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[-] fl42v@lemmy.ml 138 points 9 months ago

Should've installed linux 🤷

[-] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago
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[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 137 points 9 months ago

I asked a builder why this was, and he said that the lateral forces created by a slightly tilted window has just enough force to rip the entire side of a house clean off due to houses having the structural integrity of wet newspaper, which is the preferred construction method in the States

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 58 points 9 months ago

US people, dry your newspapers before building your houses!

[-] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

can't tell if this is a troll or not. youre telling me people outside the states think we live in wet newspaper?

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

Well not wet newspaper exactly but I heard you have walls so thin the neighbours can hear your cell division

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[-] M137@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hitting a wall and having any chance of the wall breaking isn't really a thing outside the US. Everyone elsewhere notices that a lot in movies and videos. It's not uncommon for children outside America to ask adults why Americans have paper walls. People being mad and punching a wall and putting a fist-sized hole in it, falling and breaking the wall or throwing anything and the thing getting stuck in the wall. In most of the world it's you or the thing hitting the wall that'll break, not the wall itself.

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[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 121 points 9 months ago

I work in a hotel.

One day, a family comes to the reception to tell me that their window is broken, asking me to change their room. I ask if I can take a look.

It turns out, they didn't know the existence of tilt & turn windows and were scared that the window was going to fall down lol

[-] Lon3star@lemmy.world 101 points 9 months ago

I'd settle for socialized healthcare

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[-] nublets@sh.itjust.works 101 points 9 months ago

Jokes on you, my windows make a light breeze when shut!

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 92 points 9 months ago

Imagine not having screens in your windows.

This post was made by the flying insects gang.

[-] Marcbmann@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

I'm in the US and have these windows. They have screens. They're also not that special. I prefer the regular windows

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[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 82 points 9 months ago

I don't use windows. I prefer linux

[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 20 points 9 months ago

Try not to talk about Linux on Lemmy challenge (impossible): failed.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 73 points 9 months ago

Put a screen in that fancy window and then we’ll talk.

[-] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 24 points 9 months ago

Yeah who the hell wants moths and mosquitoes in their house

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[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 62 points 9 months ago

In America we have to keep our windows closed to keep out the fent smoke and bullets.

[-] pkill@programming.dev 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

your walls won't save you from the latter tho

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago

Bullets are not ghosts, they can't go through walls, stupid

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[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 41 points 9 months ago

While I agree that our windows are generally superior from a functional perspective, the Americans have us beat in the fact that you can't install a window AC unit in our windows.

Hence we get to just die in the increasingly common heat waves. Not great - we've got to figure this one out.

Before portable ACs are mentioned - I'll point out that they have terrible efficiency, and connecting the tube to blow out the hot air is still terrible with European windows.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

Mini split heat pumps.

All you need is a 3cm hole in the wall to run a refrigerant line from the outside heat pump unit to the wall unit.

Window AC units are pretty poor efficiency too, IIRC

[-] Nika03@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

What if I can't make a 3cm hole cuz I'm a rentoid?

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

I admit I'm an American and my windows don't open that way, but I'm not sure why whoever made that meme thinks that means a light breeze can't come through them. Because... a light breeze can come through them.

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[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

I can just slide my window up a bit.

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[-] RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

I get it's all memes and fun, but I am so tired of this constant 'Europe does this better', 'USA is supreme for that'.

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[-] Surp@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

Imagine not having AC like much of Europe

[-] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 9 months ago

Imagine not having enough insulation to need an AC.

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[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 29 points 9 months ago

They aren't standard in the US, but I promise you these windows exist here. My parents installed them in their home

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[-] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 29 points 9 months ago

Sorry Europeans, I can't hear you over my HVAC system with abundant domestic methane reserves.

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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

It's not like our windows don't open, they just don't tilt. I frequently open the windows and get a breeze going when it's nice outside!

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[-] supercritical@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

People act like you can't just order these kinds of windows in the US. It's not the default, but you can just ask about them if you know about them.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 25 points 9 months ago

If you're in a position to replace your windows.

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[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 23 points 9 months ago

Bruh many old homes in Europe don't have these fancy windows.

Source: WHERE ARE MY FUCKING TILTING WINDOWS!?

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[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago

this is how we do out here in the heartland

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[-] vsis@feddit.cl 21 points 9 months ago

Southamerican living in Spain here.

First time I saw those windows my mind blew to pieces.

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[-] Fal@yiffit.net 19 points 9 months ago

Lol wtf? Why can't you get a light breeze without tilting windows?

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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago

Ah, but that classic wood-on-wood sliding window, where all that stands between a destructive crash is an irreplaceable rope installed inside walls when the house was built.

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[-] unphazed@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

I'm fine. Central HVAC, no need for a breeze

[-] isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Imagine not having screens on the windows and letting every single bug in the nearby area take up residence inside and being okay with it cuz "it's only a few months out of the year".

🤢 it's the fucking worst.

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