He’s a comedian.
Also, there’s no place for people to pull over.
Also, there’s no place for people to pull over.
Because USA is a shithole.
Exactly. He’s criticizing the country, not just those drivers. We keep voting for people who want our cities clogged with excessive cars.
That in built up areas the times are not so different. That is evident in many studies. Rural areas are incomparable as the US has rural areas at a level Germany can’t understand
I really wish Germany would pay us back for that little getting rid of the Nazis thing that happened last century.
We tried that after WWI, let me know how that reparations turned out.
Stop begging for someone else to save us and do something about it yourself. Organize, get to know your neighbors, save your money outside of the American economy.
Oh, don’t worry friend, history rhymes, and you’re going to get your “payback”. In fact, you’re getting it right now, only not in the way you were expecting. This time around the Old World is going to be coming to the rescue of the New. Rescue it from the same fascist ideology.
Let me know how you plan on paying us back. But don’t worry - we’re not going to blackmail you into it. Europeans are more decent than that - nowadays we prefer the negotiations table. Which doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten how to use guns. We’re the ones who taught you how to wage war, after all.
By the way, Europe used to have its own ICE thing going on but we decided to disband it in 1945. Not sure why, but I’ve heard Americans had something do with it. Ironic, isn’t it?
I wish I could downvote this twice.
Did we get rid of them or just bring them here?
It’s a little from column A, a little from column B (dossiers of both held together by a rather flimsy paperclip).
Reparations are a thing. Also you should really read up on denazification and how it stopped being useful to the US (and thus was ended) once the Communists became the new enemy.
“No one moves out of the way!”
(Cuts camera as people start moving out of the way)This guy is a fucking donkey.
That is just america in general
Rural areas have problems. And it’s hard to compare them as they are so different : Montana is bigger than Germany and only had like 100,000 people. Other places are not so different between the countries are not so different despite what the guy in the video is asserting.
What point are you trying to make? That rural areas which were once built as spots of closeness were eventually turned into sprawling towns? Or trying to saying things aren’t so different despite the fact that we can literally see, with our own eyes, how the differences are pretty bad? He’s not asserting anything in the sense that he’s not just talking out his ass, it’s video proof.
Is he German? I couldn’t tell, ja?
Achtung! Snel! Snel!
The stereotypical Indiana Jones German 😁
I’ve never been to New York, but as somebody born and raised in Southern California, lived in Portland, Or, and is currently living in Minnesota, I have never seen this. You always move over to the right. Immediately and without question. In California, Oregon, and Minnesota, at least, it’s the law, and you can be fined for not complying.
As an NYC resident, cars will move over if there’s space, but there’s so much congestion that you physically can’t move, there’s no shoulder or anything.
And there’s also idiots who are fighting congestion pricing that helps with these kinds of problems by reducing the number of cars on the road. You can’t widen these roads without getting rid of sidewalks which just means even more cars and traffic so the only option is reduce the number of cars.
the right lane cars move to the right the left lane cars move to the left the ambulance goes down the middle, its interesting your brain only imagines moving right but not process the goal of creating a path
I live right outside NYC and have to drive through on a semi-regular basis. People generally do move out of the way of emergency vehicles. BUUUTTTT, traffic is completely fucked in NYC. Watch the video again, cars are trying to move but literally have nowhere to go. This happens daily, if you’re not out off Manhattan by 3pm your travel time is now at minimum doubled on an average day. Some days its 3-4x worse.
I think the difference in Germany is that you are required by law to make space beforehand. When you are in a traffic jam on the Autobahn, there are rules for how to make a “Rettungsgasse” (rescue alley). A few years ago they bumped the penalty up to 320€ and suspend your drivers licence for a month. This penalty isn’t only applied when you actually hinder an ambulance or the like, but when your actions could affect them in theory. I love that.
NYC EMS story.
Cab driver gets in a fender bender with a 911 ambulance.
After arguing with the crew and supervisor he decides he has neck and back pain and he must go to the hospital.
A second ambulance is dispatched and, following protocol, fully immobilizes him and takes him to the hospital.
En route the cabbie complains about how slow the ambulance is going.
“Everyone else is like you, none of them get out of the way.”
Kinda misleading. This dude is a comedian and “influencer” (not really in the typical sense but he films a lotta stuff for online content). He cuts filming just as people are moving out of the way for the ambulance.
I ain’t saying NYC doesn’t have a problem with what he’s saying, but I am saying you can see how he’s not being entirely honest and he’s incentivized to be dishonest.
Bro is the Uncle Roger of Germans
No amount of dishonesty can invalidate the fact that in a typical german city that ambulance would be going literally 10 times as fast without any issues. Its not just stupid drivers, but NYC is also just a complete failure in terms of road design.
