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Put water inside the hole, run over it with a car that will put some pressure on it, and it'll fill all those small cracks inside the asphalt. Repeat many times

Put water inside the hole, run over it with a car that will put some pressure on it, and it'll fill all those small cracks inside the asphalt. Repeat many times. Also, asphalt isn't solid, it get thinner when the sun is high, deforming every time a car runs over it in the summer. South of south America, more or less equivalent to Florida: no freezing during winter and not that hot during summer, but everytime there's many rainy days, holes will appear. Get few days of hot sun and the roads will deform a bit, specially where trucks and buses run over.

tarmon 9y ago
Just want to point out that it's asphalt, not asfalt. :)
- MisterTea 9y ago
  No, it's ashfault. Though, I don't know what he did exactly.
yousir 9y ago
> South of south America, more or less equivalent to Florida Are you calling North America "America", and then go on and call Florida "south America", as if there isn't such a place in the world as South America? I do not approve of this North America-centric view of the world at all.
- mc32 9y ago
  Southern would work better than south. Proper place names which have cardinal pints in their names typically will use South and not Southern. So we have South Africa, South Australia, South Dakota. But southern California, southern South Dakota, etc.
- mitchty 9y ago
  America refers to The United States of America. Same as we don't refer to Mexico all the time as Estados Unidos Mexicanos. I don't approve of getting upset over turns of phrase online. Principle of charity.
  - yousir 9y ago
    >America refers to The United States of America. Well, that might be true for people living in the US but, and I might be going out on a limb here, it might not be so true for others.
    - mitchty 9y ago
      > Well, that might be true for people living in the US but, and I might be going out on a limb here, it might not be so true for others. And for a comment referencing Florida, is it charitable to apply something for continents to your stated interpretation? Principle of charity says not. Specifically who refers to America/Americans in English as meaning "People who live on the continents in North and South America"? Lets hear names not an allusion to "others". I'm only aware of a rather vocal minority of South American students recently getting angry at the term America being attributed to citizens of the USA. But its really no different from my aforementioned Mexico example in Spanish. Their category error is trying to redefine America from its shorteneed form for USA, to some super continent association of "America". But it goes against a lot of existing usage in not only English, but other languages. [1] I respect that you have a position here, but frankly its a silly way to try to redefine the word America as its been spoken in English for a long time to refer to a super continent of both North and South America. Example Portuguese, America refers to the USA, and to both Continents, aka like in English have to figure out the context: http://www.wordreference.com/enpt/america http://www.wordreference.com/enpt/america French, pretty much the same, only the continent is generally called out separately as continent américain: http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/america http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/america German, closer to French/English here but separate in that they tend to refer to the "americas" as north middle and south america, which is in many ways more appropo: https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/america https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/america Japanese, i'm not as qualified with my 3 months of learning japanese to comment on this but given the Kanji in use they're already separated: https://jisho.org/search/america https://jisho.org/search/america Etc... Also are you saying that all of the societies and engineering societies such as The American Society of Engineers should be required to change their name as they don't allow people from Canada, Central America, and South America to join? At a certain point I just can't find this position on the word America to make sense. Its just a weird thing to die by the sword on.
- coldtea 9y ago
  >Are you calling North America "America", and then go on and call Florida "south America", as if there isn't such a place in the world as South America? Depending on the geography class you took, and where, there might not be a "South America". Some countries just call the whole continent America: Most North Americans are taught that there are 7 continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe and Australia/Oceania. In some textbooks, North and South America are combined into "America" and/or Europe and Asia are combined into "Eurasia", for a grant total of 6 or even 5. I do not approve of your 7-continent view of the World, as if it was the only one.
  - balthasar 9y ago
    A Eurocentric viewpoint to combine South and North America. Its very obviously two continents from a geographical and cultural point of view.
    - coldtea 9y ago
      >Its very obviously two continents from a geographical and cultural point of view. Culturally? Really? What's so different culturally between Colombia, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and say, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala Costa Rica to warrant each set belonging to another continent?
  - yousir 9y ago
    As you are fully aware you are well within your rights to not approve. But if you call the whole continent America then surely its very southern part will not be Florida.
    - coldtea 9y ago
      The USA is also called America in short by most of the world. Not just the continent. Sometimes languages use the same name for different things, and people can trivially disambiguate from context.
- MisterTea 9y ago
  Look, Florida has this... reputation, okay. So what, maybe the GP was trying to wish it away like the rest of us. Let us have this one okay?
- maxerickson 9y ago
  They are referring to the region around Argentina. The southern part of South America, a similar distance from the equator as Florida.
- khedoros1 9y ago
  The way I read it, it would be better phrased as: "In the southern part of South America, more or less equivalent to Florida", probably referring to the southeast side of that continent. This map indicates that areas of Argentina's, Uruguay's, Paraguay's, and southern Brazil's climates would fit the description of "more or less equivalent to Florida": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/World_K%C3%B6ppen_Classification_%28with_authors%29.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/World_K%...
  - woliveirajr 9y ago
    Thanks, that's exactly that.
- teh_klev 9y ago
  The parent post by thowawaylalala already mentions Florida, so I think what woliveirajr means by "south of South America, more or less equivalent to Florda" is at a latitude in South America with the equivalent climate as Florida, rather than suggesting that Florida is geographically "south America".
  - woliveirajr 9y ago
    Exactly that. Considering we were talking about snow and ice causing cracks, I was thinking about the weather, not about culture, race, ethnic aspects, politics, government, food, or any other aspect...

