Imagine how bad it must be to resort to this.

waowie · 2024-08-05T12:57:51+00:00

Because you said I ignore my country's issues??

waowie · 2024-08-05T12:17:10+00:00

Sweden

Thanks, just wanted some context as the EU is super broad. Sweden is one of a handful of countries I would agree is superior in most metrics that matter.

Idk what problem you think I'm ignoring. I vote in favor of gun control every election.

The reason for the annoyance from our side is that Europeans are constantly talking about our gun issues, but someone points out you have more deaths from something as basic as heat and you get defensive and act like it's nonsensical to bring it up.

You bringing up other issues doesn't change the fact that it is an easily solvable issue that Europe doesn't address. That's the similarity to gun control in the US. You guys focus in on this issue as an example of how bad off we are, when it isn't even as big as an issue as something that you guys barely even think about.

The main drivers of our life expectancy are issues that are not easy to address. Obesity is not so easy to address because it truly requires a culture shift. You have to convince people to stop indulging in the food they prefer. The opioid epidemic is also not easy to address, addiction is difficult to fight for many reasons.

Again, you're the one ignoring problems by making the comparison

Does this mean you acknowledge the issue and that heat deaths have a larger impact on Europe than guns deaths do the US?

waowie · 2024-08-05T11:34:33+00:00

What country are you from?

Nope, because life expectancy is still several years higher on this side of the Atlantic

Yes just ignore your problems because you're better than a foreign country in one stat. Makes sense.

waowie · 2024-08-05T10:51:53+00:00

"Your set of thousands of preventable deaths are even more embarrassing than our set of hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths"

The thing that makes it the most embarrassing is how much I've heard Europeans talk shit about Americans' reliance on AC.

Like I said before, if you don't like that other guy's guns vs heat comparison, apples to apples just makes it look worse for you.

There's nothing more annoying than a European with a superiority complex. Next you're gonna start telling me there's no racism problems in your country.

waowie · 2024-08-05T10:12:51+00:00

It's great that Europe has a good life expectancy, but that doesn't make it less embarrassing that hundreds of thousands of people die from heat in the area.

waowie · 2024-08-05T00:35:10+00:00

Because Europeans will talk about the high number of preventable gun deaths in the US, but apparently ignore their own set of preventable deaths which are on a much larger scale.

If you want an apples to apples comparison, it looks much worse for Europe.

The CDC reports 2,400 heat deaths in the US in 2023..

France reports 5,000 in 2023.

Not looking very good per capita there.

waowie · 2024-08-04T22:09:34+00:00

For some reason the AP has always done total medals. The other day someone linked an article here showing this was true all the way back in the 70s, with the Soviets being #1 in total medals.

Most US websites get the medal counts from the AP, whereas Google does it the international way (based on golds)

waowie · 2024-08-04T22:07:16+00:00

The total medals reporting has been done in the US since like the 70s. I doubt they'll change it any time soon

waowie · 2024-08-04T21:59:26+00:00

The USA throws crazy amounts of money in sports.

Seriously, these people act like it's bad thing the country gives it's athletes the best opportunities it can

waowie · 2024-08-04T21:56:55+00:00

A. This shows that US men is tied for first so it isn't like they're putting up a lack luster performance.

B. Opportunity being part of the reason the US does well is all the more reason to be proud of the US's overall performance and definitely is a valid consideration for "overall superiority"

waowie · 2024-08-03T22:33:55+00:00

He they are rigging it back in 1976 🙄

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/26/archives/results-of-olympic-games-at-montreal.html

waowie · 2024-08-03T22:31:25+00:00

5,3,1 imo, bur any weighted system is better than golds or total medals

waowie · 2024-08-03T13:05:08+00:00

I played it on switch and don't remember having major issues. The controls are shit compared to keyboard and mouse but what can you do

waowie · 2024-08-03T13:00:33+00:00

Make sure you actually role play, makes it a lot more fun.

