Stand on one pointing up and tell me it’s good.

According to Electroboom Australia is doing it right too.

The only places I’ve found that take USD are really poor places that really want USD, and maybe Mexico. Even some of those places will really take advantage of the exchange and you get way less than what the USD is worth if you just pay with USD.

I travel all the time and tourist locations, barring the ones I mentioned, don’t want anything to do with handling USD when tapping a card or phone to pay is vastly preferred.

And in the big touristy cities in Europe, there's so many scam currency exchanges, while if you just take the time to go to official government exchanges, you get reasonable exchange rates. The problem isn't the locals, the problem is that you didn't do the research and you did a dum-dum. (Also fuck the people who are scamming tourists, that's just low.)

At the risk of being that idiot …..

I’m still annoyed at crossing a border over an international bridge and having to exchange currency to pay the toll. There’s a good argument that situation should support both currencies at that border.

And of course the currency exchange at that toll did not allow exchanging the amount of the toll. Scammy ripoff of people trying to cross forcing them to exchange larger amounts than they need

Why would you start a joke post with "this is going to sound really stupid"?

Yeah. It always strikes me as bizarre how many people online see something that would only be satire in a sane world and completely assume it's serious. They have no doubts. Never occurred to them it might be a joke...

I didn't realize because I am too used to it.

Because it reads like this:

“In other countries, like [those in] Europe or South America”.

People in other countries use all sorts of crazy "languages". We don't bother with that here, we just talk normally.

I moved to California last year from Oklahoma. Occasionally I will say something about moving from Oklahoma and people are like, "oh that makes sense, you have a Midwestern accent sometimes". We all sound normal to ourselves but everyone has an accent. Like the way California people say their O's.

Take the adapter off, moron.

One of worlds longest running experiments is when an european tourist visited america and tried to boil water using a kettle and a travel adapter.

The paper published on the experiment noted that water finally reached temperatures of 63c in 2017.

Oh don't worry about that, just plug in your 110V appliances and watch them run twice as fast

It's less of a problem nowadays where most things have switching power supplies that can handle either just fine

US used to be like that too. When polarized plugs first became a thing, they wouldn’t fit into older non-polarized outlets. It took decades for all those to be replaced and I’m sure they’re still out there. Somewhere