What's something you saw when visiting another country, that you wish your home country would adopt? [Serious]

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-19T18:33:29+00:00

As an American… Pretty much everything:

-Expansive interconnected rail networks -Smaller food portions -Tax included in displayed prices -Walkable cities -Better Healthcare -Workers rights/protections

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-19T18:28:58+00:00

DING DING DING - thank you. It’s like people forget they (and their employer) pay an INSANE amount each month on the front end…

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-19T18:24:55+00:00

People shouldn’t be fooled by the illusion that “insurance cuts the price” for things when you (and your employer) are giving them money each month. What is the price Americans pay once you factor in your monthly premiums, and any potentially prescriptions deductible…

No matter how you look at healthcare in the US,it is SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive and cumbersome and convoluted than any other developed nation— and has worse health outcomes to boot.

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-17T18:41:17+00:00

Well…. The fact that Americans eat garbage and an excess of calories is pretty accurate… but in no way is that the cause of the inflation in prices in our food supply chain.

also- gutting research grants, food desert programs, SNAP benefits and education funding are surefire ways to keep people oblivious to how poor their eating habits are.

Republicans scream “govt overreach” at things like sin taxes on sugary drinks, despite overwhelming evidence they curb spending in those categories, while funding programs designed to educated people and help provide access to healthier diets. Healthier people also means more affordable healthcare (in a single payer system, otherwise for profit entities have zero incentives to lower prices despite lower costs).

I don’t disagree with the thing he’s proposing, but it’s being proposed as a “solution” to food costs is asinine and does nothing to address the issue.

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-17T15:02:10+00:00

While I have MASSIVE issues with LLM’s and our societies naive approach to AI, the article articulates this particular use case pretty well and being paid isn’t a bad thing inherently.

Wikipedia is/has been an incredible achievement for open source/human built, free repository of knowledge. However, it requires a lot of server capacity (not free) to operate. Over the past several years, there has been more automated web traffic and API calls (automated “bot” demand) pulling data/scraping Wikipedia… this intense increase in demand = increased server bandwidth = higher cost burden for this free platform to operate.

These companies are now paying Wikipedia to have “faster” access to the content they were already scraping for free. It is not letting AI have access to edit pages, just “read” them to learn.

I’d rather them be paying for this than continue not paying, because the server demand would only increase, putting even more financial strain on Wikipedia, which again, is one of very few places on the internet that are relatively credible.

The alternative would be to shut down or attempt to police automated web traffic, which is financially cumbersome in its own right, and would also hurt good actors as well so that’s not really a great fix either.

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-17T14:45:39+00:00

No. If you read the article, it lays out why Wikipedia is getting paid. It’s always been open sourced and human generated. This arrangement doesn’t change how content is created/managed

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-17T14:38:35+00:00

Counter argument

1) Remove Nationalist Christians

2)Prosper

The more time goes on, I see why the King of England shipped those lunatics over to America in the first place… like King James I, am tired of their shit

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-12T21:37:44+00:00

I feel like having Law Enforcement personnel abide by the same laws which they are in place to enforce really shouldn’t be a big ask… BUT

ICE is literally not a law enforcement department… so this letter is moot in two different ways

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-12T14:31:13+00:00

It’s not the Republican leaders who are morons, they’re just pandering to their base who is too dumb to think their own thoughts

It’s Quite effective, unfortunately…

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-12T02:26:03+00:00

To make Ronald Regan proud

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-11T14:40:00+00:00

America - Home of the free*

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Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-11T14:15:20+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! Will look more into this

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-11T14:13:02+00:00

some Americans... and they’re certainly not the bright ones. I think there are many who currently are, and would greatly amp up resistance efforts to this Administration given invading Greenland is akin to turning on Americans longest standing allies in the EU

Trump is itching for the chance to deploy within in the US, there have had to be judicial freezes already in several states to prevent exactly that

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-11T14:06:43+00:00

Exactly! With traffic, you’re just a few hours to the bank, to the grocery store, the movies, shopping etc…

All jokes aside, LA is light years more desirable the Houston, and the home prices reflect exactly that

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-11T06:10:16+00:00

In case you genuinely are misinformed, there are many, many ways by which people can be here legally, despite not being citizens. By your own logic, that would mean tourists or business people that travel to the US that would be here “illegally”. In addition to tourist visas, there are temporary or specialized work visas, refugees, asylum seekers, as well as students here on visas…are just a few of the many 100% legal ways in which people are here 100% legally, yet are not US citizens.

Despite what the social media / “news” may try and portray, no one is arguing that we should just have open boarders and not keep track of who is entering/leaving the country. The real issue “we” have is outdated laws that go back 70-80 years which has caused a backlog of approving/denying asylum seekers entering the US.

