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The U.S. isn't the most obese nation on the planet. Its not even 10th. Do a quick google search before you start spouting such nonsense.

No, it's the 11th. HOWEVER: the top 9 are all tiny Pacific island nations like Samoa or Tonga where they typically get very big, but because of the type of diet they still stay pretty healthy. Have you noticed how many NFL linemen are from Samoa or Tonga or Cook Islands? Guys that look like big fatsos but can do a standing jump onto a table and dunk a basketball and run a 40-yd dash in the 5's.

Here is the list of the most obese nations. You will see that among industrialized nations, United States is first. You could argue that Kuwait is fat because they're all rich royalty and probably just sit and stuff themselves all day. Unlike Americans, who are not rich royalty, and probably just sit and stuff themselves all day.

Here is the list for those of you who really want to deny that the US is very close to the fattest nation on earth.

http://worldpopulationreview.c...

Climate is global; Florida is local. Since the 1990s, accumulated cyclone energy has been trending down meaning less hurricane and storm energy overall. If there are more deaths in Florida, it is perhaps due to a 50% increase in population since 2000. More people living in a dangerous area means more deaths.

United States: 14.3 suicides per 100,000 pop

Norway: 10.9 suicides per 100,000 pop

http://worldpopulationreview.c...

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http://worldpopulationreview.c...

Nope, they don't have mine because I'm not a consumer whore like y'all.

Must not live in the USA then. Look up Equifax's 2017 leak of 143+ million records on US dwellers if you need your memory refreshed about systematic collection that is dispassionate about YOU taking any consumer-ish steps. The big financial system is set up so they go straight to all your financial entities, which then happily leak YOUR data in the form of unhideable credit reports available to anyone with the right background. I believe this is supported by governmental edicts (think, public court records and not so public loan and default information) in exchange for who knows what.

When I saw the 340m number, I thought "wait, are they even in the US alone?" Lo and behold, as of tonight, http://worldpopulationreview.c... estimates 320 million US inhabitants. Either we have tons of foreigners inadvertently caught in the web (ouch, you poor Europeans in practice were too late with your GDPR) or the data is replete with dead weight (almost 10% being dead North Americans).

I posit there is a healthy mixture of both, with a sprinkle of fake and inaccurate data in there... Credit reports from a decade ago were full of discrepancies between the big 3 credit reporting agencies wrt the accounts they were tracking, plus inaccurate addresses / Dates of birth / mixed data that belonged to a relative. I saw this same trend with my name under Spokeo et al as recently as 3 years ago, so I won't hold my breath that a greedy firm with more records than feasible US householders will actually have accurate data.

Think "number padding". Just like Facebook's "1 billion active users!!!!!!111!!" claim fails to clarify what percentage was bots, fakes and well-meaning sockpuppet / alt accounts you guys all have for discreet stalking :)

Gas prices in the US are about 1/3rd what they are in the UK, and somehow it hasn't destroyed our economy.

Maybe gas is too cheap, considering the harm it does.

Texas alone is triple the size of the UK.

Um, maybe in terms of area, but not in terms of population:

  * Texas Population (2018): 28,704,330 in 695,660 km^2
  * UK population (2018: 66,550,162 in 242,900 km^2

And the area is just a way of hiding the massive urban sprawl in places like Houston.

Gas prices in the US are about 1/3rd what they are in the UK, and somehow it hasn't destroyed our economy.

Maybe gas is too cheap, considering the harm it does.

Texas alone is triple the size of the UK.

Um, maybe in terms of area, but not in terms of population:

  * Texas Population (2018): 28,704,330 in 695,660 km^2
  * UK population (2018: 66,550,162 in 242,900 km^2

And the area is just a way of hiding the massive urban sprawl in places like Houston.

That's why they are leaving. That's a lie. California continues to grow. http://worldpopulationreview.c...

California is trading a middle class that is leaving to the tune of 150k/yr for a larger number of illegal immigrants that they plan on giving free healthcare to. If you think that's a good trade then please stay in California.

That's why they are leaving.

That's a lie. California continues to grow.

http://worldpopulationreview.c...

socialist regimes always go broke. That is happening in real time in California.

Also a lie. See last post.

If you want to discuss facts, that'd be great. All you're doing is lying.

The ironic thing is that people are leaving California

Last official census was in 2010. There were some estimates in recent years that show the state is still growing, but a bit slower than usual: http://worldpopulationreview.c... http://journal.firsttuesday.us...

