• MadMaurice@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    To be fair. That’s the Christmas market on the Altmarkt in Dresden and there’s a huge parking garage right below it. 😄

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      10 months ago

      Americans thinking that Europeans don’t own cars is almost as dumb as Europeans thinking Americans never walk anywhere.

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        10 months ago

        i mean… I’m basically the only American i know that has actually chosen to walk as a real way to get somewhere in the last 5 years.

        the idea that most Americans literally never walk anywhere isn’t inaccurate. especially for anyone living outside of a city.

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        10 months ago

        Well, I was in a student exchange to Boise, Idaho about 20 years ago and did a daily walk around the neighborhood for some fresh air. Three days in, I was stopped by a frantic police officer with his fucking gun drawn because someone had reported me as some kind of child molester who was scouting for victims, because someone just walking was a completely alien concept there.

        I was taken to the fucking police station because the policeman thought I was making shit up either. My host family had to wiggle around with my German passport and threaten to get the Embassy involved until they decided I wasn’t worth the hassle and dropped the whole thing… So I learned two things from that exchange:

        1. 'Muricans do not know what “walking” is
        2. US police is next level power tripping