zerfuffle

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[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Human Rights Watch, truly the beacon of human rights.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Never thought I'd defend Trump, but he was in office during the start of the pandemic, one of the largest systemic shifts in society in decades.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

20 countries but excluding the single largest driver of nuclear energy development in the world: China.

What a fucking worthless declaration.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Rural populations are negligible and covered under other factors in a number of countries (in the US, Internet access). It's not worth mentioning because it's not a relevant part of data.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The goal of this comparison is to compare urban-to-urban, because those countries which don't have this exclusion have relatively tiny rural populations.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

The IMF wants to protect private investors at the cost of country-scale investors. Once again, fuck the IMF.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Then your statement doesn't make sense lol

The rural/urban divide isn't unique to China or India or Brazil. It's everywhere. Drivers are always different across the urban/rural divide.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Isn't happiness the goal? Why does it matter what their driver is?

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's actually not how modern China gained territory. The settlements in Xinjiang were explicitly designed to not step on the traditional Uyghur economic/cultural center of Kashgar. Instead, settlement surrounded Urumqi, a place that used to be a backwater of backwaters (the name meaning "beautiful pasture"). Even today, Kashgar and it's surrounding areas are majority Uyghur (by far), while Urumqi is majority Han.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Idk I think I'd enjoy being obscenely rich off of my government's oil money

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (9 children)

It's usually an annotation because Internet/phone penetration among the rural, uneducated, and poor in those countries isn't great. They don't have means to survey these people. Surveying the people who do have access to Internet is representative of what "normal people" feel.

The US has ~91% Internet penetration, while China only has 73% and India only 43%.

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