“The only thing as bad as incest or necrophilia CLEARLY is dual citizenship” Man is really making all the best quotes.

That travel time to healthcare map is basically just a population density map

I feel the "legality" of necrophilia is counteracted with the laws of desecration of a corpse and all. Kind of like how cannibalism is technically legal, but the dozen ways you can get human meat is illegal. The healthcare map is amazing for colourblind people btw

I think the main difference between public and private insurance is that public insurance does not need to make profit so it is much cheaper. Also it is much simpler. In Hungary it is automatically deducted from your salary and is payed for by the government if you are in school and in some other cases. You also don’t need to think about copays and premiums and in system healthcare providers and out of system healthcare providers, once you pay for it the whole system is completely free.

I felt bad for Australia and new Zealand this entire video , being left out and ignored on maps as usual lmfaoooo

As a lifelong resident of Southern Ontario, I can't dispute the accusation that Ontario is the most Americanizrd region of Canada. Ironically, it is also the region where people are most defensive about being mistaken for Americans when traveling internationally.

Why did you change the thumbnail? The previous one was perfect!

Drink driving is always illegal in Iceland no matter how much. But it only becomes punishable after a certain amount, before that they can only forbid you from driving further.

People in North West Scotland have to get to Inverness for a proper hospital. It does not take 5 hours because they send a helicopter. Sometimes they fly you to Glasgow or even London if specialist care is required. NHS Scotland has it covered.

10:59 This is the first time I see Western-Sahara not just having data instead of being blacked/greyed/whited out, but having TWO counts of data.

The Nuclear Power plant in Chooz is actually used and maintained by both France and Belgium so it makes us to put it in the border

About Healthcare: Take Germany for example, it is mandatory to have a health insurance, but it is covered in any case by the state. So even if you are completely broke and living on the street, you have a health-insurance card and your expenses will be covered by the state. But if you are well off, you can opt-out of the mandatory system and get a private health-insurance with additional benefits (that are more expensive). But you have to have either one, you are not allowed to be without health insurance, and it is technically not possible to have no health-insurance because if you want to go "private" you have to provide "proof" (documents etc.) to the mandatory-state health insurance that you have enough income to fund your private health insurance, otherwise you are not allowed to leave the mandatory health insurance.

toycat, can you please position your facecam in the middle of the indian ocean or something so you're not blocking Australia?

I think a large part of the post-2019 travel map is that even after Covid became much less lethal, inflation has spiked. As a result travel is more expensive, so it's cheaper to drive or fly a short distance for leisure or not going anywhere because they don't have the money.

People eyeing up their sister booking a trip to France, Spain, or Portugal for some special totally not sus alone time, totally not sus sharing the same hotel room with one double bed in it. The incest map being a total coincidence.

When I visited Ontario (from the UK) I thought it was like "America, except populated by Europeans, not Americans".

If I remember correctly the Chooz nuclear power plant was a join project between France and Belgium and supplies power to both countries.

As a Canadian myself I can say for sure that that 50-50 map is only like that because of Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal

I think the reason Ontario is considered both the most Canadian and most american province is because it’s the region that has the most exchange with the US and is therefore what americans (and therefore, the internet and pop culture) consider to be canadian. The actual canadian parts of canada stick to themselves a bit more.

The nuclear power plant in chooz near the belgian border is there because the electricity is sold to belgium.

In the US, you are no longer fined for not having healthcare insurance. That was a brief thing during Obama's presidency (actually officially ended 2018 apparently), and I'm not sure it was ever actually enforced. If you don't have insurance through your employer or something like Medicaid (which in most states, has VERY strict low-income requirements), then you can pay for an insurance plan. Many people don't, many people can't, and even if you do, the deductibles (money you pay ON TOP OF already paying for healthcare when you actually need to *use* your healthcare plan) are often insane. There's really no way to twist it to say that the US has universal healthcare or anything even resembling universal healthcare. We don't. And for many people it's an absolute nightmare. --This is one of my favorite channels by the way. Not trying to throw shade, just inform.

The problem with healthcare in America is that it's presented as "well, somebody has to pay for it!", when the problem is actually *somebody has to PROFIT from it.*

The funny thing about the religious restrictions map is, that the countries with high restrictions, are either heavily secular or theocraties (light).

The reason for outlawing sex between siblings is that inbreeding causes genetic defects in the offspring. Since same sex activity doesn't generate offspring, there's no reason to outlaw it.

