The US is a cultural hegemon so it is often picked on. There are tons of idiotic peoole and cultural practices here in Spain. But the rest of the world isnāt really awareā¦ I mean I donāt blame them. One cannot keep up with everything.
But believe me, stupidity and insular thinking is just as endemic here as it is in the States. It just annoys me when āenlightenedā Americans habitually paint other Americans as somehow dumber than dumb people elsewhere.
America is leading the chart of the western world in terms of stupidity rn if you ask me and itās definitely easy to be one of the enlighned over there (just donāt try to oppress others) but compared to other parts of the population I definitely prefer them!
Iām an American who has lived in Spain for the past 11 years. Iāve grown up in the States, worked in the States as a young person, still visit frequently, but my professional, personal, and cultural life has not been primarily there for some time.
I am telling you, both cultures have their dumb preoccupations, their misconceptions, and their morons.
The idea of āAmerica is so bad, Americans are so dumbā is exactly the same ideology as American exceptionalism. It is just as wrong.
Thatās not what I try to say, America is simply first rn and similar groups all over the western world adopt it because of that, itās not a secret that the western world started to move to the right again in recent times and that leads to a lot of shit if you ask me which definitely isnāt limited to America but currently they are simply the first to do certain really bad tgings!
As I said, America is a cultural hegemony at the moment. It does export a lot of its culture, but far from all of itās culture.
I think the direction the world is moving is a bit of a mixed bag. With LGBT stuff, it is moving far to the left very quickly. With things like workers rights it has stagnated or moved rightwards somewhat. Itās true that the Western world has seen the emergence of the alt-right in the past decade. But there is an alt-left or far left that has also been gaining in prominence. Generally just deviation from the political center in both directions.
Judiging from the culture war the alt-right started to adopt in europe and other global leader changes (E.g. India) in the past few years I highly disagree, there is more accaptance in the general population but over all there are more and more countries LGBTQ people arenāt welcome in or have to flee from and the pure hate appears even here in Austria and in our neighbor countries. Trump of all people put it very well, five years ago his audiance didnāt even know what trans is and now they get more excited about it than about tax cuts. I do agree that the world generally moves towards neo liberal ideas rouggly since the early 2000s and that workers right are at risk too, thatās just not a very new development, stuff like that simply gains visibility during a crisis.
Yeah, no. The Middle East, for example, is heading leftwards by leaps and bounds. It just seems slow from the standpoint of a single human lifetime. Remember, they were, with a few exceptions, warring desert bands on horses only a bit over 100 years ago. Not saying there arenāt exceptions (Iran, which, is sort of Middle-East-adjacent, would be an example).
The same trend is true all over the world. The thing is people get too emotional that they lose sight of secular trends for the ups and down of individual months and years. Just compare the culture now to 30 or 40 years ago. It very well might be a good strategy in getting what they want, it might even be necessary to keep cultural momentum going in the direction they want it to go, so, in that sense, it might be necessary. Seeing the truth is not necessarily a āgoodā or even advantageous thing.
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What a hilariously and refreshingly honest company! I donāt think I want to join in the beta phase yet, but Iāll definitely keep it in mind and will check back in the future.
American are like ācut 37/64 and 52 thousandths of an inch off your 2 by 4 inch piece of wood, thatās obviously not 2 by 4 inchesā, and donāt get me started on wire gauge.
See what Iām going to do is Iām going to make the nazis look equally bad to all these other things. That way the nazi atrocities will look less problematic and I get to smear my enemies with a tainted term.
Youāre trying to hard to see what you want to see in order to sound morally superior for Internet high fives.
It is clearly a half assed joke saying that if you call a group horrible, someone with get butt hurt and respond accordingly. Which in a round about way is exactly what you did. Any further reading into it is on you.
Just so you know, Nazis have used assertions exactly like what Zoldyck said literally since the day after the nazis were defeated.
One name for it is ādouble genocide theoryā which is used to a) diminish the crimes of the Nazis/ even to the extent of genocide denial and b) equate fascism and communism (an absolutely absurd claim, to be clear. Ask about it if youāre unaware!)
This is not something we regularly go around doing, we are very careful with what stuff we call nazi shit. Weāre careful not to make the word lose its meaning. This was an example of a common nazi/nazi-adjacent talking point, and we take it seriously when we encounter it.
Its just like āBlue Lives Matterā is thinly veiled racism. other examples include 1488, the 14 words, āstates rightsā, etc.
It is clearly a half assed joke
They may have thought it was just a joke when saying it, but the intent doesnāt matter, because they may also have known what they were doing and did it on purpose, because theyāre a nazi/ nazi adjacent.
You seem to know what youāre talking about, and not going to debate you on any of the points you just brought up. I certainly donāt disagree with anything you just said. I just still feel itās a stretch to assume that comment is equating all of those things that were listed. Thatās not what I took away from it at all, and still donāt.
just still feel itās a stretch to assume that comment is equating all of those things that were listed.
Iām not sure I understand, Isnt that explicitly what the point of the post was? to equate all those things so that communists would get angry at them? what point was that comment making, in your view?
