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Glumwheels posted:I’ve heard from US expats that they’ve been treated rudely by Europeans occasionally so it is a thing. I’ve never experienced it but I am also European, just not from there so maybe people give me a pass. I don’t speak my second language perfectly but no one has ever given me poo poo for it, in fact everyone has been supportive and helps me when I make a mistake. Then again, it’s not German and I don’t know a lot of Germans so maybe they are just assholes. a lot of americans (and canadians) mistake directness for rudeness, don't get that etiquette works differently there, and in particular lose their loving minds that service workers (esp waitstaff in restaurants) do not kiss their asses or constantly check in on them. my wife's brother (half finn half filipino) lives in germany and when we visit we've never felt like people are particularly lovely or racist there compared to anywhere else. (not saying there isn't bigotry there, to be clear, my brother in law has told us some insane stories about their weird prejudices and he's been there for almost half his life now)
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Jun 13, 2023 17:36
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Beached Whale posted:As a fellow Euro-brain my guess is she expected an Ear Pray Love sort of reception where everyone fawns over a precocious white American, and instead finds out they're just regular people living their lives who generally don't want to deal with your poo poo. even worse, she wants walmarts and CVS's
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Jun 13, 2023 17:36
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Cold on a Cob posted:a lot of americans (and canadians) mistake directness for rudeness, don't get that etiquette works differently there, and in particular lose their loving minds that service workers (esp waitstaff in restaurants) do not kiss their asses or constantly check in on them. this sounds like a functioning society to me. americas like weird faux-politeness dance drives me insane
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Jun 13, 2023 17:38
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Beached Whale posted:As a fellow Euro-brain my guess is she expected an Eat Pray Love sort of reception where everyone fawns over a precocious white American, and instead finds out they're just regular people living their lives who generally don't want to deal with your poo poo. the author of Eat Pray Love had to cancel publishing her latest book because it was about the Soviet Union and the pro-Ukraine crowd didn't like seeing books even mentioning Russia or Russians
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Jun 13, 2023 17:38
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Cold on a Cob posted:a lot of americans (and canadians) mistake directness for rudeness, don't get that etiquette works differently there, and in particular lose their loving minds that service workers (esp waitstaff in restaurants) do not kiss their asses or constantly check in on them. the faux courtesy that's everywhere in America absolutely, 100% fucks up a lot of people and you don't really notice it if you've just been exposed to that kind of thing your whole life my partner's mom (who only moved to the US in her 50s) gets legitimate anxiety in restaurants because of servers constantly coming over to check on things
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Jun 13, 2023 17:39
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It's easy making friends with Germans. Just hand one an sop on how to be your friend and they'll love you. Germans love well written procedures.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:40
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Cold on a Cob posted:a lot of americans (and canadians) mistake directness for rudeness, don't get that etiquette works differently there, and in particular lose their loving minds that service workers (esp waitstaff in restaurants) do not kiss their asses or constantly check in on them. The Amish population in PA and Ohio gets the same poo poo for the same reason, they interact with you to get their business done and they don't do the gladhanding stuff. Americans hate that.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:40
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Nice and hot piss posted:If I was 55 and was your boss I'd have fired you All my tickets where complete and my bugs per lines of code was the lowest on the entire team. 
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Jun 13, 2023 17:41
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that lady is like the ultimate lib, talks at length about her privilege and hemming and hawing about her impact on the places she visits but still profiting wildly off of it all and straight up making the world a worse place my favourite fact is she got paid 200k from her publisher to take a year off to do all that travelling
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Jun 13, 2023 17:41
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Jun 13, 2023 17:42
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Amazon is stale dogshit and it shocks me every time I hear someone say how great it is and how they order everything from there. The eBay comparison is accurate, Amazon doesn't want to stock or ship anything they just want a cut.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:42
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for reference:
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Jun 13, 2023 17:44
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Glumwheels posted:Lady, it’s entirely you and not them. I would imagine being half South Korean (thus encountering a lot of racism) and living in a tiny loving town are probably the biggest legit issues happening
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Jun 13, 2023 17:44
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how long until she’s revealed to be a lobbyist from Aetna or some poo poo
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Jun 13, 2023 17:47
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one of the best pieces of advice I ever got was "don't get good at bad jobs, or you will be asked to do them constantly"
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Jun 13, 2023 17:50
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one of my formative memories of visiting Germany as a teenage Canadian tourist was getting chewed out by a waitress. I ordered some sort of sausage dish and it was definitely an acquired taste that I didn't expect or enjoy, but I was raised to not waste food or complain so I just grimaced and tried to power through this meal. She comes by my table to check up on me, looks at my awkward loving face and asks me "Is this not to your liking?" I was still trying to be fake nice, going all "well, it's good, but," before she interrupted with "This is Bavaria. If it is poo poo, you say it is poo poo! Now tell me, is it poo poo?" and that forced me to give up the act and admit it was indeed poo poo and order something else. And thus social progress was made.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:50
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RealityWarCriminal posted:one of the best pieces of advice I ever got was "don't get good at bad jobs, or you will be asked to do them constantly" this is also why you never volunteer for the thing that is, officially, no one's responsibility
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Jun 13, 2023 17:51
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Instant Pot and Pyrex Maker Instant Brands Files for Bankruptcyquote:Amelia Pollard
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Jun 13, 2023 17:51
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Amazon has arm and hammer litter deodorizer for a pretty good price compared to most pet stores
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Jun 13, 2023 17:53
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amazon at least has selection when most brick and mortar stores purposely do not have selection
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Jun 13, 2023 17:55
