Usually, I take a nap on my days off and on the extremely rare days when I get home by 1pm due to weather.
Random Thoughts or Whatever
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spicer
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I think a lot of it has to do with the quality of the recordings. The technology available to capture it.
Quadman2
Lunatic Member
This same "thought" has passed by me as well at times.
Might be the audio gear of your mentioned time-frame (1916-70) was on the primitive side in reproducing sound, compared to your time frame.
And the amount of music available in the latter period was so much more prevalent.
But, it STILL, it does make you think of the "why" part. Personally, I like the sound of the 40's, esp the early Blues and the Big Band sounds.
Q
Mystic
We're all born mad
27.6 million people were living under the conditions of forced labor around the world on any given day in 2021, according to data published in a report on Tuesday by the International Labor Organization (ILO). This equates to roughly 3.5 people for every 1,000 people worldwide and is an 11 percent increase since 2016, when there were 24.9 million people living in forced labor (3.4 people per 1,000 population). The vast majority of these are thought to have been in privately-imposed forced labor (23.6 million in 2021), rather than state-imposed forced labor (3.9 million in 2021).
The report, titled 'Profits and poverty: The economics of forced labor', reveals the extent to which forced labor is a global issue. At 15.1 million, Asia and the Pacific had by far the highest number of people living in forced labor in 2021, accounting for more than half of the global total. Europe and Central Asia was the region with the second biggest absolute number at 4.1 million people, followed by Africa with 3.8 million, the Americas with 3.6 million and the Arab States with 900,000 people living under these conditions.
When looking at prevalence, a different order emerges: the Arab States were the worst offending group of countries that year (5.3 people in forced labor per 1,000 population), followed by Europe and Central Asia (4.4 people per 1,000 population), Asia and the Pacific (3.5 people per 1,000 population), the Americas (3.5 people per 1,000 population) and Africa (2.9 people per 1,000 population).
For a more focused discussion of Forced Labor, see next post.
Mystic
We're all born mad
Forced labor is estimated to generate illegal profits summing to $236 billion in 2024 alone, with exploiters making at average of $9,995 per victim. This is according to a new report by the International Labor Organization (ILO), released Tuesday. This profit represents the wages that “rightfully belong in the pockets of workers that instead remain in the hands of their exploiters as a result of their coercive practices.” It is even a low estimate, since the ILO does not include further illegal profits made through means such as recruitment fees or the money from avoided taxes. Forced labor is here defined as “work that is both involuntary and under penalty or menace of coercion”.
As the following chart shows, sexual exploitation is the biggest driver of forced labor profits, accounting for some $172.6 billion worldwide in 2024. This breaks down to a significant amount in all regions, at $58.6 billion in Europe and Central Asia, $48.4 billion in Asia and the Pacific, $34.9 billion in the Americas, $16.1 billion in Africa and $14.6 billion in the Arab States.
Despite making up nearly three quarters (73 percent) of the total illegal profits from forced labor, sexual exploitation accounts for only 27 percent of all people in privately imposed forced labor (i.e. not including state-imposed forced labor). Some of the other major areas for illegal forced labor are industry (including mines and quarrying, manufacturing, construction and utilities), the services sector (including but not limited to wholesale and trade, accommodation and food service activities, transport and storage), the agriculture sector (forestry, hunting, cultivation of crops, livestock production and fishing) and domestic work (in third party households).
According to the ILO’s calculations, illegal profits for forced labor have increased by some $64 billion since 2014 worldwide. This is the result of both more people in forced labor (23.7 million in 2024 versus 18.7 million in 2014) as well as more illegal profit being generated per victim.
The CCRTA (Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority) needs to start drug testing their bus drivers. The guy who drives my bus Tue thru Fri has to be doing coke, speed or something that gives a person an unnatural level of energy.