I guess the logic of the “legal for same-sex siblings” makes sense if you’re willing to believe that incest is bad primarily because it’s dangerous for genetic health. Most cultures who forbid incest do so because there’s a very clear link between incest and ill health, which many religious organisations and governments quickly began to try and prevent. But, if you can’t procreate because you’re both the same sex, then that risk is completely irrelevant, and only social taboo stands in the way of it. Especially for liberal countries with progressive sex and gender laws, it makes quite a lot of sense to just ignore that taboo for legal reasons and focus entirely on the scientific consensus, as strange as it might end up looking to those who still hold those views of it being taboo.

with the whole foods one, what they probably did was place the infographics in spain's territory or in the netherlands, then realized it looked bad and tried to move them around but realized they accidentally saved it as a PNG

I'd sooner have a Nuclear Reactor relatively close to me, than the shit I ACTUALLY had to deal with, which were oil drills and those fucking injection wells in WALKING distance from my neighborhood.

I stopped travelling internationally during covid not because our covid was better but because vacation is supposed to provide relaxation. And I can't relax when I have no idea what checks and restrictions and paperwork some country on my journey will introduce and with what notice and how airports, airlines, trains, car rentals, hotels, restaurant, etc will respond to that. In my country I could just get in the car and be reasonably secure they won't start random police checks and searches (not entirely secure of course, but at least with more opportunity to talk back before being fined or arrested for violating some arbitrary rule introduced an hour earlier). It was enough hard work to keep up with regulations in my own country and with what that means for various places, businesses and modes of transport. It would be a high multiple of that effort trying to understand it somewhere else.

I imagine it’s legal for same sex siblings some places because there’s no risk of (accidental) pregnancy and then having kids with genetic disorders

I would argue that a lot of that international travel that has fallen off was likely business related. And a lot of companies have not fully returned to their pre-covid travel policies because they realized that they can save a significant amount for no real drop in productivity. But as someone who works at a Japanese company in the US, let get back to those pre-covid levels. I wanna go back to Japan for free!

Nuclear power plants are beside water to create mutant duck soldiers.

The healthcare topic is interesting. This year I had a serious bone infection, which I found out about while in Brazil. The first of four surgeries I had this year were in Brazil. Brazil’s healthcare system is open to anyone, even foreigners who have never paid into it. But it is not single payer, private insurance is common. People see Sus as a provider of last resort, even though it is really good (first hand experience: I had 3 physical therapists seeing me daily after my surgery every day, and they kept me for 9 days - if I didn’t have a plane to catch I would have been there longer)

As a Russian, i'm not sure why we were marked as having very high restrictions on religion. There's several major religions all across the country, no laws prohibiting any specific ones or requiring a specific one, i think the only ones you can't practice are ones which are illegal for other reasons like human sacrifice. So yeah, the red colour seems uncalled for Edit: the drunk driving laws one is weird as well, because the limit has been 0.03 for over a decade now. Just a lot of factually incorrect data all around

I imagine the necrophilia thing is more that the states where it’s legal just don’t have a law against because it hasn’t happened and therefore it wasn’t needed. Also there are laws against desecration of a grave/ grave robbery etc

With respect to EDF's location of their PWRs, the most effective heatsink for condenstate (once steam is spent in the turbine and needs to be pumped back around the secondary circuit) is the sea. Failing that, rivers with a decent flow are your second choice. Hence why we have nuclear power stations sprouting up on coastlines and estuaries; Rhone and Loire being home to quite a lot of their fleet and likewise in the UK, I've got Berkely power station 2 miles opposite my house on the other side of the River Severn and Oldbury slightly downstream. Belgium aren't too fussed about having an N4 unit within their French Panhandle since they operate PWRs themselves. There's a lot of manufacturing within the nuclear industry in and around that region of France and Belgium, so I wouldn't think the Walloons would be the NIMBY types.

12:17 so, Scottish person here from the highlands, but the reason there’s such a long travel time in that area is because it’s a very mountainous region and generally the further you go north the more sparse the population (and amount and size of settlements) is. So it would be hikers or the like in the middle of nowhere that would be need medical attention

Sad you changed the thumbnail :(

15:45 the US got rid of the penalty for not having health insurance after 2018. The tax code "reduced the penalty to $0" For some it was cheaper to pay the penalty then to buy into insurance.

In the first 150 seconds I saw at least two maps that had wrong (or outdated) information: the legality of incest map and the legality of dual citizenship map.

I would argue a lot of what people associate with Canada comes mostly from Quebec. Poutine, maple syrup, a lot of snow (2 of the 5 snowies cities in the world are in Quebec, 2 in Japan and one in the state of New-York).

Can we talk about how weird the region divisions are in the travel map (like Iran being Asia Pacific, Libya being middle east but not Algeria and Tunisia, and basically all the former USSR countries counting as Europe)

2:11 Argentina does not really have dual citizenship. Only in extremely rare and very special cases.

