merdaverse

u/merdaverse@lemmy.world
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on No thanks commie! · c/memes · 14 pts · 88d

Don't be a commie! Be content with 40% of the value of your work. They might even give you 41% if you defend your capitalist masters.

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 7 pts · 88d

Bumble women initiating interactions: "hi"

Now do that on Tinder as a man and you're bland and unimaginative. Try harder.

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 2 pts · 88d

In dating apps you commodify yourself so that they can sell your profile to other users. It feels so incredibly fake that everyone has to market themselves with checklists of positive qualities and good looking photos and witty messages.

Combine that with marketing yourself for work and all of the subtle competition we have in society, and it's the perfect recipe for burnout.

on Optics · c/politicalmemes · 13 pts · 97d

Honestly it's a coincidence, I didn't think it that thoroughly :p

on The future is toast · c/aboringdystopia · 17 pts · 107d

Yeah, the machines that they smashed had been in use in England for 2 centuries at that point. It's very unlikely that they just decided to rebel against this 2 century old "new technology" because they were some primitive brutes as they are depicted. History is written by the victors, and in this case capitalists were successful in tarnishing their reputation for centuries.

on Communism is when no food · c/memes · 0 pts · 108d

Dunno what you're trying to prove here, apart from "removing an outlier from the data makes the data closer to the average", which is pretty obvious.

But you can clearly see that the graph shows Europe, not EU, so using your same calculation with the population of Europe, which is 745 million and excluding France, the result is 1.13.

Also I don't see any indication that OurWorldInData is using an average of countries (which would be stupid). Considering their jobs are statistics, they probably know how to aggregate per population, aka a weighted average.

on Communism is when no food · c/memes · 7 pts · 108d

I don't have access to the source data since you need to register, but I would assume that OurWorldInData knows to aggregate Europe per population, and not just average the values per country. France is not the only outlier, there's also Norway and probably some others I haven't seen

on Communism is when no food · c/memes · 15 pts · 109d

I see that some people try to attribute this to older population and/or Alzheimer, but even by those metrics the countries above are pretty close and wouldn't justify such a big gap:

As for the reliability of data, it's from a peer reviewed study by an American university. If they had a way to make the China data look worse, I'm sure they wouldn't hesitate.