Things That America Invented (But Other Countries Do Better) - SOME MORE NEWS
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Hi. In today's episode, we look at products and ideas that originated in America but that other countries adapted in ways that are way, way better.
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Hosted by Cody Johnston
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Marco Siler-Gonzales
Edited by Gregg Meller
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
03:11 - Convenience Stores
16:05 - Solar Panels
22:51 - Toilet Paper and Modern Bidets
31:56 - Guns
39:54 - Democracy*
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I literally said "of course he did" when you said Reagan destroyed the solar panels, right before you said "of course he did". Did you feel it, Cody? Our shared moment?
You could literally make a list of problems America faces today, blindly throw a dart at it, and 99 times out of 100 the problem is directly Reagans fault or something Nixon did and Reagan went, how can I do this, but more.
I'm here specifically for the Reagan slander. It's like a fucked up version of the game "Kevin Bacon"
@@darthwyvvern that's fair. Honestly the more I learn about Reagan, the more I hate him.
Of course he did
@@darthwyvvernreagan is always 5 problems away from americas problems (often less xD)
Japan is a capitalist dystopia, but its a capitalist dystopia that actually kept its promise of providing convenience and efficiency to its players. In America we're told to be grateful and proud for our corporate entities slapping our tin spoons from our hands.
Good way of putting it. Kind of true for South Korea too. It is quite awful in many ways and more corrupt than many will admit, but the state is upholding certain structural pillars that are necessary for capitalism and happen to benefit the rest. The US seems to struggle to do even that in many places.
Also some aspects are cultural, spiritual, philosophical beyond capitalism, obviously. It's just that it tends to absorb everything into it I suppose.
Yeah really. Their food is amazing, cheap and convenient. Their housing is affordable, their public transportation is nearly perfect. Too bad about the hellish work culture, sexism and racism.
Can't agree more. I'd like add that Japan is really good for people who actually don't live there, therefore tourists like me. But for workers there is pretty much a high chance for so called Karoshi which you can translate as death by overworking. I think it's alarming that they have own word for such thing.
So capitalism with safeguards then. Which, conservatives in the US vehemently oppose, because not "free market".
@@Feefa99the English-speaking world has only fun, safe words for workers like "Indentured servitude".
and the Germans have words for all sorts of things! What does that say about them?
It really cannot be over-emphasized how many of our modern day problems go back to Ronald Reagan
He just made so many things that little bit worse
@@liam3284 and started the little-bit-snowballs that are now well on their way to bury the US in avalanches, because his party deified him and kept working on making the original snowballs bigger.
(except for the part where they work to advance global warming, making it difficult for snow...)
and Nixon
You always check the worst sh_t America ever do and they can be traced by at least 5 People
- Andrew Jackson
- Woodrow Wilson
- Ronald Reagan
- Richard Nixon
And
- George Bush Jr.
Always, without fail
Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the government is lying to you about 9/11.
The thing I love about Some More News is I can be entertained, informed, and feel an overwhelming sense of doom, all at once.
I’ve become dependent on these feelings every week.
You know, some Japanese public toilets have a function that plays music to increase privacy. So they actually do sing to you.
How considerate!
Thats the reason for the music? Okay everything Japan does is functional and pretty, and you can't convince me otherwise.
@@supergluehottyyeah. It's to save from public embarrassment and to inform if someone is already using the toilet. Not all toilets sing, so to speak. But many have sounds or background noises to play.
I was thinking about this too when he said that, I thought for sure they were going to actually show one of the musical toilets and then they rolled right on past it
This feature has been around for years. Mine plays a range of tuba tunes! Oh wait - no it's just a regular toilet nevermind.
Feels important to note that the 13th amendment didn’t abolish slavery so much as set new terms for acceptable slavery.
yeah, they made several videos about the US prison system
Can I quote you when arguing with my brothers about american politics
@@shinethief3785 Just quote the actual Amendment. It specifically states prison as an exception. No doubt written that way as a means to appease the states that wanted to keep it. Just like #2 was.
I love pointing this out to people, because that new level of acceptability....
More people died because of the 13th's new system then the old one.
It would take so many, many, more years before we would 'reshape' that system into something that wouldn't kill people. Didn't think, for a moment, that getting rid of state sponsored slavery would be the solution though. Noooo, better to put forth easy to ignore regulations and then blame the 'bad apples' for the deaths that still occur.
For those curious what happened:
Dead Slaves where a cost, one many people accepted but a cost
Dead Convicts are replace by the State, free of charge
The problem you have all danced around is that corporations have packed the Courts (with Republican help) to claim that "corporations are people because of the 13th Amendment".
Cody got one thing spot on. Anyone who suggests the US needs to change or may not be #1 in everything is probably going to find hostility. That hostility may include some version of the sentiment “love it or leave it.”
Usually reversed the minute they're talking about a fake problem that's just "Moderate reformist gives any pushback whatsoever against open fascism" or "Moderate reformist does stupid/weird thing most politicians do anyway", because what they're actually praising is intersectional oppression justified and reinforced through national Pinkerism, perpetuated by the sentiment-policing they're currently doing. Also, it farcically assumes that A: "Love" is not attempting to improve any aspect of what you love or allowing any criticism (Which is how you get Karens/Kens), B: That people get to choose which country they live in and how that affects them (I would be Finnish/German and America wouldn't exist), and C: That you can actually "Love" a bunch of lines drawn in blood on a sheet of paper.
