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Troll bridge, bloody Lenin hands, naked bicycle parade Fremont.

Long live the Pacific Northwest.

Wooh, Seattle! Always love the Solstice Parade.

I have never heard of raisins in a potato salad and that sounds terrible.

Aren’t Gen alpha still young children? Their slang is a little too new to have much staying power yet.

Dads have been enjoying this since home video games became a thing. Now go play your Gameboy.

fr is totally millennial

So you have heard them use it…

That’s what happens when you’re thinking of real food and eat ultra processed garbage instead.

Also collared greens.

and people of colour are stereotypically famous for making good food

Can’t say I’m familiar with that stereotype as it relates to black Americans. Immigrant minorities, sure.

Real, eaten-in-China Chinese food is amazing. Highly regional, though, so you may love one region’s cuisine and not another’s. Some of the best food on earth for sure, though.

I (an American) had actually never heard of Costco until I moved to Japan. Where I grew up we had Sam’s Club, but no Costco, so when I got to Japan and the other foreigners were talking about how they love getting the chance to go down to Costco, I had no idea what they were talking about.

Didn’t see a Costco in person until a few years later.

That seems a lot more than “mildly” derogatory.

What is a seppo?

What’s the name of the car?

Edit: Nevermind. Looked at the picture again and I’m guessing it’s called General Lee.

I have never seen pizza in a Subway…

Top 10 in North America is still pretty bad.

People need to grow up with this infrastructure being in place, seeing it used by regular people for basic tasks like going to work or the grocery store. Seeing it in movies and other media (in a positive/neutral way). It needs to be normalized. Unfortunately, that takes a long time and a ton of money.

The truth is, right now, in the United States, most public transit is absolutely horrible. It doesn’t serve many locations, it’s usually crappy old buses with stains on their seats, there’s often one or more individuals with overt mental health issues, and public transit in general is associated with poverty.

You’re not going to get people using public transit regularly if it’s not normalized, incentivized, clean, safe, etc. It’s a tough problem, to be sure. Some places are making a lot of progress on it, such as where I live in Seattle, but it’s an uphill battle due to the way the United States was built to be car-centric.

By the way, if you don’t know anyone who advocates for public transit and uses it more regularly than you say, I doubt you are in the top 10.

Most Americans are not obsessed with cars; they see cars as necessary. Those are not the same. Introduce them to good public transit and you would see change.

It’s a small minority of Americans who are really into cars.

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Also iNaturalist. It’s not as automated as Merlin, but I’ve found that you can get help from users there when Merlin doesn’t recognize the bird. iNaturalist is especially good for identifying flora and fauna photos, though.