When I was trainee in Stockholm in the 1980s most (if not all) escalators in the metro still run such that you had to take the left one.
Train tracks in Sweden are still left-hand traffic
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#32Maybe the world should standardize on: Driving on the right Speaking English The metric system The 2024-06-09 date format The Celsius scale The 24-hour clock
> Speaking English If you mean teaching english as a second language, I can agree. If you mean switching over to it as the primary language I hard disagree.
> as a second language
It should go beyond that, a second official language, so that all signs, documents and government interactions should be just as valid in both languages.
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#33Maybe the world should standardize on: Driving on the right Speaking English The metric system The 2024-06-09 date format The Celsius scale The 24-hour clock
> Driving on the right
More people in India drive on the left than North America and Europe put together.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
No daylight savings time ...would be one that I would add.
Found the German. On a serious note: compared to the other inconsistencies, this seems like a very minor one. If we wanted to standardize time, we should agree on ONE timezone across the world. But of course that seems almost impossible: Having to convince 8 billion people on a change that has little benefit in their everyday life.
How would one timezone work? The sun sets at 8:00 in one place and sets at 20:00 on the other side of the world?
In terms of working or traveling between time zones, it seem like it would be much harder to remember the fact that, for instance, people in New York stop work when the clock says 17:00 and people in LA work until 20:00, than to remember that they are three time zones apart.
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#35I was in Sweden then, was only 2yo though so don't remember it, my parents felt the change went smoothly.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am fluent in one language and speak three others passably, and have order-a-beer/ask-for-a-toilet/get-directions ability in a few others. It does not matter to me which language I use to communicate. Why should it? The one I am fluent in is not the language of any of my ancestors if I go back just a couple of generations. So what? My children are natively fluent in two languages. Neither of their languages is a sec…
Usually people have one primary language which is usually the one predominantly used in the home they grew up in (or maybe the one used for their primary education). If you have multiple, that's fine, but your disregarding the reality for 90%+ of people if you don't think most people have a language that is their "primary". > It does not matter to me which language I use to communicate. Why should it? For most people…
Yeah, I get what you are saying. I would never want to mandate any language. I think it is dumb when countries have official languages as opposed to e.g. operating languages.
I just think that people are more worried about the homogenization of language than they need to be. In fact, with how quickly culture is homogenizing around the world, I think that it is even possible that language differences outlast cultural differences over the medium term. Teenagers in a lot of the world I have been to in the past years dress/behave/express themselves ... not very differently.
Everywhere I go in the world, old shit is different, but modern shit is depressingly the same, or really similar anyway.
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#37There is a joke, that in order to facilitate such a change, it should be done in more manageable steps. So on day 1, only the motorcycles switch over to the other side of driving, on day 2 the motor vehicles, and on day 3 the trucks and busses switches over...
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#38When I was trainee in Stockholm in the 1980s most (if not all) escalators in the metro still run such that you had to take the left one.
Train tracks in Sweden are still left-hand traffic
Like in France (excl. Alsace and Lyon metro). But which track trains use has extremely limited effects on the general public.
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#39When I was trainee in Stockholm in the 1980s most (if not all) escalators in the metro still run such that you had to take the left one.
Still on escalators everywhere, if you're standing, you stand on the right. If you're passing, you pass on the left.
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#40One surprising (after we got a ticket..) thing about parking laws in Sweden is that you're also only allowed to park on the right side of the road / with the car in the direction of the traffic. This has the benefit of that when you're leaving the street parking, you are sitting close to the lane and can look behind you for coming cars and only cross one lane. Compared to parking on the "wrong" side, where you're sit…
Where do you live?! You couldn't park facing the wrong way in any big city in America, either. Maybe on small residential streets it's not always enforced.