• Etterra@lemmy.world
    811·
    2 months ago

    As an American I can tell you that it’s better to just beat that dead dog. Well, horse really. Elephant. It’s definitely an elephant. Now get out your flail and go to town at that bitch. And continue the beatings until the problem is resolved.

    • mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org
      6·
      2 months ago

      Serious question: If the american health care system (which may be the most prominent thing stopping migration currently) would become a socialized-financed commodity how much %GDP would America loose?

      • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 months ago

        The current healthcare is a net loss for the country. The only people losing money would be private medical industry, and its share holders, but it wouldn’t off set the losses caused by the crushing expenses, and bankruptcies as far as the general GDP is concerned.

      • Schmuppes@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        Probably none, because the people wouldn’t go bankrupt because of a broken leg and be able to spend the money and be able to keep spending money on something worthwhile instead. Breaking people’s necks financially by means of medical bills is not a great thing in the long run for the economy.

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I don’t speak the language, but my guess is that the Portuguese equivalent of “beating a dead horse” uses a dog instead?

  • suction@lemmy.world
    365·
    2 months ago

    That’s why I don’t travel to the US even though I’ve only been to Hawaii so far. Food is a huge problem, either you poison your body with chemicals or you’ll have the most stressful time of the day eating because of the waiter nagging you every two minutes if you like your food or want anything. Because they think that constitutes “good service”. No other country’s restaurant culture is like this, wtf??

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Seriously I’m here to spend money. My drink being empty is waste on your business’ part. For a minute or two, sure.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      71·
      2 months ago

      either you poison your body with chemicals

      One huge reason why I’m considering getting out. My immune system is very angry because of this.

      nagging you every two minutes

      I make no apologies for anyone on this: we lost our way. My best guess is that at some point, we had this down pat by bringing a “touch of class” to dining establishments through emulating servant culture of the early 1900’s. This is well portrayed in costume drama as near-psychic level ability to anticipate the diner’s (master’s) needs in a well-choreographed experience. That only works if you can anticipate people through a long-term working relationship, or diners have very well-rehearsed table manners. I think it got corrupted over time as a lot of this fell out fashion, and what we’re left with is diners that are wholly unpredictable and wait staff that have no idea what they’re emulating.

      Local Korean restaurants around town brought their dining culture with them, and it’s loads better. Wait staff have their head on a swivel from the waiter’s station, but only engage when flagged down. This is immeasurably more pleasant.

  • radivojevic@discuss.online
    307·
    2 months ago

    Not really clever. And as this is posted in a .UK, I’d like to remind you all that the UK isn’t doing too well, and they’re the laughing stock of the EU.

    Enjoy Brexit!

    • Beemo Dachboden@feddit.orgDeutsch
      13·
      2 months ago

      As as EU citizen I have zero interest in moving to the UK.

      But I would still much much rather live in the UK than the US.
      That country is straight up fucked on a fundemental level.

    • Zombie@feddit.uk
      21·
      2 months ago

      Isn’t doing too well because of 14 years of Tories. Who have just been removed from power and replaced by what looks like, so far, quite a competent Labour government. Devolution of more powers is being looked at, and both left and right wing parties are talking about proportional representation. We’ll see what happens, but I’m optimistic about our future.

      America, on the other hand…

      • radivojevic@discuss.online
        5·
        2 months ago

        Say it. America is about to become The Handmaids Tale. I know.

        How do you feel about skilled worker immigration? 😇

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        1·
        2 months ago

        They’re the last of the Murdoch Three, c’mon dudes, hat trick the right wing annihilation.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3313·
    2 months ago

    The murder rate in the USA is very high compared to its peers, at 6.383 per 100,000. Canada, for example, has a rate which is almost three times lower at 2.273 per 100,000.

    Brazil has a murder rate of 20.606 per 100,000. I think I’ll stick with our tipping culture and lack of public health system.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      82·
      2 months ago

      Thank goodness this was downvoted! It’s so offensive. Or something. 🙄

      Why so high here vs. Canadia?

      • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        71·
        2 months ago

        That’s an interesting question. People like to blame guns, but

        The United States’ homicide rate of 3.8 is clearly higher than that of eg France (1.0), Germany (0.8), Australia (1.1), or Canada (1.4). However, as per the FBI, only 11,208 of our 16,121 murders were committed with firearms, eg 69%. By my calculations, that means our nonfirearm murder rate is 1.2. In other words, our non-firearm homicide rate alone is higher than France, Germany, and Australia’s total homicide rate.

        That’s from here, which is an interesting but long discussion of the topic:

        https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/06/guns-and-states/

        https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/10/guns-and-states-2-son-of-a-gun/

        Edit: I’m not saying guns aren’t part of the explanation, but they don’t appear to account for the majority of the difference.

        • MBM@lemmings.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          Ah, SSC. I was going to make a joke about how it’ll get blamed on black people Human Biodiversity, but Scott actually does

          And this is murder rate by state correlated with percent black population:

          This would seem to support the “culture of violence” theory.

        • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
          22·
          2 months ago

          A massive percentage of yous have been huffing leaded petrol fumes almost directly from exhausts for decades and yous are still wondering why you’re a bunch of murderous warmongering cunts? 😂

    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
      32·
      2 months ago

      I’d say something about throwing stones in glass houses but most brazilians can’t seem to afford glass windows.

    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
      513·
      2 months ago

      20.606 per 100,000

      Bro either you converted something wrong or you’re saying a fifth of the population dies every year because of murders

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    2 months ago

    Tipping everywhere didn’t pop up until square cash started dominating the POS terminal market, and leaving tipping on by default. People being the huge pushovers that they are and tipping everywhere instead of rejecting it is what allowed it to stay. It’ll happen in your country too.

    • frazorth@feddit.uk
      2·
      2 months ago

      It happened in the UK too.

      All the bar staff I know will hit the “no tip” on your behalf before handing you the POS anyway.

      No you don’t have to accept it.

  • orcrist@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 months ago

    The joke is on the Brazilian. We don’t beat dead dogs in the US. We get cops to shoot the living dogs, because they’re “scared”.

  • hypnotoad@lemmy.mlEnglish
    28·
    2 months ago

    It’s not a comeback because the original reply had nothing to do with being in the US

    Maybe with context this is different but by itself this isn’t clever