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What does the USA do better than other countries?

December Flower said:
Na just regular school

Music was always my favourite class, because we would just sit and listen to lots of different music
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As somebody who played trumpet up until college in school, I feel like I learned how to play music rather than why to play music. I've been rehabilitating myself by learning bass in a way where I try and only practice being bad and expressive. It's hard because I am hampered when playing with others (unless it's just a drummer), but this way I still want to make music.
 
Skorpio said:
As somebody who played trumpet up until college in school, I feel like I learned how to play music rather than why to play music. I've been rehabilitating myself by learning bass in a way where I try and only practice being bad and expressive. It's hard because I am hampered when playing with others (unless it's just a drummer), but this way I still want to make music.
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No German music class isn't about learning instruments at all.
It's a lot of theory, general understanding, learning to read music sheets, and lots and lots and lots of just listening.
We did something with instruments too, from time to time, but usually entirely rhythmic exercises
 
December Flower said:
No German music class isn't about learning instruments at all.
It's a lot of theory, general understanding, learning to read music sheets, and lots and lots and lots of just listening.
We did something with instruments too, from time to time, but usually entirely rhythmic exercises
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Yeah there should be more of this in America. In college I had a Hindustani music class that was mainly listening and history and form of songs, with a tiny bit of learning scales and tals (like the rhythm/meter forms).
 
Cream Gravy? said:
We’re better at having freedom?
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how would you measure that?

obviously, you'll get a different answer depending on which criteria you use to measure. there are a number of freedom indices which attempt to objectively measure freedom based on criteria including expression, movement, assembly, religion, etc. one of the more well known indices is the fraser institute human freedom index.

the 2021 index ranks the u.s. overall in 15th place behind the likes of switzerland, new zealand, denmark, estonia, ireland, canada, finland, australia, sweden, and luxembourg.

alasdair
 
tell everyone that they do it better than other countries.

hence there massive investment and industry dealing with media.
 
Cream Gravy? said:
Is a choice. It’s easy not to be fat, exercise and eat right. Americans are lazy, yes we’ve got fat people. It’s just more ingrained in our society that “eating well” is more worthwhile than being healthy.
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Hehe, hilarious that you are saying that while at the same time sporting good old Biscuits and Gravy, thee most fattening food on earth as your avatar! I remember that when I was 20 I found an awesome Soul Food kitchen, which was basically a black woman's house in the Central District, and after eating there every day for a couple weeks, realizing I wasn't fitting my pants!
 
December Flower said:
Oh I meant just entering your property, like getting a ball out of your garden,
not stealing shit, or breaking in. I know for a fact that at least in some US states you can get shot for walking through a farmer's property.
That's something that cannot happen here. Someone robbing the farmer's tool shed, they might get a bullet in their head.

You break in, you die. I don't care, and the law would be on my side.
I panicked because someone broke in.
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December Flower said:
Lol, we have a murder here in the Landkreis every 6 years.
And we're only 30 minutes from Munich.

This is actually one of the most negative points i see in US society,
how normal the thought of "danger" is, it's kind of unbelievable really.

Hard to put oneself into the mindset.
Only time I felt unsafe was during the terror attacks in Europe 5 years ago,
but even then we had the police guarding everything with semi-automatics

edit: To put something positive on this:
It must take a lot of psychological strength to have that constant sitting in the back of your brain.
I think in many ways Americans have a very strong resolve, and I honor that.
Even if it's sometimes quite nonsensical to a European.
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This is not the case at all in my experience living in America for all of my almost 33 years. Unless you live in certain violent inner city areas, fear of violence is not something that cones to mind in the course of the day to day. That of course is still unacceptable for the people that live there to have to live that way, but that’s the overwhelming bulk of the gun violence in this country. These random mass shootings are horrendous and for obvious reasons get a ton of press coverage, but they are a such a tiny percentage of the gun violence problem in the U.S. it equates to a rounding error. You’ve got a better chance of being struck by lightning twice than getting caught in one of those events. The overwhelming bulk of the gun violence is inner city, drug/gang related, and it’s mostly ignored by the press and everyone else, which is astounding.
 
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mal3volent said:
well it's mostly self defense here, too, and also all these angry, hopeless, (sometimes racist) mentally ill young men who decide to shoot up grocery stores, churches, and schools. That's a huge problem but the lawmakers here don't have the balls to take meaningful action against it.

Also the uvalde killer could have killed just as many with handguns , so not sure banning semi auto rifles would completely prevent that, even if you could get that law passed.
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I’m just curious, what meaningful action do you propose they take to stop it? Because none of the proposals I’ve heard sound like they would do much for that sort of thing. I don’t see what could help as far as gun control laws short of a near-ban on guns like Australia has(which I am definitely not in favor of, and I doubt would ever happen here.)

You are definitely right about the semi-auto rifles, in fact a handgun makes more sense for that type of close quarters shooting. People just parrot the “assault rifle” talking point with no clue about weapons.
 
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