Unfortuanately such hostility is the reason the US can't improve. Like nobody is more patriotic than someone who invests mental effort in finding the flaws of their country to improve them. Ostracising those people is how to become the "Former United States of America"
Of course I love America, that’s why I want it to heal and change. I’ll always remember in an Al Franken book a while back, he had some version of this sentiment: conservatives love America like a child loves their parent, progressives love America like a parent loves their child. Rings true now as then. Conservatives worship their version of traditional America, while progressives see what America could be and where it gets in its own way.
I’m an asphalt paver and the people I work with are the most basic, simple, surface level thinkers you can imagine and they are probably more basic/ and unable to process any way of thinking other than their current way until fox tells them otherwise. Somehow bidets came up in conversation and the reason they will never try one ever is ( and I imagine it’s the reason for all flyover states and Fl. Is because, and I quote “ isn’t that kinda gay?”
Dear god WTF??
Believe it or not, that’s a big deciding factor in the trade job community on most things in life and it’s pretty sad. This country is going to collapse sooner than we expect and we absolutely deserve it, because we purposely keep our fellow Americans under educated, uninformed and simple minded as absolutely possible.
This has been my experience in the construction industry as well. I worked with a guy once who, no lie, thought it was gay to wipe your ass too thoroughly. It just boggles my mind.
You'd be surprised at how often Capitalists manipulate masculinity and its perceived idealness for profit (meat industry, gun industry, car industry - and apparently, the toilet paper industry)
Nothing at all gay about manly men being all manly and menly.
I wish you were wrong about this. I really do. But yeah, America will absolutely destroy itself through self imposed ignorance (while killing the rest of the world with climate change that WE primarily caused of course).
Has there ever been a more arrogant and useless country than America?
Nope.
I wish we only had to remember Raegan as the cowboy who sold out the actor’s guild to get a better contract
I'm sorry, he did what?
@@zljmbo yea, that one kind of got covered up a bit since Reagan used his being the former head of the actor's guild to pretend he would be a friend to workers. I don't remember every detail, but apparently the head of the screen actor's guild used to have a bit more blanket discretion in negotiations than nowadays and during a strike Reagan pretty much sold out all of the original demands the guild had made for a much smaller benefits, and a contract that specifically helped 1 studio and that studio giving him an exclusive lucrative contract to pretty much be able to be part of any movie he wanted. So yea, he was always kind of a bastard even before he got into office and made it his official duty to aggressively be on the worst possible side of every issue presented.
Fucking reagan man...
For the record, as a Scot with only a tenious knowledge of 1900s American politics, I called Reagan getting rid of the solar panels while the Carter clip was still playing. If someone's gonna do something stupid, you can count on Reagan being that someone.
It’s a proud American tradition. Reagan winning the Presidency is definitely one of our turns into the wrong timeline.
Hey sometimes it's Nixon too. If the solar panels had been made/put up like 20 years earlier Nixon probably would have torn them down while demanding they make him space lasers instead.
@@hamishwalker9637 I always say if it wasn't Reagan it was Nixon's fault. I personally hate Nixon more as I hold him personally responsible for criminalization of weed
@@hamishwalker9637 Nixon created the EPA.
@@matthewcaldwell8100 And the only reason he didn't disband the department of energy is because they were the ones maintaining the nukes. Nixon was a dipshit who prolonged the cold war because he was sure they'd have space lasers to shoot down Russia's nukes, despite everyone else, including Russia, knowing it was total nonsense
Australian here. Can confirm thr solar. My local council is bugging me all the time about their solar program despite me already having installed one myself. It's a good problem to have.
Let me know when you guys get a second thing right.
The Aussie accent is pretty darn amazing too 😁
@@filthyshoggoth like gun control or universal health care? Will do!
And that was with the Libs purposely sabotaging any transition, too. But it makes so much sense to use damn solar when the worst place in Australia is better for solar than the best place in Germany
@@filthyshoggoth Basically everything else, except the whole indigenous peoples thing, but so far all the colonial nations have shit the bed on that one.
While solar is used a lot in Australia, do not forget how much of a hard-on some of our politicians fucking just LOVE coal. Back in 2017 just before he was elected as Prime Minister, Scott Morrison (the man who shat in a Maccas in the late 90s, who instead of wearing a welding mask he decided to look at sparks with no protection (bar his glasses), and while half of Australia was on fire he decided to take a trip to Hawaii) held up a piece of coal in parliament. And said basically that coal shouldn't be afraid of, and was really pushing about how great coal is. Everyone was so shocked by it because coal is something that can be deadly to humans, but here is Morrison touching it and passing it around to his politician mates.
The kicker... turns out it was covered in a lacquer, because if you touch coal you're going to have soot on you and everything. But their hands were clean (kind of symbolic if you ask me). Though, in my opinion, it most likely wasn't even coal in the first place too. Coal is Australia's most valuable export and even though solar is very popular here (my house has solar, though it's a new house compared to the previous place I lived in), coal still amounts for 75% of our country's electricity.
In South Australia, rooftop solar can produce more than 100% of the state's day time electricity demand. It occupies zero land.
