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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

School shootings Kids safety trainings for school shootings Guns everywhere Two party political system Rampant racism Prison slavery Everything about its police force Unaffordable medical system combined with absolute shit medical insurance I can go on for a while

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Extreme focus on sports, wearing sportswear (both men and women do this), always “exercising”, mentioning calories on a menu card (a Caesar salad contains 1200 calories!).

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Non-stop televangelism channels are quite something. But probably you know that’s weird.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (15 children)

White socks and how Americans eat with their knife and fork.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (10 children)

A/C particularly, electricity waste. It's damn ridiculous, even for Texas. Are northerners born in fridges?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It gets to be 90°F with a dew point of ~75°F where I am.

You can swim in the air with those numbers and absolutely suffer heat stroke. Fans just circulate the humid as fuck hot air. :(

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

I've never been there, but apparently you guys don't have blackberries, and have grape jam?

Edit: what you don't have is blackcurrants, not blackberries.

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