Re: Future of online fora

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 10:22:13 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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On 4/8/2025 10:05 AM, John B. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 08:59:52 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:
 

On 4/8/2025 8:21 AM, John B. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 05:54:43 -0400, zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
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On 4/8/2025 5:48 AM, John B. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 05:19:27 -0400, zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
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On 4/7/2025 8:09 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/7/2025 5:52 PM, floriduh dumbass wrote:

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People who don't like 'things as they are' include communist
idealists, Libertarians and jihadis.  Over to you.

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But where are the people who are happy with "convention?"
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C'est bon
Soloman

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https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
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I looked up how they rated "happiness"and it seems to be based on, GDP
per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom,
generosity, and corruption.
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From, reading their site
https://worldhappiness.report/faq/
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it seems to be more of a level of satisfaction of citizens who have
never lived in foreign countries and thus are not capable of comparing
life here wit life over there.
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I don't know where you got that, I don't see any reference to 'people
who have never lived in other countries'. If it's there and I missed it,
please post the reference.
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Be that as it may, it isn't really relevant. If you're happy, your
happy. whether you've lived somewhere else really doesn't factor into it.

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Poor wording.
Second try: the level of satisfaction of citizens who have no other
experiences which they can use to evaluate their present life.

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And where did you get the information that they had no other life
experiences?>

 
It's pretty obvious. Just look at the average U.S, tourist. They
arrive knowing nothing about the country and leave knowing no  more
then when they arrived.

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Not obvious at all.

Not obvious? Even a simple thing like not wearing your shoes in a
Temple is beyond them. My wife and I visited the Wat Pho temple and
there must have been 50 pairs of shoes at the entrance and an American
girl was asking her mother, "Do I have to take my shoes off?"

Now I do understand that taking ones shoes off to enter a religious
place is perhaps unique to some places in Asia but the 50 pairs of
shoes at the entrance might have been a clue that something is
different here. Or not?
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Cheers,

John B.