Things you like about America

rachelgalvo

America's reputation has been in decline for about 10 to 15 years but the last two months of the Trump administration has brought it to a new low. I wonder if there's anything still admirable about the country.

cnocbui

It's a good distance from here.

geographica

some amazing national parks, though Tangerine man is trying to ruin that aswell

Frost Spice

Music (think of all the genres that originated in such a new country), film, literature, theatre (prefer American theatre to British), TV, comedy, journalism in the not too distant past. A tremendous sense of history, interest in one's roots. So much heritage - again for such a young country. I've been there twice - New England (Salem, Boston), upstate New York for Civil War history, then I visited the deep south - New Orleans. Whole lot fascinating.

Spectacular, majestic scenery; cool cities.

It's an amazing nation but it's just so damn politically volatile, and has terrible problems too... and it seems like they're coming home to roost.

Nigel Fairservice

Years ago I spent 3 months travelling around across the US by myself. I met some lovely people along the way (as well as some mad ones). A few people offered me places to stay on my trip. I didn't take anyone up on their offers but it was nice all the same. Americans seem very at ease in each others company. Myself and my wife and son went on a hotel break recently and there were Americans on a bus tour staying in the hotel. They had all mostly just met each other but all seemed to be getting on like they knew each other much longer. I second the National Parks as well. The few I've been to were amazing.

thereiver

It produces great entertainment , eg movies ,tv ,podcasts that are popular all over the world .it has the best writers in terms of books essays ,comic books .at least before trump came into power it had progressive policy's for women and LGBT rights . Most good tech products were invented in America ,ipods iphone smartphone computer,s , digital cameras . android , osx iphone is, PC ,s . America has a great influence of tends in music ,fashion and art .

At least up til 2020 America has stood up for free speech consumer rights and the right to repair.

America has more startups than anywhere else .

The standards for dvd blueray 4g 5g internet html website programming open source software free os Linux were mostly produced in America . The internet was designed that anyone could write html or launch a website or blog . Even if you don't like trump most people watch USA produced media tv and films .

Google owns android os any company can produce cheap phones using the android os and there's loads of free apps on the app store

Its not necessary to spend 1000 euro on an iphone or support apple

People around the world watch Netflix and USA produced sitcoms films Hollywood produces media. that seems to be entertaining for most people

newuser...

^Reads like chatgpt

somenergy

Pecan sandies cookies

newuser...

Pizza and steaks

cj maxx

Easy women , all night drinking , easy taxi availability , easy women , all night drinking . The Gap

deandean

The PBJ sandwich.

thereiver

Things bad about America chatgtp and ai apps

Use an adult incredible amount of power and water so students can use em to write essays and make menes .. lack of gun control ,roe vs Wade gone.Some women have to travel 100s if mikes to get an abortion. Lack of moderatorion on Facebook .Twitter is now a have.for racist weirdo,s and misinformation

Unlike your a programmer most people have no use for ai apps but it's going to be built into all phones and windows os using up battery power and ram .ai makes stupid mistakes that no human would as it's take info from forums or blogs they contain misinformation and conspiracy theories

Danny healy ray

medical breakthroughs mostly come from the states hopefully we will see a cancer vaccine one of these days

newuser...

Is chat gpt and Ai American?

silliussoddius

Sierra Nevada Brewing.

Fr Tod Umptious

American football and baseball.

Plus as another poster alluded to, on a personal level the people can be very friendly and helpful.

boardsdotie44

Aprils fools…

littlefeet

It would be hard to pick one thing there are so many it's a pity what the orange one is doing.

Jack Daw

The wilderness and emptiness that still exists in America.My dream if I ever won the euro-millions would be to buy a massive ranch in Montana.

Also all the different high quality sports leagues that exist there.

American Movies, TV Shows and Literature are excellent aswell.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123315494#Comment_123315494

Not sure where you're getting your ideas from about places tech were developed, cause you're wildly off the mark with nearly all of it.

Smartphones existed before Apple, the biggest brand being mostly made in the EU by a Finnish firm, running a UK operating system.

DVD was developed by Japanese and European vendors (as were CDs back in the day - just Sony and Philips there) with very little involvement by US firms

Much development of mobile comms standards is European - Nokia, Siemens and Ericsson being critical. The US was still using analogue mobile phones as default when we already had mobile internet in the early 00s.

The web (http/html) was developed in Switzerland by a Brit.

Kodak may have developed the CCD (the technology for digital cameras) but never used it. Japanese firms introduced the first professional, and eventually the first consumer digital cameras and digital video cameras.

Linux is Finnish in origins.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123315557#Comment_123315557

We have a vaccine for one cancer, your namesake opposes it.

It was developed in Australia.

Riddle101

One thing I like is the beautiful scenery. The Florida Keys, the Montana Mountain Range, Yosemite National Park along with all the other national parks, and the vast open landscape are reasons for me to visit America. A beautiful country.

boardsdotie44

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123315896#Comment_123315896

Everything but the ppl, agree :)

boardsdotie44

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123315890#Comment_123315890

Was gonna comment on his post aswell.. but wasnt arsed.. most of what he said is inaccurate.

Alot of the tech coming out of US was stolen, ripped off anyway..

The perception of the states is far greater than it actually is..

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123315896#Comment_123315896

I've enjoyed a few driving holidays (can't say Florida was worth it), but what's frustrating is how much more better it would be if they did more long distance trainlines. For scenery and ease of travel Europe is excellent in comparison.

BailMeOut

They make very good hamburgers.

yagan

Hooters has gone bankrupt, close the thread.

506972617465

They used to make good movies back in the day.

ctrl-alt-delete

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123316102#Comment_123316102

Has it not gone bust?

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123316107#Comment_123316107

I think the last US movie I enjoyed in the cinema was There Will Be Blood, which was 18 years ago!

It just seems after that it all became comicbook francises.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123316134#Comment_123316134

Maybe David McWilliams would call it the implosion of the stimulus economy!