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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

America: our mail system is. USPS processes 23.5 million packages per day, and processes and delivers 318 million pieces of mail every day, to every single household in America, 6 days per week (7 days per week for packages).

They will throw mail sacks onto the backs of donkeys and trek them down into the Grand Canyon to deliver to tribes down there. They will deliver by bike, plane, boat, truck, car, etc. Hell, name any other organization where you could hand someone a letter and $0.62 and ask them to take it to Alaska for you, and they'd say no problem.

"Post" roads in the U.S. are named as such because they were roads built specifically for the movement of "post" across the country, and people have even argued that USPS (then the Postal Service) created the layout of the country as we know it.

And despite what many may think or know, USPS is incredibly efficient when it comes to mail and delivery compared to other countries. I remember them telling us during our orientation (I used to be a mail carrier) that back around 2013, representatives from USPS were actually flown to Germany to teach and help them start delivering 6-days per week. USPS taught Germany how to be more efficient at something πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

America: deep fried Oreos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It was like a dark an unspeakable revelation out of a cosmic horror novel when I learned that some freaks in the states concocted deep fried butter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

IIRC somewhere over here someone offers Deep Fried Coke. I don't know how one deep fries soda, and at this point I don't want to ask.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

It’s just a ball of plane batter with coke mixed in.

Look up a recipe for fritters made with flour, replace some liquid with coke syrup. Easy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I live in a 10 million people European country which is the leading cork producer in the World

Also the first European country to explicitly decriminalise drug consumption.

Those two things are unrelated.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

nah we knew that already

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Oh man! Yes!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Dutch traffic infrastructure. It's incredibly safe, promotes walking, bicycling and public transport, well maintained and easy to understand. There's a reason the largest Youtube channel on urban planning center around the Netherlands experience (and how other places could learn): https://youtube.com/@notjustbikes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

You may shit and piss all over the NS, but once you've been abroad, you'll accept those delays with grace.

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