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@Runco990 You are forgetting we were a British colony first. The United States has 10,000 walkable small towns. But no one ever brings them up in these discussions. You can see them on the internet.
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@k.a.stensson Actually market economics says that the world would use less oil if you stopped selling it. The way that works is this: If you stopped selling your oil, that would cause a reduction in the quantity supplied. Reducing the quantity supplied pushes up the market equilibrium price. A higher equilibrium price is a disincentive to buy and some people would cut back on their driving due to the higher price. Having some people cut back on their driving adds up to the world using less oil. Let me know if you have any more economics questions.
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The facts are . . that the Americans created your whole life: Every minute of every day of your life an American invention is giving YOU a better life. So let us look at some American inventions that YOU could not live without: Lightbulbs Aluminum foil Frozen Food High Process Food Canning Can Openers Microwave Dinners Peanut Butter Breakfast cereals French Fries Fluoridated water the prevents cavities Durable Vehicle tires Electric starters for cars Generators to charge car batteries Airplanes The Modern Jet Engine Electric well pumps that bring water to your house Electric power generating stations The whole electrical grid Every fan or blower in your heating system Your air conditioner Your refrigerator Your microwave oven Automatic Clothes washing machine Radios Television Satellite telecommunications GPS Fiber optic cables Lasers Sound and music recording Industrial computers Desktop computers Laptop computers Cell phones Smart phones Smart watches Videos The internet Anything with a transistor or microchip The factory assembly line Cotton Gin Various Farming Equipment Metal-hulled Ships Petroleum refining into gas and diesel Petroleum refining into plastics Polyester and Nylon Nuclear power Solar panels for green energy transition It was ALL invented in America. And if you live in a constitutional republic, the Americans invented your entire political system. The Americans are the smartest, most creative, most industrious people in the world who created the entire modern world. Without the United States of America YOU would be living in a cave, stone building, or wood hut with a thatched roof, carrying your water from a stream in a bucket with half of your teeth missing and cooking and heating over a campfire using wood that YOU PERSONALLY went out and gathered from a forest. And you would be washing your clothes in a stream. Your connection to the outside world would be extremely limited and depending on your specific situation, you may not even know what is happening beyond your own village -- let alone around the world. 🌎 My advice is that before you "laugh" at any American, first try going without American invented lightbulbs 💡 for 24 hours and learn how American 🇺🇸 ingenuity has helped YOU see 👀 in the dark.
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@danielzhang1916 We are not "behind Norway" because we are not in the race. America is not trying to go vehicle electric.
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@gamelord12 In the United States, we do not have a concern to "eat food while it is fresh." We put fresh food in the vegetable tray of the refrigerator, and it stays fresh for a week or two. That is not really a point. And we use a lot of dried food, canned food, and frozen foods like frozen meats or vegetables.
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@k.a.stensson I knew you were going to come back with that but you are incorrect. The fact is that the OPEC countries are currently holding back over a million barrels of their oil from the market in an effort to push the price up because they actually make more money at a higher price. They would not respond because you would be playing right into their hand. They want the higher oil price that you would be giving them. Let me know if you have any other economics questions.
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 @jankaufmann4305 I am American and I agree with you. We call them "concrete jungles" and "canyon cities."
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@Dan-fo9dk Norway is the 8th largest natural gas producer in the world and produces 2 million barrels of oil daily. That makes up 24% of Norway's GDP. So much for myth busters . . .
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 @Solo_Traveling We do not make special trips for one item. We get it on the way home.
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 @savethenacktschnecke I do not "need a car" either. I actually just own a car because I love driving them and washing them and working on them.
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@gamelord12 Nothing goes bad in the back of the fridge unless you ignore it back there for 2 months, and vegetables do keep for 2 weeks in the vegetable tray. I do not know what your problem is. Maybe your fridge is old and the compressor is worn out. lol
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@mouthman_ Here in the United States, the heavy traffic is when people are driving to work in the morning and when they are driving home from work when they get off work. The streets empty out by 6:30. They look like a race track. That is when you would go pick up a bottle of milk if you need one. The roads are wide open for driving. You will be at the grocery store in 7 minutes. And in case you did not know this, in the United States, you can buy milk at any gas station or pharmacy or dollar store. You would most likely take that option, in which, you will be driving about 2 minutes to get there. Also, the problem that you put forth is fake anyway: Americans never need to go buy just a bottle of milk. An American pantry has enough food in it for the whole family to live for 6 weeks. There is plenty to choose from. We can drink Coke, Sprite, 7-up, fruit drink, fruit juice, coffee or tea. Americans have a grocery list tacked to the refrigerator with a magnet, and when we use an item, we write it on the list. Then we take that list IN OUR CAR to the grocery store and check the items off as we put them in the cart. Milk comes in gallon jugs, and it goes in the cart. We do not run out of milk or anything else in the middle of the week.
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Starting your own business is not the definition of "greedy."
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@ToriUptown They do not know what an American mall is. All they have are strip malls. Guys. An American mall has 5 giant department stores and 70 shops. It is not a place you buy groceries. It is a day's outing shopping spree.
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@suzannebinsley5940 Electric cars have onboard battery heaters and a battery management system. A lithium battery cannot be charged when its internal temperature drops below freezing. If they do get below freezing the onboard battery management system senses the internal battery temperature and locks out the changing circuit. My solar batteries here in Arkansas got locked out from cold weather this January. The Norwegians are not having a problem with the cold weather. But since the battery heater uses some electricity, they need to charge the battery more often. The batteries themselves automatically create some internal heat when they are being charged and discharged. The only concern I can see would be the off chance that Putin might strike the electrical grid in the dead of winter and there was no shore power for the battery heater. But when I mention this to them, they just brush it off claiming the battery can last for 3 or 4 days and it is not a concern.
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@Miamia_01 Okay. That sounds good. You can come home from work at 6 and be fully charged before you leave in the morning.
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Dude, wake up. The United States started as a British colony and has 10,000 small towns. As a pilot you should know this stuff.
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We are not trying to get "there."
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 @mouthman_ We do not "forget to buy a bottle of milk." Why is walking 5 minutes faster than driving 5 minutes?
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@InAHollowTree We try to speak for foreigners and tell them what living in America is like because they have never been here and have complete misconceptions about what America is like. Why is that a problem for you?
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@wildfire9280 This Whole discussion is about where Americans WANT to live. So what Americans WANT is an argument. When Americans get to live where they WANT to live, that is GOOD. I looked up the phrase "rising suburban poverty." It is not real -- it is a myth. The official published statistics do not support the phrase. There is no "traffic congestion due to an overabundance of private transport." Traffic congestion is always caused by the transportation department not keeping up with the population growth. The "best" way to relieve traffic congestion is for everyone to ride motorcycles. The more immediate way to relieve traffic congestion is to open up the bottleneck.
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@JaniceHope Here is the thing: My parents live in an American suburb. An American suburb is a square about a mile wide. Then on the corners of the square, you have the commercial area. Those are the malls, shops, and restaurants. So what I want to say is my parents live close to the outside area of the suburb, and this is the distance from their house to the shops (walking): Convenience store: 9 minutes Barber shop: 12 minutes Beauty salon: 12 minutes Dentist: 14 minutes Grocery store: 14 minutes Cell phone store: 13 minutes Variety store: 13 minutes Mexican restaurant: 14 minutes Chinese restaurant: 13 minute Vietnamese restaurant: 12 minutes Bakery: 12 minutes Ice cream parlor: 12 minutes Child's nursery: 19 minutes Roller skating: 26 minutes My parents bought this house in 1976 and have never walked to any of these places. So my question is this: If my parents have never walked to any of these places, why would Americans worry about how far it is to the store? As we are going to drive, anyway. (Incidentally . . . my mother is now 87 years old and still lives there. She drives her car everywhere. She does not walk with a cane.)
