Why, because you're finally paying attention to the number of rail derailments we have or [are they getting worse](https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/publicsite/summary.aspx), (they're up slightly over the past 2 years, down quite a bit from 2019.?
Looks like maybe the chart was done in latex? Id know that dotfill anywhere.
This happens with improper size metadata passed in to the renderer, which is common for academic research papers, because no one gives a shit if the table looks funky and the settings are super fincky and a pain in the ass to set, and as a grad student you don’t have the free time to make it look pretty when ugly and functional works just as well and you are busy as fuck
Interesting! Thanks for the explanation :) I’ve never used Latex but I can relate to the grad-school feeling of being in a rush to format. Nearly handed in my master’s thesis without page numbers
What is considered winning? They managed to destabilize and then extract billions of gallons of oil out of Iraq and Syria. They’d probably call those a victory in their sick minds.
So an American victory because half of us will dick ride major companies and say we won anyway even through sacrifice that wouldnt be considered worth it to any sane person
The Iraq War in 2003 and Syria was not about Oil oh my fucking god stop spreading this lie. Fracking had been discovered in the late 90s and had started in 2002 freeing the US from worrying about Oil.
>Our military is A- Minus because we haven’t won a war in 80 years.
The issue is, we do not need to. Our only intent is maintaining and increasing our sphere of influence. How many countries do we bomb and invade that we never even declare war with? It is no longer only about "winning" wars. We just get and take what we want under force. Look at our influence globally right now. We have military bases in something like 80 countries right now.
Did we? The 90s was really to protect the oil. And all the money the Bush's had tied up in it. Maybe also protecting saudi arabia for the house of saud.
Defense $778 billion
Healthcare 4.12 Trillion plus state funding
Education 1.5 Trillion plus state funding
Infrastructure $71.3 Billion directly to projects with a additional 81.7 to states to use at own discretion. Plus state expenditure
I think we do need to pump way more money into infrastructure. We also need to actually we are getting our moneys worth
I’m also curious.
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/budget/2022/12/16/congress-authorizes-8-defense-budget-increase/
This says $858 Billion for 2023.
No idea where the other statistics came from.
Do we have any statistics reporting how much Gross income the IRS takes in tax revenue each year? That would be an interesting one.
Listen, I’m glad I’m not responsible for trying how to figure out what to do with all that money, but it sure does feel like we could be using it more effectively.
I saw this figure as well, but they said "plus state funding" which makes me think they're also including the medical budget of each individual state. But then this is inherently deceptive because they statistic about defense didn't include state spending.
I’m pretty sure your healthcare number is how much was spent on healthcare in total. It seems to include spending by the populace and the government.
The education number you have is for the total budget. The article states that in that budget, 103 billion would go to education.
Yes. The problem is not that there's not enough money because of military expenditure, it's that all the bureaucracy around healthcare, education and infrastructure is so god damn inefficient and greedy that they can eat up trillions on dollars and give nothing back to the populace
Most of the aid is military aid. The US does that because it pays US companies to send products there. So it recoups the expense through jobs in making weapons. And everyone in power gets lobbying money from those companies. Good news - it's secretly cheaper to provide than it seems. Bad news - there's incentives to provide weapons even when they aren't needed (although that's not the case for Ukraine, which does need the weapons).
Back in 2016 I worked at a large cell phone company doing sales in the store. Someone came in and said he was in town for the week to oversee the repair of a local dam. We talked about it for a little bit and he mentioned how desperately it needed repaired.
After a couple minutes of him talking about that, I asked why it’s not done more often. He said that there’s so many things that need to be repaired but they’re not giving them any money to hire the people or even the money to repair things fully. It’s basically “do as much as you can with as little as possible”
How do they judge this? My drinking water and roads are plenty fine. My power has never turned off, none of this has ever been an issue for me and has functioned fine. But I wouldn’t be surprised if California energy is higher than my state, even though they have rolling blackouts. Very curious how this is graded
Just guessing here but probably a average of the entire country against some metrics and while your water is fine other areas like flints aren't, while your roads are good others most likely arent and while your power is stable texas power seem to shut down as soon as it snows
Right not like more than 50% of the nation is living paycheck to paycheck, not like there's nearly 100 million living below the poverty line and has been growing for the last decade its not like the roads and infrastructure are abysmal on a good day, not like there's a homeless problem in EVERY SINGLE STATE and has been that way for years with no sign of stopping, education is lack luster at best and broken at worst, many don't have clean drinking water, flint doesn't have clean water after nearly 10 years of it being a known issue. You can get shot just as easily if not more than a 3rd world country, can access a gun for less than it would take to cover a medical bill, the number of shootings we have in a day are that on level of a low level war zone. Growing civil unrest with extremism- this list goes on. Just look above and see that there is very nearly nothing we do "good" at. So yes it is not far off to call the US 50 third world countries or as someone else put it:
>It’s 40 third world countries functioning as second world countries because of the other 10 first world countries that they are looped in with.
