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What does the USA do better than other countries?

lonelyDude said:
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cant hit over 60 most of the time :)
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I’d love to ride tale of the dragon, but it’s so far away from me I’d have to rent a bike, I got some nice twisties not to far outside of Vegas tho
 
another great US product is the electric harley.

I think they held up well in long way up :)
 
I know

I was green with eny as i watched the three
Series

Lucky bastard




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thegreenhand said:
That’s a fair point, I’m unfairly generalizing

The point I was trying to make is that most of the Europeans I’ve met see their continent as the pinnacle of human civilization or something along those lines.

I think that’s simply not true. I was trying to say that Europeans tend to see less fault in themselves than Americans do. But I will admit I’m making that judgment based off the Europeans I’ve met irl, and it’s probably not fair to generalize that to everyone.

But I still don’t agree that Americans are Europeans.

By your logic, is India also European since they still retain a democratic parliamentary system of governance left over from the British ?

And yes, the fair skin thing is kind of what makes you guys a continent tbh. There isn’t really any geographical reason to divide Eurasia into Europe and Asia. The only real difference is that Europe has white people. Thus it’s reasonable to classify someone as “European” based on their race imo
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I bet that’s what Xerxes thought as he tried enslaving all of Europe.
 
LadyWitch said:
What does the USA do best?

It fools its citizens into paying more taxes for a far smaller return from the gov't. All the while you've been propogandized to believe that you have it so much better than everyone else because you have access to public land and better movie/tv content. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
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no we have little choice and pay for the most bad ass military ever created in humanity. We get the access to the super cool public land by paying a small nominal fee.. get a sticker to put on our vehicle annually.. fees from the sticker go to maintenance and other upkeep.
LadyWitch said:
The US is the only wealthy country in the world without universal healthcare coverage. The US spends about three times as much per capita on healthcare expenditures than other countries with comparable incomes, yet Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in those countries. The US also leads wealthy countries in preventable deaths. In 2013, 112 out of every 100,000 Americans under 75 died from complications or conditions that could have been avoided with better healthcare.
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So what is the mot amazing deal with living longer. Medical and other sciences have prolonged life expectancy, but they have utterly failed at life enjoyment during those extended years. Way to prolong the misery other places!!!

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Among developed countries, Estonia leads the way with 87 weeks of paid leave for new parents — that's more than a year and a half. Japan and several European countries — Bulgaria, Hungary, Japan, Lithuania, Austria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Norway, and Slovakia — each offer more than a year off as well.
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can't argue with this one, but in the US somebody is paying for it.
LadyWitch said:
As of today, the entire world has adopted the metric system, with the exception of the United States, Myanmar, and Liberia.
The metric system, also known as the International System of Units (SI), is a system of measurement that is built on three main units: meters, liters, and grams. Since the metric system is a base 10 system of measurement, each succeeding unit of length, mass, or volume is 10 times larger than the previous one.
While the U.S. system also measures length, mass, and volume, it uses an entirely different set of units than the metric system.
Since there is no “base” rule for U.S. customary units, volume, mass, and distance are all measured differently under this system.
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laughing as every scientist in the US uses this so we have adopted this silly. We just still use F for weather temp forecasts and other old school for consumer labels.. because it works way better than metric for weather temp and we are all just comfortable with the supermarket units, so why change. its a myth.
 
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Buzz Lightbeer said:
I'd rather he go run off with my TV than me having to shoot him. Really
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Oh Buzz… how I envy your ability to be a hippy. It makes me sad that I would rather shoot someone stealing my stuff than let them get away with it. In the end I think peoples’ brains are all wired differently the world over. Plenty of Americans are anti-violence. I’m friends with many people who would never in a million years lift a finger to protect themselves or their property.

The U.S. is very diverse but the vast majority of us support self defense policies. I believe that comes down to the history of Westward Expansion, where there was no law but your six shooter and your dog.



Back to the OP: we have so many awesome festivals here. Because of all the land available we can have very large congregations of citizens breaking the law and there’s no way to stop it. Music festivals are like open air drug markets here, it fucking awesome.
 
opportunity is something i am sorry to see hasn't been mentioned.

i have worked mostly for/with americans and we just mesh better somehow than i do with canadians and europeans.

americans have always struck me as more earnest, forthright people with this natural dignity that i don't really feel so often in canadians or even europeans.

it's there, maybe, hidden somewhere under the surface... but i don't think we feel the freedom to really be ourselves quite as much as americans do, and that's something that really embeds itself in the psyche and world view and sense of optimism/pessimism about the future.
 
That is something I love about America. I feel very free to be who I want to be and I feel comfortable sharing that openly with people. Of course that's not to say that there aren't tons of people just trying to be like some idealized idea of who society tells them they should be. But even then, there are many different stereotypes that people try to emulate. There isn't a lot of homogenization, compared to many other places in the world, which I love.

There are other outcomes of the "rugged individualism" that America was founded on that I like less... but the one I'm talking about is a good outcome.
 
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