Still better than South Africa where you get to mine nickel as a child and possibly either die in a cave which entrance has crumbled in, or die afterwards of toxic air pollution to your body due to mining.
Well, the Musks got to make money, too.
That’s bad RNG, but there are worse spawn locations.
Speaking of which my youngest sons contact for his mom is Spawn Point and I think that is hilarious.
Tell me about it…
People’s Republic of China (I was born there, later moved abroad). The only thing keeping me sane right now, is the variety of entertainment I can obtain. Can’t imagine having to watch WW2 tv drama about resistance against imperial japan (watched too many of those), or like romance dramas, or some show about some old dynasty in history, those are basically the only things that exist in Chinese media. And its so cliche, there isn’t even anything like the GoT style thing where “any character can die” trope happens, I’ve watch so much of those dramas as a kid, I could literally predict plot points.
There is HK drama which is slightly better, but still they follow similar recipes.
Authoritarianism really limits how much creativity there is in writings and media.
And yes I know VPNs exist, but would I even have knowledge of VPNs in the other timeline where I remained in mainland China?
And that’s only the access to information aspect.
There is literally no “mental health awareness” in China like there is in the west. You are either viewed as “lazy” or you’re “completely insane”, there is no in-between. Nobody would give a shit about depression, “stop being lazy” is what you would get told. You can shit on the US all you want, but at least the Americans with Disabilities Act is a thing, wheelchair ramps are a thing. In China? Nope. Very ableist mindset. And if you don’t ger married? You get basically socially ostricized. If I was still in China, I’d probably have either killed myself or killed some CCP Goons (the cops) in a fit of rage because I’ve lost my sanity in that state-capitalist society, then be sentenced to death penalty.
Healthcare? LMFAO Nope. Everything is just as expensibe as in the US. But you also have to compete with a billion people on jobs.
Also, Hukou restricts where you can settle, because kids can’t go to a public school in a place that’s not where your Hukou is registered. Its kinda like undocumented immigrants in the USA, except its in your own country, your own borders, like you’re supposed to be a “Citizen”, but apparantly, Hukou is like the intra-country’s citizenship.
Overtime pay? Nope
Unions? Nope. I mean unless you are talking about the CCP’s “union” or whatever BS organization that doesn’t do shit. 无牙老虎 basically (tiger with no teeth)
Workplace safety? Nope.
If your employer refuse to pay you after you worked there for a month, well good luck buddy, there is no “Deparment of Labor” to help you with that (there probably is de jure someone you can complain to, but de facto nobody would do anything).
Toxic masculinity, “You’re a boy, stop crying” (To be fair, Americans also have this mentality, but its more prevalent in China).
LGBTQ? If you are transgender, oh my, you are gonna get so ridiculed by people. They say stuff like: “男人扮女人， 成和体统” (“Men pretending to be women, wtf” actually idk how to translate “成和体统”), or they’ll call you “变态” (“Perverted”).
As bad as the US is, if you’re a white dude you can just easily move out of your maga infested shithole and go to a liberal city and improve their life by 70% (well, you can’t fix the collapsing economy tho, but at leat the social aspects and “age-verification laws” aren’t a thing (not yet at least)). In China? Good fucking luck. Aside from the very minority of people who have progressibe values, its a conservative-infested shithole, on par with magaland (republican states) in the US.
The US is about average on the good/bad scale (at least when it comes to what happens inside the country,), considering how evil and cruel humans around the world can be.
Of course EU is better than the US, but acting like the US is the worst place on the planet is really a privilaged mindset.
I wish more Americans had this much nuance in their views. You can recognize that we have it better than China and Africa while still fighting to make things better for everyone.
Just because things can be worse doesn’t mean we should settle for status quo. (Though I’ll admit status quo is looking pretty hot right now.)
acting like the US is the worst place on the planet is really a privilaged mindset
Couldn’t agree more. Even Chile, where I live, is p privileged.
People’s Republic of China
Lemmy.ml wants to know your location
the Americans with Disabilities Act is a thing
…for now…
The most liberal thing I’ve ever read. Almost sounds satirical.
Show me on the matryoshka where the liberals hurt you.
Djibouti.
Are you one upping me or smth?
You asked for worse so I gave you are small lesser known dictatorship in the Horn of Africa as an example. Hell I think even North Korea would be better than Djibouti.
Wait I am just be autistic, completely misunderstood you saying tell me about it.
No worries, friend. I didn’t know this factoid and it actually sparked my interest. Might look into it later.
And yeah, I’m pretty autistic too, so no prob. Was just joking around. :)
If you want a weird place to start look up their national anthem on YouTube, shittiest quality it’s great.
Sure. Not like I got anything better to do. Thanks for the recommendation!
Wait I am just be autistic, completely misunderstood you saying tell me about it.
Haha I relate to this so much. I’ve been there with that exact phrase many times.
Surely Chile isn’t the worst one either.
Agreed. There are always worse places and better places. Believe it or not, I’m actually grateful for living in a us vassal state/economic sandbox game. Genuinely. Most of the world has it worse off… in the material terms all those ads tell us to obsess about, at least.
India
wat about it?
Worse spawn location than Mississippi.
Sure, but that is a low bar to set for yourself.
Definitely, but a red state in 2025 is right up there with third world countries at war for the umpteenth time in terms of bad spawn locations if Trump continues doing his thing.
