Comment was not about what is, but what the rest of the world thinks it to be.
And that is not fancy West Coast craft beer or so, but Bud Light and Coors, I am afraid…

TBF, this doesn’t look like a security feature, but just a convenient way to span the chain taut.

Dude’s coming from a Swedish Lemmy instance, so quite probably is a Swede.
Swedes don’t eat Hagelslag, that’s a Dutch thing, so I guess he is entitled to stay ;-)

one of Perth’s richest suburbs

I checked it on Google Maps.
The streets in question are running in parallel to the waterfront, with the houses being build to have direct access to the water.
So it boils down to people building their houses in a beautiful area just to later complain that other people are also drawn to that area (because that is where you will go for recreation).

Reminds me of examples from my home country of people moving to the tiny traditional rural villages because they are so quaint, and then making court appeals because the church towers are chiming regularly (as they have done for the previous 500 years) or that the farmers fertilize the fields behind their house using liquid manure twice a year.

Perhaps establishing some additional designated Communities will somewhat reduce the US-centric pressure from the more general communities.
So, not a bad thing, I would say.

Especially funny as Pecans are a very American thing, they don’t even grow in Europe.
So probably a significant part of the US population thinks because of this cake that Germans bake Pecan based stuff, while most Germans (me included) haven’t seen a Pecan nut in their whole life. :-)

I just remembered that we have a very similar traditional dish in my home region (although only in the hefty variant with meat and/or vegetables):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sülze
And I also have to say, Schweinskopfsülze (pig head in aspic) is not as bad is looks, but certainly is an acquired taste… :-)

l don’t dispute that (and also that they are probably great - had neither so far, as they are largely unknown here).

It’s just that nobody outside of the States thinks of these when they hear “US food”.

Also: The jello salad is hilarious!
Hadn’t it been a wikipedia link, I would have thought it to be you trying to pull my leg. :-)

That’s quite disputed.
One of the more likely theories states that the bun idea together with the ground meat steak originated in Hamburg, where it was a variant of the common “Rundstück warm”, which has been around since 200 years ago or so.

Dude, Hamburgers are literally named after the non-US city they originally came from…
But I have to admit that the refinement to its delicious present day form is an American achievement!

Found an article about that:
https://archive.ph/zyP7q

Apparently, people talking to each other on the road is a health hazard.

I got the impression this has to have some backstory we don’t know.
Doesn’t make the least bit of sense otherwise.

Wow.
What the hell did they do to deserve that punishment?
Worst that could happen to us during my time in the Army was being thrown in the brig.

Looks like this for Games in my library, for other Games there is a checkbox for gifting later in the order process.

No, has been around for ages for me. Germany.

That’s not correct.

I have totally gifted Games via GOG in the past.
E.g. my nephew got KSP from me last birthday.

On the Game page it prominently shows a “buy as present” button.
Recipient doesn’t even need his own GOG account.

Perhaps some regional block?
Where are you from?

l have seen it described as “The most advanced high tech society and a third world country thrown together into the same nation”.

That, and map drawer was not brave enough to call the west coast the Chinese sector, which it totally would be.

I am afraid a major part of the answer is “inequality”.

And lucking out from a geographical standpoint.

Non-American here actually not quite understanding the picture:
What is the looming grey thing above the house?
Tornado?
Suspecting an inside joke I miss…

[Edit]
Pieced it together myself based on the other comments:
Apparently Waffle House never closes except during near-world-ending events, like dangerous hurricans about to hit.
So seeing a closed one would actually be scary as hell.

That was a good one, really too American for me!