felt like an asshole because to everyone else on the road, it looked like I intentionally blocked the ambulance. And the siren blaring right behind you while the driver is blasting the horn is very stressful.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
nyc is a crazy city
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
If the ambulance is immediately behind you, you’ve already failed.
In “we’ll-behaving” countries ambulance does not lose speed. If you hear a siren, you pull over, doesn’t matter if you see it or not.
I’m not directing this at you, just explaning the course of action for people like in the video.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Ayyyy I’m driving here
kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I come and save you, ja?
Hubi@feddit.org 1 day ago
You are being rescued. Please do not resist.
Sabata11792@ani.social 1 day ago
You are being billed. Please do not resist.
datendefekt@feddit.org 1 day ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQLk-LF1JY
haben sie was getrunken, ja! (ja) fragt mich die Polizei, ja! ja
YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Der polizist mit seinen elfenohren …
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 day ago
In case you wanna see a “RETTUNSGASSE!!!” (= rescuing lane) in action this clip is what it looks like ideally.
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s how it’s supposed to work in the US too. Maybe it depends on the state but in MN at least it’s illegal to fail to pull over for emergency vehicles. If you see any emergency vehicle on the road running with lights on then you are supposed to stop and pull off to the side so that they can have the whole road.
The video in the OP looks nuts to me too. I’ve never seen people fail to pull over for an emergency vehicle in my area.
gt5@lemm.ee 1 day ago
This is how it is in Manhattan when it’s busy. It’s not so much failing to pull over so much as there is nowhere to go.
Hi_May@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is a very NYC phenomenon, everywhere else I’ve ever been and lived in the US moves out of the way for emergency vehicles with their lights and sirens on, I’ve seen both issues where there is nowhere to go and times where people just don’t care, every time I’m in NYC I hope to not need medical attention
Aviandelight@mander.xyz 1 day ago
So I actually experienced one of these on 64W between VA Beach and Richmond. It was amazing how everyone including myself just instinctively moved to the sides of the road. It’s not a hard concept it just takes cooperation.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also space to pull over is important. Here in the midwest we have room to move over and everyone does, honestly way more than is necessary. Like people start to pull over a few blocks in front of the ambulance if they just hear the siren.
New York’s problem in the video is the congestion makes it hard to move out of the way when there is nowhere to go.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
At about 10 seconds on the video you can actually see a guy getting out of the way of the ambulance to let it through, though he was not doing it preemptively.
PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I saw this exact same thing yesterday in Cologne Germany but not with one, but two ambulances.
JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
As a city dweller I never seen this happen in Germany ever in my life. So not too common at least.
PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Germany is better than most places, but it happens here too. It could be one of those things you only notice when you’re looking for it.
I’ve never seen someone open carry a gun in the US but when you listen to people it sounds like everyone does.
I was a my friends WG (group apartment) and her roommate just got back from the US. She was shocked that the Americans even put sugar in their bread. Something something it’s why they are all fat and unhealthy. I was curious, so got all of the german bread there… And you know what? It all had a higher sugar content than the American bread example.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hwGd3QWgTLs&pp=0gcJCdgAo7Vq…
For contrast: a video of a more congested street in Paris 17 years ago. The situations aren’t completely comparable: bigger emergency vehicle, smaller other vehicles, smaller street with less options to get out of the way, … One other major difference and the reason I’m posting this, is that 30 seconds into the video, you can see that most drivers have moved to the sides of the road AHEAD of the firetruck and that they are holding still while waiting on the firetruck to pass them. The street + path are less than ideal and there isn’t really enough room, so the truck is still not going very fast, but it’s at least able to keep moving. By moving to the sides, the drivers also blocked in that smaller firetruck that was coming from the side street, so that’s going to cause some confusement after the big one has passed.
The reason that that NYC ambulance is completely stuck I’m traffic, isn’t because of space, because there is plenty compared to that Parisian street, but it’s the drivers who are not creating a path. It’s not an infrastructure problem, it’s something that can be taught + encouraged if there is a political will to make a change.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Distracted drivers are a serious problem in more ways than one. A couple weeks ago I was 2nd in line at a red light, only us 2 in that lane and several more in the other. An ambulance drove up behind us flashing and it was immediately clear the shortest path through the intersection was for our 2 cars to clear out. I put on my hazards and starting alternating lights and horn, while the person ahead sat blithely scrolling through their phone while the ambulance and I were both laying on the horn and didn’t move until the light turned green. Even then, didn’t pull aside so the bus had to weave around him. The lack of situational awareness and empathy on the road is sadly lacking.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah, smartphones are a menace as well in traffic, especially when combined with someone as oblivious as in your example :). The government(s) in my country has had several police + information campaigns against smartphone use since a few years. There’s now also a fine of 175 euro + loss of driver’s license for 15 days for using the smartphone while driving in traffic. And waiting in traffic, still counts as driving. If used for navigation, then the destination has to be put in before starting to drive & the smartphone has to be in a holder or connected to the infotainment system.
