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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Future of online fora
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 10:22:13 -0400
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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:
>>>
>>>> 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.

Not obvious at all.

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