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brap ◴[] No.45379709[source]
Would be interesting to see happiness segmented by Democrats/ Republicans.
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bitlax ◴[] No.45380370[source]
Conservatives outperform liberals in self-reported happiness and mental health when controlling for demographics.
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pixelready ◴[] No.45380472[source]
“Outperform” is a strange way of putting this. When did happiness and mental health become a contest?
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bitlax ◴[] No.45383599[source]
Happiness and health are objective goods, in this case quantified.
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jdiff ◴[] No.45389832{3}[source]
The question posed to you was "When did it become a contest?"
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bitlax ◴[] No.45390168{4}[source]
Are you looking for a date?
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jdiff ◴[] No.45404012{5}[source]
No, it's rhetorical to ask you "Why are you framing it as if it ever was?"

If happiness were a competition we should all be lining up for lobotomies and buying/finding as much sand as we can to bury our heads as deep as we can. But it's not. Conservatives haven't cracked any sort of code, and this line of questions was intended to draw you to this realization of your own accord. Instead, this.

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1. bitlax ◴[] No.45412114{6}[source]
> "Why are you framing it as if it ever was?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45383599

> If happiness were a competition we should all be lining up for lobotomies

You can prevent cancers by jumping off a bridge. I wouldn't advise it.

> Conservatives haven't cracked any sort of code

except the, like, happiness code