But that's the thing, you're NOT out there with your catapult, so the statistics still hold true. Assuming you were given the catapult and I was given a giant tesla coil, I believe I would still be able to zap 30x more giraffes than you could hit with your pathetic catapult.
Because they're selfish inconsiderate pricks who can't fathom how disgusting they truly are.
The title is, unsurprisingly, heavily exaggerated. The study does not claim there are "billions more people". They studied 307 different dam construction projects around the word, and found the actual number of affected people in those rural areas was like 40-80% higher than estimated.
Their conclusion is that it's likely the population of the world is quite underestimated, but they don't want to guess by how much, that's all cooked up by the "journalist".
Finn here. The common answer is that all sad people kill themselves here. The suicide rate is surprisingly high.
For a more serious answer, you have to look at what the survey actually measures. There are 3 big factors in this survey.
Social support, the people believe they will get help if they need. While healthcare system receives lots of criticism due to constant budget cuts, it's still fast and cheap enough for those who really need it. Economic security is possibly the best in the world, where you receive decent support if you're poor enough and a small apartment if you're homeless, without any preconditions.
Freedom, the people feel like they're free to do what they want with their lives. There are both laws that protect you from things like trespassing, meaning you can walk anywhere you want in rural areas, while the police are really lenient in urban areas and don't really care what you do as long as you don't disturb others. Also in general, people don't want to bother others as much as I've seen in other countries.
Perceptions of corruption, the people believe in the government and media. We enjoy a strong democratic system that, although not perfect, is among the best in the world. The political climate is also rather mild, with the largest party in every election being centre-left, centre or centre-right. Although the right-wing has recently been on the rise, it seems like that trend is starting to turn. As for media, the state sponsored YLE is about as unbiased as media can be, although their coverage of global events can be somewhat lackluster. Also, despite being state sponsored, they operate completely independently.
I'm not Danish, but I think he meant 4.5 instead of 2.5. It's like halfway from 4 to 5, not from 0 to 5.
A similar word exists in Finnish too, when going from 1 to 2: "puolitoista" translates to "half second", like halfway to the second number, and is commonly used to refer to 1.5, BUT without any multiplication shenanigans.
I feel like I have to introduce a counter-example, this song has been absolutely stuck in my head in the last few weeks. I've listened to it literally hundreds of times in that timeframe and it's still an absolute banger.
I'd say the issue here is that the rest of the song is in English. It's literally only this one word that is supposedly in Maltese, in the sentence "I do it all the time, serving kant".
Interested to see how Putin's propaganda machine will react to this, since they've already for a long time pushed the narrative that NATO, specifically the US and UK for some reason, started it. Quite a 180 to pull when US are allies now.
Sure, but do you know what border checks are?
In order for negotiations to conclude, both sides have to agree. The US isn't one of those sides. In 2022 there were a lot of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, but they were so far from agreeing that they realized there's no use in negotiating for a long time.
There's nothing Biden could have done, apart from sending even more aid, to help the situation. And now with Trump chatting with Putin, there's hardly any difference. No deal will be reached without Ukraine agreeing, which they're clearly not.
The only result from this will likely be that the US completely stops all support, forcing the EU to send even more aid, and the war will drag on a lot longer, probably years.
And it's even a night train? This is based as fuck
I believe this is very true. I'm from Europe and nothing in the greentext made any sense to me. Never seen a Windows install with any of the mentioned "features".