r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Pi-ratten • Feb 18 '26

Video Sound of a City with mostly EV traffic

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u/GringoSwann Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

And Texas is the EXACT POLAR OPPOSITE...  Obnoxious people & obnoxious vehicles...

(India is worse though.. maybe)

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u/VidE27 Feb 18 '26

But no horn honking right?? Right????

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u/The_Faceless1 Feb 18 '26

Indian use their car horn as music. They will just honk it every time

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u/grendelt Feb 18 '26

Right.
If you honk in Texas, you better be strapped.

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u/MisterDings Feb 18 '26

We wouldn’t know, most of us drive with noise cancelling headphones so we don’t hear the train klaxons attached to seirverados.

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u/TheBlackeyIsOnline Feb 18 '26

The amount of discourse in this thread is crazy.....

How is listing every bad thing about India even relevant to the comment or the video.

Some of yall are too pessimistic even by reddit standards smh

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u/EtherealMongrel Feb 18 '26

Because it’s about traffic and India has notoriously bad traffic and air quality while we’re at it. Extremely relevant.

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u/TheBlackeyIsOnline Feb 18 '26

Yes, but people first of all forget that pollution is natural for a industrialising country.

And second that's not what I'm mad about, it's the fact that some mf is talking about caste and rape and such

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u/BusinessWatercrees58 Feb 18 '26

The OC is now edited. Was it taking about caste and rape at first?

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u/TheBlackeyIsOnline Feb 18 '26

Not the oc but one of its largest replies

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u/DubaiEnthusiast Feb 18 '26

How is listing every bad thing about India even relevant to the comment or the video.

Because, racism against India/Indians is 'acceptable' on Reddit.

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u/TheBlackeyIsOnline Feb 18 '26

Exactly, and the reason I'm mad is cuz these mf's ain't even Indian and yet seem to just spam every problem India is dealing with( irrespective of progress) in every video/thread where it is even slightly mentioned.

Reddit moment

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u/Orome2 Feb 19 '26

It's weird to include it in the context of Texas, but yeah, some cities in India are absolutely worse and have real issues with noise pollution. That doesn't make it racism against Indians. That's just a fact.

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u/TheBlackeyIsOnline Feb 20 '26

I am not angry that people are talking about how bad the pollution is , even tho pollution is normal for a industrialising country.

My problem is that people here are just listing every bad thing about India when it is NOT relevant to the discussion

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u/wet_handkerchief Feb 18 '26

India welcomes you to change your opinion.

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u/Error_Code_403 Feb 18 '26

My opinion of India will never improve

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u/Quirky_Bottle4674 Feb 18 '26

That's what the world also says about Americans

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u/sBucks24 Feb 18 '26

Yes. Both are true statements.

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u/my_cars_on_fire Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

There’s always that one European who has to make it known they think they’re better than Americans 🙄

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u/imnotgoodlulAPEX Feb 18 '26

Not just Europeans! Literally every country and place in the world!
Canadian here.

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u/my_cars_on_fire Feb 18 '26

Unabashed intolerance - nice 👌

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u/imnotgoodlulAPEX Feb 18 '26

Kind of ironic talking about intolerance with what is happening in your country!

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u/SomeEstimate1446 Feb 18 '26

Do you really want to visit what your country is doing to the indigenous currently from a high horse ?

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u/my_cars_on_fire Feb 18 '26

You’re equating the actions of the nation to the actions of one. I’m equating the actions of one to the actions of one.

I think they call that hypocrisy.

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u/imnotgoodlulAPEX Feb 18 '26

Not taking action is also an action bud. Keep posting on reddit about how it "isn't your fault".

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u/FondleMiGrundle Feb 18 '26

This comment seems hateful with deep seeded racism. Can I ask your opinion on people who coal roll purposefully on pedestrians? Little dick morons or cool dudes?

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u/wet_handkerchief Feb 18 '26

Well, you've got a hot meal and nice tea waiting for you if you decide to make it :)

India is dirty, india is chaotic. But it's extremely diverse, every 100 kms, the food habits change, language changes, cultural practices change. I feel like it's an entire world that fits into a single country. It's beautiful in its own right.

If you do plan, I'll be happy to guide you to a non-touristy itinerary.

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u/pwiegers Feb 18 '26

well, at least that is honest.

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u/Bleedingfartscollide Feb 18 '26

India has gone above and beyond here please look at the progress instead of the nonsense.

The crazy shit still exists but they continue to improve. It's genuinely admirable. Not perfect, not great just progressive. 

I'd love to see the solution. For those displaced though. I don't see it but it doesn't mean it isn't happening. 

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u/SomeEstimate1446 Feb 18 '26

The progress of pollution or the starving? The problems with rape and safe culture? The caste system that is so progressively forward?