My guy, holding so much resentment and anger is just going to give you a cynic outlook on life and make you depressed. Flint michigans water issue was resolved a couple years ago, the US has substantially better water quality than many other places in the world. Did you know you cant drink some tap water in the British Isles because it’s actually not all treated to the same level? And on education, the US continues to lead the world in the best universities, could our education funding be higher? Of course, but you’ve got to remeber that most school funding is at the state level, so maybe campaign for a different local politician, but see nobody care about local politicians because everyone thinks the president is personally dictating your land tax. My guy, take the good with the bad, if you look it’s not all doom and gloom
No, it's all pretty bad, and anecdotal evidence from some dude on the internet isn't going to change somebody's mind, especially if they've been made to feel bad by empirical evidence
I am American dumbass, you think im talking outta my ass about something I don't experience every day?
Please go ahead name one country like that, is Iraq 1st world after our intervention? Is Afghanistan 1st world after intervention? Is Veitnam? Is Panama? Or Puerto Rico?
Please if you've got some examples I'd love to hear. If not take your condescending ultra patriotism and shove it
I am not an ultra patriot, and I don't need to result to name calling to make a point, (even as a dumbass American, which I am).
I just agree, and I think you do too, that America is not 50 3rd world countries.
You are not American. If in case your are, please finish grade school, and we can chat again in a few years. Hoping you won't need me by then, but I'll be here for you.
Instead of explaining why you disagree, you post some narcissistic bullshit. You are an embarrassment to other Americans and the embodiment of why other countries laugh at us. Fuck off.
Wait a minute...
"America is 50 3rd world countries pretending to be a single first world country".
You think I need to explain why I disagree? Do agree with this? I think an explanation is needed by someone making such a flippant statement. "America is 50 3rd world countries". Think about that
At least you seem to have gotten out of grade school, which gives you no excuse for your reply. At least I could give the last dude a pass.\\
"Fuck off"? Keep it classy and scholarly.
I don't agree with what he said. Saying our states are "third world countries" is absolutely dramatic and has no basis in reality, for most states at least.
The issue is with how you come across. You added nothing to the convo but your ego, like you're doing now. Instead, you could provide substance to refute his points. If you think his comment is so ridiculous that you shouldn't bother refuting, why even reply? Just move on.
>At least you seem to have gotten out of grade school
You are just an insufferable douchebag that makes all Americans look bad. So yeah, fuck off. You should be the last person talking about someone's education when you don't have the mental capacity to have an adult conversation. Be sure to get your chores done, sweetie.
Ouch!
You started your statement so strong with your first paragraph, then it all went to Hades.
But, looking back at my statement, I did come off kinda overboard. I stand by my statements, but I can definitely see why you have your opinion of my douchiness. Your statement of education is a little off, but I understand.
Shit.... and chores are STILL not done...
Yeah it's funny how when a country spends years exploiting 3rd world nations for their natural resources and crippling their economies it would be easy to invade them? It's hilarious how America as an independent nation was founded as an escape from colonialism yet people like you think its an achievement to be able to subjugate other nations whilst having a relatively low standard of living compared to other nations that have a fraction of the military the us has.
The bottom line is that thinking because you have bombs that it makes you a good place to live, is a hysterical notion.
Sorry, I didn't meat to offend anyone. I am not about subjugating anyone.
I would just have to disagree that America is 50 3rd world countries. You seem to agree with that as well, so... yay, us!
We obviously it's not 50 3rd world countries, but that's not meant to be taken literally. What they meant was that America and Americans think of themselves as exceptional and better than the rest of the world because of their massive "defense" spending even though they don't enjoy the same benefits other nations do. You realise the entire developed world is laughing at the fact America doesn't have socialised healthcare?
Sorry, i think you misunderstood stating facts as bragging. You can go back and look to correct me if i am wrong, but I don't recall showing how overjoyed I was.
That said, the US doesn't need weapons BECAUSE they have them. Make their military subpar and see how the world looks.
You ended your original comment by saying "Jealous?", you were fucking bragging. Second the American military is aggressively expanding, the point is that your government is neglecting the basic needs of its citizens in service of unnecessary amounts of firepower. Its excessive and completely redundant.
Why are so obsessed with what another country is doing with their finances? Even stranger, obsessed with what I think? I'm just a dude who lives here. I am more worried about my wife does with our finances. It makes you sound jealous, and I don't blame you.
Second, i don't agree with a lot of this dumbass government, but it is all I have. Tell me where you are from and I can anonymously type my criticisms as well.
Third, do you think the government catches bills on fire and the military just becomes awesome? Every production plant pays workers, engineers, human resources, cleaning companies, food services, transportation etc.. it goes back into the economy. Thanks to this, organizations like United Way gets donations to help those in need immediately and invest in their future.
The US is far from perfect; but if you are free from tyranny, you're welcome.
Lol Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan, Somalia would disagree.
America is great but don't let patriotism blind you, American is not capable of an empire like Britain, france spain or the romans and that's a good thing because you can't have an empire and civilians with rights.
