Western, good.
Everything else, bad.
Includes British Columbia in “easy mode”.
Nah, BC looks pretty, but if you unprepared off the beaten trails/roads, they’ll never find your body.
I don’t think we’re talking about wilderness in general… But housing and grocery prices are not particularly easy either.
If we aren’t talking about wilderness in general, then there is no reason for Australia to have it’s own category.
Seems to be an all round rubric partially political (more than a little based in Eurocentric standard) partially wilderness in which case Australia does kind of have BC beat. Like yes… We have moose grizzlies and wolverine but those are a pretty rare eldrich horror to stumble across. We don’t really have mouse-pocolypses, or dinnerplate sized crawlies that randomly just show up in our houses… And our critters are all round less venomous.
Like I grew up in a forestry household. Off trail can get spooky as fuck. But for a lot of the main points like exposure and microbial issues which is pretty much a problem everywhere we rank fairly tame. Most of our snakes and bugs are chill with highly survivable bites, our deserts are pretty temperate but in most of the heavily forested areas there’s a lot of foragables if you know what to look for and most of our big predators are easily scared off.
A Certain Subsection Of Lemmy: “The Imperial Core™ makes life harder for the nations it exploits!”
Meme: “Life is harder in those nations.”
ACSOL: “Are you some kind of racist!?”
It’s really mind-boggling.
Also, ironically a bit ethnocentric to suggest that the challenges in the US or Europe are in any way on par with life in places like Brazil, India, Africa!
For some reason New Guinea is included with Australia, even though the western half is owned by Indonesia, and the eastern half is its own country. Either way with the civil war going on there at the moment I’d much rather be living in Australia!
Those are geographic boarders not polticals ones. New Guinea is included because, like Australia the country, its part of the continent of Australia.
Umm I don’t think New Guinea is part of the Australian continent. I live in Australia and they definitely didn’t teach us that in school
Wikipedia says it is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent)
Like my teacher always said “Trust everything you read on the internet. Also you need to listen better”
Parts of Africa are definitely better than parts of medium tier
Africa is kind of a big place. Asia is an even bigger place.
I’m gonna be real with you all, I’m in Australia and it’s a little embarrassing how hard you think we have it over here compared to the shit I’ve heard from other places. Like don’t fuck with the animals and don’t put your hands in areas you can’t see and you’re golden. I’ve had to deal with random violence like three times in my 34 years here. It’s pretty alright here.
You can’t fool me. I’ve seen your videogame prices.
One of the reasons stuff costs more in Australia is that there’s significantly more consumer protection. Steam originally didn’t allow refunds at all, and were fined AU$3 million as a result.
In Australia, it’s illegal to say “no refunds” or only exchange or refund as store credit both for physical and digital goods, and customers are always allowed to get a repair, refund or replacement if the product has issues. In the case of a game, that would be things like:
- Game breaking bugs or bug that significantly affects the experience but don’t completely break the game
- Changes that make the game behave significantly differently to how it was originally described on the site or in the documentation
- Games that initially support Linux but the company dropped Linux support later on, etc.
Steam’s policy of only refunding a purchase within 14 days of purchase and less than 2 hours of play time is also not legal in Australia. You can’t have conditions like that on a refund policy. They have a separate refund policy specifically for Australia which excludes the 14 day / 2 hour limits.
Appliances also have to last for as long as a ‘reasonable consumer’ thinks they should last. For example, even if your TV or fridge has a “1 year warranty”, the manufacturer will still have to repair, refund, or replace it if it breaks down in 3 years, as a regular person would assume that a fridge or TV should last more than 3 years. The store or manufacturer has to cover the cost of picking it up and delivering a replacement. It’s also illegal for a store to tell you that you have to contact the manufacturer - the place you bought the product from has to let you handle all warranty claims through them.
huh. that actually makes it sound worth it.
Look you’re right and the housing market is a catastrophe also
Is 🏴☠️ an option, or are USA (MPAA, RIAA, etc) claws too deep in 'straya and kiwiland?
You can’t fool us. We know all of you are boxing kangaroos upsidedown just to get to work everyday.
Wait do you guys not? Next you’ll tell me you don’t eat your national animal
You know, at this point I think I’ll be surprised if I DON’T see somebody eating a bald eagle for Thanksgiving one of these years.
and don’t put your hands in areas you can’t see
Serious question: do you check your bed before you crawl into it for the night? Like, what’s the level of paranoia you guys have there? Does the room get a quick glance then you just go “yeah, I’m sure everything is fine”? Or do you turn all the lights on, rip the duvet up, and smack the bed frame to scare off any creepy crawlies that might be lingering about?
