• dellish@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      I’d say waiting for an ambulance while a loved one dies in front of you just because assholes wouldn’t get out of the way is more annoying. No doubt followed by some health insurance bullshit that makes zero sense in any other country. But no, it’s the tourist who’s wrong.

  • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    7 days ago

    In the video right after he says nobody moves out of the way there is someone moving out of the way but he edited the video to remove it.

    Disingenuous bullshit.

  • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
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    7 days ago

    To be fair, with the congestion that severe, the ambulance should use helicopters. Like they do here in London.

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Good luck finding a spot to land somewhere close within Manhattan. Unless you happen to have the heart attack next to a car park (or the central park) that also happens to not be heavily used right now there’s hardly any spot to safely land.

      in London and other cities it’s less of a problem given we don’t build that many high rise buildings and got more big old market places and small parks.

      • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
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        7 days ago

        A chopper can land safely on any road cross. And NY has shit loads of them. Then it’s a 1 minute walk.

        • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
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          6 days ago

          We need them to rappel from the helicopter and swing right into your appartment through the window. This is how we save lives.

  • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    its a whole movie trope that this is an issue in europe because their infrastrucutre doesnt support cars

  • NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I’m not an American but I’ve lived in Washington for years. Every time an Ambulance is moving with its siren on, people move to the side of the road to let it pass. This guy is just inaccurate.

      • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        yup, I was on a street so narrow just a couple months ago that I couldn’t pull over far enough to let a firetruck go by. I had pulled over as far as I could. The truck got behind me and I couldn’t move over. SO I just said “fuck it” - and zoomed into the road as fast as was safe and turned off the road the first place I could find.

  • PurpleSkull@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Eh, feels like he’s playing up the stereotype of the eternal German.

    "…WE DON’T DO ZIS IN GERMANY! YOU BUILD HOUSES WITH WOOD? WE DON’T DO ZIS IN GERMANY. YOU DON’T SEPARATE GLASS FROM RECYCLING? BUT WE DO ZIS IN GERMANY!!!

    I’m allowed to say that, I’m Germany myself. We are obnoxious and tone-deaf fuckers.

      • Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        Germany is better than most places, but it happens here too. It could be one of those things you only notice when you’re looking for it.

        I’ve never seen someone open carry a gun in the US but when you listen to people it sounds like everyone does.

        I was a my friends WG (group apartment) and her roommate just got back from the US. She was shocked that the Americans even put sugar in their bread. Something something it’s why they are all fat and unhealthy. I was curious, so got all of the german bread there… And you know what? It all had a higher sugar content than the American bread example.

        • JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world
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          6 days ago

          What bread are you eating? Another example I can’t relate to at all. I usually bake my own bread, sometimes I buy. Never had sugar in it. Maybe you were looking at Brioche or something? I consider that more of a sweet like cake or muffins.

        • taxiiiii@lemmy.world
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          6 days ago

          Regular, unpackaged, German bread doesn’t contain added sugar though? I just looked it up for the supermarkets in my area, so I’m sure I’m not spouting bullshit.

          Genuine question, what bread did you look at?

          There are varieties with sugar, but it’s not the norm. This is definitely much more typical for other countries (not just the US).

          • Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
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            6 days ago

            But serious question @taxiiiii. Do I need to go on? “Regular, unpackaged, German bread doesn’t contain added sugar though” - so you say - or does it? Which is exactly the point I was making about the ambulance. Ambulances never get blocked in Germany, just as german bread does not have added sugar. Both are of course wrong.

            Really. I can give you 1,000 other examples of where it has added sugar. I can also give you examples of german bread that have double or tripple higher added sugar then other countries typical bread.

            You are correct that many counties like Japan, or Sweden, or the US add sugar to their bread, but you would also be wrong to assume that it doesn’t happen in your country. Cause it happens in every country. Want to know how I know? I’ve professionally baked bread in Germany and the US.

            • taxiiiii@lemmy.world
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              6 days ago

              Dude, I never said no bread in Germany contains sugar. Regular supermarket bread in my area mostly doesn’t, so I was wondering. I’m not sure what got you annoyed enough about an innocent question to downvote me and turn this into a three comment answer? I really wasn’t trying to be snarky.

              That’s the thing with stereotypes, it’s not about saying all people or all things are like this, it’s about tendencies. Some people play those up for humor. Anyone who then seriously claims that “everyone/everything from country x is like that” is an idiot of course. I didn’t do that though.

