This is what too much censoring gets you BP. Those are moles, not nipples. You'd know if you ever looked at one. /J

This is somehting that Americans look on with envy not with horror. This is how it should be here.

If enough people are being convicted of felonies that their votes will sway the election, that's indicative of a larger problem.

Why do you have to be registered in order to vote? Isn't your birth date registered somewhere? And if you move, don't you have to notify the city council where you move to that you are now living in their area? So sending you your voting papers is just a matter of combining the two systems. Having to register in order to vote is just a means to discourage people not to vote and not voting is always to the advantage of the have's and not to the have-not's.

a personal ID ... a Sunday walk around the corner to fill in our wish and throw it in the box... 10 min. later we can go for a beer and keep our fingers crossed

Having to provide an ID to vote in the US is asking the minimum in my opinion.... you have to provide an ID to buy alcohol or get on a plane or buying a house or getting medical care or buying a pew pew or getting a fishing license or to pick up medicine or get a marriage license .... I could go on and on... but proving your a citizen of the country you live in seems reasonable.

All you should need to vote is your ssn.

At least in Austria you cannot vote if you are convicted for a minimum of two years until released

We have to be on the electoral roll, with correct details, to vote in Australia. When I was 17 I was mailed out a card telling me to enrol so that I was on the roll when I turned 18. You have to be enrolled in both state & federal rolls, which catches some people out (including my siblings). From memory, if you enrol for the federal one, it automatically enrols you for state, but if you enrol for the state, it doesn't add you to the federal one. Voting is compulsory too, you get fines if you don't vote, which some stupid people decide is easier that just turning up to (or voting by post) polling places and getting your name ticked off. You can just do a 'donkey' vote if you really don't want to vote.

Need to register to vote in Australia too.

In the UK, you can't vote if you're imprisoned, a member of the armed forces (edited to add: oops, I got that wrong, but read Steve Sharpe's reply below), or in the House of Lords. Then again, if you leave prison, the armed forces, or the House of Lords, you do get to vote.

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They do need to provide valid ID and absentee or mail-in ballots are prohibited. I'd trade the corruption of US elections for EU election rules every time.

The US really is a child compared to Europe.

tipping culture is crazy here in the us 😭

Depends where you live

The German Foreign Ministry is likely advising in an abundance of caution. As a generalized summary, photographing naked children in the US is legal or not based on intended purpose. As you'd guess, the line is whether it is intended to arouse or be child porn. Between the obvious ends of the spectrum can be a big gray zone. If something just isn't on your camera then you don't have to convince some authority person the intent was innocent. Basically it's laws that had good intent but have sometimes been abused. Seeing toddlers naked isn't that rare. Saw this summer. Not swimming pools though. Usually swim diapers required in case they poop.

Be careful. It differs from city to city. In Amsterdam you will get a warning if you're polite, a fine if you're not.

nope this happens in US too. There are regional variances though

It stings how much this hits close to home for us Americans. I'm a veteran, so my Healthcare is free, crappy because it's the VA, but free. I got commercial insurance once, good insurance too, my blood thinners cost $244 a month. That's insane for a pill that I absolutely have to take to stay alive. Went crawling back to the VA, lol

But this is a US thing? That horrifies any humane person?

Here in the UK, during our four days of sunshine per year, we would love AC, but for the rest of the year it wouldn’t be needed so would be a waste of money to instal it

This also depends on where you are in the US.. the big cities that got established before cars were ubiquitous are still pretty walkable. In NYC I never bothered to own a car and most days I never needed the train. New Orleans, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago.. a few other places that at least have city center that you can do this too.

Most European Police forces are routinely armed, and a reasonably large proportion of UK Police are - they just aren't armed automatically. Certainly Police at transit terminals or other high-value locations are likely to be armed, in any European country.

FUN FACT, at least until the early 70s, they could not show a woman in a bra on TV. Lived near the Canadian border in the days of broadcast TV. Only got a few channels and about half of them were from BC Canada. The Playtex "cross your heart" bra commercial was on several stations. You could tell whose country you were watching because the Canada ads had a woman modeling the bra and on the US channel the fully clothed woman was pointing to the bra on a mannequin. LOL (And yet we had bikinis and Marianne and Ginger could wear skimpy swimsuits on Gilligan's Island. Mixed signals. )

But they will be blunt more quietly.

Yeah, nah. "European vehicles are on average very very small "? European cars used to be a sensible size on average, but have grown ridiculously huge in recent years. Compare a modern "Mini" with a proper Austin Mini from the 1960s-80s, or any of those old small Citroens (2CV, Dyane, Ami) with almost anything on the roads these days. Or an original Fiat 500 with what passes for a Fiat 500 these says. And that's before I get on to those ridiculous "SUV" things. They're daftly huge here in the UK, while American SUV and pickup trucks are bigger than WWII tanks. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/american-trucks-suvs-almost-bigger-world-war-ii-tanks/

I let mine play outside all the time… they are 24 and 27 though

Eh, that may change in some countries here in Europe in the future - knives, axes and other blades became quite a problem in the last 10 years

It's not really widespreak in Europe.

Yes, but they have to be unwashed (bloom must stay intact) and not refrigerated at any time. They're good for a few weeks on the counter.

Yes, because we teach people to drive, we don't just show them the car and wish them luck. Many countries include all sorts of weather conditions, vehicle maintenance, first aid training and other useful skills as part of the driving test.

Probably would not cause public outrage, but would make some corporate overloards angry

Mmmm, fries and mayo ❤️

When I was a partner in an accounting firm in NYC in the late Eighties, we went to lunch together, and a drink was the norm. That changed over time. I don't know what the norm is now, as I only had experience at the one place.

It's common in Nordic countries, but not at all common in most other European countries, and would probably get you in trouble in many of those too.

Yeah, US wins that round.

$3.64 in Washington State today.

No car[s] when those cities were built..

But it uses exactly as much coffee as an American cup.

Lots of people in the US do not own cars, have u seen how much cars cost!!! All kidding aside there are lots and lots of areas in the states that u don't need a car, in fact I think there is a very large percentage of NYC residents who have never even had a license. Grew up in SF, summers in NYC I do not miss factoring in time to find parking to go to a movie or paying 10 bucks to park for an hour (in mid 1980s).

Blackout drunk being the norm is not a flex. Not calling it alcoholism is denial.

But you have to add the citizenship benefits, such as healthcare and a someone liveable pension. *somewhat

I prefer the Aussie term, budgie smugglers.