The idea that oil is cheaper for developing countries is just not true. $1 spent on solar panels in an equatorial region will save $1 worth of furnace oil burned in a power plant per year. It is a 90% per year return on foreign exchange, for 20 years.
The gall of it in my opinion is how readily we sell off that coal to other countries- therefore enabling petrostates while we pretend we can wash our hands clean of it. We shovel coal to China and have the absolute termicity to pretend climate change is their problem as if we’re not the ones feeding the habit
Fun fact that has nothing to do with the episode at all:
The phenomenon Cody describes happening to convenience stores at 7:58 has a name! It's called the "pizza effect". It's where Culture A makes a thing, Culture B adopts and adapts it, and that adaptation becomes popular in Culture A.
It's called the pizza effect because pizza was invented in Italy and brought to America by immigrants. After WW2, there were American veterans living in Italy, so Italians made pizza that was more marketable to Americans.
"Pizza" was a Roman invention, modern Anglo-Italians are of Kazakhstani/Anglo-Eurasian/Russian descent.
The US Govt GAVE these non-Italians, "pizza businesses/culture" to place them above the Indigenous Blacks of the USA.
Sorta like how they are GIVING away Black HipHop to Hispanics/Eminem...
It's official then: Pizza in veterans Day every year from now on. Screw bbq.
Omfg nooo.
American pizza is overloaded with cheese
Fun fact: Pizza was invented by Greeks in Italy, then appropriated and modified to what it is known as today by Italians.
Don't make me dislike pizza by tying it to nationalism, thanks.
As long as I've been a delegate for local and state primaries, whenever I'm asked for suggestions, I say If someone else is doing something better than you, learn from them. Guess how often they take my advice. Like there's nothing you can learn from other countries; nothing at all?
The hang-up some people have with that mentality is that it requires acknowledging that the U.S. is not the best at something, and some people just can't fathom that.
Communist!
Learning from other countries is commulism. We get freedom instead.
“Not to be confused with anal tears…. Which is what I call diarrhea” Cody fighting so hard not to laugh SENT ME
"Anal tears" has two frighteningly different pronunciations that alter the meaning of that post in disturbing ways.
Time code?
@@TheRockerX 27:24
Thanks!@@AmarisFrede
The fact that the US constitution only has 27 amendments is worse than it sounds. Amendment 21 repealed amendment 18, which means in terms of actual effects it's more like 25 (though you can make a compelling case that repealing a bad change is still a good use of amendments). The really bad part is that 10 of those were passed 3 years after the constitution was adopted. Which means that there have only been 17 changes since 1791. In the same 1814-2014 window that Norway comparison used, 15 amendments have been passed
Man, poor Jimmy Carter. At least we're still using the memory of those solar panels today to help remember how fucking terrible Ronnie was.
It's like the Boomer generation made a deal with Republican politicians; "We'll ignore anything evil that you do, destroying the environment, killing labor unions, tax cuts for Billionaire donors, as long as our 401k accounts keep going up".
Republican Presidents usually are terrible
Pretty wild how of the 5 presidents to cause the most lasting harm in this country in the last 70 years 4 of them were Republicans.
Reagan committed genocide against queer people and addicts. He was a fucking monster.
everything I've now learned in my adult life about Jimmy Carter, he might be the only elected official from my lifetime I have any actual respect for.
So. Here's a weird thing. Cody didn't mention how racially motivated early gun control laws were. Sawn off shotguns were generally carried by those who couldn't afford new pistols, ie black, Irish, and Italian people. Those regulations were targeting gang violence, which they only paid attention to when done by Italian and black people.
the entire SCOTUS premise behind the Miller decision was flawed as well, as they didn't know shortened shotguns were very much in common use by the military at the time (commonly called a "trench gun"). It's too bad to, because the whole NFA is completely whack and viewed as ridiculous even by super gun-grabby countries.
Name a single US law that isn't racially (or gender) motivated...
@@1IGG LOL there are many like Alaska's don't do things to moose... Oh wait those laws were all made because of White males...
My GOD Critical Race Theory isn't a theory after all!!!
In all seriousness though the vast majority of laws are gender/race/sexual orientation based... But not all.
That's where Michigan's pistol registration law comes from. In the 1920s, a black doctor dared to shoot at a mob attacking his neighbor's house and worse (for the bigots) a jury refused to convict him. So the KKK pushed a law requiring pistol safety inspections that could be as hard to get as an open DMV in the Black parts of Alabama or Mississippi.
Oh and because the world needs to be ironically shitty, that safety inspection certificate says in small print on the bottom that it doesn't certify the pistol is safe to use.
Or the NRA themselves supporting gun control when the black panthers were strapped up
I say, Cody, my bro-dy! I nearly spat out my milky tea when you called the UK a functioning and healthy democracy!
The number of people that voted for Liz Truss was 81,326 in a country with a population of 67 million. The number of people that voted for Sunak is - checks notes - ZERO! He ran unopposed.
In fact, the ONLY times any UK government actually represented a majority of the people was in the 1930s (just after the Equal Franchise Act of 1928), and after the 2010 election that returned a "hung parliament" (show, don't tell!) leading to the much-maligned coalition government under David Cameron. Minority rule is a STAPLE of British democracy, not a rare exception.
Apart from that, jolly good show. Toodle-pip!
