“Paul’s Life on Caladan was very different than on Arrakis”
Caption by CO 🤣
Caption by CO 🤣
This is from a while ago but I didn’t get the memo. It’s a little crazy:
It’s named after Reddit user /u/vaieriepieris, an ESL teacher from Texas, who made it for a map subreddit in 2013.
With some minor formatting. They add:
The average annual premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance in 2020 are $7,470 for single coverage and $21,342 for family coverage. Most covered workers make a contribution toward the cost of the premium for their coverage. On average, covered workers contribute 17% of the premium for single coverage ($1,270) and 27% of the premium for family coverage ($5,762).
It’s worth noting every penny of premiums is part of your total compensation, just as much as your salary. If you’re curious you can find out your specific amount on your W2 in box 12 with code DD.
Americans are paying a quarter million dollars more for healthcare over a lifetime compared to the most expensive socialized system on earth. Half a million dollars more than countries like Canada and the UK.
One in three American families had to forgo needed healthcare due to the cost last year. Almost three in ten had to skip prescribed medication due to cost. One in four had trouble paying a medical bill. Of those with insurance one in five had trouble paying a medical bill, and even for those with income above $100,000 14% had trouble. One in six Americans has unpaid medical debt on their credit report. 50% of all Americans fear bankruptcy due to a major health event.
So there’s a good chance you wouldn’t be able to pay for it, especially if you get sick enough to lose the job you depend on for insurance.
mediocre healthcare for free.
Except it’s US healthcare that’s mediocre vs. it’s peers.
The US has the worst rate of death by medically preventable causes among peer countries. A 31% higher disease adjusted life years average. Higher rates of medical and lab errors. A lower rate of being able to make a same or next day appointment with their doctor than average.
These findings imply that even if all US citizens experienced the same health outcomes enjoyed by privileged White US citizens, US health indicators would still lag behind those in many other countries.
When asked about their healthcare system as a whole the US system ranked dead last of 11 countries, with only 19.5% of people saying the system works relatively well and only needs minor changes. The average in the other countries is 46.9% saying the same. Canada ranked 9th with 34.5% saying the system works relatively well. The UK ranks fifth, with 44.5%. Australia ranked 6th at 44.4%. The best was Germany at 59.8%.
On rating the overall quality of care in the US, Americans again ranked dead last, with only 25.6% ranking it excellent or very good. The average was 50.8%. Canada ranked 9th with 45.1%. The UK ranked 2nd, at 63.4%. Australia was 3rd at 59.4%. The best was Switzerland at 65.5%.
Country | Govt. / Mandatory (PPP) | Voluntary (PPP) | Total (PPP) | GDP | Lancet HAQ Ranking | WHO Ranking | Prosperity Ranking | CEO World Ranking | Commonwealth Fund Ranking |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United States | $7,274 | $3,798 | $11,072 | 16.90% | 29 | 37 | 59 | 30 | 11 |
Switzerland | $4,988 | $2,744 | $7,732 | 12.20% | 7 | 20 | 3 | 18 | 2 |
Norway | $5,673 | $974 | $6,647 | 10.20% | 2 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 7 |
Germany | $5,648 | $998 | $6,646 | 11.20% | 18 | 25 | 12 | 17 | 5 |
Austria | $4,402 | $1,449 | $5,851 | 10.30% | 13 | 9 | 10 | 4 | |
Sweden | $4,928 | $854 | $5,782 | 11.00% | 8 | 23 | 15 | 28 | 3 |
Netherlands | $4,767 | $998 | $5,765 | 9.90% | 3 | 17 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
Denmark | $4,663 | $905 | $5,568 | 10.50% | 17 | 34 | 8 | 5 | |
Luxembourg | $4,697 | $861 | $5,558 | 5.40% | 4 | 16 | 19 | ||
Belgium | $4,125 | $1,303 | $5,428 | 10.40% | 15 | 21 | 24 | 9 | |
Canada | $3,815 | $1,603 | $5,418 | 10.70% | 14 | 30 | 25 | 23 | 10 |
France | $4,501 | $875 | $5,376 | 11.20% | 20 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 9 |
Ireland | $3,919 | $1,357 | $5,276 | 7.10% | 11 | 19 | 20 | 80 | |
Australia | $3,919 | $1,268 | $5,187 | 9.30% | 5 | 32 | 18 | 10 | 4 |
Japan | $4,064 | $759 | $4,823 | 10.90% | 12 | 10 | 2 | 3 | |
Iceland | $3,988 | $823 | $4,811 | 8.30% | 1 | 15 | 7 | 41 | |
United Kingdom | $3,620 | $1,033 | $4,653 | 9.80% | 23 | 18 | 23 | 13 | 1 |
Finland | $3,536 | $1,042 | $4,578 | 9.10% | 6 | 31 | 26 | 12 | |
Malta | $2,789 | $1,540 | $4,329 | 9.30% | 27 | 5 | 14 | ||
OECD Average | $4,224 | 8.80% | |||||||
New Zealand | $3,343 | $861 | $4,204 | 9.30% | 16 | 41 | 22 | 16 | 7 |
Italy | $2,706 | $943 | $3,649 | 8.80% | 9 | 2 | 17 | 37 | |
Spain | $2,560 | $1,056 | $3,616 | 8.90% | 19 | 7 | 13 | 7 | |
Czech Republic | $2,854 | $572 | $3,426 | 7.50% | 28 | 48 | 28 | 14 | |
South Korea | $2,057 | $1,327 | $3,384 | 8.10% | 25 | 58 | 4 | 2 | |
Portugal | $2,069 | $1,310 | $3,379 | 9.10% | 32 | 29 | 30 | 22 | |
Slovenia | $2,314 | $910 | $3,224 | 7.90% | 21 | 38 | 24 | 47 | |
Israel | $1,898 | $1,034 | $2,932 | 7.50% | 35 | 28 | 11 | 21 |
Allysson Lucca is a Brazilian designer who took this original list (cached) of what the world would look like with a 1,000 people and shrank it to a hundred.