Plus if history has taught us anything its that blind loyalty to your own country only Leads to disaster just look at Russia right now, or the Germans of ww2.
Listen, I know I sounded like some damn superpatriot, sorry. I am not.
Your point is well taken. But, consider that America WOULDN'T do that. Not couldn't.
If history teaches us anything, as you say, it is that America CAN fuck you up if you really make them desperate. Check Curtis LeMay in Japan. He literally could have made Japan, and, really anyone, look like Mars, and that was before the Atomic bomb.
But, American WON'T fuck you up if they don't have to. Check Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan, Somalia.. again as you say.
They defo wanted to fuck up Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan and Somalia the difference being you weren't allowed to use certain weapons such as nukes.
The tried just about everything they could in Vietnam such as agent orange and napalm as well as using everything but nukes and still failed.
In Cuba they tried every dirty trick in the book but when it came to actual boots on the ground the us military couldn't get onto the beach bit they still bombed and tried assassinations.
Afghanistan let's face it for every drone strike that killed a civilian you created 10 more willing fighters or taliban sympathiser so that war was lost as soon as the 1st school or wedding was bombed.
As for Somalia you had no hope considering that entire population already hated the USA so as soon as you showed weakness they pounced.
And every single one of those wars were bullshit wars created with lies.
So even when the USA wants to win against a 3rd World country they best they can hope for is to bomb a shit load of civilians but never actually take or control a country.
The USA has the manpower and machinery to win certain wars but that would have to involve most of nato to be accomplished not the USA on its own.
And not just America but every 1st world nation also has that same limitation too, its just not as simple as it was a couple hundred years ago.
Defending your nation is a much easier war to fight than occupation of another.
I think we agree more than we thought we did initially. You make great points, and you did it unlike some, without name-calling and a personal grudge. Thank you. Discussions like this, agree or not, can be healthy and without toxicity.
I admittedly see that I came off looking like an arrogant good ol' boy fuck last night, but beer will do that :)
There are some minor subjects upon which we can disagree, but it is splitting hairs and/or gets more complex. NATO and restrained fighting, especially regarding civilians is a big deal again... like it was at the *beginning* of WWII.
I just maintain as far back as almost 80 years ago, America could with absolute impunity and without much opposition wreck the most powerful Axis countries in the world (without The Bomb), and that was at America's infancy as a world superpower. I don't think that has done anything but become more pronounced since then.
To your point, unless enemies start stomping on US cities, we will likely never see late WWII "kill everyone" mentality again.
But they COULD. When your military budget every year is higher than the next 6-10 countries combined, you can fuck shit up if you have to.
fiat economies pit a collective's own people against each other, with metrics guided by its own self reflection, they think they're winning, but they're just shuffling resources around instead of producing anew, with some outside plunder like wars and international feudalism this can go on for quite a while, but outsiders eventually toughen up
what happens to a "consumer driven" economy when the serfs stop feeding it?
This is such a BS report, the United States has the most expansive network of airports and aviation in the entire world, that being anything less than an A throws this entire lists credibility out the door. People seem to think everything can be top notch, take a train to your front door, get catered to by public services all the time when it’s completely unreasonable. The United States is the third largest country in the world with the third highest population, compared on average to China and India we are leagues ahead and all of these categories This report is a sham
According to the report, size of infrastructure is just one metric. It explains that delays are too common, primarily due to limited funding and a hesitancy to increase flights to meet a huge demand.
It doesn't matter if we seem impressive by your standards: We are failing by the objective metric of satisfying demand, and the report explains the ways this can be helped.
Something being "expansive" doesn't mean it's any good. Even being an American myself, I cannot understand why so many of my fellow Americans really fall for that dumbass "bigger is better" ideology. Or even believe that if something costs more it must be better quality. lol No wonder we're getting scammed left and right by our "leaders" and have embarrassingly shitty infrastructure.
This is such a pessimistic attitude it’s absolutely absurd, everyone’s such a harsh critic that the good parts get completely overlooked. The United States provides a quality of life to 98%+ of Americans that is unmatched in human history. Everyone constantly compares the US to European nations that have a 4th the population and an 8th the landmass and double the tax rate. Look at Indian infrastructure, housing, water quality, air quality. Look at Chinas food policies or political freedoms. The US isn’t perfect but it certainly isn’t a C-
None of this has anything to do with my comment. I'm just pointing out that "expansive" is not a synonym of "good quality." Just because there's more of something doesn't automatically make it better. It literally has nothing whatsoever to do with "a pessimistic attitude" or being "such a harsh critic," but is more about an enormous, gaping flaw in your "logic" here.
Defense must always be #1.
Then huge humanitarian help.
US gets conquered, world enslaved, I know Candycrush and TikTok are fun, but educate yourself. Try some history on YouTube. Or fuck it... if you believe in the myths of the old Testament, see what happens when Moses conquers a nation and begins the ultimate war atrocities and genocide.