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@JaniceHope Actually, I personally walk a lot through paradise. I said my parents have never walked. My mom walks down the block and then back to the house. But she has never walked to any of the shops. You did not answer my question. What is your point of telling lies about our flowers, and saying a bunch of nasty, hateful, smug, arrogant stuff that all made-up and not true? Is that how your mother's in Europe raise you? Please do not return to America. We do not need your off-the-scale hate here.
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Primary power and secondary power. A battery is secondary power . . . not a fuel.
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@danielkane1080 I get a kick out of the theme of the video being to "teach Americans how it is done." They are all driving Teslas. 😅 And a lot of the commenters think that Teslas are built in Norway . . .
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It would be funny if they made them use the original mall restrooms. 😅
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It is worse than that. In an apartment they raise your rent every year and that has caused some people on retirement to become homeless.
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@ElyonDominus You sound like you were educated by a communist. I was educated by economics professors. That facts are that wages have nothing to do with what you "should get" or "deserve." The answer to both questions is the same: As an entrepreneur trying to make my best living, my job is to keep your wages as low as possible. If I can get by with paying you $20, I am supposed to pay you $20. If I can get by with paying you $18 my job is is pay you $18. If someone else comes along and offers to do your job for $16.50, my job is to fire you and hire them. Paying you the least possible wages allows me to do 2 things: 1. It allows my to sell my goods at the lowest possible price, which is a financial benefit to all of my customers and boosts the economy. 2. It allows me to stay competitive in the market so that I am not driven out of business by my competitors. So I do not go out of business and be forced to lay you off. The money I save by paying you less does not go into my profits. It goes to lower my prices. My annual profit floats at about 10% every year. If I try to boost my profit higher than that, my competitors will undercut my prices and force my profit down. When you called my profit "theft," you lied. Profit is not theft. It is a reasonable return for the risk that I take when I use my own money to open my business and creat a job for you. B. Lowering my tax rate also does not go into my profits (for the same reasons). If my taxes are lowered, I can do one of 4 things: 1. I can lower the prices on my goods to help my customers save money and boost the economy. 2. I can afford to pay higher wages. 3. I can open a branch office and create more jobs for other people. 4. I can invest in capital equipment that will make my current business run more efficiently. The improved efficiency saves me money which can either go into raising wages or lowering my prices. I cannot put the savings into my profits because my competitors will force that down. It can reside in profits can a short time. But ultimately the market forces will balance and take it.
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Usage of land for corporations in China is not free. They have to lease the land from the government.
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I thought they sold tulips. 🌷🌷🌷🌷
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@TJPavey We are leading. Watch the video again and count how many times you see the name Tesla in Norway. It might as well be Coke or McDonald's. 😅 Tesla launched Europe's first supercharging network. She said, "It all started to change when Tesla started selling cars in Norway." The man said, "It is actually the U.S. that is leading the way in stimulating the markets."
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@BaldVulture87 "Energy in the United States is obtained from a diverse portfolio of sources: petroleum 36% natural gas 32% coal 11% nuclear 8% renewable energy 12% The grid issue is a major point. These Europeans have no idea how far we have run a cable to reach from Hoover Dam to Los Angeles. Our current grid is sized for the electricity that buildings currently use. Los Angeles currently uses 60,000 megawatts daily. 4 million electric cars use 50,000 megawatts daily. Adding 4 million electric cars in Los Angeles would require a dedicated transmission line just for those cars. And if you sent all of the power generated by the Hoover Dam to LA, you would have to cut off Phoenix and Las Vegas and build them their own power plants. It would require running a high-tension transmission line 270 miles and then doubling all of the grid infrastructure going to 4 million homes. Norway only has 850,000 electric cars and they want us to put 4 million in LA? They have no idea.
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@hotdog9262 I am sorry but you are absolutely wrong. Every invention has been thoroughly fact-checked. Name ONE you have a question about and I will give you the history of the invention.
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@robertimrie3710 We do not believe "a country's natural weather belongs to everyone." That is a subjective value judgment. (and socialist). We believe that the natural resources belongs to the guy who digs it out of the ground. (private property rights). 🇺🇲 ✝ ️
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@johnny_eth No. He is saying that on a large scale communication and cooperation between people can get more difficult. A family cooperates well in a communal style. A tribe cooperates well in a communal style. But when you get the size of a town, it is difficult to have the whole town in one building having a discussion. So they use a republic style with elected leaders deciding everything. And is is more difficult for a city. And even more difficult for a state. The larger a society gets the harder it is to turn like a ship of a jet airplane . And he also said that there are geographical considerations.
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The problem is they are building them too large. Build some 1200 square foot homes and they will sell like hotcakes. 🥞
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When are they going to stop choking us? 🌫
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Why should we do what everyone else does?
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Putin is sitting on his throne waiting for Norway to convert to 100% electric vehicles so that he can knock out the electrical grid like he did in Ukraine.
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The new thing is that every new building in California has to power itself with solar. That should catch it up.
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They probably thought it would not get back into our country. 🇺🇲✝️
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What? We have millions of malls that have a grocery store as their anchor store. They are called "strip malls."
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@VivKittie32 I have seen malls in Calfornia that have a Target and 2 grocery stores and another mall across the street with 2 grocery stores.
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Umm . . . Teslas were invented in America, are built in America, and shipped to Norway.
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@ronobrien7187 To do anything and get it right you have to have a vision for it.
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Most Americans just do not want an electric car and if they continue randomly catching on fire and burning people alive, they will become very unpopular here.
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Do you need a charger at home or can you plug directly into the wall?
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We call that a rooming house or a boarding house. You used to find them in downtowns of small towns across the country.
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It is not the government's job to jump in and solve every problem. That is socialism.
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You may be surprised to learn that cities in the United States "function." 😅
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First the government passes a bunch of restrictive laws that slows born the building process. Then the government wants to pass some bills to speed up the house building process. Nobody sees a problem here? 🤷
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 @gamelord12 We never have a problem "parking our car."
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@mouthman_ The video is about American shopping malls and American apartments.
