Submitted 12 hours ago by Wudi@feddit.uk to videos@lemmy.world
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Kinda misleading. This dude is a comedian and “influencer” (not really in the typical sense but he films a lotta stuff for online content). He cuts filming just as people are moving out of the way for the ambulance.
I ain’t saying NYC doesn’t have a problem with what he’s saying, but I am saying you can see how he’s not being entirely honest and he’s incentivized to be dishonest.
No amount of dishonesty can invalidate the fact that in a typical german city that ambulance would be going literally 10 times as fast without any issues. Its not just stupid drivers, but NYC is also just a complete failure in terms of road design.
Even if they did eventually move out of the way, it would still be way slower than what happens in Germany (and many other European countries). Cars would begin to move out of the way as soon as they notice it approaching.
I am a german i never seen this guy. Maybe he is more famous in the USA.
Yeah he primarily posts English language content because his humor is mostly based off English speaking stereotypes instead of, well, jokes.
I mean, there are about a thousand people that can coroborate the fact that people block ambulances in NYC all the time.
Oh yeah absolutely I ain’t denying that, I just don’t like that this dude is doing this for content.
I’ve never been to New York, but as somebody born and raised in Southern California, lived in Portland, Or, and is currently living in Minnesota, I have never seen this. You always move over to the right. Immediately and without question. In California, Oregon, and Minnesota, at least, it’s the law, and you can be fined for not complying.
I live right outside NYC and have to drive through on a semi-regular basis. People generally do move out of the way of emergency vehicles. BUUUTTTT, traffic is completely fucked in NYC. Watch the video again, cars are trying to move but literally have nowhere to go. This happens daily, if you’re not out off Manhattan by 3pm you travel time is now at minimum doubled on an average day. Some days its 3-4x worse.
well Mario is indeed German lol
This is Mario Adrion right? A stand up comedian.
What makes the bicycle kinky?
She always wants you to ride her?
This dude is a comedian and calling things kinky is one of his catchphrases.
Another reason I don’t like this idea of this dude being used as any source of information, I find his comedy routine exhausting and overly laden with tired, old stereotypes instead of actual humor. A lot of his jokes are “Germans are fetishists”, “Germans used to be Nazis”, :Germans are rigid and rules following" and “my wife is Jewish, isn’t that bizarre?”
Oh, yeah, repeating old ‘"funny’" stereotypes isn’t really very masterful humor
Berlin is larger (892km^2 vs 783km^2) and less population dense (6 million vs 20 million in the matro areas). So… Kinda comparing apples to oranges.
The time to arrive at emergency should be the same. Death will not wait for you.
Must be nice living in a world where population dynamics and physics don’t exist.
Apples to Döner Kebabs
Not just NYC. I see the same kinda shit in California too.
We have entirely too many entitled fuckfaces in this country and all of them drive.
Ya!
Is he German? I couldn’t tell, ja?
US drivers do not understand the Rettungsgasse. +1 Deutschland!
The transcription is almost correct all the way except for one part.
When he says, “Whoever needed it, they’re dead”.
The transcription reads, “Whoever needed it, they’re okay”.
because social media platforms will delete your content and ban you if you continue to talk about the “bad stuff”.
welcome to the dawn of the age of new speak. I heard a 13 year old kid last week say “unalive” instead of “kill”.
we’re so fucked.
It’s way worse. They don’t ban you and they don’t delete your content. TikTok ads don’t pay enough that demonetization is a concern either.
The algorithm just silently (!) deranks your content. They don’t have guidelines, they don’t have feedback, they will never communicate on what is and is not okay to post about. You’ll just say “Fuck ICE” in a video once and notice it is doing suspiciously worse than the rest, but then again, you’re never quite sure why some of your videos “make it” and some don’t. So maybe you’re being paranoid? You can’t tell.
So on top of the very real algorithmic censorship from these platforms, you’ve got very frequent bouts of mass psychosis where everyone self-censors for no other reason that other people are doing it and they don’t want to risk it. Is the word “dead” de-ranked? Quite likely not even, but who’s to say, and it doesn’t cost anything to farm a little engagement in the comments by self-censoring…
Isn’t the future bright?
It’s to be advertiser friendly. All kids use new words. We did the same
Do people in Germany typically call for ambulances after their heart attack? Doesn’t sound like an ideal strategy
Also #fuckcars
Why not? Ambulance at your house in 10 mins is not unheard of (where I am)
That’s faster than I would be able to hail a cab or public transport. I sure as hell am not gonna cycle or drive if I am actively suffering from a cardiac arrest
I just imagine an old grey haired guy sitting on the kitchen floor taking his pulse
“Waaait for it not yet, still happening almost”
While his family is there clambering for him to just call for an ambulance
10 minutes still feel like a lot. I don’t think I ever had to wait that much for an ambulance. Though I do live in an atypical town.
You better. If you do not arrive at the ER via ambulance, they will assume your case is not an emergency.
That’s pretty fucked,
sorry your Nana died, she didn’t use der zugelassene Krankenwagen! So we left her in the lobby
The ambulance could have just passed right through his front teeth to get by.
Some societies consider the welfare of others; other societies don’t.
So he’s saying “send a German” but what I’m hearing is “tow a gurney with a bike.”
Germany has a higher mortality rate for heart attacks than the US
Source?
Source: SpringerMedizin.de share.google/Y3pDiTAszdpbbClj8
That’s just one of many such. It’s about 1.5 times the mortality rate
Where do you expect them to go? They’re supposed to fly out of the way?
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 12 hours ago
NYC EMS story.
Cab driver gets in a fender bender with a 911 ambulance.
After arguing with the crew and supervisor he decides he has neck and back pain and he must go to the hospital.
A second ambulance is dispatched and, following protocol, fully immobilizes him and takes him to the hospital.
En route the cabbie complains about how slow the ambulance is going.
“Everyone else is like you, none of them get out of the way.”