If you extrapolate the charts, it looks like if they simply waited one more year the mental health benefits would be the same.
Moving to a less green area appears to be accompanied by an immediate drop in mental health, followed by a steady increase. The only difference from those charts when moving to the rural areas is that there is no immediate drop, which appears to account for all the difference. And the mental health benefits of rural areas appears to plateau, so it's completely possible that the move to the less green area will catch up in the mental health benefit aspect within the year.
I feel the same about the Trump presidency. He and his cohorts attempted to subvert the system, pen testers if you will, but the system responded and survived. In the end, we should thank Trump for helping to improve the American system of rule of law and governance.
The jury is out for a while on whether the result was "survived" or "gave a better playbook for next time". Those on the left would tend to argue the lack of consequences thus far encourages a more competent attempt.
I'm confident that the people in the system have woken up to the fact that a large scale attack can come from within the system, which was previously unthinkable, and adjustments will be made to help prevent it from occurring again.
Part of the reason you can do that, though, is that based on your age, you spent most of your life living in a way where you were naturally active, just to get through the day. You likely did not grow up eating food that was manufactured to addict you to it. And you did not grow up on platforms that have scores of PHds trying to figure out how to get you, individually, addicted to their platform.
IOW, your natural instincts largely worked because your environment supported a fairly high quality lifestyle.
This is not close to true anymore. Our natural instincts and daily lives have been hijacked beyond recognition.
With WFH, for example, people may go days without having walked beyond the distance it takes to go from their bed to their desk, or if they're lucky, from their bedroom to the home office.
> The MLB production is crap. They really need to stop making it look like an Apple product.
There are a few things I would change (the odds gotta go, and I wouldn’t mind a more compact scorebug) but on balance I really like their choices. Give me Apple’s gfx package over Bally or TBS any day of the week.
And that makes it a horrible currency. It makes it highly deflationary which absolutely stunts the working of an economy because no one wants to spend anymore.
Good currencies are not stores of value. They are means of exchange. And crypto is a horrible means of exchange.
It may have some use as a store of value (i.e. digital gold), but it's not clear to me why I would store my value in digital gold, which will require people to altruistically spend money on energy after 2040 or so when no more Bitcoins are generated for miners (in practice much earlier as each mined BTC gets increasingly expensive), to maintain the blockchain, as opposed to investing in real gold, which can literally sit under my mattress and not require a network of planet burning computers for it to not vanish.
It's funny that you believe the nation states' excuses for de-basing their currency. People just use fiat because it is dominant and has a legal system attached. They de-base because they can.
The fact that they thought M2 and its equivalents across the world could rise faster than inflation in perpetuity is just silly in retrospect. They're the same thing in the long run. It was used to get around the lack of ability to enact fiscal policy and to make old people rich, and you bought it, hook line and sinker.
Computing prices have been going down in the past half-century. Yet it's full of computers around us now. And the biggest companies are computing-related. I wonder why.
Also, discretionary here is entirely a political/legal term.
I think one would find it very hard to argue that military spending is discretionary for any major nation in the layman sense of that word, even if the US's military spending is beyond control (on the flip side, the US also gets much less value for its military spending relative to say the value China gets for its military spending).
Moving to a less green area appears to be accompanied by an immediate drop in mental health, followed by a steady increase. The only difference from those charts when moving to the rural areas is that there is no immediate drop, which appears to account for all the difference. And the mental health benefits of rural areas appears to plateau, so it's completely possible that the move to the less green area will catch up in the mental health benefit aspect within the year.