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@jewellui I live in an American subdivision and I wrote this in the past and saved it: 1. I believe that humans were meant to be connected to nature. They need grass, trees, rocks, flowers, and naturally flowing water all around them. They need clean-smelling fresh air to breathe and and to wake up hearing the birds singing in the morning. It is my fundamental belief that without this natural environmental connection and stimulation, a human cannot be physically, emotionally, or spiritually healthy. My fundamental belief in human health is my primary driver and I will not waver on these human needs. I will not support anything like a concrete jungle that isolates people from their native environment. The yards and greenery in a subdivision provides for these basic needs. 2. A subdivision is a SAFE PLACE. There is no traffic inside the subdivision. It has an atmosphere of a large park. Crime is almost non-existent. Children can play safely in the street or ride a bicycle safely anyplace inside the subdivision. It is also a great place for children to meet other children. You have a square mile of houses that is a safe space where children can roam all around on their own and meet other children. They cannot do that in a walkability area. It would not be safe to leave them on their own. 3. A subdivision is a great place to raise a family because it has a backyard and a front yard for family activities: All of the neighbor children can come and play in your front yard. Then they go play in another front yard. In the back yard you can set up a swimming pool for the children. In the back yard you can have a family barbecue on the barbecue grill. In the back yard you can have swingsets and playground equipment. In the back yard the children can put on swimming suits and run through the sprinklers. A back yard is a good place to keep a family dog. And most importantly, you can have a garden and grow your own fresh vegetables in a back yard (and your children can learn farming). You can also plant fruit and nut trees. 4. I believe in "pride of ownership" as a fundamental human need. Owning your house with its yard and defined borders gives you something that you own and can take care of and be proud of. You can paint your house in your choice of colors and you can plant your own flowers 🌹🥀🌱⚘️🪻🌷🌻that you picked out yourself anywhere you want to plant them. 5. A subdivision is a great place for adults to come together and get to know each other. It is an easy place to walk out into your front yard and wave at your neighbor and say, "good morning." Then later, you plan get togethers with all of the neighbors. 6. Your house and back yard is a place for get togethers and gatherings (either extended family members or friends from church). You can easily invite 30 people over and throw a cookout. I know of at least one couple who held a wedding 🌺 in their backyard. You have never been more wrong than when you called my subdivision "a badly designed place." Where do people spend MOST of their time? a. Coffee shop b. In their own home
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@katydid2877 They do not know about the Phoenix summer heat.
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@wildfire9280 Not sure what you are saying. But 65% of American households own their home. They do not rent. None of them will ever live in this mall.
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@liljepolak8565 American suburbs have "mixed use." What I mean by that is on the outside of the suburbs on the corners and faster streets is where we put the commercial stuff. You can walk to it, but no one does. This is why I prefer suburbs, and would never live in this mall: 1. I believe that humans were meant to be connected to nature. They need grass, trees, rocks, flowers, and naturally flowing water all around them. They need clean-smelling fresh air to breathe and and to wake up hearing the birds singing in the morning. It is my fundamental belief that without this natural environmental connection and stimulation, a human cannot be physically, emotionally, or spiritually healthy. My fundamental belief in human health is my primary driver and I will not waver on these human needs. I will not support anything like a concrete jungle that isolates people from their native environment. The yards and greenery in a subdivision provides for these basic needs. 2. A subdivision is a SAFE PLACE. There is no traffic inside the subdivision. It has an atmosphere of a large park. Crime is almost non-existent. Children can play safely in the street or ride a bicycle safely anyplace inside the subdivision. It is also a great place for children to meet other children. You have a square mile of houses that is a safe space where children can roam all around on their own and meet other children. They cannot do that in a walkability area. It would not be safe to leave them on their own. 3. A subdivision is a great place to raise a family because it has a backyard and a front yard for family activities: All of the neighbor children can come and play in your front yard. Then they go play in another front yard. In the back yard you can set up a swimming pool for the children. In the back yard you can have a family barbecue on the barbecue grill. In the back yard you can have swingsets and playground equipment. In the back yard the children can put on swimming suits and run through the sprinklers. A back yard is a good place to keep a family dog. And most importantly, you can have a garden and grow your own fresh vegetables in a back yard (and your children can learn farming). You can also plant fruit and nut trees. 4. I believe in "pride of ownership" as a fundamental human need. Owning your house with its yard and defined borders gives you something that you own and can take care of and be proud of. You can paint your house in your choice of colors and you can plant your own flowers 🌹🥀🌱⚘️🪻🌷🌻that you picked out yourself anywhere you want to plant them. 5. A subdivision is a great place for adults to come together and get to know each other. It is an easy place to walk out into your front yard and wave at your neighbor and say, "good morning." Then later, you plan get togethers with all of the neighbors. 6. Your house and back yard is a place for get togethers and gatherings (either extended family members or friends from church). You can easily invite 30 people over and throw a cookout. I know of at least one couple who held a wedding 🌺 in their backyard. You have never been more wrong than when you called my subdivision "a badly designed place." Where do people spend MOST of their time? a. Coffee shop b. In their own home
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@wildfire9280 Street cars did not go anywhere. They just put rubber tires on them and called them busses. What "suburban poverty" ? You do know those houses cost $375,000?
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@piccalillipit9211 In the United States pedestrians have the right of way. If a pedestrian steps off of the sidewalk in front of a car, that care is required to stop.
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@katydid2877 America is a land of extremes. Canada has snowstorms, but they do not experience snow, sleet, and hail and ice falling from the sky all at once when it is 17 degrees and the wind is blowing 50 mph. These people want us to walk to stores in winds where you cannot stand up, but get blown against a building. 🌪 😅 And they want us to ride bicycles to work through muddy slush, with cars splashing it on us while slipping on ice and pushing into a 20 mph headwind. 🌬 😂 And they want us to stand at a bus stop for 15 minutes with our clothes covered with an inch of solid ice and icycles ☃️ hanging from our chin and elbows. 🤣 Then they say, "You only walk 15 minutes at most." 😆
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@wildfire9280 When someone like you starts their sentence with "its objectively true" that is a sure sign that what they are about to tell you is misinformation. Now you are right that car-dependent suburbs are an environmental disaster. But you are wrong on both of the other points. Car-dependent suburbs are not a social disaster for Americans. Car-dependent suburbs are not an economic disaster for Americans. And even car-dependent suburbs being an environmental disaster is more a disaster for the future world. Current Americans are barely feeling any effect at all.
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@wildfire9280 Car-dependent suburbs are not an environmental, or social, or economic disaster for Americans. Your statement is "objectively" false.
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@SusanBruce-h3f Americans do not want noisy crowded bustling business right on top of our QUIET, PEACEFUL homes. No one cares whether your downtown is dead or not. Bury it and move on.
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@GeorgeP-uj8xc In the United States, the highest crime rate is in dense urban areas. The crime rate for the suburbs is half of the crime rate in urban areas. The crime rate for farm living is almost zero. We do not have much mixed-use area, but you can see which way this is going.
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@JaniceHope I live in the United States and our suburbs are not "hellscapes." An American suburb is one of the most beautiful places in America. It is calm, pleasant, and peaceful. There are wide open spaces with fresh breezes with grass, trees, bushes and flowers everywhere. Living in an American suburb is basically equivalent to building your house in the middle of a public park. And the residents are out working in their yard and chatting with each other. The neighborhood children are playing in each other's yards. There is a real sense of community in an American suburb. I love living in the burbs.
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@JaniceHope Your response is filled with lies and smug arrogant comments. I cannot have an intelligent discussion with someone who is arrogant, condescending, makes up fake reasons for things and false analogies, and even lies about who plants flowers.. You have no interest in truth at all. Just go live in your fake made-up fantasy world.
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@JaniceHope Your response to me was full fake made-up lies, fake made-up motivations, and smug, condescending, arrogance. I am sorry that you have chosen to be this type of a person. I withdraw the question. Just go live in your fake made-up fantasy world. The rest of us can have intelligent discussions without you.
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@JaniceHope You did not answer the question . . . Please do not return to America. We do not need your kind of hate here.
