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These seem to apply in other countries too though.
I have no idea. For instance does France require special flight clearance after taking antidepressants even for non-psych gastrointestinal issues?
Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years less than women, study
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Re: Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years less than women, study
#82Perhaps to be fair we should let men retire earlier or collect larger social security checks, so the average total paid out would be roughly equal?
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All the feminists I know also care about homelessness and suicide rates. You can believe in gender inequality and still care about men.
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#83What precisely is causing Americans to die so much earlier than Europeans? I know obesity, healthcare access and gun violence play a factor, but is there anything else?
Plastics.
Re: Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years less than women, study
#84What precisely is causing Americans to die so much earlier than Europeans? I know obesity, healthcare access and gun violence play a factor, but is there anything else?
All work and no fun
Re: Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years less than women, study
#85What precisely is causing Americans to die so much earlier than Europeans? I know obesity, healthcare access and gun violence play a factor, but is there anything else?
Drug overdoses.
Re: Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years less than women, study
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Feminists almost universally proclaim their ideology is in fact one of the pursuit of equality for all. That's the why. The name of course betrays the obvious and always has.
This and the grandparent comment sound pretty resentful. Men, we can do better than that.
As a man, I am resentful of feminists because they do not further the cause of equality. Feminists want to be more equal than others, which is just word games to say they want power over others.
Quite sincerely, screw that noise.
I know of many wonderful women (and men!) who truly believe in equality, and I would call precisely none of them feminists.
Re: Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years less than women, study
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#88For comparison, in Australia (population ~ 26.47 million): Life expectancy at birth was 81.2 years for males and 85.3 years for females in 2020-2022 https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/life-exp... In 2020, Australia recorded a lower than expected death rate as public health measures put in place to restrict the spread of COVID-19 also resulted in a reduction of deaths across a number of other causes.…
(I'm Australian)
Despite the excess COVID deaths in 2022, the super aggressive Australian response to to COVID (closing borders until vaccines were available) worked really well in comparison to other countries.
You can see this on [1] where Australia jumped from 14th in the world in 2019 to 8th in 2021 (sort by 2021 "all" in the first table).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
Re: Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years less than women, study
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, maybe like 1% of deaths if you include suicides as "gun violence" (kinda weird, but is often stated), maybe 2% if you focus on only men. But yea, it's a literal nonfactor in aggregate life expectancy. Amdahl's law applies here too.
According to [1], "homicide, suicide and gun deaths" is the 2nd highest factor in explaining the difference. [1] https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1641799922583326720/...
I can't read the underlying article, but that graph a minimum is not saying "2nd highest factor". It notes both drugs (lowers gap to 2.9) and metabolic diseases (lowers gap to 2.2) as both more of a factor than suicide & homicide (only lowers gap to 3.2).
Which tracks, given that suicide is like 50k per year, homicide is 20k per year (unstated: "gun deaths" that aren't homicide or suicide are orders of magnitude lower), drug deaths are over 100k per year, and metabolic diseases dwarf all of the above.
So, no, what you wrote is wrong.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
These seem to apply in other countries too though.
I have no idea. For instance does France require special flight clearance after taking antidepressants even for non-psych gastrointestinal issues?
Seems pretty likely:
> the European Commission adopted Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/1042 of 23 July 2018, which lays down rules for Member States to carry out alcohol testing (and additional testing for other psychoactive substances) of flight crew and cabin crew members operating on board aircraft using aerodromes on their territory.
https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/en/alcohol-and-drug-testing-fie...
I guess an antidepressant would count as a psychoactive substances.
I don't speak enough French to read the act itself though.