Es lohnt sich, sich mit dem "Bruttosozialglück" von Bhutan zu beschäftigen. Es ist eine staatliche Aufgabe.
Westliche Industrienationen haben sich das Glück ihrer Bürger*innen nicht zur Aufgabe gemacht. Hier wird Glück als Ergebnis von Besitz, Reichtum und Erfolg propagiert.
@eierund But it’s hard to look at these happiness rankings and not see that they correlate directly to personal freedoms and wealth. There aren’t many poor countries high on the list.
Don't expect the PH PISA scores to improve under an education secretary who wanted mandatory military training for students and who lobbied for multi-million-peso intelligence (aka corruption) funds for the education department.
The PH is still among the world's most dangerous places to be a journalist, especially radio journalists. The latest documents show that "261 journalists murdered in connection with their work, with no one held to account in 204."
Comme chaque année, Greenpeace partage son classement des fournisseurs d'énergie en Belgique Comme on peut le constater, ce sont surtout les petits acteurs qui tirent le train de la transition écologique pour l'instant. Heureusement, car l'inactivité de grands groupes, comme Total, champion du greenwashing, fait froid dans le dos. Parmi ceux-ci, Eneco fait toutefois figure d'exception.
Stop evaluating academics based on #university#ranking indicators. Start rewarding the contributions of faculty and researchers in all areas of university activities.
Stop constructing university strategies based on university rankings. Do not use ranking tiers in analytical reports for management decision making; instead, focus on the actual contributions made by a university (scientific, educational, and societal).
Stop evaluating universities based on ranking indicators. Every university has a unique mission, and only fulfillment of this mission really matters.
Stop using ranking information in national strategies and other kinds of ambitions. Only universities’ contributions to national and global goals should be considered.
Stop paying money for consulting services to ranking compliers. This is a pure conflict of interests. Source: https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-role-of-university-rankings-in-research-evaluation-revisited
Here is a link to the World Happiness Report website with the list for 2023. Singapore is 25th overall, which is ten spots behind the United States. I also took the liberty of averaging out the total from the available years of the World Happiness Index on Wikipedia, and you can see that information below:
Every first world country in the world. The second world (post-soviet countries) aren’t really allowed to benefit from imperialism.
Lol, what? Do you think the products made from the resources from southern countries don’t end up in post-soviet countries? Do you think they still drive Ladas there? Those countries ABSOLUTELY have cheap commodities imported in to subsidize their developed country lifestyles. Not to the same extent as the big players, but we’ll get to why that is.
Surely you’ve noticed how much worse off they are?
Are they? They are worse, but depending on the region not by much. Take a look yourself, The same report that puts Nordic countries at the top has Czechia (formerly a part of Czechoslovakia) just a smidge below US and UK and actually above Belgium and France. Now you can argue “that’s a satellite state and not an actual USSR aligned country” but it’s not like Estonia is that far behind and according to the CCCP Estonia was hardcore in the CCCP, you know ECCP.
Do you think that’s just because the USSR ruined them and they still haven’t recovered?
Well, kinda. Most of those countries have issues with a Russian minority who refuse to integrate into the local culture. It creates tensions in their societies which then hinders their progress. It’s going to take at least another generation or two before that issue essentially “solves itself”. And remember, that’s an issue only because the CCCP did deliberate mass deportation of locals into foreign lands. You can still find some Baltic people in Siberia, not because they want to be there but because they were forced to be there.
Do you not realize how much better things were before the West’s so-called “shock therapy” destroyed all of their social programs?
Unlike you I actually know how thing were before and things were pretty shit before the collapse, it’s literally one of the reasons the Soviet union collapsed. Sure things right after the collapse were worse but guess what, in less than 10 years it was already better than the end of union. The “shock therapy” didn’t destroy all social programs, it restarted the economy and social programs got rebuilt. Overall a net positive.
Sweden still fell under the umbrella of protection! Do you really think if Russia invaded Sweden a year ago that the US would allow it?
The fuck kind of a stupid question is this? Obviously US wouldn’t allow it, but it’s not like the EU would allow it either. And it’s a stupid question because Sweden (and most neighbors of Russia) wouldn’t even need the umbrella of protection if Russia wasn’t such a fucking asshole towards its neighbors. Just to prove that point Finland and Russia had normal relations, until Putin decided to threaten them out of nowhere and now Finland is in NATO because Russia acted like an asshole. The umbrella of protection point has literally nothing to do with how well Nordic countries are doing. You could argue that the umbrella would mean they don’t have to spend that much on defense, but guess what else would make them spend less on defense? If Russia wasn’t such a fucking prick. Regardless they’re still doing well.
TIL that there is a project that compiles a list of top GitHub contributors by country… and I'm on the Chilean one! I'll have a look to see if I see some other colleagues around… and also in the Spain, UK, and German pages!
He doesn’t give a fuck. The younger crowd doesn’t either. They don’t even know what reddit was like before their stupid app. Most of reddit is young (IIRC the average user is only 23), therefore, most of reddit stays. They barely lost 3% of their user base compared to last month. That’s almost within the margin of error.
Unfortunately it’s going to take a lot more fuckups beyond killing off 3rd party apps and finding out that the CEO is a pedophile to get enough people to leave before the reddit admins start giving a fuck.
Are the Finns ok? (startrek.website)
Singapore hangs third person for drug offences in little over a week (www.aljazeera.com)
The secret ingredient is caring about the people. (feddit.ch)
What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!