This is a weird one. Bear with me. From !dataisbeautiful@lemmygrad.ml:

So I said to myself, “that’s a little bit weird. The US one going up, I can actually believe, but the North Korea one being lower is definitely wrong.”

I think Our World In Data is just being shoddy, as they often do.

https://www.wfp.org/countries/democratic-peoples-republic-korea

https://www.statista.com/statistics/269924/countries-most-affected-by-hunger-in-the-world-according-to-world-hunger-index/

The thing I found funny, and why I’m posting here, comes from observing why it was that they started their graph at 2003 and exactly at 2003.

I feel like you could use this as a slide in a little seminar in “how to curate your data until it matches your conclusion, instead of the other way around.”

And also, I don’t think the hunger rate suddenly dropped from epic to 0 exactly in 2003, I think more likely Our World in Data is just a little bit shoddy about their data.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
    61·
    5 days ago

    It looks like in 2009, the CCP indentified that there was a problem in rural access to health care, took a big swing at fixing it, and it worked. My sort of stereotype of it is that for all their heinous treatment of anything that “threatens” them, they really do sometimes make sweeping policies which are just aimed at making things better for the average person, which the US as a general rule does not.

    I think the increase in the US is probably real, maybe increasing desperation as the combination of the financial crash, opioid epidemic, and increasing rents drove people increasingly into the margins.

    Mostly, government intervention means to help people only in the cities, yes, but one of the really notable things about Chinese modernization is that the government pushed to have it spread out to the rural areas, too, with big investments in modernizing and improving basic quality of life everywhere

    Yeah. In addition to causing massive suffering, [sanctions] often work backwards, too, strengthening the regime they’re trying to weaken.

    Also, if you’re mentally disabled, your employer is allowed to pay you less than minimum wage.

    USA, whee

    It took until 2017 for universally accepted for decades rapist Harvey Weinstein to even get fired. It took until 2018 before he was charged.

    The contest of whether being a successful white man who doesn’t rock the boat should enable you to do literally whatever you want, is still very much up in the air in this country.

    America in general is making Americans miserable.

    Drive everywhere, media is awful, job is either $12/hr or good money to spend all your day making things worse, people are fake, food is poisoned, plastic is in everything, it all gets more expensive every year to pay people who already have enough, and public space is nonexistent.

    !art@hexbear.net is pretty good.

    Yep, just another day in Eglin.

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      5 days ago

      Yes, sock puppet accounts are more useful if they pretend to be something else. Helps them to launder the narrative.

      Love this Schrodinger’s sock puppet account. Everyone can acknowledge the governments pour billions into manufacturing consent online with fake accounts. But oh no, not that prolific posting account that always supports the western narrative! Can’t be them!