Wow. As an american I have learned a bit about your recent troubles with electricity, Brexit, and recent bad prime ministers like Boris John Thomas. I even learned british jokes. But I guess I only scratched the surface. But at least you didn't have 1/3 third of your country wearing red hats saying make Boris Great Again. You guys seem more self aware. Relatively. Love your comedians too. Mostly Russell Howard.
@@ericmollison2760 I'm impressed an American remembers Russell Howard. We haven't heard a peep out of him for years.
@@ericmollison2760Don’t be fooled by the big words he learned at Eton (but sometimes seems to struggle to understand). Johnson is Trump with an English Public School (private) education. Maybe very very slightly smarter than Trump, but that’s may just be the bigly words again.
Stupid hair, disloyal to a fault whilst requiring others be loyal to him (he doesn’t appear sure of how many children he has), narcissist, cruel - his response to the COVID epidemic was ‘let the bodies hit the floor’, or to put it in a more English Public (again, private) school manner - ‘they had a good innings’ (actual quote).
Full of big ideas, the sort of ideas a 12 year old would come up with, which inevitably fail or get cancelled after millions of public money have gone to his cronies.
A proven liar - he’s lost several jobs as a journalist because of it.
He really is a lot worse than people think he is.
When people say they can’t understand how Americans can vote for Trump when he’s so obviously a phony grifter I point out - Johnson was given a massive majority, people saw his schtick as refreshing and funny the same as many Americans did with Trump. They are truly cut from the same cloth.
And to top it off-
Trump in Britain means fart
Johnson is the US means penis
You couldn’t make it up.
They could do an entire episode on presidential v parliamentary systems and I hope they do
@@terraplane1116lots of Americans really love the back catalogs of British comedy shows. So anything on RUclips is being watched every year. In fact the newer the material, the less likely Americans are to have seen it.
I'm honestly still trying to wrap my head around 7-Eleven being the first convenience store when the UK had so many different 1800's corner shops become massive chain supermarkets. How did we fail so badly at that?
He's just straight up incorrect about the convenience store claim. My country already had convenience stores in 1927, so did the UK.
Solar panels have 200 to 250% tariffs currently. They could cost about 25 bucks for a good 100watt panel in the US right now. Instead lawmakers kept the price high. I wonder if it is related to the stock they own or the oil lobbyists, or both?
I almost never skip the ads because I'm always betting it would be an AG1 ad and can watch Cody pound a 500ml container of the stuff like a champ. Haha
Or the unhinged babbling of Kate Stoll; this is how ads should be.
AG1 mmm that great marsh grass taste that mooses can't get enough of
Cody does the taste testing I never wanted to. Hope Katie gives him extra patts on the head for that. Too bad she can’t pay him and keeps him locked in the studio…
That's fair, but even for this show an ad forces me to pay attention. it's like my contrarian mind starts paying attention out of spite. (by that i mean a second mind, not calling my mind contrarian)
@@douglasphillips5870”Tastes healthy!”
28:09 - Can confirm that in many bathrooms in Japan there is a button to press to start some “courtesy music” in order to prevent any blushes before you flushes.
Never forget that even when we “abolished slavery, it’s still explicitly allowed in the prison system, that prison system that was made to disproportionately effect black people
7-Eleven is great in Hawaii too, but that's definitely more because of the Japanese influence than it technically being a part of the US.
yea like 50% of the population of HI is Japanese I read somewere
psycho
You can't say that and have a comment with 69 likes without giving me spam musubi and potato wedges and ummmmmmmm...
@@alakani It's up to 96 now.
Will say the backroom/server rooms is still far behind the US an Japan though. Freaking mid 2000's tech.
But the front of the store. Most definitely
We're reunited again to hate imperialistic capitalism. Organize and be phisically and mentally sharp, we're going to need everyone ✊ love you all ❤
I wonder what the forces of Imperialist Capitalism are up to in the near east 🤔
The goal of the south all along was to get the British and French involved disregarding the fact it was going to resume the Crimean wær, essentially instead of JUST being a wär of înbrèd secession to a world wide conflict
praise god my brother ! stay blessed n communist
reee tankieeee reeeeeee
@@deptusmechanikus7362 Marxist Leninists are pretty fascistic though
"It's perfect. Like you!"
you have no idea how much i needed that today cody 😭
Ads on Some More News feel like they're from like, an 80's techno-futuristic distopian nightmare where theres a gunman just out of frame holding the scripts
The gunman's name is Wormbo
I've never tried bidets before, but a few years ago, we moved to a new house that had a bidet already installed, so I tried it, and now, I can't live without it.
Bidets are amazing (I had a similar experience; thought they were weird and foreign and tried one once because family had a medical issue that required it, and now it's like...WHY DID I TAKE SO LONG TO DO THIS), and it just goes to show how much we're conditioned to do things against our own self interest essentially because of non-stop marketing by companies. It kind of makes me question every commercial and "truism" I've been told (which is honestly a good thing, you SHOULD question everything and ask "....why am I doing this and is this actually a good thing?"
The one I have is so good.
They are life changing.
We use a makeshift one
I got one for my birthday this year and my spouse and I are so happy about it. Just so incredibly much better than TP
I have a solar hot water heater on the roof of my home. It was installed in the early 80s and is still functioning now almost 40 years later. They are somewhat rare and is at best a curiosity for anyone who notices it.
