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?

    • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works
      22·
      11 months ago

      I haven’t seen people downvoted for having a different opinion, like, liking anchovies on pizza, but I have seen plenty over truly bad takes, like, socialised healthcare is bad.

      • PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        Eh, that’s more likely due to the lower user-base and general activity than a genuine difference in behavior. At least I hope so, since I have seen some truly atrocious takes on Lemmy that haven’t received nearly enough downvotes.

      • Throwaway@lemm.ee
        11·
        11 months ago

        Well it is bad, have you see the UK? Or Canada? And you can’t tell me that the American government won’t fuck it up.

        • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          11 months ago

          Haha yeah I have seen it, all my life! My country has socialised healthcare. It’s great. Frankly, I’d love to see it expanded to other health-related services.

          Have you ever live with socialised healthcare? I’m not saying it to be argumentative; I honestly think you’d change your tune pretty quickly if you had.

            • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              11 months ago

              I don’t know what that is, but at least you’re speaking from experience it sounds like. I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you, it has for me. It especially worked out for me and my family when we couldn’t have afforded healthcare. Not to brag, but me and my siblings, and our parents, all own our own houses now, so it worked out pretty well for us not having to pay out-of-pocket for healthcare.