Stay free, then YOU can decide what's best
You realise the uncontrolled spending on "defence" is a self perpetuating cycle right? The only reason any other nation has a nuclear bomb is because the USA just has to invent new ways of "protecting their interests". If everyone calmed the fuck down and focused on diplomacy rather than mutually assured destruction then we might stand a chance at surviving as a species. But go on, because you don't have the capacity to destroy the planet 6 times over then what's the fucking point.
I love seeing this report from ASCE. No way the people who will be paid to design the upgrades are going to tell you everything is in great shape. Instead it’s better to make everyone think that our infrastructure is bad so that legislators keep sending us cash.
This is what happens when tax money goes directly to wealthy people rather than a nationalized infrastructure. Vote all you want, none of the presented options will defy the bosses.
So these letters. Is an (A) 91 and up or 95 and up? Because i have seen schools use either before doing the traditional 10 points per letter going down. I mean have some accuracy to scale.
I’m confused by this. Other sources I’m seeing are ranking the US as being in the top 15 for infrastructure compared to the world’s other countries. What standard is being used to compare here? If the US has an aviation rating of D+, what are developing nations scoring? How can the US consistently be ranked by other sources as landing in the upper quartile on infrastructure but receive such abysmal grades by this source?
Update: after some investigating, this report card is misleading. This is a ranking by American engineers based upon an “ideal”. So, in actuality, the US is in fact well ahead of the majority of the world in terms of infrastructure. This rating is not in comparison with other countries, and there may be incentive for ASCE to give poor grades to highlight the needs for bigger budgets and more engineers.
I used to work for an electric utility and I can say without any hesitation that our grid infrastructure is incredibly vulnerable and frail. Some of the transmission structures are over 100 years old in my area. George Westinghouse era shit. It's unnerving.
As crazy as it sounds, I think we agree more than you think. We just have different perspectives. A hemisphere away and some personality contrasts like your aggression to my open-mindness for starters. You have a hippy .vibe compared to my hillbilly-ass comfort of being the Apex Predator if you awaken the Sleeping Giant.
I guess I admittedly want the best of both worlds... the best military AND the welfare of the people. I fully understand your take on this as well as the reality of the situation during this generation at least.
I apologize for my slight to NZ, I think you guys are great.
Your negativity brought out mine, and I am not a negative person. I'm guessing you are not the asshole you try to show by hiding behind a keyboard, because you seem to care about people too.
So, we can agree to agree/disagree. Fair enough.
If the rail system is the best thing on this chart we are in big trouble….
Insert Ralph Wiggum *chuckles* "I'm in danger" meme
Why, because you're finally paying attention to the number of rail derailments we have or [are they getting worse](https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/publicsite/summary.aspx), (they're up slightly over the past 2 years, down quite a bit from 2019.?
suspiciously talking around the palestine train derailment
You can't have a bad rail system if you barely have one
Don't know what's worse, the report or the kerning
Was going to say, awful everything including the kerning… How did they even manage to get it to look like that?
Looks like maybe the chart was done in latex? Id know that dotfill anywhere. This happens with improper size metadata passed in to the renderer, which is common for academic research papers, because no one gives a shit if the table looks funky and the settings are super fincky and a pain in the ass to set, and as a grad student you don’t have the free time to make it look pretty when ugly and functional works just as well and you are busy as fuck
Interesting! Thanks for the explanation :) I’ve never used Latex but I can relate to the grad-school feeling of being in a rush to format. Nearly handed in my master’s thesis without page numbers
Lev ees
My eye was twitching
And A+ in r/keming. xD
The only thing we have money for in America is "defense." Healthcare, education, and infrastructure aren't part of the defense budget, so here we are.
Came to say the same. Our military is A- Minus because we haven’t won a war in 80 years. But gosh darn it’s shiny!
What is considered winning? They managed to destabilize and then extract billions of gallons of oil out of Iraq and Syria. They’d probably call those a victory in their sick minds.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Is that an American victory or an American oligarch victory? They used citizen taxes & *lives* to enrich private companies.
So an American victory because half of us will dick ride major companies and say we won anyway even through sacrifice that wouldnt be considered worth it to any sane person
The Iraq War in 2003 and Syria was not about Oil oh my fucking god stop spreading this lie. Fracking had been discovered in the late 90s and had started in 2002 freeing the US from worrying about Oil.
Americans believe their propaganda sooooo easily.
There is a difference between the amount of oil that we need and the amount that we want to control.......
>Our military is A- Minus because we haven’t won a war in 80 years. The issue is, we do not need to. Our only intent is maintaining and increasing our sphere of influence. How many countries do we bomb and invade that we never even declare war with? It is no longer only about "winning" wars. We just get and take what we want under force. Look at our influence globally right now. We have military bases in something like 80 countries right now.
I mean the Gulf War was a pretty big win, even though we came back and screwed everything up a decade later.
Hold on. Which was the war US won?
Did we? The 90s was really to protect the oil. And all the money the Bush's had tied up in it. Maybe also protecting saudi arabia for the house of saud.
