I’ll share mine first.

I had a psych patient one night pile shitty toilet paper next to his toilet overnight. Normally my psych nurse brain would consider this a symptom of disorganized psychosis, EXCEPT!

I remembered an aita post about a conflict between a western OP and his middle eastern roomate trying to figure out why their roommate put their shitty toilet paper in the trash. Turns out many middle eastern toilets can’t handle toilet paper.

Oh and inpatient psychiatry doesn’t provide freestanding hard plastic trashcans (turns out they make great clubs). We gave him one of our freestanding paper bag trashcans and problem solved.

TL;DR; Reddit expanded my cultural knowledge enough to differentiate disorganized psychotic behaviors from a genuine cultural difference. Thanks reddit!

Anyone have any similar examples of positive exchanges of knowledge or culture using reddit?

    • Throwaway@lemm.ee
      02·
      11 months ago

      You do have an abmormal trust in the government to not fuck things up

          • Erk@cdda.socialEnglish
            71·
            11 months ago

            You just don’t hear anything from the commies that see your dumb shit, roll their eyes, and decide not to roll in the mud with you. It’s a hard selection bias

            • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
              217·
              11 months ago

              commies that see your dumb shit, roll their eyes, and decide to delete a racial minority from existence

              Nah bro, they do comment back to me, just recently I was talking to someone who, I think, threatened to “kick my ass”. I guess that’s communist theory in a nutshell really.

              • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
                31·
                11 months ago

                I guess that’s communist theory in a nutshell really.

                With that level of comprehension it’s not surprising they’re impatient with you.

                • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
                  113·
                  11 months ago

                  Who said anything about impatient? Its only natural for commies to be violent, you do know where the word tankie comes from, right?

              • Erk@cdda.socialEnglish
                21·
                11 months ago

                Yeah, you didn’t understand my comment.

                People who don’t freak out are, by their nature, not responding to you. You only see people who do.

      • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org
        9·
        11 months ago

        The person I was talking to was actually very far right, as in they were calling me a communist because I believed in any form of social program.