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Cold on a Cob posted:a lot of americans (and canadians) mistake directness for rudeness, don't get that etiquette works differently there, and in particular lose their loving minds that service workers (esp waitstaff in restaurants) do not kiss their asses or constantly check in on them. My wife is European too but born there and she absolutely hates the fake sweet attitude servers have in the US. It wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for our godawful tipping culture in the US. Like wow, people can be themselves when they don’t have to rely on a customers generosity to survive. The one thing I hate about Europe is definitely shopping. Big box stores help cut down on your shopping and travel time. It’s really not enjoyable having to go to multiple stores to buy poo poo for the week vs just going to target and getting everything. It also sucks poo poo everything closes early than in the US including pharmacies which means you have to plan in advance and hope no emergencies come up and you have to get off work sufficiently early.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:55
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FlapYoJacks posted:All my tickets where complete and my bugs per lines of code was the lowest on the entire team. at most places I've worked, they will get upset with you if you are too slow walking back from your legally prescribed 15 minute break
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Jun 13, 2023 17:55
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wash bucket posted:https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1668611912458813444 no they were unable make their debt payment to keep their billion dollar global product company operational
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Jun 13, 2023 17:58
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Paradoxish posted:my partner's mom (who only moved to the US in her 50s) gets legitimate anxiety in restaurants because of servers constantly coming over to check on things All the manufactured servility in US retail/restaurant settings is unnerving to me. Everyone knows it's a script! It's not real! The workers there, aside from a few truly deluded individuals, aren't actually happy to see you. They aren't actually thanking you. They're reading from a soulless script penned by an undead monstrosity in a defiled marketing tomb somewhere.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:59
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RealityWarCriminal posted:at most places I've worked, they will get upset with you if you are too slow walking back from your legally prescribed 15 minute break Change jobs.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:01
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:All the manufactured servility in US retail/restaurant settings is unnerving to me. Everyone knows it's a script! It's not real! The workers there, aside from a few truly deluded individuals, aren't actually happy to see you. They aren't actually thanking you. They're reading from a soulless script penned by an undead monstrosity in a defiled marketing tomb somewhere. Americans no longer have actual third places, so that manufactured servility makes up a significant amount of many peoples' human contact.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:02
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https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1668631268073050115?cxt=HHwWhsDUqYXTlaguAAAA A story as old as time
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Jun 13, 2023 18:03
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:All the manufactured servility in US retail/restaurant settings is unnerving to me. Everyone knows it's a script! It's not real! The workers there, aside from a few truly deluded individuals, aren't actually happy to see you. They aren't actually thanking you. They're reading from a soulless script penned by an undead monstrosity in a defiled marketing tomb somewhere. I’m from the US south and it unnerves me too. It’s unnatural. Especially the “my pleasure” scripted poo poo from Chick-fil-A or the “WELCOME TO MOES” nonsense. Corporatism needs to die.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:04
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Glumwheels posted:https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1668631268073050115?cxt=HHwWhsDUqYXTlaguAAAA it rules that not only is this legal, but the smart thing to do
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Jun 13, 2023 18:04
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goon project: let’s start a private equity fund and buy out all americorps with fake debt and leverage to buy out more like dominos. then run them into the ground with massive debt takeouts to buy other corps together we can have capitalism eat itself…. and also get filthy rich to buy goon island
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Jun 13, 2023 18:09
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Glumwheels posted:https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1668631268073050115?cxt=HHwWhsDUqYXTlaguAAAA all this instapot stuff is funny yeah, but lmao this guy works for loving meta
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Jun 13, 2023 18:12
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no one wants to eat anymore  https://twitter.com/business/status/1668303583849197574
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Jun 13, 2023 18:15
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everyone is fuckin ordering grub hub or doordash or Ubereats for 3 meals a day every day I posted before but I live in a non-luxury apartment and the amount of food gigger drivers that show up every day is unreal
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Jun 13, 2023 18:17
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:lol wirecutter's (peak yeti customer demo) recommended cooler is an $80 coleman, yetiheads losing their minds over this $80* *$90
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Jun 13, 2023 18:31
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Yeti filled the hole in the American Consumer soul that was created when people stopped giving a gently caress what kind of phone you have.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:37
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Glumwheels posted:Lady, it’s entirely you and not them. Yeah the attitude on kids is way different there. If you take into a restaurant in the US, it's an annoyance and people will sksksk in their phones to reddit about what an awful experience this is, there they accept it as part of life and welcome it. Helping an American parent may just make them defensive and angry with you lol. And Americans are pretty rude too, especially if you don't speak good English, but at least when a European does it they won't have typically have a gun. actionjackson posted:I would imagine being half South Korean (thus encountering a lot of racism) and living in a tiny loving town are probably the biggest legit issues happening I'm the same mix and people can't tell if I'm a good race or a bad race just by sight, so they just project one on to me depending on how they already want to treat me (more than usual), which is usually neutral to good with a shock once they find out my last name. Latinos and Armenians think I'm one of them, white people think I'm like, Italian.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:39
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skooma512 posted:white people think I'm like, Italian. mama mia
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Jun 13, 2023 18:49
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it bothers me they use the verb “train” completely inaccurately and it has been accepted the AI people
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Jun 13, 2023 18:54
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:lol wirecutter's (peak yeti customer demo) recommended cooler is an $80 coleman, yetiheads losing their minds over this I got this cooler because of the Wirecutter and its fine. I should have bought the one from costco that has wheels and a handle. Biggest pet peeve is the lid doesn't fully close without pressing it down which would normally not be an issue except I often camp with children who can't be loving bothered after rooting through it for no loving reason. gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1668634451088392193 the cached google version works great AND it probably doesn't give reddit page views if that's what you're after.
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:Biggest pet peeve is the lid doesn't fully close without pressing it down isn't that most coolers?
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Jun 13, 2023 18:56
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