[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

The truth is that happiness isn't cut and dry and translates differently between cultures. For Saudi Arabia in particular, if you're Muslim and you're a woman you're most likely happy because of the free education, healthcare, full government funding for any university you want to go to in the world, strong job market that will actually put you into upper management, etc. Not to mention living a lifestyle many people would dream of, completely under the radar. There are reasons why most saudi students that go to the states to study only go for the fancy credential, most have no interest in settling in the US, which is why you don't see a lot of Saudis despite Saudi Arabia and the US being "friends". The rub is when it comes to non Saudis and non Muslims, who obviously aren't happy, but make up a small enough fraction of the population such that the statistics don't catch it

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

They only measured 32 countries in the first place so it wasn't that scientific to begin with, but the next year they just removed the top two countries lol

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

That's why the technique works

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Oh I never claim any particular conspiracy theory is invented / pushed by the CIA, I just assume a sizeable subset are

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

This is the saddest thing I've ever seen that had no real world implications

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

Oh no I didn't account for the fact that ppl existing in a gender superposition don't necessarily exist in a real valued vector space

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Still too low. We used to live in the San Francisco bay area, in a 1 bedroom apartment. $32 an hour, multiple hours of overtime. After taxes, still not enough to pay rent, let alone the rest of our bills.

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

Finally, someone explains my feelings well. I'm trans too, I approve

[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Funny, I only started having an internal sense of identity after I came out as trans

[-] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

Or, or, hear me out, Winston Churchill was a Nazi. He did kill 6 million bengalis after all

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