This heavier punishment is pretty recent and the chance of being caught seems low, so there’s still often people using smartphones inappropriately. Last one I saw this week was an oblivious teenager on a bicycle. It’ll be interesting to see if there’s been a noticable change in a few years.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Absolutely every second for an ambulance matters. Every. Second.
People blocking an ambulance should be punished and made examples of.
easily3667@lemmus.org 3 hours ago
Nobody is blocking the ambulance here, there’s literally nowhere to go. Have you never been to a real city before?
Skellysgirl@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Love this. Who says the Germans have no humour.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mostly the French
Maggoty@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
There are cities that use medics on motor bikes for this exact reason. They can’t evac someone but getting there quickly to use a defibrillator or control bleeding could make a difference.
Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
You should see major cities in latin america if you think that’s bad. In many countries it’s like they don’t even care.
seeigel@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Why would cities in latin america have excuses?
Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Education quality is a tip of the iceberg.
Talk to someone who went to a public school in say the dominican republic. I’ve heard stories of years of kids just waiting around with next to no actual teaching involved from someone who was physically there in their childhood. If you don’t go to a private school odds are you aren’t going to get any real education or structure beyond what you pick up at home… and odds are your parents were in the same boat.
The US education system has been nothing like that, it is going to get like that in the south though.
fucking_polite@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’m from Chile and whenever you’re in a jam and an ambulance needs to get through, cars move out of their way to let it through. In Santiago, at least. We also stop at zebra crossings to let pedestrians cross.
Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Sure and Santiago is a horrible example. I was just there a few months ago. It feels the most like boston of anywhere else in latin america. When I was in el salvador I thought I was gonna get robbed at the airport, where they pat you down at each departure gate.
The wages are livable, the neighborhoods are safe(mostly), the housing is affordable, the food is terrible (compared to lima anyway.) I couldn’t get enough of the mountains.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So why not put paramedics on a e-bike, so they can actually arrive at the scene first. It’s not like the patient gets put into the ambulance immediately on arrival. Might as well have someone take care of the patient before the ambulance arrives. Just put a e-bike in the back of the ambulance or rack it on the front.
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
Looking confused. Why can’t the ambulance go through the small gaps between sidewalk. In my country ambulance drivers drive like its GTA.
SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Where I live in Canada traffic moves for anything with lights(other than a tow truck unless of course they have an EMS escort). We pull up on to sidewalks, curbs, and anything really to clear a path. Heck I’ve seen people put their vehicle into a snow bank pr a ditch to get out of the way. I guess we’re of the mindset that others will do the same for us should we be the ones awaiting EMS to arrive or deliver us to an ER.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s no place for anyone to move to. The congestion is such that you cannot get out of the way. The Van Wyck alone will slow an ambulance to 3-5mph because of traffic. You cannot get out of the way if there’s no place to go!
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is the kind of culture you get and deserve when you allow corporations to control your country and culture
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’ve seen roads so congested in NYC that they literally cannot get through. Saw a firetruck honk for a solid 5 minutes before getting to move anywhere.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
its a whole movie trope that this is an issue in europe because their infrastrucutre doesnt support cars
Flemmy@lemm.ee 1 day ago
America is a bit bigger than your NY road…
qarbone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Were all the "ja"s an affectation or do modern Germans just ja that much?
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He’s just demonstrating New York City is fucked, not America
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 day ago
You’re fucked ja
CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Anyone got a mirror? It would be nice if catbox didn’t block vpn traffic, I’m not disabling my vpn for a meme
easily3667@lemmus.org 3 hours ago
In the video right after he says nobody moves out of the way there is someone moving out of the way but he edited the video to remove it.
Disingenuous bullshit.
A7thStone@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’m amazed you could see that since he edited it out of the video so you couldn’t see it.
AAA@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Someone moving out of the way still doesn’t equal everyone moving out of the way. He’s way ahead of them at the end of the video. The point still stands.