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@JaniceHope You do realize that your hateful attitude is on display here for the whole world to see, right?
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@JaniceHope I did not say we do not walk through neighborhood paradise. We do that all of the time. I said my parents have never walked to the shops. What good is it for you to twist all of my words around into something that I did not say, and then pretend you are thinking about it?
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@JaniceHope What is your point of lying about flowers in American suburbs? Is that a reasonable thing for a person to lie about?
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@JaniceHope What is your point in making up the strawman story about an elderly person walking with a cane to see a doctor? No elderly person does that anyplace in the world. Someone takes them to the doctor.
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@JaniceHope What are you talking about "six-year-olds cannot ride a bike to school??? The big yellow school bus stops in front of my mom's house and takes the children to school.
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@JaniceHope I told you that American suburbs are not "hellscapes." Then you used the word in a followup comment. This proves that you do not listen.
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@JaniceHope What does "eating flowers" have to do with anything? Americans do not eat flowers. But dandelion greens are edible.
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@JaniceHope You falsely called American suburbs a "dystopia. That is a lie. American suburbs are not "a dystopia."
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@JaniceHope There are very few HOAs in the United States, and they are becoming less popular, as people do not like some of the unreasonable rules.
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@JaniceHope Statistically speaking, elderly people have less accidents and you do not need to be making up slurs about people's mothers.
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@JaniceHope There is no "problem" about walking to the shops, and I did not say there is. If people prefer to drive to the shops, that is NOT a problem at all.
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@JaniceHope When Americans get too old to live on their own in a suburb house, either they live with someone or we move them to an assisted living facility. The million dollars from selling the house pays the expenses. At least the person had 50 years of enjoying living in a suburb paradise.
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@JaniceHope The question was: If my parents have not walked to the shops even once in 48 years, why should Americans be concerned about how far it is to the shops? We are all still waiting for your answer.
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@JaniceHope When I was in the fourth grade, I trudged a mile-and-a-half through the snow to go to school. Then trudged a mile-and-a-half back home through the snow for lunch. Then trudged a mile-and-a-half through the snow back to school. Then trudged a mile-and-a-half back home through the snow. Getting to school really is not a problem, is it? And incidentally . . . One does not ride a bicycle through 4 inches of snow.
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@yutamalva1486 I cannot get over how these foreigners try to claim that driving to the grocery store to buy a bottle of milk is some kind of a major operation. 🤷 🤷‍♀️ You would think we were sending a space shuttle 🚀 or something. 🤣😂😅🤣😂
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@HyenaBlank If driving 20 minutes to go to a store, is some kind of big issue for you, why don't you just pick up and move to that side of town? The real reason that we do not have mixed-use areas is that commercial real estate is super-expensive, and residential real estate is super-cheap. The costs and the economics does not allow them to get mixed. But you can put residential in an old abandoned place like in this video because its real estate is cheaper. You can look at any older area where the real estate prices have collapsed, and you will find a lot of crossed-uses in those areas.
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@GeorgeP-uj8xc The reason that Europeans live longer has nothing to do with their house. Why would you make such a crazy claim? It is what they eat and how they exercise. Italians have the healthiest diet. It is called "the Mediterranean diet."
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@JaniceHope Americans DO NOT take their children to Disneyland to "experience walkability." I mean, really? We are going to spend a thousand dollars traveling 1800 miles to "experience walkability." ?????? What was your reason for making up that lie?
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@JaniceHope We did not "bulldoze those places for parking." We bulldozed them because they were blighted areas that had unsafe collapsing buildings. What is your reason for telling that lie?
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@JaniceHope We got rid of trams because buses are more flexible for use on the streets. What is your point in making up that lie?
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@JaniceHope Americans can have a "safe and walkable experience" just by stepping out of their front door and taking off walking in any direction. Explain that lie.
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@JaniceHope No, a homeowners' association is not going to make a rule against planting flowers 🪷🌹🥀🌷🪻⚘️🌱 in your yard. Why are you telling these lies about suburbs and lies about the United States of America? 🇺🇲
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@logan-v6y All of my original statements are factually true, and you have just exposed yourself as being the one "lacking intelligence." Obviously, I did not expect the person to just pick up and move immediately, but to plan for it and make the adjustments to be ready to move. Your saying that it would be too expensive for the person to move to a more commercial area just proves my other points. (And I was expecting the person to respond with such when I said it. I was making the point.) "Actively pushing" anything just shows that the natural economic forces are as I stated, and to swim against the economic current, one must exert a concerted effort. I did not say anything is completely impossible. I said it is not natural, so it is not often done that way. Mixed-use does not lend itself to free-market economics. It has to be forced into existence. Your comment that it can only take place through "government policies and zoning laws," reinforces my position that it has to be forced into existence. And the "enhanced land value" that you mentioned is a demonstration that commercial activity drives up the real estate value of residential land. I said that. FORCING residential and commercial to exist side-by-side averages the land value between the two. My advice is that in the future, you spend more than 1 second analyzing and considering what is actually being said and "learn about the topic about which you are arguing" or do not speak at all.
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@perhapsyes2493 You start your comment off with saying "you want to be fair" then you make a completely subjective value judgment that the Swiss way of doing things is "inferior." There is nothing "fair" about your statement, but it seems very European to me. You guys always claim that your own ways are the most superior ways, and everyone else's ways are inferior.
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@orianaduran8709 There is nothing "sad" about the American way of doing things. We are very happy people and love and enjoy driving our cars. There actually is a lot more walking going on in the United States that does not get mentioned in these discussions. Here is one example: I drove my car from Phoenix up to the Grand Canyon. Then I hiked 9 miles down to the bottom of the canyon. Then I piched a tent by a stream. I slept in the tent that night. Then I hiked 5 miles up to get out of the canyon. Then I drove back to Phoenix. That is called being a "weekend warrior." We do things like this frequently. So why would we waste that time with a mundane task like buying food? It would cut into our activity and recreational time.
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@logan-v6y I did not say that additional lanes "relieve car dependence." I said additional lanes relieves a traffic congestion bottleneck. It happens that I live in the United States and have 50 years of being familiar with real estate values. I know what they are, and I see no reason to prove my knowledge and experience to you. Your comment about commercial land selling for less per square foot is completely false. Land here is sold by the fractional acre, anyway. It is so cheap that it not priced by square foot. And I also know where Americans get their money when they need to move. 46% of Americans have a retirement savings account, and there are other ways. On average, Americans change their residence every 3 to 4 years. So do not waste my time claiming Americans cannot afford to move when they need to. All of my facts are correct, and your option is to learn from my years of experience or refuse to learn from my experience. It is your life.
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@logan-v6y A standard American shopping mall can be up to 500 acres. So get grip.
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@logan-v6y Well your conclusion is wrong. Being 15th out of 193 countries is really very, very good, and shows that Americans are very, very happy. But you have to take those studies with a grain of salt because they may contain parameters that I may not agree are justifiable parameters. I am very certain that we rank higher than 15 in happiness. But 15 is fine. When Americans step into a car, they know there is a chance they may not arrive, but they choose to drive anyway because doing so makes them HAPPY. So, yes, the people who are killed made their choice, and they are happy with their choice. You are free to quote statistics all day long, but the facts are that Americans CHOOSE to drive knowing the risks involved. If your SUBJECTIVE OPINION is that it is a "terrible system" that is just your subjective opinion, and you have been outvoted by the majority of Americans who feel otherwise. As far as free time and other parameters . . . We have things set up the way we want them to be.