              Thanks for giving me examples, it’s good to know that the sugar content of storebought bread is that different depending on the region. That’s all I wanted to know.

              • Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
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                5 days ago

                Buuuttt… You more or less did say that. This is what you said - “Regular, unpackaged, German bread doesn’t contain added sugar though”

                And Haha no worries my man, I simply had the time. The thing is… regular supermarket bread in your area does have added sugar. That is the point. It is not region dependant. It does in northern Germany, it does in southern Germany, east and west. It does in your bio-markt, it does in Aldi, it does at netto, it does at rewe. The common default is added sugar in one variety or another. It is rare, so rare it is much harder to find an exception to that rule. Grocery stores almost all have mass produced bread - mass produced bread has added sugar for a lot of good reasons.

          • Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
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            6 days ago

            Which one did I look at? No idea. That was 4 years ago at someone’s house. But here are some examples. Merzenich are the most common bakeries around me.

            Their bauernhandbrötchen have 2,6g sugar per 100g. Their main sugar that they are adding is malted barely. But they also add beet sugar and grape sugar. Malted barley is sugar syurp. https://baeckerei-merzenich.de/ WEIZENMEHL 43 %, Wasser, ROGGEN MEHL 7 %, ROGGENMALZFLOCKEN 4 %, GERSTENMALZEXTRAKT, Zucker, Traubenzucker, Malzmehl (GERSTE, WEIZEN), WEIZENGRIESS, Rapsöl, Salz, BUTTERMILCHPULVER, Hefe

            Here is another kamps village bread 1.6g sugar https://kamps.de/produkte/brot-kamps-dorfbrot

            Or another at 2.6g sugar https://kamps.de/produkte/brot-kamps-eck

            Here is a sliced bread variety at 1.5 G that I see at rewe https://www.harry-brot.de/produkte/detail/show/sammy-s-super-sandwich-das-original

    • LoreSoong@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I mean hes got a point though. Its clear these people care more about their destination. Im from NY ive seen this plenty elsewhere, in many states. heck even seen it in canada. People just suck sometimes.

      • SeekPie@lemm.ee
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        8 days ago

        Where I live, if a person on the crosswalk doesn’t move out the way of ab ambulance, it goes on the national news lol.

      • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        8 days ago

        This is beyond car brain. This is the increasing amount of people simply not giving a shit about the social contract over the years coupled with cops not doing their actual jobs in favor whatever it is they do (sitting in their cars fucking around in their phones and harassing minorities?)

        But you see the lack of concern for the social contract in many other aspects of american life. Asking people to wear a paper mask during a pandemic was probably the most notable recent non car example. We all know how that went. In other cultures it’s a regular practice; you simply do it as a courtesy when you have recently had a cold. In A america during a pandemic 30-40% of the population revealed themselves to be utterly pathetic toddlers that can’t handle being asked to do something by a perceived authority figure or slightly inconvenienced.

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 days ago

        This isn’t cars this is people and their culture.

        I am from the UK, a large city too, and we have lots of cars and incredibly busy roads where it’s standstill a lot, but cars will move out of the way for emergency vehicles, you’ll drive on the kerb if you have to.

        • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          8 days ago

          There is no curb on many of these streets to go onto, there are bollards to protect pedestrians preventing that.

          Its a design problem combined with a congestion problem, that was the reason for the congestion relief toll.

          • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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            8 days ago

            That’s a good point and a spelling correction to boot 😂.

            I did add an edit that we also have bicycles / motorcycles with paramedics if speed is of the essence and traffic is poor.

            I also realise that Deansgate In Manchester City centre has now got those bollards too, but we have severely limited the cars that are allowed into the city centre and I must say it’s a lot more pleasant walking around and I say that as someone that used to drive through the city centre myself on the way home from work.

      • astrsk@fedia.io
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        8 days ago

        If you accept this one anecdote of an ambulance being stuck in NY, then you have to accept my anecdote that everyone in the PNW moves over to let ambulances through no problem.

        It’s not all the same.

        • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 days ago

          I accept that 100%. I’ve seen a decent bit the US and it’s such an enormous lump of land with so many different people and cultures that anyone trying to lump them together into some homogenous mass is off their rocker.

          Sure you can travel an hour on a train in Europe and be in a totally different world culturally. The distance for those changes is bigger in the US but holy moly do they exist.