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You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can buy a coffee mug with a $9.99 price tag, the be asked to pay $10.74 at the register. The German mind cannot comprehend this

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not any sane mind can comprehend this.

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      • DesolateMood@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I can comprehend it, but I’m certainly not happy about it

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      • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        All there is to comprehend is that the US contains states that have distinct sales tax laws.

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    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not only can Americans comprehend it, they actively choose for it to be this way. Macys tried to switch to straight forward pricing and it did not go well for them so they switched back to their bs sales.

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      • frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Imo it only works if everyone does it at the same time and if it’s implemented by legislation enforcing it. If one company does it, their competitors can take advantage of the perceived differences.

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      • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I thought that was JC Pennys

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    • Glitterbomb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I stopped off in Oregon once for some McDonald’s. My total ended up being $8.00 exactly and I let out a little smile and told the cashier ‘wow perfect, what are the chances’

      She looked at me like I was an idiot, and I learned some things about Oregon that day.

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    • peregrin5@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      neither can the Oregonian mind

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    • Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A lot of germany has deposits actually, so an extra 25-50 cents on top for cans and glass bottles

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      • uzay@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Which are only added in fine print on the price tag usually. But it’s more like 8-25 cents for cans, most plastic bottles, and some glass bottles.

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    • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oregon has entered the chat

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  • misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    American here, I have no problem with them. There was a roundabout nearby in my city. When they unleashed it, the first driver brave enough to traverse it swerved off the road and died on the spot. It caused such a scene that the next 3 cars watching entered the wrong way and started to pile up. More cars piled up over the coming weeks, it couldn’t be taped off because the city service workers were unfortunately not Europeans and also could not traverse the labyrinth, they too piled up and died of starvation. Eventually it collapsed into a singularity under its growing weight (Americans are fat, so it was over the Chandresekar limit), cars add into the eternal swirl each day and emanate slowly as Hawking radiation. It’s quite beautiful to see.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      for a country who’s core values is Car, they suck at driving

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      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.

        Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.

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      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Our core value isn’t Car, it’s “individual freedom, especially at the cost or inconvenience of others”. It just so happens that Car aligns pretty well with that

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      • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        you don’t have to be smart to drive, we made sure of that.

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How can one be too stupid to use a roundabout?

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      • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t think it’s a matter of ‘can’t figure it out’ as much as ‘don’t like change’. We’ve been putting them roundabouts in my shithole state and the number of people who complain about them boggles the mind. They will successfully navigate them, but they’ll whinge about it the whole time.

        This happened to me just the other day as I was chauffeuring some good old boy around. Mind you he wasn’t even driving, but still had to let it be known that he disapproved. There was no traffic so I barely had to slow down to navigate the intersection and his input was “I hate these things, they just slow you down!”. I tried pointing out that if it had been a 4-way stop we would have had to stop, so it was actually faster this way. I don’t know if he was immune to logic or just unwilling to admit that something that was different than what he was used to had a benefit, but he just repeated that he hated them, so I dropped the subject.

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      • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve seen

        • Turning left without going around the center

        • Stopping to allow someone into the roundabout intended as a kind gesture and

        • My mom insisted that in her car I use the left turn signal if my roundabout exit is to the left of my entrance

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      • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Unfortunately, it’s a thing. I’ve had people try to merge onto the roundabout when I’m in it, and then honk at me when I didn’t let them through. If any of these people ever do hit my car, I am not going to try to correct them ahead of time so that they perjurer themselves to the cop who eventually shows up to take the report.

        Which I think speaks to the terrible level of driver training in America. A roundabout is a combination of things that you should already know about as a driver, like how yield signs work, and how to stay in your lane and follow lines on the road. If you can’t put those thoughts together, then I question your ability to drive safely at all.

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      • misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I asked my neighbor, he said Europeans are stupid for driving in circles all day. So, that’s how.

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    • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve taken a trip to see this infamous roundabout - it’s quite pretty at night!

      Image

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      • misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Interestingly they spin counterclockwise here, but clockwise in Australia.

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This was brilliant.

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    • Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve never seen this copypasta and I love it.

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      • misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It came from the heart

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  • Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    >my citizens in Cities:Skylines

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t forget to put a toll booth on every street

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    • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      LANE CHANGE

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  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’ve never heard of NASCAR. We are good at turning left for hours on end.

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’ve been turning right since at least '80…and you started far on the right already.