My original spawn was a dictatorship, I wasn’t supposed to be born.
Guess what, I left that dictatorship, now I’m in a different dictatorship (I mean its better, but only slightly better, with unique challenges like having to deal with xenophobes). Isn’t life just so wonderful? 🫠
Please don’t be Earth, give me a Class 3 civilization with a post-scarcity civilization.
China, I guess ?
Probably, but was it first or second their dictatorship?
Lol the other way around wouldn’t make sense.
China does not accept immigrants, The US does (or at least they did before 2025, idk about now).
First dictatorship, the one I was born in, is People’s Republic of China.
The second dictatorship I’m referring to, the one I’m currently living in and have citizenship of, is the 2025 trump regime.
Better jump the train to the EU. We don’t have a dictatorship, we only have a neighbour who tries to invade.
Service guarantees full citizenship!
;)
Why is your avatar the ROC flag if you’re from PRC?
Because its a protest flag done out of spite.
Just like people can wave a Ukraine flag to protesr against Russia, or Palestine flag to protest againsr Israel. Its for solidarity.
Oh you’re just a troll, that explains things
It says lemmy.troll behind your name why is that?
When I was in the 8th grade I had a friend who had two kids already. TBF he should have been a high school senior but he had been held back four times (this was before school districts had really grasped the concept of passing kids to get rid of them).
His favorite song was “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” by Pink Floyd which was very popular at the time and featured the lyric “We don’t need no education”. Even at the time I remember thinking “Tracy, you might in fact need an education”. I think it’s under-appreciated how much that one line from that one song had to do with the success of that album.
Pink Floyd is probably the greatest rock band of all time in my opinion. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 is their worst song and so freaking unsatisfying to hear come on the radio. It’s like when people’s only reference to Fight Club is “We don’t talk about Fight Club.” Okay great, you missed not only the entire point of the movie, but you can’t even wrap your head around what that one single line actually meant. But that’s why Fight Club (and therefore Palahniuk and Fincher) and Pink Floyd made money and were able to continue making great art for the people who are capable of understanding and appreciating subtext, so I guess I can’t be too mad. But I am.
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 is their worst song
I mean, The Wall isn’t even close to being their best album. It’s not their worst, at least – thanks to Syd Barrett and The Final Cut.
Is it their best album? No. Is it still one of the greatest albums of all time? Definitely. Is Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 representative of the album at all? Hell nope!
“And your birth just put them in crippling debt that they will never be able to recover from. Enjoy life!”
Just sell the baby
“I didn’t do 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and 4 years of residency to be called ‘sir,’ baby.”
And since this is America.
“Take on 500k in student loan debt.”
Eh, the nurses do most of the real work.
let’s hope grandma is up to the challenge, after all, she’s probably 28 by now.
The good news is the baby’s parents already live together. Their mom could only afford a single wide two bedroom trailer.
I mean they’re probably siblings, so yeah…
That’s the joke, yeah.
You telling me they come in other si es?
“Abort me now plz”
“Not without insurance little guy!”
Pfft that was illegal 9 months ago.
Ropemaxxing 💪
Should have been more specific. How should god know if they meant Norway the country or any of the other Norways, such as Norway, Iowa/Nebraska/Kansas/Indiana?
On that note: Guess which is the largest of the four Norways in the U.S. mentioned above? Unlike mastodon it seems like lemmy doesn’t support multiple choice questions, at least I don’t know how.
spoiler
Norway, Iowa: 466 people
Norway, Indiana: 327 people
Norway, Kansas: 17 people
Norway, Nebraska: 0 people?
Wikipedia lists 7 more
Hopefully got a respawn waiting
ah, the lusekofte is a balancing patch. it makes sense now.
lusekofte
luse meatball?
i mean, if you spell it bad enough
And a good covfefe to you sir!
That would suit in firstworldproblems community. People in the US don’t get it how lucky most of them are.
And then there’s Mississippi
spoken like a person who has never stepped foot in the US in the last 8 years.
Still born in a first world country though
Are we still clinging to that claim, at this stage?
Yeah, the US have a crazy man at the helm but a very strong and resilient ship. Not the best in every regard but it’s still a very good country to be born in.
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You are still better of than most of the world. Not saying that you have to accept the way they require you to live just because other’s got it worse.
Living a boss’ minor inconvenience away from being scraped off the street by a bulldozer while sleeping in mid winter is about as bad as you can have it short of being on the street, prison/labor or genocide.
“Freeedums” doesn’t mean much when your life is a cycle of work-work-work-eat(maybe)-depression/stress/anxiety-sleep(if you’re lucky).
I guess you can still say the words, “fuck trump” but we’ll see ig.
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To be fair, you do have the legal ability to relocate to a better place within the country. Its much harder to leave a developing country.
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That’s kinda like saying “China is a good place to be born in, at least its not North Korea”.
Sure, the US isn’t nearly the worst, but I would never choose to be born here if I have, say, Norway to choose from.
*depend on the skin colour you’re born with
Inb4 someone informs you you’re wrong
The US is a third world country with Prada bags.
Current conditions in the US aside, Mississippi is just soy beans, mosquitoes, and poverty. It’s a shithole.
Only by the technical, cold war definition of “The First World,” that being everywhere under the American political & economic umbrella.