He jams on the accelerator, then the brakes and takes turns way too fast and goes "WOOOOOOOOO" as he does so. If not for the low center of gravity that the bus has, it would have rolled over kiling him and all of us passengers. He talks very fast and incessantly saying a bunch of crazy things.
As I was about to get off the bus today, he almost shut the door on me. I'm going to have to see how to go about reporting him.
He jams on the accelerator, then the brakes and takes turns way too fast and goes "WOOOOOOOOO" as he does so. If not for the low center of gravity that the bus has, it would have rolled over kiling him and all of us passengers. He talks very fast and incessantly saying a bunch of crazy things.
As I was about to get off the bus today, he almost shut the door on me. I'm going to have to see how to go about reporting him.
DeadRock
Ideas Guy
North Americans (Canada/USA) are continuing to slide down "The Happiness Scale"...Scandinavians are staying near the top...hmmmmmm....
World Happiness Report 2024
World Happiness Report 2024
nailer
audionerd
I'm happy.
Rankings differ a lot for the young and the old. In some cases these differences favour the old, as in the United States and Canada, where the rankings for those aged 60 and older are 50 or more places higher than for those under 30. (From the report.)
Sounds like the bus driver I had in high school and married one of his student passengers to avoid jail !
Mystic
We're all born mad
STATISTA published a graphic representation of these ^^^ "Happiness" data today ...
... as well as a blurb:
In 2012, the United Nations proclaimed March 20 as the International Day of Happiness or World Happiness Day, which has been held on this date every year since. The aim is to promote awareness for a "more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes the happiness and well-being of all people". Although happiness and satisfaction are subjective parameters, the team behind the World Happiness Report has once again produced a country ranking this year that reveals clear differences between Western industrialized nations and countries in Asia and Africa.
In order to map the satisfaction of respondents in the 143 countries surveyed, participants were asked to rate their level of satisfaction with their current life on a ten-point scale. This was used to calculate an average value for the results between 2021 and 2023 for each country. As this chart, based on the report shows, Finland (7.74), Denmark (7.58) and Iceland (7.53) are the countries with the most satisfied residents according to calculations, while the three lowest scores are found among the residents of Lesotho (3.19), Lebanon (2.71) and Afghanistan (1.72). The United States is ranked 23rd out of the 143 countries in this year's evaluation.
In addition to the clear differences in the geographical regions, there are also differences in satisfaction in different age groups. Looking at the results for the under-30s, Lithuania, Israel and Serbia take the top three places, while Denmark, Finland and Norway take the top three places for the over-60s.
It’s important to note here that the ranking of the World Happiness Report is not an objective survey based on key figures such as gross domestic product per capita, life expectancy or the quality of the social system. According to the authors of the report, these are analyzed as "supporting factors" but have no influence on the score.
I'm happy because I make myself happy by trying to treat others the way I want to be treated and not letting anyone or anything get me down. Of course, it would be foolish of me to claim that I have perfected the art of treating everyone the way I want to be treated. Some people are just difficult to deal with and they're not getting easier. All I can do is try. Sometimes the people who are hardest to love are the ones who need it the most. Otherwise, not letting anyone think they have made you feel bad about yourself is the key to staying afloat mentally.
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Words of wisdom !
Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
Use your phone to capture his erratic driving behavior ?
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nailer
audionerd
spicer
Lunatic Member
Of course they have an influence on the score. Double speak. Supporting factors, I wonder what they're analyzing for...
Mystic
We're all born mad
Yep. I should have reduced it to "fine" print.Another fun data "analysis."
I enjoyed the last paragraph.
Mystic
We're all born mad
ED ... um, other junk.
Of course, ED that makes a guy miserable might be hunky-dory for, say, the lady of the house.
Great idea, but we had a different driver this morning. Everyone was glad.
Quadman2
Lunatic Member
It's gotta relate to the consumption of "BEER"!
That's my theory, and gonna stick to it! Check out the "Blue Countries" involved.
Not that I'm biased and a beer drinker...well maybe just a little, eh?
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