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Online jpanhalt

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Re: Why does it seem like Canadians are overrepresented on EEVblog?
« Reply #25 on: February 26, 2025, 10:11:26 am »
Point of fact: Ukraine is not a cvil war. Ukraine is a country, not a part of Russia. Russia attacked Ukraine, so Ukraine had no choice but to fight or to surrender.

How many civil wars has the US been a belligerent in from 1750 to 1950?
 

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Re: Why does it seem like Canadians are overrepresented on EEVblog?
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2025, 11:37:14 am »
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Surely that's much worse.
you've obviously never met a scottish midge,they class deet as a condiment.

Canada doesn't have mosquitos though, they have sparrows with phlebotomy needles.
 

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Re: Why does it seem like Canadians are overrepresented on EEVblog?
« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2025, 03:10:47 pm »
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Surely that's much worse.
you've obviously never met a scottish midge,they class deet as a condiment.

Canada doesn't have mosquitos though, they have sparrows with phlebotomy needles.

Yeah it does!

Come here in August and see!

The thing is, places with limited (or nonexistent) greenspace have minimal mosquitos.

Most of Toronto is fairly mosquito-free.
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Re: Why does it seem like Canadians are overrepresented on EEVblog?
« Reply #28 on: February 26, 2025, 04:49:44 pm »
Tech-oriented internet fora, as a phenomenon, and activity on them are heavily biased towards north-west cultures. Canadian population is about 4% of that. Add language as an additional barrier for comfortable communication.

I’d also not exclude the possibility, that the first factor is further amplified: biases in exposure to forum’s existence affecting users influx. But that is something we have limited information on. Assuming trust in scarce summaries Alphabet gives to Dave, he could reject this (but not confirm). But that’s all.

I never said anything about good vs. bad.

What about bad vs bad?

Neutral vs bad?
Perhaps chaotic lawful? ;)
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