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It's more the trend in cars than the roads because the roads didn't change starting in 2009.
by gdulli 1y ago
It's more the trend in cars than the roads because the roads didn't change starting in 2009.
- willis936 1y agoAnd drivers. Readers should ask themselves when they first got a smartphone and if it was around 2009.
- ceejayoz 1y agoYou should ask yourself whether smartphones are a US-only phenomenon. From the article: > Other countries haven’t seen this increase in pedestrian deaths: in every other high-income country, rates are flat or declining. Whatever’s causing the problem seems to be limited to the US.
- ajuc 1y agoIt reminds me of Americans blaming school shootings on video games as if nobody else in the world had them :)
- willis936 1y agoSmartphones + US culture is limited to the US.
- ceejayoz 1y agoThat's a deeply silly assertion. Culture is one of our major and most successful exports. Afghan tribesmen have seen The Simpsons. Osama Bin Laden played Half-Life and showed his kids Pixar films. https://www.history.com/articles/bin-laden-compound-abbottabad-belongings https://www.history.com/articles/bin-laden-compound-abbottab...
- willis936 1y agoAnd the US isn't under Sharia Law. Saying that The Simpsons in syndication is the reason why two cultures behaves the same is the sillier of the two statements.
- ceejayoz 1y ago> And the US isn't under Sharia Law. We have our moments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county > Saying that The Simpsons in syndication is the reason why two cultures behaves the same is the sillier of the two statements. American culture is influential. Americans and Afghans aren't the same, but they've absolutely picked up on bits of it. And Afghanistan is an extreme example; you'll find even more American cultural influx in, say, England.