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EL SALVADOR YOU ARE LETTING THE TEAM DOWN ON ONE POINT ONLY

You overestimate how much European leaders care.

They long ago started looking for new supplies of announcables, likes and clicks.

Fingers crossed...

Thank you for all your work, devs!

I would only add that we should remind everyone that you cannot rely on technical fixes to solve social problems.

If people aren't using Nostr because they don't like the people already on Nostr, then don't believe them when they try to let you down gently with "oh, I just don't do purple, it just isn't me", for example...

Hmmmm.

Agree, I think there's a lot of LIHOP, and quite a bit of MIHOP.

But our data set is surely incomplete.

There may be many plots to kill decision makers where the plotters never get the right opportunity. And other plots are thwarted but reporting on them wouldn't suit the narrative, so the perpetrators just end in shallow graves in the desert etc.

There was a strong upward trend in the late 1800s, with Heads of State being blown up or shot all over the place. But it petered out.

I would posit that contemporary systems of domination are less personalised and more institutional. And VIP protection TTPs have been developed, with its own classes of specialists.

The USA has lagged the rest of the West in prevention of assassination attempts on Heads of State, but most of those may have been inside jobs...

Reading the website has left me none the wiser on potential causal factors, or even correlates.

But.

Data quality is pretty terrible, its all convenience sampling, many of them wounded young soldiers in wartime. Author has done his best to normalise by age and elevation, but meh...

So perhaps we should conclude, in the classic manner, "further research required".

China LOVES its flavour enhancer 621, but they're upper-middle for T.

Belarus vs Russia/Ukraine, too.

@StellaInForest is gonna love this, look at the map:

It correlates with war.

Look at the Balkans.

And Japan in the middle, land of tofu and soya sauce...

The Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium have high T, and Australia and Canada really really low.

Can't be soy either...

Those were my immediate assumptions too, more or less.

I would have also been prepared for more obscure psychosocial explanations - status of men/masculinity, size of social groups, locus of control.

But no - look, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are at opposite extremes.

WTF...?

Real name is Seleucia :-p

Sweden's neighbours used to tease them about their military's paranoia of Russian submarines stalking them.

I think they just want to believe their nine million people are that important.

Interesting! And no obvious pattern that I can see...

Walked past, that front door's broken open, uniformed and plainclothes wandering in and out like a gaggle of geese, looking bored.

I'm guessing the renegade memester wasn't home.

Its like watching your top-ranked, extravagantly tax-fed national cricket team repeatedly getting caught cheating, biased refs keep letting it slide, and they STILL can't pull off a win against a third-world nobody team.

People are embarrassed, even if they don't actually care about the life of anyone outside their household.

Canada, wtf? Even Australia isn't shameless enough to do that. Awfully close, but not quite...

... about our new Premier.

Could totally happen. Probably did during lockdown...