Your videos are always so interesting on this channel

Sex between siblings is strange, and you can judge it morally the way you want. But I see no reason why the government should send people to jail, if the sex between siblings were consensual.

The canada maps reminded me of the podcasts with Van de Graph, we want more

i really like this style of content. you made it fun to watch

12:21 "Most of Iceland?" Well, yeah, 99% of Icelandic people live along the west coast of Iceland. Thus, there's no need for a lot of emergency services in like... The rocks in the middle of the country.

"I don't think there should be separation between church and state, which is why I'm glad I live in (...) Kazakhstan" Interestingly enough I visited Kazakhstan 3 months ago. Government restrictions on religion doesn't necessarily refer to most people's idea of non-separation between church and state there. Both Turkey and Kazakhstan have secular constitutions and you can buy alcohol there. I think it more refers to the state controlling multiple branches of religion. What most people think of by no separation between church and state is probably closer to Afghanistan where the government's idea of religion is literally part of the constitution.

15:33 idk how its in belgium, but in Poland the compulsory insurance works in a way that you just have to pay for health insurance (its automatically deducted from your pay if you work, and you can also pay for it optionally if you dont work), and if you need to use it, 100% of the costs are covered, you wont pay a single cent. in USA even if you have health insurance you still must pay quite a lot cuz the insurance wont cover everything, in poland when you have state insurance they pay for EVERYTHING. for example my mom's friend had cancer and underwent chemotherapy, usually a very expensive procedure, she didnt have to pay anything at all above the standard insurance.

About the healthcare thing, from what I remember the "individual mandate" (that part of thr ACA that fined people if they did not get insurance) was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. so its currently unenforceable and not in effect

Thanks for the map of single-payer healthcare. It's really important to remember for Americans and Britons that MOST countries still pay something for healthcare and that generally speaking insurance (for the UK) isn't the bogeyman it's made out to be. I'm in admin in the NHS and the sheer amount of money needed to run modern medicine is something people would be surprised by. I was actually quite sad that the NI increase was reversed last year -- you can't have both lower taxes and higher NHS/social care spending and still expect the government to pay for it. The money the government has comes from us!

eastern europe has "mandatory insurance with varying amount of bribes" medical system

The Supreme Court in the U.S. struck down the enforcement of the penalty. The reason why it's in the 'U.S. intrest' to make confusing maps, is to confuse us 'Mericans into thinking our heath care is good.

While the Danish criminal code does not explicitly say that the prohibition on incest does not apply to people of the same sex, the courts have always interpreted it so.

15:40 bro forgot that income depends on the household That “1%” could be a lot more expensive for a less fortunate household then a rich one

The difference between the insurance in Belgium and the US, is that in Belgium the insurance is taken as part of the taxes, which can be done by a persons employer, while in America, a person has to pay the insurance company by themself. This may not be right I just did a few quick google searches

Yes Norway has plenty of places more than 1h drive away from a clinic or hospital (what the map showed. Not response time) however. Any 1 of those places you would still have a Heli out there within like 15m to Airlift you (in urgent emergencies) to my knowledge every military camp has a doctor with a blue light response vehicle that usually is for on camp treatment with military caps being rather remote sometimes. But the can all respond to civilian emergencies at a moment's notice. My camp even has a rescue Heli stationed here because there's a lot of water nearby and forest areas that are hard to reach by car. So it's rarely 1h even for emergency transport

"moved maybe some part of france over here" its corsica, which is part of france, but it wasnt moved... ill allow it... but im watching you ibxtoycat

The reason Americans talk about how expensive healthcare is is because I passed out and hit my head. I had to go to the hospital to get checked for a concussion. I am fully insured. I had to pay $4000 out of pocket for a single CT scan. I didn’t have a concussion. I’ve heard stories of people getting liver transplants. They aren’t eligible for cheap transplants bc them being an alcoholic means that it wasn’t an accident. Some fully insured people have to pay $200,000 out of pocket for a liver/heart transplant. I had to pay $600 for a simple blood test. They charge you $100 for an IV with water in it. My ADHD medication is under my insurance but I still have to pay $500 per month for it

Drive? I had an appointment today and I went out of the house 4 minutes prior. Here every apartment can be a small clinic; lookout for the signs (labels/plaques). xD

Being half British and half Indonesian sucks because I will have to pick which citizenship I want which feels like picking one parent over the other. I think Indonesia made dual citizenship legal but only for people born after 2006 for some reason.

