This too.  fucking Scary.

rgambs said:

Yep.  Scary.
40%
Hmmm, where have I seen that number recently?
Oh yeah, Trump's approval rating.
Lines up pretty well!

Trump loves the poorly educated.

A very interesting read. It sounds like she had a very conservative and compartmentalized upbringing and then was hit with the reality of how America really is and how the rest of the world views us. I agree with some of her assessments and her backstory also allows you to see who the Trump voters are in this country.

I will admit that up until around my senior year in HS, I probably had similar experiences. As a kid, you don't think about that stuff and then in the early teens you're just a hormonal idiot so I didn't really start considering the US role in foreign affairs and its negative impact until about my senior year in HS. It helped to have a social justice class where we studied how the US engaged in Vietnam, Nicaragua, etc. In college, it was the 2nd Iraq war that really drove the point home.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/08/unlearning-the-myth-of-american-innocence

oftenreading said:

Had to go back many pages in AMT to find a thread that was a good fit for this article, which I saw this morning.

U.S. Drops To 27th In The World For Education And Health Care

The United States is ranked 27th globally on education and health care, a new study based on 2016 data reports.

The study, organized by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, seeks to identify “the number of productive years an individual in each country can be expected to work between the ages of 20 to 64,” based on education and health care. This number is referred to as the “human capital” of a nation’s people.

America’s human capital measurement is 23 years, that’s the amount of time a person can be expected to work at peak productivity when accounting for life expectancy, general health and education. The U.S. ranked sixth in the world in 1990, and the drop apparently took researchers by surprise.

“The decline of human capital in the United States was one of the biggest surprises in our study,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, director of IHME.

The study shows that China has had the opposite trajectory since 1990, going from 69th in the world to 44th.

Finland landed in the top with 28.4 years, followed by Iceland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Taiwan. At the bottom was Niger at less than 1.6 years of human capital.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/whelp-the-us-now-ranks-27th-in-the-world-on-education-and-healthcare_us_5bae5d02e4b0425e3c23508f

But we're  number 1 in gun related deaths

Bentleyspop said:

oftenreading said:

Had to go back many pages in AMT to find a thread that was a good fit for this article, which I saw this morning.

U.S. Drops To 27th In The World For Education And Health Care

The United States is ranked 27th globally on education and health care, a new study based on 2016 data reports.

The study, organized by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, seeks to identify “the number of productive years an individual in each country can be expected to work between the ages of 20 to 64,” based on education and health care. This number is referred to as the “human capital” of a nation’s people.

America’s human capital measurement is 23 years, that’s the amount of time a person can be expected to work at peak productivity when accounting for life expectancy, general health and education. The U.S. ranked sixth in the world in 1990, and the drop apparently took researchers by surprise.

“The decline of human capital in the United States was one of the biggest surprises in our study,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, director of IHME.

The study shows that China has had the opposite trajectory since 1990, going from 69th in the world to 44th.

Finland landed in the top with 28.4 years, followed by Iceland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Taiwan. At the bottom was Niger at less than 1.6 years of human capital.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/whelp-the-us-now-ranks-27th-in-the-world-on-education-and-healthcare_us_5bae5d02e4b0425e3c23508f

But we're  number 1 in gun related deaths

Yep.  Meanwhile, my neighbors are out there shooting, preparing for the next gun battle at the OK Coral while I lie at home recuperating from a visit to the ER Friday due to extreme dizziness and nausea and hyperventilating.  'merica.  Rah fucking rah. 

brianlux said:

Bentleyspop said:

oftenreading said:

Had to go back many pages in AMT to find a thread that was a good fit for this article, which I saw this morning.

U.S. Drops To 27th In The World For Education And Health Care

The United States is ranked 27th globally on education and health care, a new study based on 2016 data reports.

The study, organized by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, seeks to identify “the number of productive years an individual in each country can be expected to work between the ages of 20 to 64,” based on education and health care. This number is referred to as the “human capital” of a nation’s people.

America’s human capital measurement is 23 years, that’s the amount of time a person can be expected to work at peak productivity when accounting for life expectancy, general health and education. The U.S. ranked sixth in the world in 1990, and the drop apparently took researchers by surprise.

“The decline of human capital in the United States was one of the biggest surprises in our study,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, director of IHME.

The study shows that China has had the opposite trajectory since 1990, going from 69th in the world to 44th.

Finland landed in the top with 28.4 years, followed by Iceland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Taiwan. At the bottom was Niger at less than 1.6 years of human capital.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/whelp-the-us-now-ranks-27th-in-the-world-on-education-and-healthcare_us_5bae5d02e4b0425e3c23508f

But we're  number 1 in gun related deaths

Yep.  Meanwhile, my neighbors are out there shooting, preparing for the next gun battle at the OK Coral while I lie at home recuperating from a visit to the ER Friday due to extreme dizziness and nausea and hyperventilating.  'merica.  Rah fucking rah. 

You need to stay off the strong sativa

brianlux said:

Bentleyspop said:

brianlux said:

Bentleyspop said:

oftenreading said:

Had to go back many pages in AMT to find a thread that was a good fit for this article, which I saw this morning.

U.S. Drops To 27th In The World For Education And Health Care

The United States is ranked 27th globally on education and health care, a new study based on 2016 data reports.

The study, organized by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, seeks to identify “the number of productive years an individual in each country can be expected to work between the ages of 20 to 64,” based on education and health care. This number is referred to as the “human capital” of a nation’s people.

America’s human capital measurement is 23 years, that’s the amount of time a person can be expected to work at peak productivity when accounting for life expectancy, general health and education. The U.S. ranked sixth in the world in 1990, and the drop apparently took researchers by surprise.

“The decline of human capital in the United States was one of the biggest surprises in our study,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, director of IHME.

The study shows that China has had the opposite trajectory since 1990, going from 69th in the world to 44th.

Finland landed in the top with 28.4 years, followed by Iceland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Taiwan. At the bottom was Niger at less than 1.6 years of human capital.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/whelp-the-us-now-ranks-27th-in-the-world-on-education-and-healthcare_us_5bae5d02e4b0425e3c23508f

But we're  number 1 in gun related deaths

Yep.  Meanwhile, my neighbors are out there shooting, preparing for the next gun battle at the OK Coral while I lie at home recuperating from a visit to the ER Friday due to extreme dizziness and nausea and hyperventilating.  'merica.  Rah fucking rah. 

You need to stay off the strong sativa

Not a pot related incident.  Haven't smoked in a while.  I've had problems with vertigo since the mid 80's.  Despite MRI's, CT scans, etc.,, no confirmed diagnosis.  As someone on another forum talking about vertigo mentioned, I'd rather have the worst full blown migraine than vertigo.  It's that bad.

It’s possible that it is a migraine, Brian. Some migraines have vertigo as a primary symptom. Has that possibility been explored?

In any event, hope you recover from this very soon. 

brianlux said:

josevolution said:

Nope it's not the best country it was at one time maybe , now it's def thee ugliest country in the word that's the only word i can come up to describe it !!

It has definitely, DEFINITELY, seen better days!

That is why a man trying to make it great again got elected

I don't think it is any worse.  We have to think really hard to come up with problems to be outraged over.  It's not like we a foraging for berries and fighting mutants.  We are instead canceling concerts in protest of where someone gets take a poop and engaging in fiery debate on the topic.  If that's not progress, I don't know what is.