But the ironic thing [1] is our conservative friends say many interesting things about California, but you can forget most of them. They were, for example very interested when the state's finances were in trouble, but dropped the story when we fixed it by electing Democrats.

[1] Actually that isn't ironic. The ironic thing is you need to look up the word ironic and think about it. But then, that wasn't actually ironic either.

A large part of the challenges that Peurto Rico faces is that it is not in fact a country, but rather it is an "unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea".

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

https://www.thoughtco.com/puer...

Peraps if Peurto Rico was a country (or a "state" within the United States), they might have been better able to respond to the types of problems that this storm has caused.

WIth a population of a bit more than 3.4 million, the territory seems to have more people than twenty-two other US states:

http://worldpopulationreview.c...

It's a fucking island. Logistics are the challenge here, not labels. If Hawaii were to get wiped out tomorrow by a volcano, it would be just as challenging for them to rebuild too.

Also, the label argument is lost in a sea of irony when our government HQ sits in the "District of Columbia"...

A large part of the challenges that Peurto Rico faces is that it is not in fact a country, but rather it is an "unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea".

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

https://www.thoughtco.com/puer...

Peraps if Peurto Rico was a country (or a "state" within the United States), they might have been better able to respond to the types of problems that this storm has caused.

WIth a population of a bit more than 3.4 million, the territory seems to have more people than twenty-two other US states:

http://worldpopulationreview.c...

There's a lot of hype on this Ebola topic in the media.

Lets have some scale:

The population of Africa: 1 billion
http://worldpopulationreview.c...

Number of people to die of Ebola in the past year: 887
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

The number of deaths in Liberia alone during the last flu outbreak: 5,561
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy...

No, you dont.

Did you even check, or did you assume? What sort of Americans are you dealing with when they're 'shocked' by 100 km to the next gas station? That's only 60 miles. I've seen signs that say 125 miles to the next, or 200 km. Must be East-coasters who think the mid-west is 'flyover country'.

Let's check your work: You guys average 15530 km per year
Americans average 12k-15k miles per year, this site says 13,476 miles. Which works out to 21,696 km/year. Or 40% more than Aussies, which I'd qualify as 'heck of a lot more'.

Let's verify a bit: Population of Australia: 22.7M. KM driven: 232,453M km. KM per man, woman, and child: 10,240 km.
Population of the USA: 313M. Distance driven: 3M million miles., or 3,000 Billion miles. 9,413 miles per year, or 15,154 km per person. 48% more than Australians.

but if you blow 0.06 an Aussie cop would just tell you to sit down for half an hour and test you again if your BAC reduces he lets you go as long as you pass the personality test).

Personality test? Oh, institutional corruption, got it.

Once again, Australia has already solved this problem. If you cant pay your fines in Australia, a sheriff starts repossessing your property (starting with your car). As for people who drive on a suspended license, they risk years in jail here in Australia.

You mean the totaled car that was wrapped around a tree? Or do you kick people out of their homes in Australia?
Oh, and we do it in the USA as well. Problem being that, especially for multiple DUI offenders they generally drive such crappy cars that it costs more to have the sheriff confiscate it then they get at auction. Oops...

You'd be surprised how many offenders are white collar.

You really think this? The problem is twofold:
1. The poor people can't pay the fines. It costs somewhere around $22k/year to keep them in jail/prison.
2. The rich people can pay the fines, then carry on more or less like nothing happened.
3. Both parties will often obtain a $500-1000 car to drive that they register under somebody else's name so no breathalyzer equipment is installed.

A first time DUI in the USA can run you over $15k. It's not cheap.

You're going to have to face it: There isn't some 'magic bullet' policy difference between the USA and Australia. It's a lot of little ones, and the difference between .05 and .08 for DUI isn't really one of them.

This is why blood tests will reduce the number of people going to court.

With the really sleazy lawyers they'll still go to court, especially the rich types, because all they have to do is convince the jury something is in doubt, that he doesn't deserve the conviction, get some piece of evidence like the blood test tossed out on some technicality, etc... Heck, get some sympathetic drink-drivers on the jury. Lots of options.

Stop locking up pot heads and concentrate on removing actual dangers from society.

Agreed.

40 million is one third of the country's population? Someone can't read decimals - it's more like 3% of the population.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/population-of-china-2012/