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> Why? We don't have them anymore in germany. Even more reason to use plastic straws. If there is one country I don't want the US to follow, that's germany. >

by qiskit 4y ago

> Why? We don't have them anymore in germany. Even more reason to use plastic straws. If there is one country I don't want the US to follow, that's germany. > People move on and new solutions get invented. Like toxic paper straws? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31241276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31241276 > Seeing a plastic straw is weird to me. What's weird about them?

cgrealy 4y ago
> If there is one country I don't want the US to follow, that's germany. Yeah, it'd suck if the US had higher life expectancy, more political stability, better civil rights, better healthcare, lower unemployment, lower inflation, lower crime..... What a nightmare scenario!
- qiskit 4y ago
  Yeah, an occupied nation with no sovereignty. Who has to beg for oil and gas from russia and when we tell them to jump, they ask "how high". Vast swathes of the US has higher life expectancy, healthcare, lower unemployement, lower inflation, lower crime than germany. And germany is the leader of censorship in europe. Certainly not a beacon of civil rights. As for inflation... https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/economy/german-inflation-industry-recession/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/economy/german-inflation-indu... The united states is a continental nation with infinite resources. Germany is a tiny european country the size of new mexico. Good luck to germany. They are going to need it. Funny how we are so much worse than germany and yet most people around the world wants to move to the US? "The U.S. continues to be the most desired destination country for potential migrants, as it has since Gallup started tracking these patterns a decade ago. One in five potential migrants (21%) -- or about 147 million adults worldwide -- name the U.S. as their desired future residence. Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Saudi Arabia appeal to at least 25 million adults each." https://news.gallup.com/poll/211883/number-potential-migrants-worldwide-tops-700-million.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/211883/number-potential-migrant...
  - wander_homer 4y ago
    > The united states is a continental nation with infinite resources. Without imports the US doesn't even have enough resources to sustain its own lifestyle. The only infinite resource they seem to have is ignorance.

by qiskit 4y ago

cgrealy 4y ago

> If there is one country I don't want the US to follow, that's germany. Yeah, it'd suck if the US had higher life expectancy, more political stability, better civil rights, better healthcare, lower unemployment, lower inflation, lower crime..... What a nightmare scenario!

qiskit 4y ago
Yeah, an occupied nation with no sovereignty. Who has to beg for oil and gas from russia and when we tell them to jump, they ask "how high". Vast swathes of the US has higher life expectancy, healthcare, lower unemployement, lower inflation, lower crime than germany. And germany is the leader of censorship in europe. Certainly not a beacon of civil rights. As for inflation... https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/economy/german-inflation-industry-recession/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/economy/german-inflation-indu... The united states is a continental nation with infinite resources. Germany is a tiny european country the size of new mexico. Good luck to germany. They are going to need it. Funny how we are so much worse than germany and yet most people around the world wants to move to the US? "The U.S. continues to be the most desired destination country for potential migrants, as it has since Gallup started tracking these patterns a decade ago. One in five potential migrants (21%) -- or about 147 million adults worldwide -- name the U.S. as their desired future residence. Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Saudi Arabia appeal to at least 25 million adults each." https://news.gallup.com/poll/211883/number-potential-migrants-worldwide-tops-700-million.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/211883/number-potential-migrant...
- wander_homer 4y ago
  > The united states is a continental nation with infinite resources. Without imports the US doesn't even have enough resources to sustain its own lifestyle. The only infinite resource they seem to have is ignorance.