I think it’s reasonable to exclude a large portion of the population that isn’t chronically connected, and English speaking. While, admittedly that’s not only the US, it’s much more than 4% with the vast majority of the world excluded.
But I don’t think we can exclude non-english speakers, supervolcanoes are a global phenomena, mentos is sold in 130 countries by an Italian-Dutch corporation, and insurance traces its roots back to Chinese shipping in 3rd millenia BCE.
Everyone learns something for the first time somewhere, but yeah. Lemmy is supposed to skew millennial.
There is a legitimate concern that their policy doesn’t cover a noticeable fraction of the damage.
Lucky 10,000.xkcd
I like the general sentiment but not the worked example,.the US is only ≈4% of the global population so 10k is low balling.
https://xkcd.com/1053/
I think it’s reasonable to exclude a large portion of the population that isn’t chronically connected, and English speaking. While, admittedly that’s not only the US, it’s much more than 4% with the vast majority of the world excluded.
I can see an argument for taking internet usage as a proxy for education in which case the US swells up to ≈16%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users
But I don’t think we can exclude non-english speakers, supervolcanoes are a global phenomena, mentos is sold in 130 countries by an Italian-Dutch corporation, and insurance traces its roots back to Chinese shipping in 3rd millenia BCE.
This is not a difficult thing to find an answer to, either.