• ChaoticNeutralCzech
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    Filing one’s own taxes.

    Using personal pronouns too much. It’s not your ABCs, billions of people use the modern Latin alphabet

  • @[email protected]
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    222 years ago

    Americans seem very “fighty” compared to people from many other countries. You just have to say something that could be construed as liberal (the American kind) or conservative, too politically correct or incorrect, or mention you ride a bicycle or have an outdoor cat, to set some people off. With some Americans having a conversation is like navigating a minefield, especially those who have very little understanding of the rest of the world and reads everything you say into an American context, language barriers and all.

    I love talking politics, and have had pleasant conversations with all kinds of people but I have learned from experience to just not bother with Americans, unless they’re the very curious and open kind.

  • make -j8
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    222 years ago

    What’s up with that “bus shaming”? It would never occur to me to judge people based on whether they use public transport VS own a car!

  • @[email protected]
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    682 years ago

    City zoning.

    Oh, i have to drive from single family zone to commercial district to pick up a loaf of bread. Then drive to education district to drop kids at kindergarten, and finally to business district to work. At the end of the day i hang out at bar/entertainment district with the guys from work to have a beer, but there’s no public transport so I have to drink alcohol free so I can drive back home. That’s only 120 miles in a day!

  • @[email protected]
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    They will say of themselves as being Irish/Italian/other-european-nationality because their great-grandfather or great-grandmother came from there.

  • @[email protected]
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    252 years ago

    No promotion/relegation in their sports leagues so it’s just the same 20 teams playing in the top flight every year. Sounds well boring.

  • @[email protected]
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    332 years ago

    Putting american flags everywhere. What do you want to tell me with that? That you like the country? Obviously you do or else you wouldn’t live there

    • Flying Squid
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      42 years ago

      I was very pleased aghast that they had porn on TV in Europe after a certain hour when visiting in my teenage years.

      • BOMBS
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        32 years ago

        they had softcore porn at the airport in Moscow when I visited in the mid-90s! i was a young teenager being mesmerized by tits.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 years ago

      Oh actually no most of us can’t reasonably leave. We don’t have a shengen type deal or financial security so leaving is actually quite difficult for most of us.

      • @[email protected]M
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        52 years ago

        I asked an American who was getting citizenship in my country if they were going to relinquish their american citizenship and was told that was pretty much unthinkable for an american.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          Yeah I can’t imagine why I would. Like the country has its huge issues but holy fuck is our passport an amazing thing to have. It’s a thing of nobody but us will fuck with us.

              • @[email protected]M
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                12 years ago

                The United States is one of only two countries that taxes based on citizenship, not place of residency. That means it doesn’t matter where you hang your hat — if you’re legally a U.S. citizen, you have a tax obligation to the U.S.

              • @[email protected]
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                22 years ago

                American passport is one of the few that still demand taxes even if you never been to the US for ages, look it up.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 years ago

            Taxes, Boris Johnson gave up his citizenship as he didn’t want to pay tax on a country he didn’t actively reside in. I always thought that was kind of ironic given half the reasons for independence were due to paying tax to a foreign power.

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      They do this in Europe too though (not with the US flags, obviously).

      Norway is particularly famous for flying the flag everywhere.

      • Turun
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        Fair, I have also seen plenty of flags in Denmark.

        As a German it weirds me out. We don’t do that kind of nationalism any more.

        • Kalash
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          22 years ago

          Switzerland also. People have proper flagpoles in their garden, it’s quite stange.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        I see a good bit of flag waving in the Netherlands as well. In France though I’d be weirded out if I saw one besides on official buildings and stuff.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          Yes, if you see a private home in France with the French flag, you’d pretty much assume the people living there are far right extremists. Normal people use the Brittany flag instead.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 years ago

      It takes swathes of resources to get out of this hellhole. You wanna provide about $50k and a guaranteed job / housing / transport out for me? Then I can leave.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 years ago

      Obviously you do or else you wouldn’t live there

      Very much not true. Moving to another country full time is not particularly easy for a lot of people.

    • Flying Squid
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      452 years ago

      Obviously you do or else you wouldn’t live there

      Don’t make such assumptions.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        Yeah, when you live in the US, moving anywhere else isn’t as easy as packing up your things to go to a new country. We don’t have the benefit of an EU or Schengen Zone.

      • aard
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        52 years ago

        You nowadays let your colonies do whatever they want?

      • ChapolinColoradoNZ
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        12 years ago

        Do you call brittish/japanese cars right-hand drives or left-hand drives? As far as I knew, the cars are labelled by the position of the steering wheel not the traffic lane they ride on.

        • Turun
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          42 years ago

          The cars yes, the traffic no.

          You said driving on the left. That means the left side of the street.

          • ChapolinColoradoNZ
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            So if you’re driving a car and the steering wheel is on the left side of it, you are NOT driving on the left?

            You’re arguing semantics here. You did understand my point and is spinning it your way to try and sound smart.

            As the legend Michael Jordan would say: “stop it, get some help”

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        So do the Irish, with their “hey haysegoyen”

        Took me weeks to figure out I wasn’t supposed to answer

      • @[email protected]M
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        32 years ago

        Lol. First time someone asked me this in the UK, I replied with “Is that a question I’m actually supposed to answer, or just a different kind of hello?” The look on their face was classic.

      • @[email protected]
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        72 years ago

        Yes. The correct answer is “Not too bad, you?” and after they’ve also not answered truthfully the conversation may begin.

  • @[email protected]
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    662 years ago

    Vote for people who actively oppose universal healthcare, mandatory PTO policies, universal family leave policies, universal college-level education, etc.

  • @[email protected]
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    822 years ago

    A “politics” channel on a site called Lemmy.World that is specifically only for US politics, because America is the world.