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More specifically Nordic countries I guess, but surstromming. I understand even amongst them it's a niche delicacy but just fermented gelatinous fish doesn't sound like something that would be enjoyable to eat.
Why do you have so many measurement units for car engine power?
Like, with HP and kW is enough.
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For as much shit as you give Americans for using imperial measurements, why are you still using old units of time (seconds, minutes, and hours)? Shouldn't you have come up with something based on water by now that is divisible by 100s? At this point, it just feels disingenuous giving an American shit about "freedom units" when you're walking around talking about hours that were defined by the Babylonians 5,000 years ago.
Honestly, get your shit together.
Edit: lol Europeans woke up angry
Shouldn’t you have come up with something based on water by now that is divisible by 100s?
Well no, we just adpoted the second in the SI system. The definition it's not based on water, but caesium.
The second [...] is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, Δν~Cs~, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s^−1^
Exactly. Just as every kid learns in kindergarten. A kilogram is the weight of 1,000 cubic cms of water. A liter is the volume of 1 kilogram of water. And a second is the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, Δν~Cs~, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s^−1^.
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There were a few attempts to make metric time. Revolutionary France tried it and Swatch Internet Time was an attempt by a Swiss watch company during early internet days, honestly it was probably a promo stunt rather than an earnest attempt, but a few things supported it, including PHP and the MMO Phantasy Star Online.
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Why is Opel still a thing when Vauxhall is clearly the better brand?
In Germany, you can be driving straight down a road and someone can pull out onto the road from a turn and you have to yield to them. It seems extremely dangerous. Also, stop lights are directly above you, instead of across the street so if you’re looking at the stop light you can’t really pay attention very well to the traffic in the intersection.
A lot of stuff makes a lot more sense but these two things seem illogical to me.
The stoplight thing is social engineering. They do it so that you're incentivised to stop where you're supposed to, not halfway into the intersection
I live in Germany and I have no idea what you're talking about for the first thing, maybe you mean yield-to-right in unmarked intersections or the priority road system? I'm not really sure. In either case you are just mentally inserting yield signs based on standard rules.
The stoplight thing I feel in my soul though. The amount of times I've had to stare out my sunroof to see the light above me because I stopped on the line instead of 20 feet before it.
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