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      • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hey!

        Don’t forget Nixon.

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh, please. There’s way more to NASCAR than that.

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  • evergreen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As an American, I can ride my mobility scooter for 74 hours and still be in Walmart. Comprend that.

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    • seejur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do they have pit stops to recharge the batteries at Walmart? I would imagine there is also a burrito stand nearby

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      • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They’re not called burritos any more. They’re called Americas.

        If you imply different you’ll get deported.

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really wanna know what they put in to Google to make it spit out that time estimate.

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    • wischi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Probably a scripted route.

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  • slingstone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’ve started using traffic circles in my state. They work sooo much better than traffic lights at intersections.

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Roundabouts are even better.

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      • rektdeckard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I didn’t realize there was a difference

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      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I love roundabouts, but goddamn are they annoying when you’re stuck in a route starvation situation. I’ve had bad days when I’m stuck for close to 5 minutes at one near my house depending on time of day and approach route.

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only 74 hours?

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gas is expensive over here.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      74hrs straight

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  • fading_person@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mr bean, is that you?

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    American here, you can absolutely drive at least one more hour than that. Idiots.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Actually, driving without a destination is forbidden in Germany. It’s unenforceable in most cases because it’s easy to claim a fake reason but if you keep circling a roundabout, there is a case to be made against you.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Actually, driving without a destination is forbidden in Germany.

        Completely reasonable, but somehow I’m still surprised that this is a thing.

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  • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    2,219km is only 1,378mi… that’s about the distance from the southern tip of California to the top of Washington State. Not even the width of the US.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It also would only take around 20 hours.

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      • TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        20 hours to travel 2219km is 110km/hr. Around the narrow lane of a roundabout, that’s at least 6gs, which can be fatal without training

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or the circumference of your mum’s fat arse

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      • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or the size of your Mom’s big butt.

        Beep boop I’m a bot that translates British English to American English. To opt out, reply ‘ligma’.

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  • Soapbox@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can fit 74 Germanys inside a Texas roundabout. The European mind cannot comprehend this.

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can fit 74 texases inside an Australian cattle station. They’re hilariously angry about it.

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    • Entitle9294@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That says more about the fat-ass Texans than the Germans

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think those are called beltways

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  • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    do germans move their cars like the flintstones how do they magane have fuel/battery for 72hrs?

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Two words: German Efficiency

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      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I hear their gas devices are very efficient.

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      • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        it’s a flintstones thing then

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    • GreenCrunch@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Since you’re in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!

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    • LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Their cars run off centrifugal force.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just add a long range tank in the trunk.

      A normal car can do 1600 km or 1000 miles on a tank. By normal of course I mean diesel-powered German executive class sedan or wagon with an 80 liter tank.

      At the low speeds of the roundabout, you might use more fuel, so maybe it’ll only do 1200 km on a tank. Just use a long range tank and you’re golden. They use them in endurance racing, or to go illegally fast for extended periods of time in Cannonball Runs.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Easy, just pick a roundabout that goes downhill.

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  • 474D@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Uh, you know we have roundabouts in the US too, right?

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  • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    America’s been adopting roundabouts in the last decade.

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  • pfr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Laughs in Australian

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    1. If you overshoot your destination, do you have to drive another 74 hours to get back to it?

    2. If you turn around (going against the circle), does it go up in time?

    3. Why did it stop at 74? Why not infinity or 99? I can plot 79 hours from Key West Florida to Anchorage Alaska

    What a neat bug.

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  • noMoYnks@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair germans would probably drive that long just for the pleasure of polluting the air

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  • the_tab_key@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t even have any nice landmarks on the drive, like Big Ben.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey look kids! It’s Big Ben!

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  • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Longest Roubdabout by Germany

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  • Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Schaut mal, Kinder, Big Ben

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  • TheFrirish@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can easily do this around the Arc of Triumph

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  • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When you can’t decide between Hertha Sponer and Marie Curie

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The wheel and circular geometry are relatively new Inventions.

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  • nuko147@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    74 hours without the stops!

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  • gurnu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a million things Americans can’t comprehend. Not licking billionaire’s boots, for one

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  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In Taiwan, we do roundabouts all wrong. We add traffic lights in the middle of them.

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  • uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    German who lives in USA, they have them here too. Sometimes more. The town I live in has 3 in succession

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can drive from gibraltar to Edinburgh and still be in UK

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