Probably the most I check in day to day life is just under the toilet seat before I sit on it. Haven’t yet had a spider under there yet but have definitely heard of it. Otherwise just being careful of huntsmen when you have something like two sheets of iron or wood, as they love to be in between them.
Have otherwise had little spiders come out from the car’s crevices while driving and calmly pulled over to deal with it.
Overall not really that paranoid or bad in Australia
Haha no not quite that paranoid. Nah it’s mostly a rule for like moving stuff around in the garden and if you’re in the bush or whatever. Like the shit you have to worry about will either let you know, or set up a home far away from you. Generally. So it’s kind of another way of saying don’t put you hand into a redback nest.
Though saying that most people have had harrowing huntsman spider encounters, often in bed. They’re the most common surprise as they actively move around to hunt prey, instead of building webs. They can’t really hurt humans, aside from hiding behind your sun visor in the car and scaring you half to death, like my girlfriend had last year. They are a non zero statistic in cause of car accidents unfortunately.
Thanks!
Ya’ll fucking crazy
You miscatagorized the US Hard is the correct category.
We talking wilderness of Canada or population centers? Cuz there ain’t no way I’d go into Canadian bush without a shotgun.
Am Canadian - wtf?
The worst part would be the Arctic but you have bigger problems than polar bears
Bud, have you met a moose?
They’re the size of three deer and they have the personality of a Canadian Goose.
Moose and black bear aren’t like that unless you pissed them off
Grizzleys and Cougars you have to worry about but your shotgun’s noise is the most effective part of it
There is No way i go into an American City without a shotgun.
Little racist there my guy. Also, America is pretty “hard mode” for a lot of people.
That’s the interesting thing about empire, it’s self similar. A whole class of people may grow up geographically in or near the core, but their experience of life has more in common with someone in the semi- or outer periphery in terms of access to necessities or stability of life.
Difficulty in America is pretty much down to your initial stats.
Initial stats and current location. Some places want you dead for being the way you were born.
Is Bogan a race?
I invested all my xp into sneak and went from medium to easy.
There’s more than penguins in Antarctica.
What if I was a scientist? Or a piece of lab equipment?
what if im oil?
American armed forces enters the chat
uh oh
The Galapagos deserves its own level at the top of this. It’s literally, “don’t eat any green apples you find on the island, okay?”
What??
The Galápagos is pretty much paradise. If can, check it out some time.
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Really? How displaced is your view if you consider the USA easy mode?
Also, fuck Mexico. Apparently.
Haven’t you heard? Mexico doesn’t exist it is just drawn on the map to make people think that Canada and The United States are to the rest of the American Continent. Everyone who says they are from Mexico are just paid actors. /s
Also they left out New Zealand, which will not come as a surprise for New Zealanders. They will probably be happy that they are even on the map.
I can confirm that, I’m being paid to said I’m Mexican 🌮 viva México!!
they pay me with tacos btw
You’re not doing a good job. Australia doesn’t exist, yet the “Australians” managed to be included in this meme.
They mean West New Zealand
It might belong there depending on what they mean by easy. Its pretty vague
It really depends on your race and starting stats
Or the former Bloc states
At the end of the day, while living in the US does have its share of issues, they absolutely do not compare to living in Africa.
No, America bad. Lemmy doot left side. Calcium
I clapped and good bones
There’s a bunch of African countries I would rather live than the US, although maybe not exactly South Africa or Congo…
Well go right ahead then. I’m going to stay in my comfortable home here in the USA though.
each to their own :)
Such as?
Namibia, Kenya, Mauritius, Ghana, Botswana, The Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Equatorial Guinea.
A bunch of African countries rank higher than the US in the HPI https://happyplanetindex.org/hpi/?show_all=true
That website is using the nations carbon footprint as a part of their measure of happiness which I find confusing. Carbon footprint is important sure but it doesn’t relate to happiness and gives undeveloped countries an advantage.
Not to downplay how horrible life can be anywhere for someone who’s not healthy, wealthy, and typical:
Different by a factor of 187.
More than fifteen years in South Sudan to equate a year income in the US.
it would not change the result this time, but these numbers lie a lot if you don’t factor in cost of living.
To equal a month’s income, you mean?
Believe that’s yearly.
If the difference is a factor of 187 wouldn’t you need 187 years in South Dudan to equal a year’s income in the US? 187 / 12 is just over 15, but now you’re comparing years to months
Think I meant 15 years in South Sudan = one month in USA
Doh!! Bad math! Thanks, edited.
Mexico mode is only available once a year on May Fifth. It then disappears until next the next year.
Mexico is just the US with a yellow camera filter.