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@logan-v6y I am not advocating for the whole United States to be a certain way. I am advocating for all Americans to have freedom of choice. The greater majority of Americans want their transportation and housing to be how it is now. But if a group of people want to walk everywhere, I am for that. Let them go in together and buy some land and build whatever they like. However, government policies and zoning are dictatorship that removes freedom of choice. So it should be limited. And a small group of people using statistics to push government policies and zoning their way is a government oligarchy. I am against a tiny minority of people like yourself advocating against the will of the general population. That is not democracy.
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@logan-v6y It seems strange that you would say I am "advocating" for something that is already in place and has been established for years. Normally, when people are "advocating," they are advocating for some kind of change.
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In America my solar batteries last 7 years with discharging them every day.
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@DIYglenn So you are saying to stay home in the summer and only drive in the spring, winter, and fall. Might want to become a school teacher . . .
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@DIYglenn So now you are saying that you have no sense of humor?
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You could do offshore wind turbines and cover your flats on the roof and all sides with solar panels.
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We need to put solar panels on every roof to charge the cars and keep them off of the grid.
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 @okklidokkli Accusing people of "making excuses" when they are trying to explain their culture is not appropriate.
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@Chaos666Theory Most of America is nowhere as you describe. Only a handful of major cities fit that description and it is only in their downtown areas during rush hour. Driving in the rest of America is very calm, relaxing, and peaceful. We love 💗 just taking the car out on a long drive through the country on a quiet Sunday afternoon. The United States is the second largest country geographically. There is plenty of room for all of the cars to spread out. What bankrupts a city is not for debate by amateurs. Cities have all kinds of expenses, problems, and issues that they have to deal with. It would be problematic to claim that is caused by cars when you can find cities around the world, such as Hong Kong, that look just as "dystopian."
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@dennisaskeland7603 Not a problem. You drive 5 miles to a mall and shop for 2 hours. Then drive 10 miles to the grocery store and buy groceries. Stop at the pharmacy. Then drive 4 miles to a restaurant and eat. Then 8 miles back home. If you live on a farm, it may be 30 miles or more to go into town. But an electric can easily do that. The average commute to work is 22 miles. That is 44 miles both ways. Shopping is less than going to work. We normally would not shop on a work day. So there is a substitution process. You have trips to the laundromat and doctor and other places. But same thing.
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@dennisaskeland7603 A mall is a superstore . . . The houses and businesses in the U.S. are all built where it is best to build them on an economic basis. That is how we have always done it and want it. When a business builds in the most economical location, they have the best chance of succeeding and not going bankrupt. We want them to succeed. And if the business is built in the most economical location, they can offer the lowest prices on their wares. Houses are built in subdivisions by building companies and they build them where they are able to buy cheap land, but close enough to amenities and jobs that people will want to buy the house. That keeps the builder from going bankrupt and it also make the home sale price as low as possible. After the subdivision is built and people start moving into the new houses, followup businesses will start putting new businesses in between your new house and your job and fill in all of that empty space. Having families living in the new houses makes it economical to put new businesses out that way. These companies do market studies called "feasibility studies" before building to determine where the business has the best chance of success. Using this method makes it easy for consumers to get to the stores they need to go to because a market planning engineer has thought it all out in advance. We do not have much government planning. Market engineers do most of the planning. I personally am against putting cities on the plains because we grow wheat on the plains. I am against putting cities on any farmland. I would like to see all cities put in the deserts or mountains. But they always do everything the most economical way and economics rules everything here. At or near a mall, you are likely to find KFC, White Castle, Burger King, Arby's, McDonald's, Olive Garden, Denny's and Steak and Shake all within walking distance of each other. But Americans will drive from one parking lot to the next. You figure out that one.
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You can buy those in the store. They do not have to be built-in.
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It is not "people" who have been pushing for it. It is civil engineers and Europeans pushing normal Americans. 😅
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@stanleyhape8427 Not sure what you are talking about. American malls are built with steel, concrete, and glass. It does not deteriorate. The interior wood lasts forever, if it does not get constantly saturated from a water leak.
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@albertawheat6832 Do you know how far a car can travel in 15 minutes? Up to 15 miles. Everything surrounding you from all directions is 15 minutes from you.
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@ScottCleve33 No it is not "far from true." That was a very stupid thing for you to say. And then you pointed out standard maintenance items that building owners commonly have to do. Obviously, a leaking roof has to be repaired. How does a repaired roof or crack bring down a whole building???
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@albertawheat6832 I have lived on a farm. It was 7 miles outside of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. You could drive to downtown in 15 minutes. The whole Marion County is only 15 miles wide. Try thinking through before you make stupid replies.
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@ScottCleve33 No. I would say that certain parts of malls deteriorate, and the required maintenance to keep them up is minimal. A shingle roof is warranted for 20 years. Replacing the roof every 20 years is not a lot.
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@albertawheat6832 But we are not even talking about farmers . . . are we? There are a million and a half people living in Marion County who are not farmers. They have no trouble getting everything they need in 15 minutes. Why is that math difficult for you? You are the troll who tried to prove your point by giving an example of extremism.
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@albertawheat6832 Apparently, living in the real world is hard for you. And you get kind of nasty when someone points out the truth and the facts.
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@albertawheat6832 When you supposedly, "call them as you see them," your sight is tinted by the hate in your heart, and that makes you respond in a nasty way to a perfectly normal comment. And it is "on them" when you spew your hate onto someone. I know what a 15-minute city is, and you would have trouble finding one in the United States. Most Americans do not like them.
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@ScottCleve33 I did not want to waste time looking up the warranty on a flat roof. You are mistaken that older buildings require more maintenance. If the maintenance is kept up properly, it is about the same year to year. If people have moved out of the area and no longer using the shops that is a whole different issue. That is an abandoned building. But in most places the population is growing and more shopping is needed -- not less. Those desirable locations can afford to do their maintenance.
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@ScottCleve33 What are you talking about "people aren't interested in indoor malls" ?? What "people" are you speaking for? Southern California where it never rains? Of course people are interested in indoor malls. Who wants to walk outside in the rain and snow when they move from store to store? Are you in America? Do you know an American indoor mall? An American indoor mall is anchored by big box specialty stores. You may have Target, Sears, J.C. Penney's and Toys 'r US situated in a triangle or a square. Then you have hallways connecting those big box anchor stores. The little shops line those hallways. That means you can go shopping for school supplies at Target, And then eat lunch in the mall food court. Then buy some shoes at Payless. Then buy a pair of jeans at Dockers. Then buy a jacket at Banana Republic. Then go to Sears and pick up a rake. Then go to Penney's and buy some dishes and a bedspread for your bed. Then go to Bed and Bath and pick up a shower curtain. The go to a steakhouse or cafeteria and have dinner. Then go watch a movie. And you can do the whole day without getting rained on. Do not tell me that people do not want to do that.
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You might prefer an assisted living complex. My grandmother was in one. They are quiet, and they have a community cafeteria, with card tables and recreation. They also run a small bus to the restaurants and malls.
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@Beldan4 I think Medicaid pays part of the bill or something.
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@Beldan4 I can short term memory loss. If there is something that I need to remember, I set an alarm on my phone to remind me.
