@REasther@skdh@FouanPere I have felt vastly more culture shock living in the US compared to living in Germany (as a Canadian). The differences in Germany were for the most part neutral, just differences. So many of the differences in the US are shocking that people put up with living like this.
the Biden Administration was plagued by history’s most frequent and obvious metaphors from beginning to end. this is like if George W. Bush was sworn in on a banana and made a speech where he said “I’m Monkey W Bush and I pledge allegiance to oil.”
American society valued a college education more when Professors could drink whiskey and smoke cigarettes right in the classroom as they scribbled the word humanism upon the blackboard.
Tonight, President Trump received the first ever Presidential Commemorative Inaugural Diet Coke bottle from the Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Company, James Quincey 🇺🇸
STEM is so cool. Science is amazing. Kids should develop curiosity about how the universe works and proficiency in uncovering its secrets, so that they can most effectively optimize clickthrough rates on banner ads at the bottom of VC-funded website-apps.
Yes, one example of the phenomenon I'm describing would be pointing at a chart that says "quarterly private sector manufacturing investment" and acting like people living in their cars or children going to school hungry should see that as proof they're wrong about their condition