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You can take public transportation. Oh wait, that requires governments to actually supply cities with useful and we’ll organized public transportation and since you’re probably in the US (the only country left that still uses the useless “miles” metric) and the US government has been bought up by (amongst others)car companies, there isn’t any meaningful pyblxi transportation left.

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I can assure you that miles are quite useful for determining distance, I do it nearly every day. Other than that you’re spot on.

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Fucking Europeans. They have no problem telling us hos shitty we are. But if we comment once on something that happens in their country, we get the typical “don’t comment on our country, because you don’t live there”.

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What I don’t get is the intensity. I can’t tell if it’s sarcasm maybe, or just a cultural difference in how people talk? Like, I can take a good ribbing about using weird units of measurement, but some non-Americans seem genuinely pissed off about it. Seems like a waste of energy for something that almost never affects you if you’re not American. I mean, most of us Americans were born with it, it’s not like we got a say or anything. We kind of have more pressing matters right now, maybe give us a few decades before we worry about our measurement system?

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That would actually be the entire rest of the world. Also the scientific part of the US, as everyone got the memo on that the metric system is just so much better.

Sorry for poking at it but it’s tiresome that I continuously need to add conversions to weird units for Americans because if I don’t I get flushed with messages if I can please use “real units” or “freedom units”. Stop using a badly designed 300 year old system and join the rest of the world already. Even your scientists and engineers already do so, its just that the rest of your citizens don’t want to hop on for some reason.

And hey, you’re free to criticize Europe if you want, there is more than enough legit criticism to be had. It’s just that Europe doesn’t have the level of issues that the US has and at least Europe isn’t screaming around that they’re the best. Europe generally knows that it’s flawed but it’s trying to get better. The US is rolling off a cliff whilst screaming they’re number one. Eh, okay then!

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So are banana’s but we don’t use those either

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How ironic. I guess you haven’t been on Reddit in the past decade.

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