We also have pv panels that were installed decades later.
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is the efficiency was such that installing it to directly heat the water was more efficient in those days, while it's now more efficient to generate the electricity to run the heater??
In OZ my employer installed 40,000 in 9 months, the paperwork was F'd up and I had to claim all the rebates, I got 1.1 million. The owners of the houses didn't pay a cent, we paid them 100 bucks for them to sign a piece of paper and let us install them. Good times
@@BSunE Not quite but the electricity is generally more useful especially in summer when both systems run the best and you don't really need heating all that much. But PV panels were horrendously expensive both in production and maintenance until the mid 2000s and solar water heaters are dirt cheap and need basically no maintenance. The most complex piece in a solar water heater is the pump and that is typically in the basement and therefore save from the elements and easily accessible when necessary. I think they still have a place especially for well insulated houses but they don't get the same subsidies because they are purely local and can not feed back into a public grid when over producing which makes them less attractive when you are looking at the bigger infrastructure picture like a good government should.
@@BSunE solar panels aren't super efficient, ranging form 6-40% usually around 20%, but it's both more efficient and cheaper to turn solar straight into heat. all you really need is black paint, to absorb the light into heat, run water under the paint, and you have hot water. you can also cool water using panels, but thats a bit more complicated.
heres a diy heating panel ruclips.net/video/Tg44ndqPTGQ/видео.html
and a cooling panel ruclips.net/video/KDRnEm-B3AI/видео.html
but people generally talk about electricity more, and idk if you can even buy the heating/cooling panels.
Watching Katy soldier through those Hello Tushy ads is always so inspiring.
Seeing Toledo in the story filled me with equal amounts of "yeah, home city!" and "oh yeah, problems with home city." What a rollercoaster of emotions.
Don't know what I'd do without these guys. I'd prolly still think Jordan Peterson had "many valid points" as I used to say lol😂.
Dare I say more? Jordan Peterson's "many valid points" on Bill Maher's show?
god bless some more news
I'm happy they caught you.
And good job You!
for doing the hard work, that self reflection and opening your mind to new ideas can be.
Stay strong and sensitive comrade ✊😍
You know people say there's no point in arguing with someone on the Internet.
But I don't do it to change the mind of the person I'm talking too (it has happened all of 5 times). I do it for everyone else reading who might think the other person was right.
So you went from one ideological wonk to another? How do you do it?
You know, with Reagan, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.
Japanese convenient stores are called Konbini because "convenient store" is an phrase that was adopted to Japanese, and usually when that happens the word is shortened down to 4 characters (katakana). Ko-n-bi-ni
Line television: terebi 😂 aww Japan ❤️
I often stan how expanding the LIHTC program is one of the easiest ways to address many housing issues.
I am glad the scary RUclips man talked about the other. Abolishing single family zoning fixes a ton of issues
Wow, Cody's final show was pretty good. Can't wait for CODE-E's episode next week.
processing.... processing....
this has existed in my life for less than a minute and my day is already better, thank you
the same
Right? 😞
That’s fucking bleak, but I’m glad it’s made your day better
As soon as Cody said "Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the roof," my brain just filled in "and Ronald Reagan took them down."
I've installed bidet seats on both toilets in my house, and two of the bathrooms at work. Everybody who tries them has an immediate epiphany. Everybody who refuses to try them has the most ridiculous and easily refuted excuses.
Right? Like imagine not using water when washing your hands. That's what we do with our asses.
On the convenience store thing, feels pretty obvious we should have on every price tag, a cost per ounce alongside the full price so you can do accurate price comparisons
Some places do this, like Smart&Final, whereas otherwise, you’d have to bring a calculator/conversion app in order to figure out specific per unit costs.
Plus the cost of sales tax too.
@@joels5150 aye. Most places do this, yet it's only displayed on the shelf price/sticker. Basically prompting people to only compare prices before something is in their cart.
You guys don't have that ? 💀
@@AcetylsaliciIique I live in Oregon and in most places here, you have to do all the conversions yourself for cost comparisons, so no one bothers
A Björk joke that references Vespertine??? This is the best episode of SMN of all time
I’ve been saying for years; the real danger for children isn’t drugs, it’s navigating a convenient store without being poisoned.
highest density of addictive substances
Because it was mentioned I just need to point out that after that dude assassinated extremely popular previous Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the entire world looked on at his crime and said "oh, hmm, I think that guy has a point."
How is Cod-E under the desk? IS IT IN THE CORN CREAM?
It IS the corn cream.
It runs on the corn cream, silly goats!
Funny thing: I learned how amazing bidets were during my travels many many years ago, so I installed one in my bathroom that goes with me when I move to a new place, I HAVE TP for guest, and only need 1 square to dry myself, skip ahead to 2020 lockdown... I never feared the TP shortage the nation had (actually gave out a couple rolls to people in need) and whenever I saw a couple of crazy Karens fight over a roll of TP I would laugh my ass off. Good times... good times.
