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Old man yelling at clouds. Probably about marxism. Because clouds need to unionize. He/Him.

[jv]

Wait wait what? The traffic signs in the US are not pictograms but... Plain text????

Wh.. what???

[jv]

[waystatus]

Wha? Signs in the US are often pictograms. That's just an uncommon sign.

[jv]

According to that Wikipedia link, there is no other sign for "do not pass" that is not black text on a while background. Is "do not pass" an uncommon sign? Because over here may be one of the most common ones.

About half the regulatory signs in that link are just black (English) text on a rectangular white sign .

[citrusella-flugpucker]

There is also this sign, which is used more commonly than the white rectangle variant.

I recognize that this is also text on a background (yellow) but this sign is also basically the only one that shape ever. (Not as good as a pictogram, but at least more helpful than nondescript rectangle. This may be why it's the most common one.)

This bit from a driver's manual for a specific state I just pulled up even specifies that this shape is basically only for that:

[jv]

That sign... It's even worse, since it doesn't respect the international conventions and the text is even less legible 😬

[citrusella-flugpucker]

This actually got me curious if Canada and Mexico use different signs since I know several of Canada's signs for sure are very similar to the US (but differ in some ways particularly because Canada designs for a multilingual population, typically French, but also Inuktitut and Cree in some areas). I can't find the Mexican one, but the Canadian one is two cars next to each other with a "no" sign over it. Which is definitely even clearer.

[jv]

According to this, Mexico has signed the international standard, so it should be different from US & Canada:

(also, the two cars next to each other with a "no" crossline on top is the standard, so Canada may be closer to the Vienna's convention than the US)

Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals - Wikipedia

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[jv]

I hope the cowboy also mentions burgers at some point.

(also, you don't have to put coins in your shopping carts in other supermarkets??)

[paperairplanemob]

No, we expect people to return the carts to their place out of the goodness of their hearts.

It works about as well as you expect.

There are cart returns throughout the parking lot, and I’d say about 80% of people return them there or back to the store. This still requires an employee to go and fetch the carts every so often (sometimes with a motorized cart pusher so that they can get the whole group), and that last 20% is also just scattered around the lot waiting for someone to fetch it and taking up parking spaces in the meantime.

(Side note: Lidl has also shown up in my town. They do the American-style cart returns, but (at least at first) I saw the part on the cart where they clearly decided not to do the quarter deposit.)

Aldi and Lidl also charge for bags. That was weird at first, but it’s becoming more common.

[jv]

Well, let me tell the coin gimmick doesn't really help much. Actually I know people that have small gizmos to be able to get their coin back without having to take the cart back to the cart parking area.

So with a heavy heart I must say: USians, you win on this one.

(I'm sure in germany and in the less-fun parts of europe the coin thing works great and everyone put the carts neatly ordered in their proper place, though)

[jv]

Wait wait what? The traffic signs in the US are not pictograms but... Plain text????

Wh.. what???

[jv]

[waystatus]

Wha? Signs in the US are often pictograms. That's just an uncommon sign.

[jv]

According to that Wikipedia link, there is no other sign for "do not pass" that is not black text on a while background. Is "do not pass" an uncommon sign? Because over here may be one of the most common ones.

About half the regulatory signs in that link are just black (English) text on a rectangular white sign .

[citrusella-flugpucker]

There is also this sign, which is used more commonly than the white rectangle variant.

I recognize that this is also text on a background (yellow) but this sign is also basically the only one that shape ever. (Not as good as a pictogram, but at least more helpful than nondescript rectangle. This may be why it's the most common one.)

This bit from a driver's manual for a specific state I just pulled up even specifies that this shape is basically only for that:

[jv]

That sign... It's even worse, since it doesn't respect the international conventions and the text is even less legible 😬

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[jv]

I hope the cowboy also mentions burgers at some point.

(also, you don't have to put coins in your shopping carts in other supermarkets??)

[charl0ttan]

charlotte my tummy hurts how do i fix this :<

SWITCH TO LINUX

[jv]

Let me tell you that having entire streets closed and the mass transit system of your city thrown to chaos because the pope is visiting both feel very medieval and gives you certain inch to go burn some churches.

[jv]

That being said, I’m certain that The Pope is going to meet The King at some point this week, so to keep up with the vibe, who is up to start a pleasant rebellion and communalize some lands? Comuneros, raise again!

[jv]

To be fair, the fact that Bad Bunny is doing shows all this week in Madrid and 600k people are coming to see him is not helping with the chaos. But I don't have anything against Benito, so let's focus on that anticlericalism feeling, folks.

[jv]

Let me tell you that having entire streets closed and the mass transit system of your city thrown to chaos because the pope is visiting both feel very medieval and gives you certain inch to go burn some churches.