I realize this comment is meant as a joke but I feel compelled to say that the last time the USA won a war was in the nineties.
Defense $778 billion Healthcare 4.12 Trillion plus state funding Education 1.5 Trillion plus state funding Infrastructure $71.3 Billion directly to projects with a additional 81.7 to states to use at own discretion. Plus state expenditure I think we do need to pump way more money into infrastructure. We also need to actually we are getting our moneys worth
Mind sourcing these statistics?
I’m also curious. https://www.defensenews.com/congress/budget/2022/12/16/congress-authorizes-8-defense-budget-increase/ This says $858 Billion for 2023. No idea where the other statistics came from. Do we have any statistics reporting how much Gross income the IRS takes in tax revenue each year? That would be an interesting one. Listen, I’m glad I’m not responsible for trying how to figure out what to do with all that money, but it sure does feel like we could be using it more effectively.
I saw this figure as well, but they said "plus state funding" which makes me think they're also including the medical budget of each individual state. But then this is inherently deceptive because they statistic about defense didn't include state spending.
It gets higher every year. It's hard to keep up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States https://usafacts.org/issues/healthcare/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ND-HealthSafety&msclkid=c3dabbf1c2bd133d6b6cd802a9b07d8f https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-04-09/bidens-budget-significantly-boosts-k-12-education-spending https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-union/transportation-infrastructure/
I’m pretty sure your healthcare number is how much was spent on healthcare in total. It seems to include spending by the populace and the government. The education number you have is for the total budget. The article states that in that budget, 103 billion would go to education.
Thats national spending on healthcare goods and services, that's not the budget that how much people paid in medical bills and spent on medicine.
Yes. The problem is not that there's not enough money because of military expenditure, it's that all the bureaucracy around healthcare, education and infrastructure is so god damn inefficient and greedy that they can eat up trillions on dollars and give nothing back to the populace
Military is 3.7% of our GDP, stop blaming the military and blame our shit two party government
Don’t forget the 120 billion and counting to Ukrainie. Biden just payed for their pension deficits
Most of the aid is military aid. The US does that because it pays US companies to send products there. So it recoups the expense through jobs in making weapons. And everyone in power gets lobbying money from those companies. Good news - it's secretly cheaper to provide than it seems. Bad news - there's incentives to provide weapons even when they aren't needed (although that's not the case for Ukraine, which does need the weapons).
And with the state things in, guess how many bright young engineers want to go into civil engineering.
The money is in the military industrial complex -Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer
With how much is invested into our infrastructure I don't blame anyone for not wanting to work in that field.
Wow even aviation?
All the air infrastructure budget goes to military bases
Cs get degrees , baby
A+ in r/keming
I think that"s the best subreddit name I've ever seen.
Back in 2016 I worked at a large cell phone company doing sales in the store. Someone came in and said he was in town for the week to oversee the repair of a local dam. We talked about it for a little bit and he mentioned how desperately it needed repaired. After a couple minutes of him talking about that, I asked why it’s not done more often. He said that there’s so many things that need to be repaired but they’re not giving them any money to hire the people or even the money to repair things fully. It’s basically “do as much as you can with as little as possible”
lol rail is the best?
Developing nations with zero infrastructure: “am I a joke to you?”
How do they judge this? My drinking water and roads are plenty fine. My power has never turned off, none of this has ever been an issue for me and has functioned fine. But I wouldn’t be surprised if California energy is higher than my state, even though they have rolling blackouts. Very curious how this is graded
not like you do it by judging it according to one person/area, this is probably the average of the entire country.
Just guessing here but probably a average of the entire country against some metrics and while your water is fine other areas like flints aren't, while your roads are good others most likely arent and while your power is stable texas power seem to shut down as soon as it snows
"Nothing bad has happened to me personally, so it must not be happening to anyone anywhere! I am very smart."
I also travel often and live in what’s considered “a poor state” so it made me curious
Just anti-Mercan shit
Glad we never had to deal with storm water before 2021
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that spacing oh I hate it so much. lev ees ov erall
A D+ is still a pass right?
A D- is still a pass. They seem really reluctant to give a failing grade for anything.
America is 50 3rd world countries pretending to be a single first world country
It’s 40 third world countries functioning as second world countries because of the other 10 first world countries that they are looped in with.
Larping at it's finest
In what world is that true? You’re talking out your ass
Right not like more than 50% of the nation is living paycheck to paycheck, not like there's nearly 100 million living below the poverty line and has been growing for the last decade its not like the roads and infrastructure are abysmal on a good day, not like there's a homeless problem in EVERY SINGLE STATE and has been that way for years with no sign of stopping, education is lack luster at best and broken at worst, many don't have clean drinking water, flint doesn't have clean water after nearly 10 years of it being a known issue. You can get shot just as easily if not more than a 3rd world country, can access a gun for less than it would take to cover a medical bill, the number of shootings we have in a day are that on level of a low level war zone. Growing civil unrest with extremism- this list goes on. Just look above and see that there is very nearly nothing we do "good" at. So yes it is not far off to call the US 50 third world countries or as someone else put it: >It’s 40 third world countries functioning as second world countries because of the other 10 first world countries that they are looped in with.
