My favourite bit of this is the comment at the bottom of the page that just says "doubt it". So glad scientific discourse is alive and well.
As long as there's a system, I think they're useful. You can argue they weight things incorrectly but it's useful to have some way to see how a country does against the same evaluation for rest of the world. I don't know if this is the best data, but I don't see anything that pops out as particularly odd.
At the bottom, it's not much between NK and the two below. But the two below are Myanmar and Afghanistan, which I don't think is too crazy.
I certainly never intended to silence discussion. I'd have said I was opening up the discussion, if anything, by poi ting out that there's some data available that suggests the USA is far from the most democratic nation. Which, as I read it, was a tongue in cheek statement in the comment I replied to.
But, now it is being discussed, I'm interested in the view that monarchy should have a paeticylarly large negative weight on the ranking. I'm not a royalist and think any monarchy with even a hint of power means less than absolute democracy. But I don't think many of the monarchies in those high ranking countries have as much of a negative impact as other factors that can reduce the input of a population to the democratic process. The big one for me would be how individual voting gets weighted.
Most democratic country is Norway.
USA is at position 26.
https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/most-democratic-countries/
The article bemoans people needing to pick sides, but then makes a case for being anti-palestine because of the regime. Not wanting Palestinians to be treated the way they have, not wanting constant expansion of Israel at the cost of Palestinian land, lives and liberty, isn't the same as being pro-hamas.
I'm "for Palestine" in the sense that it should be recognised as a state, it should be seen as part of the region and given support and resources to make the lives of the people livable. I don't like the regime at all, but the treatment Palestine has received in the past 70 years makes it fertile ground for extremism to take over.
It's not really cognitively difficult to both want an end to violence and oppression of the state while also wanting freedom from persecution within it.
To me, the article says people see things as two aides, which is bad, but then seems to argue that people are picking the wrong side.
I think if you found the shop magically disappeared the next day after selling only the things people were looking for, no matter how random, it would make more sense.
Maybe they only sold drugs because someone wanted some.
Hi. You read correctly - the research is specifically about those with an adult diagnosis or self-diagnosis as an adult. Thank you for taking a look, though.
Feels like the article is channeling Zoolander. What is this? A hospital for virtual people?
Seems like a virtual tour is a good idea, tbh.
Twisting the promise, barely making any progress on it and shafting the NHS, now, that's not so good.
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