[jv]

That being said, I'm certain that The Pope is going to meet The King at some point this week, so to keep up with the vibe, who is up to start a pleasant rebellion and communalize some lands? Comuneros, raise again!

[jv]

Let me tell you that having entire streets closed and the mass transit system of your city thrown to chaos because the pope is visiting both feel very medieval and gives you certain inch to go burn some churches.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Good news for people who were pissed off at me for not voting for Kamala Harris in 2024:

Currently omw to vote in the 2026 colombian presidential elections

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I am pleased to inform you that I have learned from my mistakes, grown as a person, and atoned for my sins.

I just voted for Kamala Harris in the 2026 Colombian presidential election 😁👍

[daylights-rain]

Un, deux, trois, hoohoohoh

le croissant le croissant le croissant

Un, deux, trois, pheww

le croissant le croissant

Un, deux, trois, quatre

croissant le croissant

le croissant

Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq hooo

And so on.

[jv]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[pensivegladiola]

Don’t make me point to the Omar Sakar poem

[manuciruja]

[jv]

Rusty's dad and Rusty, in general, with his focus on playing soldiers, are problematic and not the random characters people clutch their pearls about on tumbli all the time.

I'm especially mad because they made the ADHD-oriented episode all about playing soldiers, goddammit.

[hollowboobtheory]

i support universal free healthcare for one simple reason: if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness you should quit your job. quitting your job is the correct response to terminal illness. but you can’t do that if your healthcare is tied to your job

[hollowboobtheory]

listen if somebody knows that they will be dead in a years time, and you are forcing them to continue to come into work, that’s fucked up. terminally ill people should be able to quit their jobs and live their last few months to the fullest. i don’t get how that’s a controversial opinion

[potsiefaerie]

Get peer reviewed:

[jv]

This is not just serious illness.

It’s any illness.

No one should be forced to work if they have the flu, or even a cold.

[smallbeefchild]

You know, if people werw able to take breaks from work when ill, or even just approaching burnout, then the rate of chronic illness would probably decrease. Because colds and illnesses would spread less, and also linger for shorter and create less long term effects. (Also, companies shouldnt be allowed to make people stand up for hours on end because that create back problems, and shouldnt be requiring constamt screen activity for the full day because that creates eye strain and headaches. I remember reading somewhere that part of the reason disability claims are rising in working class america is because theyre in situations where the only available job is retail and they cant do that sitting down or even take breaks to sit because company policies or whatever, so the back pain that, to an office worker, is an annoyance at worst because they can sit whenever, becomes something career halting to the retail worker.)

[jv]

Folks (this is a general response to a bunch of reblogs), you keep talking about this subject like if it was hypothetical or we are talking about getting to unexplored new heights, and that's exasperating;

Yes. YES. This is not hypothetical. This is very real. Most countries on this planet actually operate like that. And yes, the results are very obvious when you look at the data. for example, the US fares way worse (sometimes 2x) than comparable countries _in every single metric_ on this report about chronic illness:

How has the burden of chronic diseases in the U.S. and peer nations changed over time? - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker

Chronic, non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. In the United States, these diseases make up 8 of the 10 top ca

Hell, the US life expectancy is 5 years below my own country's, even if the US GDP per Capita is more than twice of ours. Yes. People in the US are very literally being exploited to death. And with the amount of money in economy you folks should be burning cars down in the streets until you are at least on pair with the living conditions of countries that have a fraction of your wealth.

[jv]

Wait wait what? The traffic signs in the US are not pictograms but... Plain text????

Wh.. what???

[jv]

[waystatus]

Wha? Signs in the US are often pictograms. That's just an uncommon sign.

[jv]

According to that Wikipedia link, there is no other sign for "do not pass" that is not black text on a while background. Is "do not pass" an uncommon sign? Because over here may be one of the most common ones.

About half the regulatory signs in that link are just black (English) text on a rectangular white sign .

[jv]

Wait wait what? The traffic signs in the US are not pictograms but... Plain text????

Wh.. what???

[jv]

[jv]

Wait wait what? The traffic signs in the US are not pictograms but... Plain text????

Wh.. what???

[jv]

Hey Perro Sanxe, Israel has kidnapped our citizens in international waters, tortured them, and now it's trying to smear us internationally¹. Isn't it time to recall or ambassador, expel theirs, and cut relations with a genocidal regime?

¹ that's not the Spanish police, that's the autonomous vasque police, who has no ties with the central government but with the autonomous Vasque government (which right now is under the main Vasque right wing party, who is historically pretty close with Israel)

[jv]

The definitive proof of the lack of a loving god is how similar young nettle leaves and strawberry leaves look.

[jv]

Source: me rummaging throw our strawberry patch where a fucking nettle seem to have decided to grow just in between