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@Beldan4 I am not defending anything. I am just tossing out some possible suggestions. I do not know enough about the situation to be defending anyone. Have a nice day.
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It is no "white flag" and you are a liar. It is smart to use factories inside your own country and not be fully dependent upon some factory on the other side of the world. What if a war broke out, or an asteroid hit Shenzen?
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@ILIVEAGOODLIFE Yes. Amazing that a country that is only 4% is the world's number two manufacturer. 🤷‍♀️
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@fernandopaterno3710 Well it may surprise you to learn that 1 million Chinese college students are currently enrolled in American universities because American universities are known to be the best in the world.
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@rkgsd So? I do not know if your stats are right. But the United States is a whole nation made up of immigrants from around the world. Over 25 major ethnic groups are represented in the United States population. We are very proud of our foreign food, foreign culture, and foreign citizens. They all come here for a reason. They do not come here by accident.
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@rkgsd 15% of the American population is foreign born.
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It is orange and violet.
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@PeterHitchens-d6x My dad couldn't figure it out. He just said, "Women! You cannot live with them. You cannot live without them!"
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@seanedghill5025 So the richest country in the world with the largest GDP in the world, having one of highest standards of living, the largest military in the world, who live in the largest houses with all conveniences, such as central heating and air-conditioning and 2-car attached garages with a car and a truck in the garage are "like a third world country"? ************** The facts are . . that the Americans created your whole life: Every minute of every day of your life an American invention is giving YOU a better life. So let us look at some American inventions that YOU could not live without: Lightbulbs Aluminum foil Frozen Food Canned Food Can Openers Microwave Dinners Peanut Butter Breakfast cereals French Fries Fluoridated water that prevents cavities Durable Vehicle tires Electric starters for cars Generators to charge car batteries Airplanes The Modern Jet Engine Electric well pumps that bring water to your house Electric power generating stations The whole electrical grid Every fan or blower in your heating system Your air conditioner Your refrigerator Your microwave oven Automatic Clothes washing machine Radios Television Satellite telecommunications GPS Fiber optic cables Lasers Sound and music recording Industrial computers Desktop computers Laptop computers Cell phones Smart phones Smart watches Videos The internet Anything with a transistor or microchip The factory assembly line Cotton Gin Various Farming Equipment Metal-hulled Ships Petroleum refining into gas and diesel Petroleum refining into plastics Polyester and Nylon Nuclear power Solar panels for green energy transition and . . . Soft Drinks (Have a Coke. 🧋) Then there are business models invented by Americans: McDonald’s Burger King Kentucky Fried Chicken Starbucks Circle K Tesla Walmart.…. It was ALL invented in America. And if you live in a constitutional republic, the Americans invented your entire political system. An American farm yields up to 30,000 pounds of potatoes per acre. The fact is that Americans are so ingenious that the United States patent office has over 3 million American patents on file. The Americans are the smartest, most creative, most industrious people in the world who created the entire modern world. Without the United States of America YOU would be living in a cave, stone building, or wood hut with a thatched roof, carrying your water from a stream in a bucket with half of your teeth missing and cooking and heating over a campfire using wood that YOU PERSONALLY went out and gathered from a forest. And you would be using the bathroom outdoors and washing your clothes in a stream. Your connection to the outside world would be extremely limited and depending on your specific situation, you may not even know what is happening beyond your own village -- let alone around the world. 🌎 My advice is that before you "laugh" at any American, first try going without American invented lightbulbs 💡 for 24 hours and learn how American 🇺🇸 ingenuity has helped YOU see 👀 in the dark.
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I think it is because the "head of design" is some boring old guy. Look at him. No hair. Old style boring glasses. Overly pale pastel shirt that you can barely tell has some yellow in it. Blaise dull pale jacket with no color at all to it. Then look at the room. Dull textile wallpaper in a boring green color. And THIS GUY is deciding our car colors?? No wonder you cannot find a decent colored car on a lot anywhere. 🚘
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America has 6.2% Hydro Power.
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@sydfrissell You failed to thank me for buying you the new car . . .
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The United States is not "struggling to go electric." That is a misnomer.
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@thorpower1015 The "progressive" socialists do not get American mindset. So I did not try to explain it.
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ICE busses frequently break down due to cold weather.
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You people have a very, very major glaring error in this video: You said that home buyers are paying the traditional 20% down-payment. That is WRONG. An owner-occupied home down-payment through the FHA is 5% or 3.5% down payment. A $400,000 home down-payment is $14k to $20k. How can you people be experts and make such an obvious mistake?
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Go Norway! Every time a Norwegian buys an electric vehicle, the price of gasoline drops in America. 🇺🇲✝️
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@JungleJetAviation06 Well you need a house because the payment never goes up and your rent will go up every year forever. When you turn 65, you may not be able to pay that exorbitant rent anymore. If you opt not to buy a house, you need to put equivalent money into a retirement account every month.
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@user-gz4ve8mw9l Not really. You just file bankruptcy and keep everything. We do not buy flats. We buy houses. We RENT flats. And you have no idea what you are talking about on the school loans. Under 26, your parents can apply for you.
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@user-gz4ve8mw9l Medical bills can be restructured with affordable payments. And they can block creditors from taking anything. They cannot put your parents' bills on your credit rating. And they cannot make you pay them. Once you move out of your parents' house and have a place of your own, you can apply for student loans and grants yourself based upon your income. But you would need your own address to do that.
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@user-gz4ve8mw9l You are telling me that I'd best hope I do not have medical problems??? Dude. I became disabled at age 15. I am now 66. I have never had medical insurance until my Medicare kicked in at age 65 and I do not use it. (And I do not buy the supplemental part.) I will give you a couple of tips: 1. If you go to the emergency room, they have to treat you. They cannot turn you away. 2. There is a classification known as "medically indigent." It means that you cannot afford to pay. If you go to the hospital business office and file medically indigent, the hospital will write off your bill and absorb the loss. 3. You can file bankruptcy for any remaining amount from hospital vendors and restructure the payments to be affordable.
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@user-gz4ve8mw9l If you do not like how we do things here, just leave. We are not going to change. I do not believe you are American anyway. No American would call an apartment a flat and you would know that we do not buy apartments here.
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@ElyonDominus What are you talking about? I am the CONSERVATIVE NORMAL TRADITIONAL CAPITALIST. You are the socialist/communist who does not like traditional America and is working hard to make America over into your own communist image. I love America AS IT IS. You do not like it as it is -- you leave.
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Since you cannot even clean up your filthy mouth, your opinion on anything does not count.
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@ebbhead20 Yes. Now I remember. They wear shoes made out of wood. My mother cooks salmon patties.
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@carstenhansen5757 Saudi Arabia cannot lower the price of oil. The current oil price is crushing their country. It is a welfare state. They need a higher oil price because the money from the oil they sell gets distributed to all of their citizens to buy food. Saudi Arabia has no other source of income to support their people than selling oil. Saudi Arabia works to keep the price as high as possible. Can you imagine how your people would scream if your government reduced your wages? They would be protesting in the streets. However, if enough EVs are sold, the world markets will bring down oil prices. EV sales are gradually bringing down the price of oil and that will eventually crush the Saudi economy.
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@carstenhansen5757 Lowering the amount of oil would raise the price. Did you miss the big scarf protests in Iran?
