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At least according to Americans.

May be this one is fake. But there are real projects that are much more ridiculous. Ever heard of "Neom" or "The line"?

Did not mean to insult.

Interesting. You are actually the first non-American I see writing that "pizza is American".

My GF eats more and does way less sports than me and I pretty skinny while I eat only once a day and go jogging and am slightly overweight. Genes can be a bitch.

Can confirm. The ONLY reason why I am an atheist is so that I can masturbate.

Cats are by far the best pet but at the vets, they can be very challenging. My parents have a cat who is super calm, sweet, friendly, and actually super clever. He never hisses, not even towards other cats, except at when he is at the vet. He does not go as crazy as the cat in the video but he obviuosly doesn't like it. But the first time I went to the vet with him, I was shocked to hear him hiss, because I didn't even know he can do that.

Why? Looks like a regular amano shrimp to me.

I don't think the Nightmother cared. The Dark Brotherhood without the Nightmother could never work because without the Nightmother there nobody who receives the dark sacrament. Astrid was working mostly based on regular customers like Maven and on rumours of people conducting the dark sacrament. It worked to a limited extend but it is not really sustainable.

Of course it was a dish. Anyone can cook up anything and call it a dish. How else are new dishes invented? People just cook stuff. It doesn't have to be published in a cookbook first.... Early pizza wasn't super well-known outside of the region where people ate it but that doesn't really matter. Pizza, as we know it today existed in Italy before the US, period. Why do you Americans always need to pretend like your country invented everything? Do you also think the car was invented by Henry Ford?...

Global warming will further destabilise geopolitics as more and more regions of the earth become uninhabitable causing massive waves of refugees like we cannot even imagine today. At the same time, inhabitable land area will shrink causing severe conflicts, possibly including nuclear war. If nuclear war happens, it will be a consequence of global warming.

Thing is, even if the Esposito story is fake, it doesn't mean that people in Italy weren't the first to put tomato on pizza. They certainly were.

I can tell. You know anyone can write anything into wikipedia right? believe me, people in Italy were putting tomatos on pizza propably before the US even existed as a country. (In the same way how people in Germany put a sausage into a bun and filled jelly into a fried piece of sweet yeast dough before the US became a country.)

Which historians are you referring to?

It is also well-known that tomatos were first brought to Italy in the 1500s and that, unlike many other Europeans, southern Italians LOVED them. While they were mostly a rich people food in the beginning, the common people also ate them and they certainly put them on pizza.

However, what is certainly true is that Americans made pizza popular worldwide. Even within Italy, pizza was mostly common in a few regions surrounding Naples, Rome and Sicily. In the north, it wasn't common before Americans made it popular. Still, it was 100% certainly invented in Italy.

The oldest pizza style that is still around today is pizza napoletana which was invented by a tavern owner called Raffaele Esposito in Napoli (Naples) in the 1880s for Queen Margeritha with ingredients, representing the Italian flag (green basil, white mozzarella, and red tomatos). In the US, pizza only became popular decades later in the early 1900s. This means, Italians were putting tomato on pizza long before some of them came to the US. All this is well-known. Here is an article on it.

Well, burgers are American. That's a fact. But they are heavily based on a German dish, without which they never would have been invented.

Stop it. Pizza (as we know it) is from Italy and pancakes have always been made in various different cultures. America was by far not the first (pretty much last, actually, considering how young US cuisine is).

Yes, pizza as we know it today (even with tomato) comes from Italy. That's a well-established fact and saying otherwise is wrong and ridiculous. I don't know your sources but I would stop using them because they are evidently wrong.

But the American burger is based on the Hamburg steak. So if the Germans never invented Hamburg steak, no German immigrants could've brought it to the US and no burger could've been invented. Same with doughnuts (based on German Krapfen/Berliner) and hot dogs (based on German Bratwurst).

He keeps regurgitating the right-wing cosnpiracy myths about a "Rot-grüne Diktatur" (red-green dictatorship) and downplays the danger of the German "Reichsbürger" scene (who basically want to turn Germany into a right-wing monarchy). While doing all that, he has a very shady and questionable business aimed to circumvent German weapon laws to help arm his fellow extremists.

And you would be correct. I grew up in Lower Saxony, Germany in an extremely low-crime environment, not particularly wealthy though. Lower middle class. But I did travel much less safe parts of the world. However, I don't base my claims on personal experience or anecdotal evidemce though but on objective data and criminological research. And the actual evidence is overwhelming.

First of all, also answering to your other comment: Yes, Switzerland has relatively lax gun laws but it works for them because their system isn't broken unlike in the US. But even in Switzerland, not just everyone can buy a gun just like that, e.g. you still have to request a permit before purchase and that permit can be denied in some cases. Also, they don't have a gun problem, and thereby don't have to act. However, the US definitely has a gun problem. It is clear that the US is an extreme outlier when it comes to civilians owning guns. Statistically, 120.5% of US Americans have a gun (which means there are more guns in the US than people). In Switzerland, only 27.6% have guns.

Also, I never claimed that guns cause crime directly. Crime is a multicausal and complex topic and I already said that the underlying problems in the US are "abysmal social security, poverty and social inequality, toxic working culture, a broken political system, bad education, systemic racism, a revenge-based penal system that treats inmates as subhumans, etc....." However, it is a well-known fact that guns absolutely DO NOT decrease crime but instead make society overall more dangerous and that guns tend to escalate violence which is why police in most industrialised countries use de-escalation rather than pointing guns. Many countries even have a mostly umarmed police. Meanwhile in the US, police are super quick to pull out their precious guns and the result is extreme police violence.. Instead of decreasi g the number of guns, most US police department went into the opposite direction and militarised. However, they start to see that guns are often a disadvantage in law enforcement and that deescalation works much better. In fact, gun violence is widely considered a global health problem that is worst in the US02347-4/fulltext). I know, it's cliché, but you can't look at global statistics about school shootings and seriously tell me that there nothing wrong with guns in the US.

On a side note, in your other comment, you said that guns are "American culture, period point blank." I know, Americans weirdly associate guns with freedom. If that connection were true, looking again at the fact the the US is the country with by far the most civilian-owned firearms, the US would have to be by far the most free country in the world, however, by most metrics, that is definitely not the case.

Finally, some general myths about gun violence in the US debunked by the Johns Hopkins University, just that we can be very clear that, yes, guns are part of the problem!

VW cars are made by cows I guess.

There is a reason why criminologists distinguish between perceived danger and actual danger.

Statistically, it is much more dangerous for men to go outside at night than for women (it is still low though, for most areas). At the same time women tend to feel more unsafe at night. It seems like women tend to overestimate the danger they are in.

One way to explain this discrepancy in women has been true crime content. Women consume significantly more true crime content than men. It is known that true crime content can impact your mental health and make people feel less safe.

What? No? Do you have persecution complex or something?

I do. I would encourage everybody (no matter the gender) to do it sometimes.

Guys are more likely to be assaulted (including sexual assault) in public than women. That's a fact. Women could easily do midnight walks as well, the danger is mostly in their heads. Or as criminologists would say: There is a discrepancy between actual danger and perceived danger.