NYC is thrice as dense as Berlin, the densest city in Germany. Probably accounts for something.
It really doesn’t, because in Germany cars always move out of the way. Even if the street is completely full of cars waiting at a red light for example.
tbf it’s because there is room for them or the ambulance to move to, like a bus lane, a bicycle path etc, but that’s not acceptable in many places
No, that’s my point. In the video there is much more room to move than what I mean, with two lanes it mostly suffices to just move the car to either edge of the road.
Well it wasn’t leveled 80 years ago.
Its not that deep. They just need to remove 2 of the three car lanes, replace em with a bike and a bus lane and the problems is solved.
I would love to hear someone propose that at a city council.
Im sure that has happened, but the car lobby has the money and money is literally the only deciding factor in US politics.
The idea of a car lobbyist sitting in on a fucking city council meeting.
You guys are like gnomes the way you talk about America.
No the car lobby doesn’t have to do anything, our own goddamn reactionaries will immediately squeal “They gonna make traffic WORSE!” despite the fact that I find our single lane freeways more efficient here because The option to choose what fucking lane they are in allows these people to make more mistakes and force more ‘brake waves’.
That’s the direct result of car lobbying, it has changed the perception of a whole generation on how we should build cities
American cities indeed are, after all, pedestrian oriented
Even if they did eventually move out of the way, it would still be way slower than what happens in Germany (and many other European countries). Cars would begin to move out of the way as soon as they notice it approaching.
I mean, there are about a thousand people that can coroborate the fact that people block ambulances in NYC all the time.
Oh yeah absolutely I ain’t denying that, I just don’t like that this dude is doing this for content.
You mean filming?
I am a german i never seen this guy. Maybe he is more famous in the USA.
Yeah he primarily posts English language content because his humor is mostly based off English speaking stereotypes instead of, well, jokes.
Not just NYC. I see the same kinda shit in California too.
We have entirely too many entitled fuckfaces in this country and all of them drive.
All of them are forced to drive. Some people admit they are terrible drivers, but have no options if they still want to have a life not revolving around commuting.
This is Mario Adrion right? A stand up comedian.
What makes the bicycle kinky?
She always wants you to ride her?
This dude is a comedian and calling things kinky is one of his catchphrases.
Another reason I don’t like this idea of this dude being used as any source of information, I find his comedy routine exhausting and overly laden with tired, old stereotypes instead of actual humor. A lot of his jokes are “Germans are fetishists”, “Germans used to be Nazis”, “Germans are rigid and rules following” and “my wife is Jewish, isn’t that bizarre?”
Oh, yeah, repeating old ‘"funny’" stereotypes isn’t really very masterful humor
The transcription is almost correct all the way except for one part.
When he says, “Whoever needed it, they’re dead”.
The transcription reads, “Whoever needed it, they’re okay”.because social media platforms will delete your content and ban you if you continue to talk about the “bad stuff”.
- death
- murder
- suicide
- rape
- guns
- drugs
welcome to the dawn of the age of new speak. I heard a 13 year old kid last week say “unalive” instead of “kill”.
we’re so fucked.
It’s way worse. They don’t ban you and they don’t delete your content. TikTok ads don’t pay enough that demonetization is a concern either.
The algorithm just silently (!) deranks your content. They don’t have guidelines, they don’t have feedback, they will never communicate on what is and is not okay to post about. You’ll just say “Fuck ICE” in a video once and notice it is doing suspiciously worse than the rest, but then again, you’re never quite sure why some of your videos “make it” and some don’t. So maybe you’re being paranoid? You can’t tell.
So on top of the very real algorithmic censorship from these platforms, you’ve got very frequent bouts of mass psychosis where everyone self-censors for no other reason that other people are doing it and they don’t want to risk it. Is the word “dead” de-ranked? Quite likely not even, but who’s to say, and it doesn’t cost anything to farm a little engagement in the comments by self-censoring…
Isn’t the future bright?
It’s to be advertiser friendly. All kids use new words. We did the same
Kids invent new words for their current culture. They in no way organically invent words that are friendly to advertisers. You should be disgusted that corporations are now such an invasive species they are affecting the language our youth is inventing. This is poison. It is not at all normal.
Dude. Bro. Radical. Excellent. Tubular. Fleek. Ratchet.
Are not at all the same as:
Sewerslide. Unalive. Junocide.
Oligarchs are forcing kids to learn a new language that downplays the very suffering they are causing worldwide.
You should be furious, not apathetic. Or your kids will never learn the meaning of those words as they aren’t productive to the oligarchy.
Yeah I’ve got bigger hills to die on than language bro.
Seems pretty foundational to our species tbh.
Yeah, but your kids don’t which is my point.
language literally shapes your mind.
I can see your language took the shape of a walnut.
Nah just actually found people more cynical about the world than me for once.
