Instead of starting a list of those things and ending up with my App crashing, I will name the one thing I think the US does better.
I think having a speed limit on your highways is kinda a sane thing to have.
Thats not a speed limit. That’s a speed minimum.
Our target speed (the speed you are recommended to drive) is faster than the US speed limit.
I mean, it’s a nice tickling in the balls when you engage the warp drive on your way home. But it also inspires a lot of amateur race car drivers. Nah, I can do without.
And nuclear energy
(Germany I guess)
Even when ignoring environmental concerns and purely looking at it from a financial perspective: Renewable energy is more profitable already.
Yes, but they are unreliable. Nuclear is an amazing option for base loads, and then adding renewables on top of that just makes sense. Battery energy storage is still insanely expensive, so nuclear is a very valid alternative in countries that haven’t let their nuclear production capabilities fall off to the point of taking decades.
Hydro power can be great for baseload and storage
Speed limits are great until some idiot decides to follow it.
Literally all of them except size of military.
We already went through the phase you just began.
Germany?
Yeah.
Yeah Germany is about to launch into this again though
I’m allowed to walk across the street without being arrested for ‘jay walking’.
In new ways every passing day!
We don’t have a 2 party political system and have functional public transport.
A smidgen fewer school shootings, although the reason for that is very ephemeral and incomprehensive.
We elected a fascist leader once and then we learned from it.
If you get cancer, you can have access to chemotherapy for free. And that’s basically it
Public healthcare
Super annuation
Preferential & compulsory voting
No tipping culture
Consumer protection laws
Gun control laws
Weather service isnt privitised
Wide variety of multicultural foods
Farming sector isnt controlled by a few companies (ie chickens)/subsidy schemes (looking at you corn)
Organised religion has less participation and dropping steadily
Adoption of rooftop solar systemsAlso significantly less instances of tech billionares, team factional politics, media oligarchs & donald trumps.
There are a lot of areas we could do better and are ashamed of though.
I guess history and a sense of being part of an established culture.
Do also want to point out though that Americans talk their country down on here. It’s a place of extremes but that diversity in theory means anyone could find their niche. They also have pretty much every biome you might want to live in from desert, to parks to icy tundra - I can see why you might not need a passport.
It doesn’t have a traitor as a president
A president cant win without getting majority of votes. If there is no one with over 50% of the votes, a second round happens between the top 2
We have the four freedoms that guarantee the free movement of goods, capital, services, and people as part of the European single market.
You realize that between the states the US has all of those?
You’re still one country. Having states/provinces isn’t even a unique thing to the US
That’s not entirely true. Texas seems to have a problem with people leaving for various services and it’s a federal crime to transport certain flora between states, even if it is fine in both states.
We care about the planet.