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@carstenhansen5757 It would not raise prices for Saudi Arabians because the kingdom subsidized their fuel from the profits. It would raise world prices for the world. The scarf protests were huge. There was a lot of news coverage. Just look it up.
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@carstenhansen5757 Saudi Arabia can no longer have much control on oil prices because too many players are getting into the game. The United States is now the number one oil producer ahead of Saudi Arabia, showing an increase in oil production of 5 million barrels since 2018. In the last couple of years oil has been discovered in: UK China (ocean) Nambia Brazil Algeria Zimbabwe Pakistan Indonesia Guyana Suriname Malaysia . . . to name a few. China's discovery is huge. There is too much oil coming into the market for Saudi Arabia to control prices. In the future the price of oil will be controlled solely by the markets. It is an oil glut and the prices will drop.
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@Frygisk Rubber is made from rubber trees growing in Brazil.
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@carstenhansen5757 It is true or I would not have said it. I am not on speaking terms with our idiot fake president biden. Regardless, Saudi Arabia was not able to accommodate his request, were they?
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Calcium Carbonate is limestone. Why don't sell just it as a building material? 🤷‍♀️ 🤷‍♂️
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It actually implies that there is a standard of living difference between the two countries, and that the Chinese government is subsidizing each car produced. You really are not that smart.
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@ytzpilot Wrong. You are the IDIOT claiming that I am "trolling." 😆😅🤣😂
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@ytzpilot Yes they do subsidize production. Go get an education before speaking. You are making yourself look stupid. 🤷
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@ytzpilot It appears to me that you are behaving like the 12 year old. 😆😅🤣😂 Correcting somebody when you have limited education. 🤷 😆😅🤣
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@ytzpilot You makes you think you can insult someone and them ask then for something? I did not shout. You are very obviously mentally ill. Get lost.
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@hotdog9262 I am sorry but you are absolutely wrong. Every invention on the list has been thoroughly fact-checked. Name one you have a question about and I will give you the bio of the inventor.
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@hotdog9262 As I said . . . you are absolutely incorrect. All of the inventions have been thoroughly fact-checked. Name ONE and I will give you the name, date, and nationality of the inventor.
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@hotdog9262 Sorry but you are still making incorrect unfounded statements out of your snobbery. For clarity I changed Jet Engine to read "modern jet engine." (the one that makes modern air travel possible). It was invented in America: "The 1945 surrender of Germany revealed substantial wartime discoveries and inventions. General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, another American engine-builder, added German lessons to those of Whittle and other British designers. Early jet engines, such as those of the Me 262, gulped fuel rapidly. Thus, an initial challenge was posed: to build an engine that could provide high thrust with less fuel consumption. Pratt & Whitney resolved this dilemma in 1948 by combining two engines into one. The engine included two compressors; each rotated independently, the inner one giving high compression for good performance. Each compressor drew power from its own turbine; hence there were two turbines, one behind the other. This approach led to the J-57 engine. Commercial airliners—the Boeing 707, the Douglas DC-8—flew with it. One of the prominent postwar engines, it entered service with the U.S. Air Force in 1953." The airplane was invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright in Dayton, Ohio.
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@hotdog9262 A feature that makes a 10% improvement to an existing product is a legally patentable invention. Try flying London to New York on Whittle's engine. You are wrong about the lightbulb. Before Edison's lightbulb, all previous attempts at making one burned out in a minute or two. They were not a working, usable invention. Edison invented a long-lasting filament and lit the whole world. His bulb lasted 1200 hours. There were some previous bulbs with a platinum filament, but they were rejected as too expensive to market. Edison invented the right filament.
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@hotdog9262 The high bypass turbofan was invented by General Electric. You are wrong about the lightbulb. If I change my wording to say he invented the FILAMENT for the lightbulb, my statement would be 100% technically correct. I could also change it to "modern style incandescent bulb" and it would be 100% technically correct. My introduction at the top limits the inventions to things we are using today. That would be Edison's bulb. None of the previous bulb attempts were developed enough to go onto the market. They were attempts at inventing something. But they were not a FULLY-DEVELOPED invention.
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@hotdog9262 No. You are wrong and that is the end of it. My research is all 100% correct and it proves the thesis that I am trying to prove in my paper . . . that people could not get along without these American inventions. If you think you can prove my point any better show me your paper. And my paper IS NOT trying to show "the reason we have our modern world." Stop moving my goalposts, champ. My point IS NOT "delusional" -- it is an absolute fact. END OF STORY.
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@hotdog9262 By the way . . . We also invented LED lightbulbs and Compact Fluorescent lightbulbs that are saving the planet.
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@hotdog9262 Can I ask you what is wrong with your brain that you cannot focus on what my paper is trying to say?
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@hotdog9262 A Brief History of the Light Bulb "The electric light, one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives, was not “invented” in the traditional sense in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison, although he could be said to have created the first commercially practical incandescent light. He was neither the first nor the only person trying to invent an incandescent light bulb. In fact, some historians claim there were over 20 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Edison’s version. However, Edison is often CREDITED WITH THE INVENTION because his version was able to outstrip the earlier versions because of a combination of three factors: an effective incandescent material, a higher vacuum than others were able to achieve and a high resistance that made power distribution from a centralized source economically viable."
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@hotdog9262 "Thomas Edison GETS THE CREDIT, but the incandescent light bulb wasn't his idea alone." Source: Popular Mechanics Magazine
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@hotdog9262 So you have been making a fuss all day about something you do not care about? Bright. It is not "nonsense."
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@hotdog9262 "Though Thomas Edison is usually credited as the man who invented the lightbulb, the famous American inventor wasn't the only one who contributed to the development of this revolutionary technology." Source: Live Science
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@hotdog9262 Okay. Well what I said IS truth and you are going to Hell for using filthy language. The conversation is over now because I am blocking you and your filthy mouth.
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@Alpejohn "From pickling and salting to smoking and drying, humans have been finding ways to make food last longer since prehistoric times. But by the 18th century, an efficient—and truly effective—means of preservation remained elusive. In 1795, the French government decided to do something about it. That year, the country was fighting battles in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and the Caribbean, highlighting the need for a stable source of food for far-flung soldiers and seamen. France's leaders decided to offer a 12,000-franc prize through the Society for the Encouragement of Industry for a breakthrough in the preservation of food. Nicolas Appert, a young chef from the region of Champagne, was determined to win. Appert, who had worked as a chef for the French nobility, dove into the study of food preservation. He eventually came up with a radical innovation: food packed in champagne bottles, sealed airtight with an oddly effective mixture of cheese and lime. Appert’s discovery built on earlier imperfect techniques, which either removed air or preserved food by heat but hadn’t managed to do both. Running a bustling lab and factory, Appert soon progressed from champagne bottles to wide-necked glass containers. In 1803 his preserved foods (which came to include vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy and fish) were sent out for sea trials with the French navy. By 1804, his factory had begun to experiment with meat packed in tin cans, which he soldered shut and then observed for months for signs of swelling. Those that didn’t swell [botulism] were deemed safe for sale and long-term storage. Originally, the can end was soldered or welded onto the can body after the can was filled. However, this introduced a variety of issues, such as foreign contaminants (including lead and other harmful heavy metals). The double seam was later developed as a cheaper and safer alternative and quickly replaced the welded seam: In 1904, the Max Ams Machine Company of New York patented the double-seam process used in most modern food cans. Today a double-seam machine can safely seal more than 2,000 cans a minute—a long way indeed from Appert’s pea-packed bottles.” “The double seam is made using a double seamer, which can have just one or a number of heads or seaming stations. The double seam is formed by mechanically interlocking five layers of material together: three layers of the can end and two layers of the can body. Each seaming head typically consists of two rolls, a first operation roll and second operation roll, and a chuck. Some seaming machines have two first operation rolls and two second operation rolls and a few machines use a method called "rail seaming" which requires no rolls. During the seaming operation, the can end is lowered onto the filled can body and held down by the chuck, which acts as an anvil to the seaming operation. The first operation roll then engages the can end against the can body thereby folding the end curl around the flange of the body. In some seaming machines, this is done as the can is turning at high speed.”