All of central america, the caribbean, greenland, japan, hawaii, and new zealand were all unaccounted for. Probably will be included in the dlc
Probably called the settlers and shogun expansion.
USA is Easy mode. It’s just that Europe, Australia, and Canada are Very Easy mode.
How many countries would be easier than USA?
Any country with actual welfare, a decent living wage minimum salary, normal Healthcare prices, a gun ban and a non-corrupt police system or at least less prone to corruption.
I live in Europe. It’s not as beauty as it sounds. I’m glad of what we have, but is not perfect, sometimes is not even better than the USE.
We have welfare, but more and more people are forced to private medical companies because waiting lists are becoming ridiculously long.
Violence and support for fascism is on the rise. Terrorism is on the rise. War is at our doorsteps. Many countries are talking about bringing back mandatory military training for all our citizens.
We may have better minimum wage, but median wages are lower and taxes and prices tend to be much higher. On average we can afford tu buy less with out money.
At least in my country we all live in small dehumanizing small and packed apartments. Living space is much smaller. Everything is human made, we barely have natural reserves or parks.
Employment is getting better but sometimes unemployment hits really hard, myself was years without being able to get a job during last decade.
Political tensions and population conflict is on the rise. Many countries are also on the verge or civil war, secession, or some big problem of the sort.
US is not perfect, and I wouldn’t want privatized healthcare, or guns in my country by any means, but I would still would love some things they have in the US. And in other things we are just as bad.
That still makes USA easy mode compared to most countries.
Yeah, they’re still behind most other “first world” countries in every metric stated.
Comparing the USA to a country in the middle East or Africa or something? Yeah, the USA is a cakewalk by comparison to many. Compared to any country that’s similarly regarded, it’s dog shit for living conditions.
“Middle East” countries do pretty well if they’re not the target of bombings (Qatar, UAE etc.), and are luxury vacation spots. Lots of US expats moving to Oman.
and canada, USA plus canada is easy mode. Australia is on some shit right now, they deserve it.
IDK what the others are except for europe and africa, which, yeah that’s about right. Africa is a hot fucking minute away from some spicy shit at the moment, and the other one is probably the same.
What?
aussie land is currently imprisoning a whistleblower exposing warcrimes, as well as reams of government corruption scandals. Africa is undergoing numerous disliked governments, coups, and corruption scandals as well.
USA and canada is pretty tame otherwise.
Good assessment but its not like the US isnt just as bad as Australia if not worse. Thanks for the translation tho.
Life in the US is only easy for a small handful of people. Most of us consider it a good year if we got through it without crushing medical debt and retained all of our teeth. Is a third world country passing itself off as a first world country.
At least US families can expect all their children not to die by tuberculosis or malaria or something.
And fuck Australian magpies.
On the other hand, US families can also expect their kindergarteners to have to participate in active shooter drills. Because, you know, active shooters are a thing. Screw that.
If you look at statistics, it’s extremely unlikely for any school to have a shooting. 99.99999% of children from ages 0 to 18 in the USA are not harmed by firearms.
So you can waste your time and sanity worrying about that or just live without fear and find what makes you happy in life. Either way you and your kids will be safe so it’s your choice to be crippled by irrational fear or not.
Or we can actually do something to prevent it from ever happening. The math is not hard. No guns = no gun violence.
That’s just a fantasy that will never happen though. Guns are already here in the number of hundreds of millions, and we have the right to own them, and we choose to keep them.
Guns over children. Except if they are not born. Nice.
Assuming the mother/baby don’t die in the hospital waiting room bathroom because the hospital refused treatment.
I get our healthcare system sucks but it isn’t worse than countless children dying of malaria.
Hospitals generally won’t refuse treatment to anyone as far as I know, even if you tell them straight up at check in that you won’t be able to pay them. You’ll still get treated, provided they have the space and staff available to treat you.
However, afterward, that debt will haunt you like a vengeful ghost for the rest of your life.
I believe it’s a reference to the problems caused by the fucked up abortion laws going on recently, not about payment (though that’s its own concern). From a quick search:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/pregnant-women-denied-care-us-hospitals
One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her to the hospital.
Another related issue is that rural areas, especially in right wing hellholes that have passed such laws, are increasingly short on access to obestrician services and doctors of that specialty. Some people who used to live 40 miles from the nearest hospital with Ob/Gyn now live 100 miles away and lack transportation.
Tuberculosis is still world’s deadliest infectious disease. Mostly because the healthcare in developing countries lack access to the necessary treatment for it.
TB is a solved problem in developed countries such as US. Barely anyone gets it anymore, let alone die from it.