Moved to SE Asia after a lifetime of toilet paper use. There is a kind yet petty, snickering sort of demon in the toilet gun which has infected my memories. Every time I experience a memory of a time in my hometown where I was aware of my body, I realize that my ass was almost certainly dirtier than it is now. What terrible gratitude I have for these toilet guns. Their nozzles so varying in their pressure. Their cords, the fleshiest thing in the bathroom besides a human being. I will never go back.
i live in a university dorm now so there's unfortunately nothing i can do about it but i grew up in india and thailand, famously bidet-having countries. and when i moved to the us i really felt like i had travelled back in time to the dark ages. my ass is not going to be clean enough without the water. it's so wild to just scrape your ass with toilet paper and be like yep that's good! it's even worse when i'm on my period. sometimes the blood dries and it's basically impossible to get off with just toilet paper but it's no problem at all with a bidet! every single toilet should have a bidet genuinely
It was only a shortage because people were buying too much of it, we never actually needed that much
Hmmmm, seems laughing your ass off defeats the point of having a bidet....
I'm surprised there are only 50,000 combinis here in Japan. I would have sworn there are that many in my city alone. Any street corner with a 7/11 will have a Lawsons across the street and a FamilyMart across the street from that... and nearly every street corner (and certainly every train and subway station) has a convenience store.
That's roughly how many ABC stores are on a single block in Hawaii.
""Shit outside" it's perfect, like you guys." Needs to be enshrined in some comedy hall of fame. Great writing, perfect delivery.
Watching this with my wife, when Seven Eleven came up, I said "Seven Eleven was all over Japan when I went. They had whole fish hanging all over the store". Then the video said the exact same thing!
and the gas station sushi won't kill you :D
I fkn hate the notion that we're some great democracy. Almost nothing the majority is in favor of ever happens.
I knew Regan was coming for that Solar panel before Cody said it
Japanese convenience stores are really all what they say and more. You can buy postage, pay your health insurance fees, print documents using the public printer, etc. In fact, if you shop online in Japan, many sites have a payment option that will allow you to pay in cash "in person" by giving you a barcode/QR code that you print out and pay for at your nearest convenience store. Superrr convenient since you can print out the barcode, withdraw money from the ATM, and pay for it all at the same location!
Amazon had this thing where you could pay cash in person, but most stores didn't support it... had to drive pretty far to find one.
I _don't think_ if you asked most right-minded people in the UK if they thought their political system was working, that they'd agree. The thing is, UK politics, just like American politics (and that of many other countries), has proven in recent years that all systems work _in theory_ , but it's dependent on the quality of input and, most crucially, the sense of honor of those in power.
The recent wave of the right-wing rise has been driven by people who've decided rules don't matter and there's no convention or moral valuable enough to stop them pushing their agenda. Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro, Orban, Modi, Erdogan, Netanyahu, Putin, Xi, all people who you can _technically_ say got to power _via_ conventional means, but they then take a shit all over the rules. Persecuting opponents, calling anyone who opposes you ideological enemies, making laws that centralise power and remove term limits, stacking judiciaries, intimidating voters, fixing elections and refusing to acknowledge results that go against them. With people like that, it doesn't matter what electoral system you have in place; the end result is always going to be garbage.
It's honestly weird how people like these keep appealing to vast numbers of the electorate that each country seems to want to take a turn at trying one. Argentina look to be next with Milei. Like, I understand the societal and economic reasons that underpin the desperation and anger in many people, but you can just look at every country who has each had a turn trying an honor-less, bombastic moral vacuum for leader and see what it's done to make their respective countries even worse, and surely learn that that isn't a solution.
It's not surprising those types of individuals keep getting to power when you see what led up to it. There are entire seminars going in detail how Hitler managed to get into power in a republic like Germany. The basic math here is "Powerful group of people feel ignored", "Powerful individual pledges to do what powerful group of people want", and "Powerful individual claims source of problem for powerful people is some specific thing supported by the current government".
For the USA it is, "White people feel they aren't important", "Trump promises to make them important again", and "The reason white people aren't important is because of democrats giving everything to other countries".
UK's system doesn't work because UK is an oligarchy. You have an entire house of parlament that is made out of unelected rich pricks. And then the other house is made out of elected rich pricks. You assume that's just how it is in politics - it isn't. A functioning democracy elects its politicians from among the people, and you can see that in action looking at that famous photo of EU parliment with each politicians former job listed. You know, the one where Farage yells at them "you've never held a job," because that's how it is in UK?
Then there's your two-party system.
Looking at you from the outside, USA and UK have much more in common than you'd like to admit. UK was a poor choice for an example of "functioning democracy" indeed.
The fact we've had multiple prime ministers recently isnt a sign of a healthy democracy. The last two were voted in only by the people in the ruling party, and the lastest only the MPs... Hardly democratic!
If Xi was following CPC conventions, he should have stepped down by now. Instead he is staying in power long enough for his "captain's calls" to backfire on him.
the US Solar self-own is so complete and continuous. it should be taught worldwide as a cautionary example.
I see commercials for AG1 on regular television now. I think it's all thanks to Cody that they're growing so much.
i’ve had the privilege to be able to travel in japan in the past. i was hesitant of the bidets at first… but when you have a stomach issues & are in a new country for three months… it saved my ass, very much literally. you walk around with a new confidence after the 4th stop of the day with zero chaffing!!
"Those big blue magic plates that siphon Godblood from the sky" I love you, Cody.