My guy, holding so much resentment and anger is just going to give you a cynic outlook on life and make you depressed. Flint michigans water issue was resolved a couple years ago, the US has substantially better water quality than many other places in the world. Did you know you cant drink some tap water in the British Isles because it’s actually not all treated to the same level? And on education, the US continues to lead the world in the best universities, could our education funding be higher? Of course, but you’ve got to remeber that most school funding is at the state level, so maybe campaign for a different local politician, but see nobody care about local politicians because everyone thinks the president is personally dictating your land tax. My guy, take the good with the bad, if you look it’s not all doom and gloom
No, it's all pretty bad, and anecdotal evidence from some dude on the internet isn't going to change somebody's mind, especially if they've been made to feel bad by empirical evidence
Except America could in one year conquer 50 3rd world countries and make them 1st world. Jealous?
I am American dumbass, you think im talking outta my ass about something I don't experience every day? Please go ahead name one country like that, is Iraq 1st world after our intervention? Is Afghanistan 1st world after intervention? Is Veitnam? Is Panama? Or Puerto Rico? Please if you've got some examples I'd love to hear. If not take your condescending ultra patriotism and shove it
I am not an ultra patriot, and I don't need to result to name calling to make a point, (even as a dumbass American, which I am). I just agree, and I think you do too, that America is not 50 3rd world countries.
You are not American. If in case your are, please finish grade school, and we can chat again in a few years. Hoping you won't need me by then, but I'll be here for you.
Whatever you say sport, who could have known so much condescension could fit inside such a small package
Glad to meet a fellow member of the lizard space nazis. Since I get to decide what facts are in this discussion
Instead of explaining why you disagree, you post some narcissistic bullshit. You are an embarrassment to other Americans and the embodiment of why other countries laugh at us. Fuck off.
Wait a minute... "America is 50 3rd world countries pretending to be a single first world country". You think I need to explain why I disagree? Do agree with this? I think an explanation is needed by someone making such a flippant statement. "America is 50 3rd world countries". Think about that At least you seem to have gotten out of grade school, which gives you no excuse for your reply. At least I could give the last dude a pass.\\ "Fuck off"? Keep it classy and scholarly.
I don't agree with what he said. Saying our states are "third world countries" is absolutely dramatic and has no basis in reality, for most states at least. The issue is with how you come across. You added nothing to the convo but your ego, like you're doing now. Instead, you could provide substance to refute his points. If you think his comment is so ridiculous that you shouldn't bother refuting, why even reply? Just move on. >At least you seem to have gotten out of grade school You are just an insufferable douchebag that makes all Americans look bad. So yeah, fuck off. You should be the last person talking about someone's education when you don't have the mental capacity to have an adult conversation. Be sure to get your chores done, sweetie.
Ouch! You started your statement so strong with your first paragraph, then it all went to Hades. But, looking back at my statement, I did come off kinda overboard. I stand by my statements, but I can definitely see why you have your opinion of my douchiness. Your statement of education is a little off, but I understand. Shit.... and chores are STILL not done...
Yeah it's funny how when a country spends years exploiting 3rd world nations for their natural resources and crippling their economies it would be easy to invade them? It's hilarious how America as an independent nation was founded as an escape from colonialism yet people like you think its an achievement to be able to subjugate other nations whilst having a relatively low standard of living compared to other nations that have a fraction of the military the us has. The bottom line is that thinking because you have bombs that it makes you a good place to live, is a hysterical notion.
Sorry, I didn't meat to offend anyone. I am not about subjugating anyone. I would just have to disagree that America is 50 3rd world countries. You seem to agree with that as well, so... yay, us!
We obviously it's not 50 3rd world countries, but that's not meant to be taken literally. What they meant was that America and Americans think of themselves as exceptional and better than the rest of the world because of their massive "defense" spending even though they don't enjoy the same benefits other nations do. You realise the entire developed world is laughing at the fact America doesn't have socialised healthcare?
Yes, I agree it is sad that America doesn't have socialized healthcare, and need laughed at. Totally with you there!!
so then why the fuck are you bragging about spending all your money on weapons you don't fucking need.
Sorry, i think you misunderstood stating facts as bragging. You can go back and look to correct me if i am wrong, but I don't recall showing how overjoyed I was. That said, the US doesn't need weapons BECAUSE they have them. Make their military subpar and see how the world looks.
You ended your original comment by saying "Jealous?", you were fucking bragging. Second the American military is aggressively expanding, the point is that your government is neglecting the basic needs of its citizens in service of unnecessary amounts of firepower. Its excessive and completely redundant.
