Then the hallucinated research is published in an article which is then cited by other AI research, continuing the push the false information until it’s hard to know where the lie started.
We also have more staggered school breaks throughout the year. With two weeks off after every term, many more public holidays, and the ~2 month summer break there are a lot more opportunities to go on holiday. As an Aussie dad in the US, I'm struggling to think how I'm possibly going to get them back to Australia when they're at school throughout the entire year.
I wonder if this difference is always why Americans don't put butter on sandwiches or consider just bread and butter a completely normal snack. If it doesn't taste like anything I can see why it wouldn't make sense.
Butter is a key component of a quintessential American sandwich - the grilled cheese. Also, bread and butter is a midwestern dinner table staple, and buttered crackers are things I snack on, I put them out for dinner parties. Though, older people use margarine for "health reasons".
If I want tanginess on a sandwich, I reach for mustard.
American butter mostly tastes like salt and hardened milkfat … which is pretty ho-hum.
I suspect most Americans use butter for the salinity rather than the flavor.
I further suspect that people butter their grilled cheese not for flavor, but for crisping the bread and building a barrier against the grease released by the melting cheese.
I didn't find out you could make a grilled cheese with mayo until a few years ago. My husband still won't even try it. In my region, I doubt that most people would be comfortable using mayo instead of butter.
You also have to consider the fact that many households' standard loaf on hand is white sandwich bread. There will always be a place in my heart for the squishy comfort of a slice of our locally-made white bread, but the fanciest butter wouldn't make it a delicacy. Cheap store brand butter on a discount grocery store "baguette" is a much better snack. Then there's butter on saltines to go with a stew or pea soup. The taste of my childhood.
As has been talked to death, the quantity distribution of bread in the US is atrocious. It was certainly my experience when I visited the US. There is a hilariously culturally significant post in /r/Australia where an American tourist talks almost erotically about a loaf of bread they bought here once, and it’s later discovered that it was just cheap, standard, supermarket bread.
We were also heavily conditioned through the 80s and early 90s to not use butter for health reasons. Many homes stopped using lard and animal fats entirely in favor of artificially flavored plant-based butter substitutes that melted poorly and tasted horribly.
I'd say Americans generally expect butter to be used in situations where it's intended to melt. So we use butter on hot toast, hot waffles, baked potatoes, hot dinner rolls, and so forth.
On sandwiches we use mayonnaise since the sandwich is cold, and the eggy flavor of mayo is really tasty, and cold mayo is easy to spread but cold butter is not -- if you used regular sandwich bread it would most likely tear.
Plain room-temp bread and butter we don't eat much of, but that's because sandwich bread isn't usually very good by itself, not because of the quality of the butter.
I think the butter-with-hot-food thing might also be because we usually keep butter in the fridge. I'm aware some people keep butter at room temperature so it's spreadable, but that's never been popular in the US.
Australian public schools are funded by state and federal governments, not local. So all public schools tend to be pretty similar. On the flip side the government also partially funds private schools, which is an issue at the moment.
Long time ago I heard this joke: Ship is sinking, the captain needs to tell everybody 'women and children first' . So to the british: you are gentlemen, aren't you? To japanese passengers: look what everybody else is doing. To US-American: you guys want to be heros?
I wouldn't say "being young" is that relevant after a couple centuries. Nobody in the US today knows someone who witnessed the declaration of independence (unlike, say, in Israel or India).
Probably. But I believe there's still a notion that they're new players who got everything right to the top. While other countries have seen peaks and valleys.
That is also true for the police. Usually the police is incompetent if you want to be funny, or they are suffering humans. The police as a hero is also USA propaganda.
I think it was the sunsetting of Google Reader that triggered the downfall. I don’t think I ever cared about push notifications for feeds. When you have your morning coffee, open up Reeder, refresh the feeds and read through a few articles.
Weekly or fortnightly pay is common in Australia, so talking about it as weeks of pay made sense to me. I don't think they really even use the term "fortnight" in the US. Every tech company I've worked at here seems to do the 15th and 30th which is still strange to me.
It's true, I have colleagues point out how odd my usage of fortnight is in presentations, meetings, etc. Had no idea that was a difference until I moved stateside.
Design systems alone don't really solve for this. Design would need to look at the experience across the entire app.
A simplified example of how the UX can break down if frontend teams are too isolated is notifications. If every team triggers a bunch of their own notifications the user might be getting slammed with notifications.
Sure the pieces might look cohesive, but it might suck for the user if the teams aren't thinking about it from the perspective of a user.
There's always going to be shared services in any split system. Notifications is going to be one of these (kind of by necessity, especially if you plan on leveraging things like service workers which don't have a good "stacking" story to have multiple ones for the same path, so you want a shared one if you don't want every have to have one).
