Re: Future of online fora

John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> 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:
 

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:
 

On 4/7/2025 8:09 PM, AMuzi wrote:

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

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

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

 
 
 

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

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.
 
From, reading their site
https://worldhappiness.report/faq/
 
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.
 

 
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.
 
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.

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

 
 
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.

That’s likely to be rather unfair lots of tourists and indeed locals are
ignorant of all sorts of things, years ago had a conversation with one of
my colleagues who was having a bit of rant that she couldn’t get some
Ugandan food in the area and so on, she also was applying and thus having
to prove knowledge (England) of British culture for British Citizenship.

I gently asked her about Wales and say the Welsh Valleys or maybe about the
Welsh knot say, and so on.

She had the good grace to admit she hasn’t a clue, despite living in
England for years and Wales is only a few hours away, Native Born English
are the same, in that they aren’t curious particularly areas that don’t get
much attention as Wales doesn’t.

And that she was more than a touch embarrassed that she didn’t!

Roger Merriman