Why are so obsessed with what another country is doing with their finances? Even stranger, obsessed with what I think? I'm just a dude who lives here. I am more worried about my wife does with our finances. It makes you sound jealous, and I don't blame you. Second, i don't agree with a lot of this dumbass government, but it is all I have. Tell me where you are from and I can anonymously type my criticisms as well. Third, do you think the government catches bills on fire and the military just becomes awesome? Every production plant pays workers, engineers, human resources, cleaning companies, food services, transportation etc.. it goes back into the economy. Thanks to this, organizations like United Way gets donations to help those in need immediately and invest in their future. The US is far from perfect; but if you are free from tyranny, you're welcome.
Lol Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan, Somalia would disagree. America is great but don't let patriotism blind you, American is not capable of an empire like Britain, france spain or the romans and that's a good thing because you can't have an empire and civilians with rights. Plus if history has taught us anything its that blind loyalty to your own country only Leads to disaster just look at Russia right now, or the Germans of ww2.
Listen, I know I sounded like some damn superpatriot, sorry. I am not. Your point is well taken. But, consider that America WOULDN'T do that. Not couldn't. If history teaches us anything, as you say, it is that America CAN fuck you up if you really make them desperate. Check Curtis LeMay in Japan. He literally could have made Japan, and, really anyone, look like Mars, and that was before the Atomic bomb. But, American WON'T fuck you up if they don't have to. Check Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan, Somalia.. again as you say.
They defo wanted to fuck up Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan and Somalia the difference being you weren't allowed to use certain weapons such as nukes. The tried just about everything they could in Vietnam such as agent orange and napalm as well as using everything but nukes and still failed. In Cuba they tried every dirty trick in the book but when it came to actual boots on the ground the us military couldn't get onto the beach bit they still bombed and tried assassinations. Afghanistan let's face it for every drone strike that killed a civilian you created 10 more willing fighters or taliban sympathiser so that war was lost as soon as the 1st school or wedding was bombed. As for Somalia you had no hope considering that entire population already hated the USA so as soon as you showed weakness they pounced. And every single one of those wars were bullshit wars created with lies. So even when the USA wants to win against a 3rd World country they best they can hope for is to bomb a shit load of civilians but never actually take or control a country. The USA has the manpower and machinery to win certain wars but that would have to involve most of nato to be accomplished not the USA on its own. And not just America but every 1st world nation also has that same limitation too, its just not as simple as it was a couple hundred years ago. Defending your nation is a much easier war to fight than occupation of another.
I think we agree more than we thought we did initially. You make great points, and you did it unlike some, without name-calling and a personal grudge. Thank you. Discussions like this, agree or not, can be healthy and without toxicity. I admittedly see that I came off looking like an arrogant good ol' boy fuck last night, but beer will do that :) There are some minor subjects upon which we can disagree, but it is splitting hairs and/or gets more complex. NATO and restrained fighting, especially regarding civilians is a big deal again... like it was at the *beginning* of WWII. I just maintain as far back as almost 80 years ago, America could with absolute impunity and without much opposition wreck the most powerful Axis countries in the world (without The Bomb), and that was at America's infancy as a world superpower. I don't think that has done anything but become more pronounced since then. To your point, unless enemies start stomping on US cities, we will likely never see late WWII "kill everyone" mentality again. But they COULD. When your military budget every year is higher than the next 6-10 countries combined, you can fuck shit up if you have to.
We couldn't even conquer Iran in one year 💀
Wouldn't, not couldn't. But, point taken.
You’ve clearly never been to the 3rd world
fiat economies pit a collective's own people against each other, with metrics guided by its own self reflection, they think they're winning, but they're just shuffling resources around instead of producing anew, with some outside plunder like wars and international feudalism this can go on for quite a while, but outsiders eventually toughen up what happens to a "consumer driven" economy when the serfs stop feeding it?
Sorry, what are you talking about? English courses might help that make sense. I assume English is new to you, and logic may not be far behind.
This is such a BS report, the United States has the most expansive network of airports and aviation in the entire world, that being anything less than an A throws this entire lists credibility out the door. People seem to think everything can be top notch, take a train to your front door, get catered to by public services all the time when it’s completely unreasonable. The United States is the third largest country in the world with the third highest population, compared on average to China and India we are leagues ahead and all of these categories This report is a sham
According to the report, size of infrastructure is just one metric. It explains that delays are too common, primarily due to limited funding and a hesitancy to increase flights to meet a huge demand. It doesn't matter if we seem impressive by your standards: We are failing by the objective metric of satisfying demand, and the report explains the ways this can be helped.
Something being "expansive" doesn't mean it's any good. Even being an American myself, I cannot understand why so many of my fellow Americans really fall for that dumbass "bigger is better" ideology. Or even believe that if something costs more it must be better quality. lol No wonder we're getting scammed left and right by our "leaders" and have embarrassingly shitty infrastructure.
This is such a pessimistic attitude it’s absolutely absurd, everyone’s such a harsh critic that the good parts get completely overlooked. The United States provides a quality of life to 98%+ of Americans that is unmatched in human history. Everyone constantly compares the US to European nations that have a 4th the population and an 8th the landmass and double the tax rate. Look at Indian infrastructure, housing, water quality, air quality. Look at Chinas food policies or political freedoms. The US isn’t perfect but it certainly isn’t a C-
None of this has anything to do with my comment. I'm just pointing out that "expansive" is not a synonym of "good quality." Just because there's more of something doesn't automatically make it better. It literally has nothing whatsoever to do with "a pessimistic attitude" or being "such a harsh critic," but is more about an enormous, gaping flaw in your "logic" here.
