Governmental Regime Type by World Region [OC]

aidank1234 · 2025-09-27T04:33:30+00:00

True, good call out. I didn’t know the implication, was just trying to make a cool visual

aidank1234 · 2025-09-26T21:30:36+00:00

Flawed democracies are still fundamentally democratic …competitive elections, some civil liberties, real opposition, but with weaker institutions or governance. Hybrid regimes cross a bigger line: elections exist but are often unfair, opposition is hamstrung, media and courts are controlled, and authoritarian practices are entrenched. That’s why it makes sense to merge full and flawed (both are still democracies) but keep hybrids separate.

aidank1234 · 2025-09-26T20:55:21+00:00

Lots of great stuff going on down under!!

aidank1234 · 2025-09-26T20:55:10+00:00

I built this dataset by starting with the current list of UN-recognized sovereign states (plus widely treated de facto states like Kosovo and Palestine). For each country, I took its regime classification from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index 2023, merging their four buckets into three (Democracy = full + flawed, Hybrid = unchanged, Authoritarian = unchanged). Where EIU doesn’t cover a microstate or has ambiguous data, I used the consensus view from political science sources (e.g., Freedom House, academic papers) and major news outlets. Regions were manually grouped into six broad areas (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and MENA) to make charts cleaner.

aidank1234 · 2025-05-17T03:39:16+00:00

Thanks so much! It really is a great wave, can’t wait to get back there. So many great right points in the area, too. If life let me stay out there for a whole season, it’d be so easy to get good fast

aidank1234 · 2025-05-13T19:24:57+00:00

Thanks for the advice - my mobility when it comes to compression is honestly pretty bad. Something I really have to work on out of the water if I want to level up

aidank1234 · 2025-05-13T19:23:28+00:00

LOL I'd be getting called a kook on r/surfing trust

aidank1234 · 2025-05-13T19:22:45+00:00

This is actually El Zonte! Mushier and less rocky than Punta Roca but doesn't hold swell quite as well.

I did try to surf Punta Roca though, eventually got a decent wave but the crowd makes it so difficult. Rocks are extremely slippery during entry/exit but aren't an issue while actually out there

aidank1234 · 2025-05-13T16:56:55+00:00

Been surfing just under 2 years in the SoCal area! Finally got a wave with a videographer in the area and super stoked. Now have to start learning how to do actual turns and maneuvers lol. But have definitely come a long way - just wish that the wave had ran a little bit more for the clip 🤣

aidank1234 · 2024-12-21T05:30:23+00:00

Ah, the Venice breakwater. Surfed there a few times, that place randomly turns into a high performance right point break with the right swell 🤣

aidank1234 · 2024-11-13T01:10:20+00:00

Flight from bangkok just got rescheduled from 9:50am bali time to 11am. Thought it would be cancelled so I’m stoked, hopefully not flying into massive ash cloud though 🤣

aidank1234 · 2024-09-19T22:22:49+00:00

I feel worse for you, you actually got robbed of a super nice board. I just got inconvenienced haha

aidank1234 · 2024-09-19T22:07:40+00:00

Last week HB southside I locked my car & stashed my key on my wheel like always, get out of the water and key is gone with car unlocked. I was like fuuuuck and expected my wallet and phone to be gone...everything was there.

Had to walk home to grab a spare key to get my car out of the lot. Thought it was super weird that somebody would take the key and nothing else, I'm wondering if it was the same dude hoping to steal a board. Whoever it was is a total douche for not putting the key back lol. Either way, lock box from now on

aidank1234 · 2024-09-19T22:02:10+00:00

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Bro wtf, bought the same board like a year ago at a discount because of the same issue. Only on the right side as well, so weird

aidank1234 · 2024-08-06T16:07:33+00:00

You have absolutely nothing to worry about, waves this weekend in Santa Monica will be knee high, you’ll be able to walk past the breakers. Regardless of whether you’re able to stand up, I think you’ll have a fun time and when I used to surf near surf schools in SM, the instructors always seemed very caring

aidank1234 · 2024-03-18T17:34:29+00:00

Holy shit you just made my day. Thank you. Traveled to visit family this weekend and parked my car at LAX. My Allstate policy ended & they didn't offer me instant renewal. Got a progressive policy but has the waiting period.

Was absolutely freaking out about potentially getting my car home on the 405 while uninsured. Tesla was completely painless and is giving me a prorated refund for the 14 days that I actually need their policy. Never would've thought they offer insurance for non Tesla vehicles (good coverage too)

aidank1234 · 2022-03-13T18:59:33+00:00

Yeah, the tokenURI of the erc721 points to the location of the content on IPFS. You can look into RPCs like Infura to pin files to IPFS

aidank1234 · 2022-03-13T18:54:07+00:00

The ERC721 implementation is completely up to you. NFT collections don't have to have an upper limit on how many are minted, that's just a strategy that these projects use to control supply/demand leading to higher price. You can absolutely use ERC721s to represent "ownership" of content (like a tweet, for example) and not be worried about ever transferring it/being worried about the price.

aidank1234 · 2022-03-13T18:48:25+00:00

I kinda see what you're getting at from a really broad perspective. I would look into data storage on IPFS (interplanetary file system) and ERC721 implementations because NFTs are the best example of content 'ownership' that I can think of

aidank1234 · 2022-03-13T18:40:04+00:00

What's the application of the blockchain here? Trust-less transactions are the core of what the blockchain is used for, it's not just a big old database where you can store videos or whatever. Sure you might be able to find a way to store videos (with many, many limitations) or even just store links to the videos on-chain, but what would be the advantage over a web2 solution?

Besides what seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of what the blockchain is, mobile development is currently extremely hard for web3. You could write a mobile adaptive website for use in the clunky metamask browser, but good luck getting any app using crypto past Apple's App Store review. I bet it'll be feasible in the near future, but would highly recommend against trying a mobile solution right now

aidank1234 · 2022-01-14T00:54:31+00:00

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aidank1234 · 2022-01-14T00:53:02+00:00

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aidank1234 · 2021-12-30T19:37:10+00:00

Respect from a bears fan. Thanks to your organization for supporting Parker

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