In my view, I donāt think it was aimed soIely at communism. Canāt speak for the intent of the poster unless they weigh in though. My view when saying they wanted to test something and then say several groups were horrible was to get a reaction from those that belong to said groups as a sort of half assed shotgun technique. I really didnāt expect it to get a rise out of anyone reasonable which is why I made my initial comment. All of those groups listed have various sized vocal subgroups that will aggressively defend their view points with a āthem vs usā take.
That said the view points themselves are very different so that is where the equivalence stops.
I can understand that. From my perspective, as a communist, I probably would have come down on them even if they just said nazis bad US bad Australia bad
In this case I heartily agree, but we again have the issue of lackadaisically equating things to the nazis. Australia sure is a terrible trash fire of a settler colonialist planet killer, but they arenāt nazis and they didnāt do the holocaust
The fun is if you had made some point about something china or Russia related and HADNāT also mentioned that the US is horrible, youād get dogpiled.
I mean yeah because the US does the same horrible horrible shit other existing countries do just more of it. Mentioning the smaller problem while ignoring the bigger problem(that we are closer to) is just how liberal brainwashing works.
Extending to the political party specifically for Germany, but not the others; could be worth doing that.
Like, EVERY country has its good people that hate the horrific actions of its administration. It can cause issues and paint xenophobia if you donāt identify and shame the bad actors. Instead, you get Chinese people that live in poverty thinking America hates all of them for having thin eyes.
Better thing to say imo: fuck Republicans and the CIA, fuck Putin, fuck the CCP.
Itās the best way to think about it because if youāre always doing the calculation in your head you still always think in Fahrenheit first. Just get the feeling for Celcius instead of trying to shoehorn a worse system in (as a user of said worse system myself).
I understand and appreciate your joke, but is it really? And I imagine that the bones and skin would melt first, right? Idk. Iāve never considered that someone could melt from the inside.
Not literally, no, but it can be very difficult to concentrate on anything else when youāre suffering under immense heat and a lack of concentration can lead to a figurative brain meltdown.
That being said, the brain is mostly fluid, fat and electric connections so it would DEFINITELY melt long before your bones.
Would have to be around 50-60Ā°C for the 60% of it thatās fat to hypothetically melt if exposed directly to the heat rather than protected by the skull and cooled down by the blood, but thatās nothing compared to the 1670Ā°C melting point of human bones.
Btw, I hope youāre happy with this reply since my Google search history looks rather grisly now š
Texas is Hell though. Anyone whoās been there understands this. From the heat to the guns to the people, itās far and away the least desirable or interesting place Iāve been to. Austin wasnāt terrible though.
Donāt Texans just stay in air-conditioned buildings and vehicles all the time? I just saw a YouTube video where a guy in Texas was complaining that his air conditioning setup wouldnāt get the temperature below 76Ā°F, which I found odd since I set the thermostat on my AC to 26Ā°C (which is nearly 79Ā°F.)
Yeah thatās absolutely a thing all over warm weather states in America. It drives me crazy that I try to acclimate to the higher heat and just end up inside with 68Ā° air conditioner settings. Absolutely freezing my ass off. But the reality is that is more middle/ upper class living. If youāre doing manual labor or living in poverty, you know what the heat is actually like.
It doesnāt fit into the rhyme, but -10Ā°C is the point where just wearing a coat isnāt enough. You need to either start limiting the time you spend outside or put some serious thought into the protective clothing you wear beyond just throwing a coat on as you go out the door.
I had a water bottle in my car when it was around -11 Ā°C, and when I tried to drink it, the supercooled water instantly froze solid, which was startling, but hardly surprising.
More like 30Ā° Iām melted into the pavement, 20Ā° warm but good, 10Ā° is near perfect, 0Ā° starts getting cols, -10Ā° put on a jacket, -20Ā° and below put on a good jacket.
Donāt feel dumb man, trying to make yours rhyme is fun actually. I like that you added other temps. Thatās how I learned it in America as a kid and remembered it, because it rhymes.
That doesnāt work for me. I think I understand whatās happening with this interpretation, but it still doesnāt make fully sense. Why is his head so far from his shoulders? Does he have a freakishly long neck? Only way that kinda makes sense for me is if sheās essentially kissing his left shoulder or even like, biceps? In that case, his shoulder is obscured by her hair, and then I can accept the head placement. but I donāt think the arm looks long enough? but at least an arm can be that long, so itās at least plausible in my head, still donāt see it intuitively. it hasnāt āclickedā for me, I guess
The guy is sitting in the chair. The head and arm on the armrest belong to the same person. The girl is bending over at the waist and giving him a hug.
Its crazy, but here in Aus the supermarkets are the same way. Some supermarkets keep their eggs chilled. Some just leave them on a trestle table in the middle of an aisle. I tend to do whatever the supermarket had been doing when I bought them.
In Spain we donāt. Theyāre in regular, unrefrigerated shelves.
Edit: but we (at least in my circles) keep them refrigerated at home, although I donāt know how necessary it is (I suppose it depends on the climate?)
Yes. If I understand correctly, itās because the eggs are washed, which strips them of their natural protective coating and causes them to require refrigeration.
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