00:15:46 The penalty for not having health coverage was dropped to $0 a few years ago, and even if it is eventually raised back up you can get a waiver in the (not uncommon) case where no affordable health insurance option was available. So not really all that mandatory.

I'm not surprised that tourism is still down about 1/3 of pre-pandemic levels, because about 1/3 of my fellow shoppers at the friendly local grocery store are still wearing cloth masks. Still! As of yesterday!

nuclear power production is actually really safe nowadays :)

I needed an ambulance in England recently, not a critical emergency. After 4 hours it was still not there. I called to check and they said it would be at least 3 hours more. I took a taxi to the hospital.

In Norway an individual shouldn't pay more than about 300 USD equivalent per calendar year out of pocket for healthcare. That's with no private insurance, and includes everything from surgery, to physical therapy, to a normal checkup. There has even been talks of adding dental to that list.

as a dutchman I must say A- also mandatory health insurance actually lowers the price for health insurance because of solidarity where the more low risk people are insured the cheaper insurance gets

I once talked to a Canadian and he told me they sometimes jokingly call Vancouver Vankok Bancouver.

It's not like the only two options are that something is illegal versus something being a common practice. It's not like the solution to everything is to have a punishment.

I press the like button once you said government is like religion.

Fun fact, it's costs you around $5000 to just apply to lose your US citizenship. Furthermore, there are a lot of hoops you need to jump through to get there.

Yeah that's the Scottish Highlands, the nearest hospital is going to be hours away, barely anyone lives up there outside of small coastal fishing towns.

Interestingly on the canada map, they said the island in the gulf of st lawrence known as Anticosti Island was a part of "Actual Canada" despite the fact it is a part of and is owned by Quebec. Why is this island excluded from "Basically france" if its a part of the place that is "Basically france"? Also where are the islands that are near Quebec in the hudson bay, why have they vanished?

So at the end of your video, very interesting video by the way, you're asking if anyone had a positive spin on the map about tourism being down, and while I agree with you about going new places bringing new awareness and knowledge to travelers, one of the easiest ways to spread disease, especially covid-19 is to be on an airplane. People who are asymptomatic can still spread it, and the intermingling of the virus across different populations in different areas increases the rate the virus mutates and how it mutates. Currently medical systems around the world are still struggling to keep up with infections and keep things under control as we learn about codi-19 and learn how to manage it well, so traveling, especially by plane to other countries, does increase the strain on the medical systems by increasing the rate of virus mutation and spread of disease. So reducing air travel is actually making things better for people in the long term as it gives us more of a breather to figure out how the disease works and how best to manage it, and reduces strain on the medical institutions and medical workers. We also recently learned that for some strains of the virus, once you have been infected there is a temporary immune system boost, and then it actually weakens your immune system leaving you more susceptible to future infections. Or in other words, get infected once and you're more likely to get infected again later. This is very worrying as Covid is still unpredictably becoming long Covid and disabling thousands of people on the regular, so reducing infection rates is extremely important at this time while we are still learning a lot but there's a lot we don't know, and our medical systems are failing under the heavy load. So I see the reduced tourism as a very good thing at this current point in time, with the idea being that I'd like humanity as a whole to continue existing and have the opportunity to grow and learn through travel and language and cultural exchanges in the future. I say all this as an American, that has been living and working in Japan for the past 8 years and someone who considers language learning to be one of the most important things someone can do to learn about the world and other people, and that visiting the place and directly interacting with people in that language is the best, and most important way of truly acquiring an understanding of that language and culture. I just think that in order to do those things, our global medical institutions need to be stable. Things are a lot better now than they were in 2020 in some ways because we know more now, but I heard first hand stories of people who went on vacation abroad right before, and ran out of money and then lost contact with us back here in Japan because they weren't allowed back into the country because they were expats. I heard first hand stories of people asking for help to get medical care, and fearing for their lives because of how Covid was affecting them but the hospitals and clinics were full and refusing patients. This is here in Japan where we have a lot of hospitals and clinics, and it wasn't so bad here compared with the US. We actually fared well here. Americans in general can't afford to, and are highly discouraged from international travel in general (due to our politics, individualism, American exceptionalism propaganda etc), so most Americans do not travel internationally unless they are quite wealthy or engaging in problematic voluntourism and or missionary work or going on pilgrimage of some kind. So I think, at least at this point in time, tourism being low is a very, very good thing. And while we've actually had some of the highest deaths this past year in Japan from Covid-19, I still expect tourism to continue to rise because people are sick of restrictions and have trouble looking at things in terms of long term benefits when they are suffering, and have been for awhile and need something to make them feel better, which is why restrictions have been removed or heavily reduced as of late, despite death tolls and rates of disability still remaining high, and us not having a reasonable means of combating or really managing this deadly, disabling disease.

