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[–] [email protected] 130 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Australia has a somewhat threadbare welfare state, though is more of a social democracy than the UK. And snakes and spiders are easier to avoid than Tories.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You are several orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by another human than an animal or insert in Australia.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

Well that just makes sense.

Through selection pressures the only surviving Australians are highly venomous.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever been fucked up by an Emu?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Trick question, Emus don't leave behind survivors. Or witnesses.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

They leave witnesses.

They just trust the drop bears to hold up their end of the bargain.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 6 months ago (21 children)

Really? How displaced is your view if you consider the USA easy mode?

Also, fuck Mexico. Apparently.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (10 children)

At the end of the day, while living in the US does have its share of issues, they absolutely do not compare to living in Africa.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Not to downplay how horrible life can be anywhere for someone who’s not healthy, wealthy, and typical:

Different by a factor of 187.

187 years in South Sudan to equate a year income in the US.*

Wiki GDP Per Capita PPP

*edited, thanks below

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Haven't you heard? Mexico doesn't exist it is just drawn on the map to make people think that Canada and The United States are to the rest of the American Continent. Everyone who says they are from Mexico are just paid actors. /s

Also they left out New Zealand, which will not come as a surprise for New Zealanders. They will probably be happy that they are even on the map.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I can confirm that, I'm being paid to said I'm Mexican 🌮 viva México!!

they pay me with tacos btw

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Mexico mode is only available once a year on May Fifth. It then disappears until next the next year.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All of central america, the caribbean, greenland, japan, hawaii, and new zealand were all unaccounted for. Probably will be included in the dlc

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Mexico is so hard-as-fuck that was not included in the list.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Japan, Greenland, Cuba, New Zealand too apparently

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

New Zealand is just happy to be on the map.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

It was a toxic server, PvP only. Glad it was banned

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I used to work with a guy that moved from Mexico city after his favourite cafe got gunned down by the cartel, his neighbor's family got beheaded, and a family friend's daughter got kidnapped.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I'm gonna be real with you all, I'm in Australia and it's a little embarrassing how hard you think we have it over here compared to the shit I've heard from other places. Like don't fuck with the animals and don't put your hands in areas you can't see and you're golden. I've had to deal with random violence like three times in my 34 years here. It's pretty alright here.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (5 children)

You can't fool me. I've seen your videogame prices.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

You can't fool us. We know all of you are boxing kangaroos upsidedown just to get to work everyday.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Africa is harder than Australia. Not even close.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Little racist there my guy. Also, America is pretty "hard mode" for a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Difficulty in America is pretty much down to your initial stats.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

I'm pretty sure significant portions of the medium and hard difficulties could be flip-flopped and most of Australia's population doesn't live in the PvE warzone you're probably picturing in your head.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Life in the US is only easy for a small handful of people. Most of us consider it a good year if we got through it without crushing medical debt and retained all of our teeth. Is a third world country passing itself off as a first world country.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (7 children)

At least US families can expect all their children not to die by tuberculosis or malaria or something.

And fuck Australian magpies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Assuming the mother/baby don’t die in the hospital waiting room bathroom because the hospital refused treatment.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

I get our healthcare system sucks but it isn't worse than countless children dying of malaria.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Tuberculosis is still world’s deadliest infectious disease. Mostly because the healthcare in developing countries lack access to the necessary treatment for it.

TB is a solved problem in developed countries such as US. Barely anyone gets it anymore, let alone die from it.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Parts of Africa are definitely better than parts of medium tier

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Africa is kind of a big place. Asia is an even bigger place.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Apparently there is no life in Mexico

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Just a yellow filter.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I know this is just a shit post but fuck is this eurocentric and a bit racist let me refer you to the world happiness rank. The Corruption Perceptions Index and This map of real GDP.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)

First of all: haha, funny, your nickname is in the OP

Secondly: how are your links you referred us to showing that the joke made is eurocentric and racist? What's real GDP growth (that's what the map you linked showed) got to do with anything? Why is the corruption perception index any indication of how hard life is gonna be if you are born in a certain place? It doesn't show how much corruption there is or the effects of said corruption, just how corrupt things are perceived as.

And regarding the happiness index.... Have you looked at the page? It lists almost exclusively countries within Europe, so that would support the joke, would it not?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Here is the wiki article on Real GDP feel free. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_gross_domestic_product The take a way is you will see most of South America and parts of Africa are on par with the USA.

Weirdly enough it is very hard to get corrupt politicians, civil servants, etc to check the yes box for the question are you corrupt. So corruption perception is used, which is actually pretty accurate. The local population is pretty good at noticing when they're being asked to pay a bribe or seeing that nepotism is present in government.

If you were to look at the ranked list you would find that Uruguay, Barbados, Bhutan, and Botswana. Are all ahead of Greece, Montenegro, Romanian, Bulgaria, and Hungry.

As for the happiness index did you actually scroll down to the full list? Yes most of the country you would expect to be high on the list. There are plenty of outliers, Costa Rica is higher than the USA; Uruguay is higher than France; El Salvador is higher than Italy, Malta, Spain, Estonia, and Poland; Honduras and China are higher than Croatia, Greece, and Bosnia and Hertzegovina. I am sure there are more but I hope you get how it does not support the joke.

Is eurocentric and a little racist because it clearly states that the only countries worth living in are European or North America (except Mexico which apparently doesn't exist). This meme is basically saying living in Europe or the United States is the best and everywhere else is a shit hole country. Yet looking at the actual data we can see that is not true.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

Here's human rights index. Lots of different ways to measure things, none of them great.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-index-vdem

Human development index matches decently except Australia hdi map https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

GDP and GDP Growth are both useless metrics

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When are we talking about, here? Much of Europe is a disease-ridden mosquito swamp if you go back a few thousand years.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Galapagos deserves its own level at the top of this. It’s literally, “don’t eat any green apples you find on the island, okay?”

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is clearly some kind of rage bait troll post. Don't acknowledge it and maybe they will just go away

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Includes British Columbia in "easy mode".

Nah, BC looks pretty, but if you unprepared off the beaten trails/roads, they'll never find your body.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

For some reason New Guinea is included with Australia, even though the western half is owned by Indonesia, and the eastern half is its own country. Either way with the civil war going on there at the moment I'd much rather be living in Australia!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

There's more than penguins in Antarctica.

What if I was a scientist? Or a piece of lab equipment?

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