tarmon 9y ago

Just want to point out that it's asphalt, not asfalt. :)

MisterTea 9y ago
No, it's ashfault. Though, I don't know what he did exactly.

yousir 9y ago

> South of south America, more or less equivalent to Florida Are you calling North America "America", and then go on and call Florida "south America", as if there isn't such a place in the world as South America? I do not approve of this North America-centric view of the world at all.

mc32 9y ago
Southern would work better than south. Proper place names which have cardinal pints in their names typically will use South and not Southern. So we have South Africa, South Australia, South Dakota. But southern California, southern South Dakota, etc.
mitchty 9y ago
America refers to The United States of America. Same as we don't refer to Mexico all the time as Estados Unidos Mexicanos. I don't approve of getting upset over turns of phrase online. Principle of charity.
- yousir 9y ago
  >America refers to The United States of America. Well, that might be true for people living in the US but, and I might be going out on a limb here, it might not be so true for others.
  - mitchty 9y ago
    > Well, that might be true for people living in the US but, and I might be going out on a limb here, it might not be so true for others. And for a comment referencing Florida, is it charitable to apply something for continents to your stated interpretation? Principle of charity says not. Specifically who refers to America/Americans in English as meaning "People who live on the continents in North and South America"? Lets hear names not an allusion to "others". I'm only aware of a rather vocal minority of South American students recently getting angry at the term America being attributed to citizens of the USA. But its really no different from my aforementioned Mexico example in Spanish. Their category error is trying to redefine America from its shorteneed form for USA, to some super continent association of "America". But it goes against a lot of existing usage in not only English, but other languages. [1] I respect that you have a position here, but frankly its a silly way to try to redefine the word America as its been spoken in English for a long time to refer to a super continent of both North and South America. Example Portuguese, America refers to the USA, and to both Continents, aka like in English have to figure out the context: http://www.wordreference.com/enpt/america http://www.wordreference.com/enpt/america French, pretty much the same, only the continent is generally called out separately as continent américain: http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/america http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/america German, closer to French/English here but separate in that they tend to refer to the "americas" as north middle and south america, which is in many ways more appropo: https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/america https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/america Japanese, i'm not as qualified with my 3 months of learning japanese to comment on this but given the Kanji in use they're already separated: https://jisho.org/search/america https://jisho.org/search/america Etc... Also are you saying that all of the societies and engineering societies such as The American Society of Engineers should be required to change their name as they don't allow people from Canada, Central America, and South America to join? At a certain point I just can't find this position on the word America to make sense. Its just a weird thing to die by the sword on.
coldtea 9y ago
>Are you calling North America "America", and then go on and call Florida "south America", as if there isn't such a place in the world as South America? Depending on the geography class you took, and where, there might not be a "South America". Some countries just call the whole continent America: Most North Americans are taught that there are 7 continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe and Australia/Oceania. In some textbooks, North and South America are combined into "America" and/or Europe and Asia are combined into "Eurasia", for a grant total of 6 or even 5. I do not approve of your 7-continent view of the World, as if it was the only one.
- balthasar 9y ago
  A Eurocentric viewpoint to combine South and North America. Its very obviously two continents from a geographical and cultural point of view.
  - coldtea 9y ago
    >Its very obviously two continents from a geographical and cultural point of view. Culturally? Really? What's so different culturally between Colombia, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and say, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala Costa Rica to warrant each set belonging to another continent?
- yousir 9y ago
  As you are fully aware you are well within your rights to not approve. But if you call the whole continent America then surely its very southern part will not be Florida.
  - coldtea 9y ago
    The USA is also called America in short by most of the world. Not just the continent. Sometimes languages use the same name for different things, and people can trivially disambiguate from context.
MisterTea 9y ago
Look, Florida has this... reputation, okay. So what, maybe the GP was trying to wish it away like the rest of us. Let us have this one okay?
maxerickson 9y ago
They are referring to the region around Argentina. The southern part of South America, a similar distance from the equator as Florida.
khedoros1 9y ago
The way I read it, it would be better phrased as: "In the southern part of South America, more or less equivalent to Florida", probably referring to the southeast side of that continent. This map indicates that areas of Argentina's, Uruguay's, Paraguay's, and southern Brazil's climates would fit the description of "more or less equivalent to Florida": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/World_K%C3%B6ppen_Classification_%28with_authors%29.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/World_K%...
- woliveirajr 9y ago
  Thanks, that's exactly that.
teh_klev 9y ago
The parent post by thowawaylalala already mentions Florida, so I think what woliveirajr means by "south of South America, more or less equivalent to Florda" is at a latitude in South America with the equivalent climate as Florida, rather than suggesting that Florida is geographically "south America".
- woliveirajr 9y ago
  Exactly that. Considering we were talking about snow and ice causing cracks, I was thinking about the weather, not about culture, race, ethnic aspects, politics, government, food, or any other aspect...