The idea of reducing the world’s population to a community of only 100 people is very useful and important. It makes us easily understand the differences in the world. There are many types of reports that use the Earth’s population reduced to 100 people, especially in the Internet. Ideas like this should be more often shared, especially nowadays when the world seems to be in need of dialogue and understanding among different cultures, in a way that it has never been before.
Transcribed from the graphic:
“If the world were a village of 1000 people.” This was written in 1990.
If the world were a village of 1000 people:
The people of the village would have considerable difficulty communicating:
In the village there would be:
Sixty of the thousand villagers would be over the age of 65.
Just under half of the married women would have access to and be using modern contraceptives.
Each year 28 babies would be born.
Each year 10 people would die, three of them for lack of food, one from cancer. Two of the deaths would be to babies born within the year.
One person in the village would be infected with the HIV virus; that person would most likely not yet have developed a full-blown case of AIDS.
With the 28 births and 10 deaths, the population of the village in the next year would be 1018. In this thousand-person community, 200 people would receive three-fourths of the income; another 200 would receive only 2% of the income. Only 70 people would own an automobile (some of them more than one automobile).
About one-third would not have access to clean, safe drinking water. Of the 670 adults in the village half would be illiterate. The village would have 6 acres of land per person, 6000 acres in all of which:
If the world were a village of 1000 persons, there would be five soldiers, seven teachers, one doctor. Of the village’s total annual expenditures of just over $3 million per year, $181,000 would go for weapons and warfare, $159,000 for education, $132,000 for health care.
The village would have buried beneath it enough explosive power in nuclear weapons to blow itself to smithereens many times over. These weapons would be under the control of just 100 of the people. The other 900 people would be watching them with deep anxiety, wondering whether the 100 can learn to get along together, and if they do, whether they might set off the weapons anyway through inattention or technical bungling, and if they ever decide to dismantle the weapons, where in the village they will dispose of the dangerous radioactive materials of which the weapons are made.
Via NPR. And then:
Just days before, Pardis had confided to his friend that he was receiving death threats from the Taliban, who had discovered he had worked as a translator for the United States Army for 16 months during the 20-year-long conflict.
“They were telling him you are a spy for the Americans, you are the eyes of the Americans and you are infidel, and we will kill you and your family,” his friend and co-worker Abdulhaq Ayoubi told CNN.
As he approached the checkpoint, Pardis put his foot on the accelerator to speed through. He was not seen alive again.
What a nightmare, twenty years on. And it’s not like the powers that be didn’t know what they were getting into. Heck, here’s a scene from Rambo (via WN)
Of course. The Best People, folks. He did mention the use of “the binomial probability formula”, so there’s that at least. He’s being sued by Dominion Systems, along key members of his Daddy’s Elite Strike-Force Legal team.
Shitkraken keeps on giving ♥️
Being a long and informative post that leads to “Use /dev/urandom
” and features a quote by DJB and a list of computationally secure PRNGs. Cached here.
Followed by the Chinese Army (2.3M), Walmart (2.1M), McDonald’s (1.9M), and the NHS (1.7M). The Indian Railways comes in eighth with 1.4M people.
is a simple and aptly-named COVID tracker that uses data from Johns Hopkins. As of September 1st 2020, my state of Iowa is #1 (woohoo!) with a 7-day infection rate of 261/100,000 people (“there might be 2 to 6 times as many recent infections”) and an R0 rate of 1.7. “Over the past 30 days, 246 people in Iowa have died of Covid-19. If Iowa remains on its current trajectory, expect to see more than three times as many deaths from Covid-19 over the next 30 days.” That’ll show 'em.
Yep. And the tweet was in the context of school openings, but college towns like Ames and Iowa City, are no exceptions (like she continues.) I say we continue to doubt the science, exercise absolutely no discipline in the interest of the economy (because the Communist Kiwis maintain zero interest in restoring theirs as quickly as possible), yell at people who wear masks, fight Big Government telling us what to do, expect maturity and restraint from children and teenagers, have no bloody plan, defend our effete leaders who institute weak policies that are too little and too late, control the numbers and the narrative, and just continue to be awesome ♥️ That’ll show 'em. We’re only beginning to get tired of winning folks.
Found this map when Googling “coronavirus india”. Looks like it’s maintained by the WHO and is pretty up-to-date. They have a daily update page.
At the time of this writing, there are 110,029 confirmed cases, with 3,817 deaths in 105 countries. China, South Korea, Iran, France, and Germany account for 95% of the total number of cases and in that order.
Tyler Vigen maintains around 30,000 examples of “spurious correlations” (also available in book form). For instance:
You can also “discover” your own. Like this one