Mexico is so hard-as-fuck that was not included in the list.
Japan, Greenland, Cuba, New Zealand too apparently
New Zealand is just happy to be on the map.
Wooo!!! We’re visible
It was a toxic server, PvP only. Glad it was banned
I used to work with a guy that moved from Mexico city after his favourite cafe got gunned down by the cartel, his neighbor’s family got beheaded, and a family friend’s daughter got kidnapped.
Little racist there my guy. Also, America is pretty “hard mode” for a lot of people.
I’m pretty sure significant portions of the medium and hard difficulties could be flip-flopped and most of Australia’s population doesn’t live in the PvE warzone you’re probably picturing in your head.
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.
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 you can, check it out some time.
Oh I get the apples now
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”
I invested all my xp into sneak and went from medium to easy.
Penguin difficulty? Just git gud, scrub.
This is clearly some kind of rage bait troll post. Don’t acknowledge it and maybe they will just go away
This particular meme is probably older than you are
I don’t like it very much, but I also know the OP’s typical posting history (Picard Maneuver is pretty prolific on meme Lemmy) and I can say with some certainty that that ain’t it, chief. At worst it’s a bad take that the OP definitely didn’t make themselves because I’ve seen this meme decades ago.
Bad take and all though, it seems to have sparked some discussion here in the comments.
I am 42 years old, and I do not appreciate your condescending tone.
☆º°˚☆ Have a ηice ϑay ☆º°˚☆
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!
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We talking wilderness of Canada or population centers? Cuz there ain’t no way I’d go into Canadian bush without a shotgun.
There is No way i go into an American City without a shotgun.
I know this is just a shit post but fuck is this eurocentric and a bit racist let me refer you to the world happiness rank. The Corruption Perceptions Index and This map of real GDP.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
Here’s human rights index. Lots of different ways to measure things, none of them great.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-index-vdem
Human development index matches decently except Australia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_IndexOne of the big problems with HDI is that it fails to consider inequality and non-income material conditions; a country with 1 person making 1B/y and 999 people living in abject poverty gets the same per capita GNI as a country of 1000 people making 1m/y who have free housing, transport, and healthcare.
The latter obviously has better conditions for more people.
I thought hdi did take into account using the median instead of the mean metrics, but I’m not super familiar with how hdi is calculated.
There is a IHDI (inequality-adjusted Human Development Index):
GDP and GDP Growth are both useless metrics
Yeah they are. That is why I used Real GDP Growth. It is still not a great metric but it is a little better than GDP and GDP Growth.
https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2024
Freedom in the world index. IMO the best indicator of how easy it is to live in a specific place.
While I wouldn’t call this shitpost accurate and I myself don’t really like it, you can’t say that the rough simplified categories don’t have any base.
Western, good.
Everything else, bad.
You miscatagorized the US Hard is the correct category.
