Everyone here is ignoring the animal fucking comment and arguing the merits of the first. Stay wholesome, Lemmy.
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Is there a reason to comment on a universally accepted truth?
Jk, don't fuck animals.
That's a pocket monster, baby.
I love how they're canonically called monsters, even though there are no other types of animals in the Pokémon world.
There actually are animals in the Pokémon world: https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Animals_in_the_Pok%C3%A9mon_world
I’ve always wondered about the health of the Pokémon universe’s ecosystem as it has such poor biodiversity (just over a thousand pokeymans? big yike)
It's not an animal, it's a Pokémon.
Fairly certain no country is "100% white".
That's because "White" as a concept has always been invented to be nebulous and exclusionary. It's not a real group.
yeah it's funny seeing Poland in that list since for a hot while we were not considered "real white" and were "slavic", same story as what the Irish went through. From what i'm reading at some point we were even considered terrorists in the US! (because one Polish dude killed some president), and the same scare tactics as what happens around Muslim people today were engaged
history is so fun /s
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Diversity is not our strength. Ridiculous levels of natural resources is.
And being virtually impossible to attack, with a friendly country up north, poor countries down south, and oceans to the east and west.
Porque no los dos?
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This guy listing Poland there while I am refusing to travel to USA sightseeing due to personal safety which is not an issue in Poland. Power of country does not directly correlate with standard of living, Russia is the great example where living is shit yet it's still a "superpower"
The chances of you being attacked while sightseeing is virtually zero
Seriously; I've seen several such posts stating a belief that it's unsafe to visit the US, but that's wildly ignoring statistics. The violent crime rate is like half what it was in the 90s and continues its general downward trend, falling further to below the previous bottom in '19. And most of that still stems from gang violence and the like, so it's never near what tourists are doing.
I don't get it; I think people just like acting scared for some reason. Or maybe it's them grasping for a reason to feel superior? People love that kind of thing...
I assume the media there does the same thing the media does here. If it bleeds, it leads. Violent news gets top billing, while news of plummeting crime rates isn't advertised.
It's just how media works and our media is the loudest.
an unusual, infrequent event (such as a man biting a dog) is more likely to be reported as news than an ordinary, everyday occurrence with similar consequences, such as a dog biting a man.
The only perspective people from outside the US have is that from the media. So when they see the man bites dog stories they assume that to be usual and frequent.
Zero or not, person from outside can only know that numbers look worse. Homicide rate alone in the USA is roughly 9 times higher than in Poland. You hear about school shootings every other week as well which doesn't help.
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I don't think anyone seriously believes Russia is a superpower any more after their failure to take Ukraine.
Cool, less traffic
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Too horny, didn't read
Bro has never visited Lithuania or Poland. The countries are amazing and probably more advanced in many regards than 90% of US shithole states
Yeah, our bridges are not collapsing and if I break my leg I’ll get free help.
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Damn, now I want to fuck it too; it's clearly asking for it.
Zoophilia is a paraphilia in which a person experiences a sexual fixation on non-human animals.
America was only exceptional in that we profited heavily off of WW2. We were one of the only countries whose land was basically untouched and after the war we created a bunch of money and gave that to war ravaged Europe to buy shit from us.
It is much more nuanced than that, but we had been riding that high a couple generations and now all that "prosperity" has been squandered.
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America is nowhere near the most diverse country.
Not even in the top 50...
In what sense?
I would be interested in hearing of any country with the sheer volume of immigrants that the US has from every continent. We have migrants from every European nation, africa (including modern african culture, not just the results of the slave trade and imancipation), asian immigrants, including China, Japan, Veitnamese, Indian, even indigenous peoples as far as Oceania. And every culture is represented in our own, much to the dismay of those that believe our great works came solely from white hands. Our democracy is founded on a melting pot of ideas and inputs, not a euro-centric empire graciously allowing "lesser men" in it's borders.
Probably operating on Bruno logic. "Africa is full of minorities" level of thinking.
Read the wiki link above. And travel.
Wikipedia's page on ethnic diversity ranks the USA at #90 out of 215 countries.
Those are from 2003. Here's some more up to date data (with spreadsheets!): https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-racially-diverse-countries
USA is still placed at #90, but the top looks a bit different
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It's funny because I believe it's Russia that's the most diverse country in the world (in terms of "ethnicities"), mainly because it's so fucking huge
Also, even diverse places in the US are quite segregated.
It depends on if you are speaking about ethnicity, the concept of race, or the diversity of genetics. I guess it also depends if you are talking about the percent of the total population, or just the total amount of ethnic groups living in the state.
America may be racially diverse, or have a large number of different ethnicities living in the country. But when it comes to ethnic and genetic diversity, it's pretty hard to beat just about any country in Africa.
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The artist who drew that Eevee appears to go by wanco HT. A higher quality version of Eevee can be found here. Hopefully, this'll save someone else some time.
Hopefully the other guy sees this
I've been to Russia and Poland, it's not 100% white.
Neither are they shitoles. Poland especially is a great place to be. Russia has it's issues, even before the madman in charge went fully berserk, but they are nothing compared to some places like Somalia that deserve the name.
There's a reason that despite it's trash record for human rights, Russia is considered "First world". It's a fairly modern country with access to technology, infrastructure, medicine, etc. most of the world doesn't even have that.
It's pretty on par for European and American living standards outside of the ABHORRENT human rights situation there.
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