Japanese Bathrooms (of course) DO sing to you
there's a button on a lot of public restrooms to play moderately loud music, because ladies in Japan were flushing too much to cover the sounds of them shitting in public, so the government or whatever installed the music buttons to reduce wasting water
I hope Hello Tushy never turns out to be a horrible company, because I want to forever see Cody and Katy desperately try not to giggle at all their poop jokes during the ads they make for the company.
re: toilet paper i think this applies to paper towels as well. i'm specifically thinking about paper towels being used in homes for cleaning. not sure about other cultures, but in my culture we have cleaning rags dedicated to cleaning stuff, so there's way less disposable stuff going in the trash. and this is true of a lot of places and cultures. this used to be a thing everywhere because we didn't have paper towels and fabric was too valuable to just throw away but some countries have moved away from the using everything until you can't find any more uses for it thing now which is really bad for the environment. i literally had my mom make fun of me for saying i'm going to embroider over a few holes one of my shirts has because "i must really like it" when really it's just that it's still a perfectly good shirt that fits me and i don't see any reason to stop using it when i could fix it with a needle and some thread. repairing stuff used to not just be a poor people thing. the difference between the poor and rich was that the rich would have more stuff and be able to hire someone else to do the mending for them - wealthy people a few hundred years ago would own maybe 10-15 sets of outfits while poor people would probably have one "good" set (like sunday best) and one for day-to-day wear. wealthy people would rotate through the clothes they had but when they had holes in their shirt or something they would get a servant to fix it, not throw stuff away like we do today. that went off topic lmao
My home has always had a dedicated stash of old towels and rags for cleaning, but sometimes-like when the dog has a little accident, or a giant accident-it is nice to have something we can just toss in the trash.
I live in a neighborhood that's mostly housing, but we're bookended by main roads, and we have a single "corner store" in the middle of all the residences. I hate driving, and it only takes me 8-10m to walk there. Someone burned it down once, but when my MIL was talking to him (she went down there when she noticed drama was happening lol) she asked if he would leave. Hell no, he had insurance, and now a much newer looking store :D My MIL has known them since my husband was a little kid. We really don't like going to any other convenience store, and he'll have things in stock specifically for people in the neighborhood. It's a good place
Why on Earth would someone try to burn it? Is this another example of the US Mindset of Hating Good Things?
Probably! They've had their squabbles with people, it's possible one of those people had terrible decision making skills :D@@weareallbornmad410
thank you warmbo for this new episode
By the Love of Warmbo !
We all know it's all due to the title Monkey.
I was about to take Cody to task for his take on the Rings of Power, until I realised that it was merely another symptom of the AI taking over.
Yeah, because it's an Alexa. It took me a moment to realise that was the joke; I thought he was just brain mushing
Bjork impression was spot on Cody!!
Me finding out Cody needs immune support - "YES!!! Chug it, news-man!"
"According to AG-1..." I wonder if that's an ad-in from the SMN team, or something the AG-1 legal team had to add to their script requirements.
24:18 Over the top down the front is how I end up with an entire roll unspooled and dragged down my stairs. Against the wall means that when the cat treats it like a speed-bag or forepaw treadmill it stays on the roll.
Damn, the solar coverings for parking lots seems like such an obviously good idea. Why have i never seen this?
This whole episode is basically how Japan takes ideas that Americans reject because of stubborn mindsets and then makes it waaaaaaay better
They should do that with worker's rights and workweek/hours.
@zacheryeckard3051 Yeah, I hear Japan has some pretty rough working culture...not to mention the social hierarchy that exists in regards to elders
@@zacheryeckard3051 they would become too amazing
@@zacheryeckard3051 Bigg sorry again maybe i had my classes not on?
@@zacheryeckard3051 eh, it'd be a minor improvement at best. You gotta look to european, and especially nordic, workers' unions.
"... It's perfect, like you!"
Thank you, Cody. I needed that today.😊
I love that this channel loves Regan as much as I do
You all had a good run! Bit shorter than most world powers and your still one of the richest yet poorest at the same time. Feels like one of those ling slow break ups, and the rest of the world just watches it crumble, talking to other countries about when you used to be hot
I’d pay for a “Ronald Reagan: Dead Idiot” shirt.
Also, the irony of referring to the 130 year old patent on the toilet roll to justify how place the roll on the holder in an episode where you lament Americans not improving old designs is delicious. It’s so much better than Alanis irony.
To be fair, there have even been studies on it. Over works better.
There are shirts for the Killer Mike song Reagan that just say "I'm Glad Reagan Dead" which I feel gets the point across.
The one good explanation I've seen for using the underside placement is that it keeps cats from playing with it as a toy and unrolling the whole thing. If you don't have a cat and you do it, though, I can only assume you're a psychopath.
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Yeah it makes sense if you have problems with pets unrolling the thing but otherwise over is just easier to use. Not that it matters much to me any more, I don't use as much TP in the bathroom these days and I just have my roll set on the shelf instead of in a special holder.
“Solar panels siphon God blood” is going on my epitaph. So sayeth me.
I love Cody's subtle disses on AG1 every ad
I was hoping part of the Constitution segment would have talked about how we have negative rights vs more modern constitutions with positive rights and how that affects judicial review and hinders the ability of the government to help its citizens. It’s a stark contrast to a document written 200+ years ago as compared to moderns political philosophy.