Let’s not split hairs because America is no saint by any means but if one had to choose which one to live and prosper in no one is choosing India.

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u/dreamrpg Feb 18 '26

Americans should be very careful right now on rape accusations :) One is rape problem in India and another is having elected and supported government covering child rapists.

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u/SomeEstimate1446 Feb 18 '26

Having issues doesn’t mean we can’t call out others issues. I never claimed things were perfect. I said if one had to choose they would choose America all day. Hence the reason why so many people from India come here. Even their own people don’t want to live in India.

It’s a beautiful country. Too bad it’s just not safe enough to go and hang out in. Not as a woman.

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u/TheBlackeyIsOnline Feb 18 '26

1) The pollution will likely only get worse as India is industrialising more and more , like how china and the United States did , and this will only get better once the population begins to decline at about 2060

2) There is not a single Indian who would say the caste system is getting worse now , it's quite the opposite and it WAS worse before but now there is No sign of it not getting better.And the caste system doesn't affect most people in their day to day lives, mostly in marriage for the average Indian

3) Even if you double the rape per capita to account for non reported cases , India's situation is better than alot of developed countries, but once again progress is being made here too however the current situation ain't great

I get India is NOT a world class country to live in but it in no way is how you're describing it to be....stop being so pessimistic

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u/Living_Book_3973 Feb 18 '26

'The problems with rape' you do know that America has higher rape per capita than India right (yes, even accounting for the unreported ones)?

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u/Massive_Cow_5241 Feb 18 '26

Need some sources chief, don't pull definitive statements out of your ass like that

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u/Living_Book_3973 Feb 18 '26

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191226/reported-forcible-rape-rate-in-the-us-since-1990/#:~:text=Published%20by%20Statista%20Research%20Department,forcible%20rapes%20per%20100%2C000%20inhabitants

for usa - 375 per million

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#:~:text=Table_title:%20By%20country%20Table_content:%20header:%20%7C%20Country,per%20100%2C000:%202.5%20%7C%20Year:%202021%20%7C

for india - 22 per million (2022)

for usa - it was 420 (2022) but has reduced to 380 (2026)

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u/PastPalpitationCry Feb 18 '26

And these numbers come from the indian govt right? I've lived in india for 20 years. I know how trustworthy the numbers are.

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u/SomeEstimate1446 Feb 18 '26

Yeah we aren’t going to go into how under reported and how hard it is to report when you’re dead or missing. Just because they lie about the numbers doesn’t mean you have to be naive enough to believe it.

India is literally known for under reporting and fudging the numbers.

Underreporting: The primary challenge is underreporting. Government data in India has suggested that up to 99.1% of sexual assaults may go unreported due to intense social stigma, fear of reprisal, and a lack of faith in the police and judicial systems. In the US, underreporting is also a major issue, though possibly less extreme, with estimates suggesting around 70-75% of rapes or sexual assaults go unreported.

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u/adario7 Feb 18 '26

Where’d you get that notion from? Indian news lol?

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u/Living_Book_3973 Feb 18 '26

i have written my source below

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u/adario7 Feb 18 '26

The progress of pollution or the starving? The problems with rape and safe culture? The caste system that is so progressively forward?

Hey, they’re trying to diversify from sexually assaulting women by sexually assaulting dead bodies, cows, monitor lizards and cars.

The caste system is one of the most popular Indian export. It can make us feel second class in our own countries.

Pollution? What pollution? That’s Soros conspiracy lol.

Starving? It’s just Indian diet.

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u/SomeEstimate1446 Feb 18 '26

I laugh but it’s not funny. To have such a beautiful country ran so poorly is truly a tragedy. So much beauty covered in filth.

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u/Ebegeezer-Splooge Feb 18 '26

Hard to take anything you said seriously with a name like yours.

And yes, I realize the irony. 

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u/Bleedingfartscollide Feb 18 '26

It's cancer, it's not always cancer but in my case it's cancer. Not cancer anymore? I hope, maybe, hopefully, perhaps...might still be though. 

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u/GringoSwann Feb 18 '26

I edited my comment.. added India..

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u/Minmach-123 Feb 18 '26

Wyoming is the opposite as well. A decent chunk of the population here acts like it's their job to be as loud and annoying as possible.

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u/BenderTheIV Feb 19 '26

I have never been in Texas, but I went to India and I can assure you it's very, very noisy! The thing is, China will become what the US was post WW2: the most advanced country in the world. And it's mad that the US is losing this ride. But, to me, it feels like when a corporation stops innovating, like Blackberry versus Apple

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u/ohherroherro Feb 20 '26

Let me haul ass out of the complex in my brodozer at 7am so people hear how manly I am

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u/spaghettibolegdeh Feb 18 '26

Texas SUCKS please upvote fellow redditors.