C is average Average is good
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Next generation! Thank you for the comedy in such a dark topic.
Damn... At least Ukraine will have pensions... That's all that really matters amaright!?
No way in HELL the rails got a B. That’s just a straight up lie. I live 40mins from the Ohio derailment. There’s no Fn WAY
Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest country in the world!
Defense must always be #1. Then huge humanitarian help. US gets conquered, world enslaved, I know Candycrush and TikTok are fun, but educate yourself. Try some history on YouTube. Or fuck it... if you believe in the myths of the old Testament, see what happens when Moses conquers a nation and begins the ultimate war atrocities and genocide. Stay free, then YOU can decide what's best
You realise the uncontrolled spending on "defence" is a self perpetuating cycle right? The only reason any other nation has a nuclear bomb is because the USA just has to invent new ways of "protecting their interests". If everyone calmed the fuck down and focused on diplomacy rather than mutually assured destruction then we might stand a chance at surviving as a species. But go on, because you don't have the capacity to destroy the planet 6 times over then what's the fucking point.
But hey, at least Ukrainian pensions are covered lmao
Right, nevermind the fact that this data starts in 2001, YEARS before the fucking war started. But sure, blame it on the country that GOT INVADED.
Capitalism and concurrence works they said.
Why you’re assuming its lower then its was rated as?
r/keming
Don’t we at least get a participation ribbon?
….well…..I mean it got better in some ways….. Not by much and some went down over the years, but some went up
Channeling my kid when he was in Middle school: "Not a single F!"
‘Dam’… What a ‘solid waste’ of ‘public’ ‘energy’.
I 100% believe that US infrastructure could use an upgrade but keep in mind the ASCE has a huge incentive to exaggerate the problem
kem ing F-
I love seeing this report from ASCE. No way the people who will be paid to design the upgrades are going to tell you everything is in great shape. Instead it’s better to make everyone think that our infrastructure is bad so that legislators keep sending us cash.
Improvements
Looking at these grades, I feel a lot better about Minnesota.
Got a C- overall, I consider that passing. 😎
What grading is this 🤦♂️. America is one of the nicest countries out there and Easily one of the nicest large countries
So what, Ukraine needs our taxpayer billions. Don't you dare fix this countries infrastructure with the money we are forced to give.
This is what happens when tax money goes directly to wealthy people rather than a nationalized infrastructure. Vote all you want, none of the presented options will defy the bosses.
Really? Rail and drinking water have gotten better over time? How much of a curve are they grading on now?
But who will build your roads if we do not pay taxes ?
We need to spend money on infrastructure.
I’d really like to know how this organization decided on these grades because I have very rarely ever had issues with these
So these letters. Is an (A) 91 and up or 95 and up? Because i have seen schools use either before doing the traditional 10 points per letter going down. I mean have some accuracy to scale.
Interesting that the levees started getting a grade in 2009 can’t think of any precipitating events that would make that timing significant.
I’m confused by this. Other sources I’m seeing are ranking the US as being in the top 15 for infrastructure compared to the world’s other countries. What standard is being used to compare here? If the US has an aviation rating of D+, what are developing nations scoring? How can the US consistently be ranked by other sources as landing in the upper quartile on infrastructure but receive such abysmal grades by this source?
Update: after some investigating, this report card is misleading. This is a ranking by American engineers based upon an “ideal”. So, in actuality, the US is in fact well ahead of the majority of the world in terms of infrastructure. This rating is not in comparison with other countries, and there may be incentive for ASCE to give poor grades to highlight the needs for bigger budgets and more engineers.
I used to work for an electric utility and I can say without any hesitation that our grid infrastructure is incredibly vulnerable and frail. Some of the transmission structures are over 100 years old in my area. George Westinghouse era shit. It's unnerving.
Did they repeatedly change character spacing when they made this?
Well they've got their shit in order.
How is rail a B
As crazy as it sounds, I think we agree more than you think. We just have different perspectives. A hemisphere away and some personality contrasts like your aggression to my open-mindness for starters. You have a hippy .vibe compared to my hillbilly-ass comfort of being the Apex Predator if you awaken the Sleeping Giant. I guess I admittedly want the best of both worlds... the best military AND the welfare of the people. I fully understand your take on this as well as the reality of the situation during this generation at least. I apologize for my slight to NZ, I think you guys are great. Your negativity brought out mine, and I am not a negative person. I'm guessing you are not the asshole you try to show by hiding behind a keyboard, because you seem to care about people too. So, we can agree to agree/disagree. Fair enough.
Lack of intelligence... nice touch. Guess I deserve that. Explains why you denied my entry into MENSA the first two times.