I love how less than a minute in and Cody has already destroyed his pen 💀💀
Omg, if the US could get conbinis I'd be crazy happy
I just want to walk to a 7-11 for the egg salad sandwiches.
Wawa and sheetz need more spread in the US. It just stops 1/3 of the way across. It was the biggest shock moving to the west coast not having anything that was that good of a convenience store.
Someone will make an 8-hour FNAF lore style video on the deep lore of Some More News that keeps evolving like other countries' constitutions.
Cody you're looking extraordinarily handsome today
Just going to interrupt watching this video for a second because you brought up Dollar General.
I grew up close to their massive regional office in Chesapeake, Virginia, and recently went back to stay with family so I saw it again. It has a parking structure almost the size of the building itself, and is so enormous I honestly thought it was their NATIONAL headquarters. Kinda says something.
Japan (and I say this with the utmost respect) scare me. The speed at which they rebuilt from staggering loss twice is legitimately incredible. They are hardworking and naturally industrious people, which is very cool but also a bit scary at times lol
@doomsoul9096: It's like watching ants rebuild a nest after its near-total destruction.
I mean, they rebuilt so well because the US supported it, as it had an economic and political interest to do so. So then taking our ideas and building on them makes a lot of sense.
It's kind of teetering on the verge of collapse again at the moment, though.
Yeah it's so cool the way they squeeze every ounce of work-hour out of their people to the point they unalive themselves and don't want to f*ck anymore.
"naturally industrious" Lmao. They are exploited because they just didn't have huge labor movement the way we had in Europe or the U.S.
You think every emerging economy is "industrious" or maybe it would seems other factors are at play here ?
Wow. That didn't in any way sound racist, and a lot like the rhetoric surrounding Japanese people all the time.
"They" are "naturally" industrious?
Please go back and reread what you wrote. If it's difficult to understand why it sounds gross, replace Japanese people with black people and see if you can figure out why what you just said is...kinda gross.
Well done. Always enjoy the characters you all think up!
In quebec, any decently urban area will have what we call a ''Dépanneur'' these small stores have everything you need and depending on the store, there can be extras such as fresh foods. just around my house in a 5 minutes walk distance there are 3 such stores, the biggest chain of dépanneurs is called couche-tard
Couche-Tard also owns stores in therest of Canada and the US now. They're not called Couche-Tard, they're called Circle K, but they are owned by Couche-Tard
leave it to a Quebecian to brag about Quebec. We get it, you’re better than everyone else
@@Guywithaclubthey're not, that's why we sold them off. #GoFrance #JK
haha coochie turd haha
@Guywithaclub pretty sure that person was just trying to share some info about circle k and couche tard🙄
water-shed is an old-timey word for a man-made berm separating two bodies of water... it was originally a German word (Wasserscheide) that was directly translated into English.. I guess it's a calque? Anyway, that word would also be used to mean the separating of day-time and night-time TV but also for the outhouse.. and when they moved the toilet indoors it became the water-closet and finally.. shitter.
I learn so much from these videos and their comments. Had never heard of the word ‘calque’ before, and your explanation of ‘watershed’ is really cool
all across the Europe we call bathroom "WC" and most people don't even know it's acronym for water closet, it became universal sign
Water-shed is also used to describe the catchment area of a given river, lake or ocean.
Great chug today, Cody. Very little left behind. Very proud.
great show had a lot of fun thanks, Cody and crew.
Lip over the front is more convenient, but lip behind the back is more resistant to pet shenanigans.
*Conservatives: Why we can’t have nice things.🎪*
I love you guys so much. Started listening a few months ago and this is my new favorite news outlet
I'm from Iceland and I can confirm that Björks are reaching boar levels here, it's madness!
In all seriousness though, the Icelandic version of SWAT had to shoot a man to death a few years ago and they issued a public apology to the nation the day after. This is how rare gun deaths are in this country.
Bjöars?!
Good job news man.
*We did not invent propaganda but we definitely are trying to perfect it. ✨💩✨*
Nah, it's bad proganda that only works on stupid people. The trick was to make my uneducated people.
Things America didn’t invent but does better.
I disagree. We don't do propaganda better, we have a very stupid nation that falls for blatant, obvious propaganda, almost willingly.
you can get a bidet for like 25 bucks at walmart. I do not understand how everyone doesn't have one. I hate using the bathroom anywhere but my home in America, it feels like camping.
Putting in the little water splitter might be a hassle for some people who aren't big on home handiwork. Apartments might toss a fit. But in principle, I agree.
"Big blue magic plates that siphon good blood from the sky" is my new favorite description of solar panels.
I had a bathroom remodel a bit over a year ago and got a Japanese washlet toilet. It, no joke, changed My life.
God, I love those AG1 ads. 😂😂😂😂
I saw a suggestion on the news ticker "don't be fooled by [shrinkflation], calculate if the price per ounce [for a better comparison]". In Australia (and I presume most developed countries/states), we have laws that stores must print the cost per standard weight/volume on the price label/ticket. That saves time and work for everyone who has to calculate value by weight.
You folks also largely include tax prices on the sticker, as I understand it, so you don't get that extra bump at the register. It's just... on the fucking sticker. Which sounds amazing.
Crazy that 5 days later "Last Week Tonight" has an Ep about Dollar Stores