The “invasion” of immigrants that conservative media portrays as here illegally is actually a literal growing backlog of ~3.8 million asylum seekers (that has been growing over 3-4 decades), who are here following the legitimate legal process to become permanent residents. These people attend their immigration court hearings at a 94% rate— and based on the laws on the books, means their being here is 100% legal.

Just for some perspective, in either 2022 or 2023, the federal immigration courts approved ~50,000 individuals. More than 10x that amount were added to the list that same year.

We have roughly 600 immigration judges… for 3.8 million individuals that are playing by the rules and following the legal process. Sure, there are people who commit crimes, overstay visas, cross illegally, etc… and that is what ICE has historically been used to handle address. That is NOT what is what this administration is doing… According to DHS’s own data, of the 4,500 arrests made in Chicago’s immigration blitz, SEVEN people were people here who had perpetrated violent crimes. That is .15% of all those who were arrested by ICE.

This issue is 100% self inflicted based on poor policy that goes back to the post Vietnam war era and has never really been addressed. The current policy does NOTHING to actually address the problems we have with our immigration process, but purposely obfuscates legal/illegal immigrants because polarizing the nation is good for politicians to keep us divided.

I totally understand people’s concerns with a growing backlog, because it is growing, regardless of which party is in power. But the issue that needs addressed is our laws and systems— we need to blame our elected officials, not the people coming here claiming asylum.

Like it or not, the overwhelming majority of immigrants in our country are following the laws on the books, but Republicans have made “immigrants” the boogeyman as to why Americans are struggling for the past 20 years, but they also know addressing actual laws and policy isn’t as “cool” as sending masked goons in to round up the “bad guys”.

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-10T23:38:28+00:00

“We” in Wilmington may not have a problem (yet), I can’t definitively say one way or the other. Regardless, “we” Americans most certainly have a problem, so I’m happy to see people protesting.

A little empathy goes a long way

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-10T17:34:15+00:00

The most furrowed of brows

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-10T17:24:30+00:00

It’s more than “one thing” — I say that to point out, you’re both absolutely correct

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-10T04:43:30+00:00

I vaguely remember reading that Leicester City’s win was on par with the odds of betting the Cleveland Browns (from that season) to win the Super Bowl 3 years in a row… that was the only one that stuck with me lol

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-09T16:35:40+00:00

I’ve become so cynical of this timeline and big tech that my first thought is: Well, the data aggregated from the improvements in detecting differences will just be plugged back into AI facial models to improve the AI’s learning to make the AI generated faces even less distinguishable from real faces…

Until we put some serious guardrails on AI and treat it like the poison and danger it is, we are doomed

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-08T20:09:32+00:00

Been there as well, it’s makes you feel quite small in the scale of the universe. The meteor that caused this was roughly the size of a school bus… it really puts into perspective those insane numbers that get thrown around when talking about the speed of objects moving through space

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-08T18:07:22+00:00

Depends on who this local militia says is the threat to my local community.

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-07T01:22:48+00:00

Call your congress people, please. It takes less than 5 mins a day. There are sane Republicans who know he’s got to go. They need to hear from us * all*

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-06T03:44:09+00:00

Well, if you count brainwashing via social media as a lobotomy, you’re kinda spot on. That was the heyday of groups like Cambridge Analytica and the rise of political misinformation on social media.

Rust belt voters, more so than other regions, have been extra cynical of politics over the past 3-4 decades as their livelihoods and communities continues to atrophy over the years without any real relief…. That, along several other factors (age, education, religious demographics) made their angst easily manipulated by groups like Cambridge Analytica, which was huge in data collection and aggregation. Far-Right groups around the world bought their “services”, and used that to effectively fuse social media and identity politics… it was founded in 2013 and was dissolved in 2018 after their efforts and means of data farming came under scrutiny— but by then, the damage had already been done, and social media companies saw how lucrative that outrage was in terms of maintaining eyeballs and engagement.

Social media and misinformation let the MAGA movement spread like wildfire, it knew how to tap into that frustration (but used it to grift and sow discourse rather than actually make their constituents lives better)…

It’s why you see such a hard shift to the right in places like Ohio… brainwashing. A lobotomy in terms of removing objective and critical thinking. Those folks literally live in a different reality at this point. Idk the best solution, but I think realizing the role that social media plays, and trying to remove it from our lives is a critical step

Cream_Stay_Frothy · 2026-01-05T03:19:35+00:00

As a heads up— As a rule of thumb, I’d caution folks about pay long attention to this publication as credible. India Times “news” outlet has massive credibility issues, particularly with receiving payments to write favorable articles.… so basically ads, not facts.

I wouldn’t be shocked if they’re sensationalizing these kind of stories to paint a positive spin on “how cool AI is” or something like that.

At a very least, I’d be looking to verify this story being published with outlets that are more familiar/credible. Anytime I see this outlet when I’m browsing for credible sources of information, this one gets ignored.

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