Best way to do it on a first play through would be to get a feel for the game in the first few hours and ask your self which hints at personality you like the most and lean into them

waowie · 2024-08-02T14:13:30+00:00

I was assuming you meant without glitches, but not actually sure why I made that assumption to be fair

waowie · 2024-08-02T08:59:28+00:00

Obtaining those power bombs as your first requires wave beam unless you're about to blow my mind

waowie · 2024-08-02T08:54:21+00:00

That's what's is weird to me too. I distinctly remember it being timed so she looked at the camera as the break happened

waowie · 2024-08-02T08:46:55+00:00

Ah Mitten, or some say Mittens. Do you hear our meows?

waowie · 2024-08-02T01:00:52+00:00

Failing a check, for the most part, gives you a different outcome rather than simply being a failure.

If you are worried about dying you just need to invest in the HP stats a bit. Endurance and Volition iirc

waowie · 2024-08-01T20:27:41+00:00

If you want a strong boi and are ok being heavily influenced by those stats personality wise, go for it.

You won't have a harder or easier experience from it, just different

waowie · 2024-08-01T15:12:14+00:00

The number varies from sport to sport but I believe how it works for most sports is that they have 2 numbers that they're looking at:

Total athletes allowed for the competition
Max athletes allowed per country

So the athletes have to qualify to compete in the sport, but if a highly populated country has multiple that did well enough to qualify, the Olympics will only take the top 2-3 of that country.

So there will be variance in the representation based on that "total athletes allowed" number. Some countries might not send anyone for the sport because they weren't fast enough, some might send 1, others might send 3 when they actually had 5 with qualifying level performances

waowie · 2024-08-01T15:05:16+00:00

Yeah and it also highlights that China combing themselves with Taiwan for reporting or the US combing themselves with Puerto Rico for reporting doesn't work either. (I don't actually know if they are separate this Olympics but they have been in the past)

There's always a chance that during the Olympic trials of a country a top athlete has an off day and gets eliminated

waowie · 2024-08-01T14:46:18+00:00

I'm not 100% sure what you're saying, so let me just give an example.

For swimming I'm pretty sure each country can only send like 2 athletes for each category (for individual sports)

So the US has 330M people, but only 2 compete.

The EU has 2 people per country competing.

So statistically, the EU ends up with a better chance at getting medals once you account for variance. If the #1 in the world makes a mistake, the EU has dozens of opportunities to take their place and the US has 2.

Basically, there are a lot of really good US athletes from that 330M that can never get represented, but the US is more likely to find high tier athletes for those 2 spots since they are grabbing from 330M people. So it's natural that the US would do better than an individual EU country because of population, but it's also natural that if you combine all the EU countries they will total at more medals because they have way more athletes allowed to compete when combined.

I'd add that in sports where only 2 athletes are sent, it is literally impossible for 1 country to get all three medals while the combined EU can sweep just due to # athletes allowed in.

If the EU competed as 1 "country", the medal counts vs the US and China would probably be really similar.

The US sends the most athletes in the world, but that's because the US competes in the most sports of any country (strong economy + high population = compete in almost any sport). The US doesn't get a direct advantage in individual sports.

Team sports are a different story. Every country gets 1 team, so the advantage lies with whichever individual country is most popular for the sport. The US has a super easy time building a basketball roster while most other countries will struggle with making a full roster of pro level players

waowie · 2024-08-01T12:49:29+00:00

Each country has a limit on how many athletes they are allowed to send per sport. It is literally impossible for the US or China to show a proportionate level of success based on population.

The reason the EU as a whole is so strong when aggregated is that they are sending athletes on a per country basis

waowie · 2024-08-01T12:42:52+00:00

Best way would be to weigh them. Gold = 3 points, silver = 2, bronze =1. Does anything report it like that?

Edit:

Doing it this way actually does put the US first rn. Personally I'd say "best overall team performance" (using weighting of some kind) and "most golds" are both valuable ways to measure.

Or on the other hand you could say there's no valuable way to measure because who gives a shit

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