Yep, keep talking in those stinky languages, Mr Mayan.

I’m not the one claiming a large group of people are all stinky and refusing to elaborate. If anyone is a fool, it’s you. You’ve insulted over 700million people based on your extremely limited interaction with a few hundreds, at best. But sure, I’m a fool. I’m done here.

Yeah, that’s how you people usually are :) you always “know” stuff. So much stuff, tremendous stuff.

Yep, you’re right. Keep pretending you’ve provided actual arguments and not made up bullshit.

Nope, I just wanted to see if you had a point or not. Unlike you, I’m willing to change my mind when provided with good and not made up arguments.

Do you even know the meaning of the word claim? I just told you that me asking you to tell me what the common traits are is not me claiming anything. And j even admitted that yes, neighbouring countries usually share common traits. Sometimes even countries that are not neighbouring, such as USA and Japan, I’ve also said that before.

But sure. Or maybe I’m missing something, so yes, please, do show me where exactly I claimed that there are no common traits. And what’s the other thing? Can you also point to that second thing I’ve apparently xlaimed, please.

I didn’t imply anything. You inferred all that without asking for clarification. Yes, most neighbouring countries will have common traits. Never claimed otherwise. I just disagree with the monolithic usage of “Europeans” and I just wanted to see what someone that referred to all Europeans as one group thought we had as a common trait. And after 4 comments of pretending to know shit, I got my answer. Thanks. Back to what I said before : deflect, pretend you’re right, never admit you’re wrong.

Saunas are popular in Finland, true. Not so much in Greece. And the Hellenic/Roman public baths, which are quite different from saunas, btw, haven’t actually remained popular in modern Greece nor Italy.

I never said they have zero common traits, but not enough for us to be one big culture or anything close to that. Common traits you can find between Norway and Zimbabwe. Or USA and Japan. Or Nepal and Argentina. Saying “europeans do x” is like saying “Asians do x” or “black people do y”. That’s what’s insane… That you somehow fail to see that. I was recently in Thailand. I guess I know what Asians are like now. AmA!

Finland 20.7%, USA 23.6%, according to world population review.com and one of the few sources I could find that mentions both the USA and finland. So you’re wrong there. (Globalactiontoendsmoking.org has similar numbers, btw)

Also, you said traits. Plural. But yeah, easier to make up shit and pretend you’re right and then stop replying when proven wrong than just be mature and say “my bad”.

What are the common traits of someone from Finland and one from Greece?

In 2022, an estimated 16.4 million people (8.4 million males and 8.0 million females) aged 15 years and older were tobacco product users in France. This positions the country as the 14th globally and the 3rd in the WHO European Region in terms of number of tobacco users.

And as someone who works in the service business, I can confirm that there’s a decent amount of smokers.

It doesn’t affect me to inhale the second-hand smoke of the asshole smoking at the table next to me? I think it does.

Fair, but according to that page, it was 3,4% of total consumption in 2020, 2,8% in 21-22 and 1,7% in 2023. So all in all, pretty good, I’d say. And over 92% of the energy they produce is low carbon or clean according to this

Better than most, I think

Known bootlicker. They’ve been spewing pro russia bullshit since I’ve joined almost 2 years ago.

Hey, so I’ve got no horse in this race and also not a native English speaker so please bear with me.

To me the op’s statement sounds ironic, but not really a projection. According to google, to project is to unconsciously attribute your thoughts/feelings onto someone else. Like if you’re having an argument and you’re losing and as a self defense you claim that the other party is angry and or unreasonable or whatever.

In this case the cybertruck owner says the guy shaming him should be shamed. He doesn’t realise that it’s him who should feel shame, so it’s ironic.

Am I missing something? Or was it all just some joke and I’m just overthinking it?

Or is the guy being downvoted because he’s being an ass, not because he’s wrong?

That feels unnecessarily harsh. Especially since music is subjective and he’s purposefully not using his greatest skill, the electric guitar… and while I’m not a fan of the nightwatchman stuff, the music itself isn’t bad, just not my cup of tea. Also, the Audioslave stuff is great too, not just RATM. That’s already two hugely successful bands, which is 2 more than most artists.

Well, I guess we’ll see. Maybe she’ll do good as he claims

Yes, in the context and ignoring everything else, sure, I agree. But to me, it makes no sense how someone could believe that republicans are somehow pro big business but anti big tech. Talking about these things as if they’re unrelated doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe I’m just missing something, I guess.

Ok, maybe he wasn’t praising republicans as a whole, but he did praise trump for picking a big tech lobbyist in a job in which he claims to want the opposite. “Great pick!” is a praise, you can’t deny that, can you?

“Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote.”

That’s their official account complaining about the guy’s daughters being lobbyists, not even him directly. Why is the appointment of Gail Slater, who worked the internet association (big tech lobbyists) and fox corporation, a great pick?

Why say “big business” and not “big tech” then if it’s just tech?