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@interface1344 You have told me nothing because the United States is a nation completely made up of immigrants from all over the world. We have the cream of the crop from every nation. Boring people never leave their home town. My forebears were French, German, and Irish. Of course you can come visit . . . and feel free to stay at my house. We will discuss exotic scientific concepts that no one has ever heard of. Wernher Von Braun, the head of NASA engineering, was Polish. What is "visdom" ?
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@interface1344 This is my country. I know where our people and concepts come from. I do not need someone to tell me.
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@interface1344 You didn't. You stepped on my (German) intelligence. You are welcome and come over anytime. 🇺🇲✝️
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@randomname9758 It is not a "rant." Using the wrong words to describe things is lying.
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@silvershsadow2045 Competition is the force propels the world forward and you could not have any society without having politics.
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@domerame5913 I am not here to "help capitalism." I am here to state true facts. Socialism is dictatorship by an elite oligarchy who believes that they know what is best for your life and forces their idea of "good" on you whether you want it or not. You are the child and your socialist government is your mother. In a socialist country when you are sick, you call on your government (mother) and she wipes your nose for you. When the socialist-government-mother hands out candy, she makes sure that it is an equal distribution; that everything is "fair" and nobody gets a piece larger than anybody else. Fairness is queen. (Fox News dreams of the day they can keep up with me.)
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@Korloko Sorry. But you go to Hell for blasphemy.
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@Korloko What "echoing" ?? I said no such thing. Christ never said anything either for or against equality. He did say that a poor person has a much better chance of getting into Heaven than a rich person. So it is better to be poor.
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@hoolio5659 I understand most everything. I hold different opinions than average people do because I study more and I think things through more thoroughly than most people do.
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@hoolio5659 Christian humility requires that I lie to you? The facts are that humans deal with material property every single day. The only way to not deal with material possessions is to implement pure communism where no one owns anything, including their clothes. If a person owns ANY material possession, it must be decided by someone whether they have a legitimate right to possess that item. This is the beginning and foundation of private property rights. Private property rights do not come from Scripture . . . they come from logic and reasoning. Poor people have private property rights and rich people have equal private property rights.
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@hoolio5659 You are so mixed up and confused that you cannot talk logically. I end this conversation with you.
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@hoolio5659 I did not admit that I was wrong or "surrender." I said your problem is so complex that I cannot fix it.
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@HermanWillems Jesus was not a socialist. America does not "love" inequality. We go with what works the best overall and freedom for each individual to achieve their dreams works.
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@smart_trey Yes. Of course. Jesus is right here in the room with me. If He disagrees with something I say, He gives me an inner urging not to say it. Usually, I listen closely to His inner voice, while I am formulating my sentences and He makes suggestions as to what to say. Since I have already carefully studied every Word of the entire Binle, I am already guided by my complete Bible knowledge of how God views the Earth and His relationship with humanity.
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@HermanWillems Sorry, but that is incorrect. Jesus does not specially want people to be poor. He told one specific individual to go sell all that he had. Jesus did not turn around to the crowd and tell the whole crowd to do it. You are making an assumption that it was said to everyone when it was not. On your second Bible quote, you quoted the first part, but left out the second part. This is the WHOLE PASSAGE: "23 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” 25 When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?” 26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” It is clear that by the power of God rich people can be saved if they turn their life and their riches over to God and use their TALENTS to advance the kingdom. When God gives you TALENTS, He expects you to use them . . . not throw them away.
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@mikaellindroos1594 I read as many books as is appropriate.
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@johndoh5182 You "do not believe most U.S. businesses are brilliant"? Are you joking? Where do you think Norway is getting all of their cars and chargers??? ********** The facts are . . that the Americans created your whole life: Every minute of every day of your life an American invention is giving YOU a better life. So let us look at some American inventions that YOU could not live without: Lightbulbs Aluminum foil Frozen Food Canned Food Can Openers Microwave Dinners Peanut Butter Breakfast cereals French Fries Penicillin Fluoridated water that prevents cavities Durable Vehicle tires Electric starters for cars Generators to charge car batteries Airplanes Jet engines Electric well pumps that bring water to your house Electric power generating stations The whole electrical grid Every fan or blower in your heating system Your air conditioner Your refrigerator Your microwave oven Automatic Clothes washing machine Radios Television Satellite telecommunications GPS Fiber optic cables Lasers Sound and music recording Industrial computers Desktop computers Laptop computers Cell phones Smart phones Smart watches Videos The internet Anything with a transistor or microchip The factory assembly line Cotton Gin Various Farming Equipment Metal-hulled Ships Petroleum refining into gas and diesel Petroleum refining into plastics Polyester and Nylon Nuclear power Solar panels for green energy transition and . . . Soft Drinks (Have a Coke. 🧋) Then there are business models invented by Americans: McDonald’s Burger King Kentucky Fried Chicken Starbucks Circle K Tesla Walmart.…. It was ALL invented in America. And if you live in a constitutional republic, the Americans invented your entire political system. An American farm yields up to 30,000 pounds of potatoes per acre. The fact is that Americans are so ingenious that the United States patent office has over 3 million American patents on file. The Americans are the smartest, most creative, most industrious people in the world who created the entire modern world. Without the United States of America YOU would be living in a cave, stone building, or wood hut with a thatched roof, carrying your water from a stream in a bucket with half of your teeth missing and cooking and heating over a campfire using wood that YOU PERSONALLY went out and gathered from a forest. And you would be using the bathroom outdoors and washing your clothes in a stream. Your connection to the outside world would be extremely limited and depending on your specific situation, you may not even know what is happening beyond your own village -- let alone around the world. 🌎 My advice is that before you "laugh" at any American, first try going without American invented lightbulbs 💡 for 24 hours and learn how American 🇺🇸 ingenuity has helped YOU see 👀 in the dark.
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@PeterHitchens-d6x Uhh . . . Utube is an American company . . . And the video is produced by an American media . . . And the tenet of the video is "supposedly" Norway teaching Americans how to run their country . . . 😁😆😅😂🤣😭
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@Chainyanker007 You are "wrong" because you do not understand America. The average American is NOT in a race with any other country about anything, and how the world turns out in the "next few years" has nothing at all to do with the attitude of Americans TODAY.
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@Chainyanker007 Sorry, but you are the one who is wrong. The average American is not "in a race" against any other country for any reason and whatever happens in "the next few years" has nothing at all to do with the attitude of Americans TODAY.
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His numbers are not working right because you can build a single family house for $105 per square foot. His numbers would mean these tiny apartments are at least twice as expensive as building a house.
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