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Interesting fact of the day. USA isnt just the wealthiest country in the world. it is the wealthiest by a huge margin.

Here are the numbers:

Total household wealth by country:
United States (30.8%)
China (18.6%)
Japan (5.0%)
Germany (3.8%)
United Kingdom (3.5%)
France (3.5%)
India (3.4%)
Canada (2.5%)

That puts the USA well ahead of even China, the second largest.

For comparison USA has 50% more total household wealth than all of Europe combined.

"I'm not a materialist. Love and friendship is reward enough."

Oh, wait, I don't have those things either...

I have had some good times as an adult but it was always money that facilitated it, indirectly. I paid for travel to see people or to have them come see me. One of my exes lived with me for free while I worked. Another I wouldn't have met without travelling abroad. I'm losing contact with people over money.

It's not so interesting to own things, but experiences often cost money, and I do want those. You can also use money to improve your health and looks.

It would make more sense to be non-materialistic if I had many non-material assets, such as confidence, a great personality, good looks, a loving family, or a good contact network.

My main non-material asset is just my intellect though, and the main reward you can get in return for that alone is money and status.

"Netflix does not plan to develop a Vision Pro app at this time because the device is 'so subscale' that it is 'not really particularly relevant' to most Netflix members"

macrumors.com/2024/01/26/netfl

@AmpBenzScientist

You do realize that doesnt advance your argument that the numbers were over-reported?

As was pointed out the numbers have consistently be shown to be more or less accurate. In fact if anything they were likely underreported.

@mcnado

@mcnado

You are absolutely correct here, Agreed. Thank you for setting him straight.

@AmpBenzScientist

@AmpBenzScientist @freemo in the US at least, the mortality data were not falsified despite reports to the contrary. Indeed, two papers by the same authors looking at mortality suggested a ~20-30% undercount during the early pandemic (higher early on, lower later on). This was most likely due to poor test availability, out of hospital deaths, and shoddy reporting early on.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/

@AmpBenzScientist While I dont doubt there were a few examples of someone engaging in inflated numbers to get aide as was pointed out overall when you consider all the effects that create inaccurate numbers overall the numbers were under reported not over

@mcnado

@AmpBenzScientist the choice is really just between what physical connector you want. v5 are pretty much all the same its just do you want usb a, c, thunderbolt or nfc

Rapes and murders are at historic highs, sure. But they’re losing their burgers! This is getting serious!

Loss of In-N-Out Burger Sparks Oakland Mayor Recall Effort

The impending closure due to crime is a first in the fast-food company’s 75-year history

@AmpBenzScientist Depends what algo you want to use and what key size... any v5 is your best bet though.

I am watching the new movie The little mermaid. I am really enjoying how they used factually accurate (And in some cases not very well known) sea creatures. They also put a lot of attention into making their movements more or less accurate as well.

I was particularly excited to see the feather stars.

That said they arent region appropriate, I dont think I recall ever seeing a feather star in the Caribbean. I can let it slide :)

@AmpBenzScientist Yeah, I also remembered the fake moon. That level of modification would cause problems if you try to take a picture to proof something in legal related events.

For casual use, I'd say it's fine to use the default camera app. But taking picture of a bird or something I want no additional processing, hopefully the pro settings will disable the post-processing.

@AmpBenzScientist

Well, if it's a trend, you can't really resist it.

Somehow those manufacturers thought their customers would be happy with the new AI things. Samsung's S24 series is a bit retreat on hardware, but a lot of new things happened on software, but not necessary.

For people I know, most of them are not happy with the s24 series. For example the camera. S23Utlra has an optical 10x zoom lens, but on S24Ultra it changed to 5x zoom, and now you're relying on AI post-processing to get hopefully the same result from optical 10x lens. But if I had 10x zoom lens in the first place, why do I have to fake my picture? (Yeah, I think AI post-processing produces a fake photo.)

When they bundled features together, you have to give up a set of features to avoid one thing.

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