It’s based on an average for western countries, but of course you can calculate something more specific to your situation with company financial data and taxation rates in your country:

https://lemmy.zip/post/63946061/26366452

I was unsure if I should use this instead, but the baldness is too sexy and I might have to tag it NSFW:

Don’t be a commie! Be content with 40% of the value of your work. They might even give you 41% if you defend your capitalist masters.

TMTG said in December that it is merging with the American company TAE, which is developing nuclear fusion technology.

From crypto scams to nuclear fusion; what can go wrong?

My toaster costs 30€ and has the following features:

• Toasts bread

Yeah, the machines that they smashed had been in use in England for 2 centuries at that point. It’s very unlikely that they just decided to rebel against this 2 century old “new technology” because they were some primitive brutes as they are depicted. History is written by the victors, and in this case capitalists were successful in tarnishing their reputation for centuries.

Dunno what you’re trying to prove here, apart from “removing an outlier from the data makes the data closer to the average”, which is pretty obvious.

But you can clearly see that the graph shows Europe, not EU, so using your same calculation with the population of Europe, which is 745 million and excluding France, the result is 1.13.

Also I don’t see any indication that OurWorldInData is using an average of countries (which would be stupid). Considering their jobs are statistics, they probably know how to aggregate per population, aka a weighted average.

I don’t have access to the source data since you need to register, but I would assume that OurWorldInData knows to aggregate Europe per population, and not just average the values per country. France is not the only outlier, there’s also Norway and probably some others I haven’t seen

I see that some people try to attribute this to older population and/or Alzheimer, but even by those metrics the countries above are pretty close and wouldn’t justify such a big gap:

As for the reliability of data, it’s from a peer reviewed study by an American university. If they had a way to make the China data look worse, I’m sure they wouldn’t hesitate.

I’ve been giving Spain too much credit lately, but I forgot that this shit is still legal. Barbaric traditions from the past should stay in the past.

“But you see, they told me it’s for democracy and freedom!”

No treats, just scratches

Nope. Completely free in the Irish wilderness.

Apparently the creation of the First French Republic, which abolished feudalism and monarchy, created a declaration of human and civil rights that was foundational for a century of liberal democratic revolutions all across Europe and is still celebrated today as a national holiday, wasn’t a good ending because the forces of reaction managed to get back in power for a few years. Unbelievable…

Maybe the first republic would have lasted longer if they dressed up in frog costumes?

It’s kinda funny how you included a 15% margin of error, but then the percentage is off by an order of magnitude

This is something no European country does or could do.

Right, Europe just invades other countries out of pure joy and then installs puppet governments that are loyal to the West. This is just the last 30ish years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_operations

What foreign territories did China invade? Did that parliamentary system you like so much stop the nazis from taking power? Is it stopping armaments to Israel today?

Again, you are focusing on the wrong threat, because the propaganda told you to. Weed out your own garden first.

Western world starts countless wars, a genocide and an alarmingly fascist state followed by its increasingly fascist vassals across the pond.

Western liberals: I can’t wait for China to reveal its true color!

If you can’t see that Western imperialism is the biggest threat to the world, you’re lost.

55% is a small majority

Laughs in Brexit

Coming from a country with ranked voting and more than 2 parties, this looks so ridiculous. It’s like the USA electoral system is designed to make people bicker amongst themselves about who is the lesser evil, while oligarchs take control.