I think there are other effects going on on the travel map too. From my German perspective the typical german travel destinations in europe are now nearly every year hit by heatwaves, floods, fires ... It is not much fun to travel to a burning country. I am sure in the next years the former travel destinations in south europe will get even less tourists and there will be more tourists than before in northern europe.

Ok, so the U.S. health care is strange. It's not that we do not have public health care, we just have d, all of the above. We have public medical programs, private insurance, and out of pocket, and depending on the state, single pay. It's weird, and it is flawed, as depending on the insurance, you can get accidental charges. But even ALL of that, you can still just refuse pay. It's a more complicated way, but you can get your payments dropped.

I think the main advantage to not travelling and staying isolated is linguistic preservation. The more people stay put, the more their languages stay distinct and the less likely rare dialects are to die out. However, the other, better option is to actively work on linguistic preservation. On using your rare language or dialect whenever you can, on recording it, teaching it. All that can be done as well as people travelling, and if you count traveling linguistics, travel can actually work to preserve and record languages and dialects. Plus, travel doesn't just lead to linguistic loss and assimilation, but also linguistic change and development in a more positive way. It doesn't have to mean losing dialects, it can mean adding to them and expanding them with ideas and words from other languages. (Please note that there's no real way to define a language vs a dialect, there's no magic point where one becomes another, no agreed upon level on linguistic similarity or mutual intelligibility, so if I've used them somewhat interchangeably that's why.)

Nuclear power plants like almost all thermal power plants are located near bodies of water, be it rivers or the sea, to provide cooling water.

5:29 Relatable, i feel that way on most weekdays as well.

Toycat has been looking up locations of McDonald's recently

Traveling abroad was always seen as an act of minor treason here, locals hates to see foreigners 😂

I don't know who doesn't get this but: the entire reasoning behind taboos against incest are eugenic averages, that is to say: if you inbreed, your children have more homozygous representations of their parents traits because the parents share way more genes, and these are more likely, on average, to be harmful than beneficial. The real prompted question is: "should we be enforcing eugenic standards on couples who would like to reproduce?" Personally, I don't think so.

3:35 in the UK its actually illegal to get drunk in a public area, such as a pub.

"Legal if it does not provoke public scandal" is peak Catholic Church

Also for the drunk driving laws one, where some countries don't allow consumption at all, well what if you drink, in the neighboring country, and then cross the border completely drunk, then you are technically not consuming it in that country, but would be allowed to drive, even if you could barely stand on your feet from it? :D

Travel time to healthcare in the UK... Well if you're waiting for an ambulance it goes from white to red-purple.

12:00 If you manage to get stabbed in the middle of nowhere, Greenland, you're either the most hated person on this planet or don't know how to use a knife.

Well about the traveling thing: I don't know any left person that is left from social democracy that was for closing boarders. It was more about don't travel in a packed vehicle at all. But there is actually an argument against traveling far distances. The more ppl are infected with a virus the more likely it mutates (what we saw) mutations can go in both directions it cab worsen the decease or it can make it less effective. So if you have a pandemic it is very likely that it will mutate somewhere. And it makes total sense to try to keep the mutation where they are because of the risk of having a worse variation. At least for the moment. If it turns out to be a less dangerous strain it makes sense to then lift the travel restitution and hope for the less aggressive variations to take over. On the flip side, the place who now has a less aggressive variation might not wabt to take the risk of an other more dangerous variation to come back, one that my not be affected by the immunity of the less aggressive one. So it does make sense if there are mutations around. Sure local travel should also be avoided, but it is far easier to contain and to find a mutation in the first place if it is condensed in a smaller area.

I quite enjoyed this unusual map video. Keep it up! "Second channel, don't care"--that's the only channel I watch.

Australia has the world's oldest aerial medical service - the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The founder, Reverend John Flynn, is on the $20 bill.

Man, toycat, now in your final statement you do make me write a whole paragraph. It's because it reaches my heart as well as yours. Tourism done right is a good thing. Don't make a mistake. If by tourism you mean getting to learn about other cultures, what makes foreign societies work and such then yes - tourism is a good thing. But on a broader scale - tourism isn't about that. Tourism is about getting away from the weather at home, relaxing and taking pictures at historic or natural sites. It's nothing you can't do at home watching videos of the place you're visting. And tourism at that level is just a burden to the environment and climate. Keeping it short in order not to be one of the multiparagraph ultra long posts to your ironic statements. But still. I like intercultural understanding and measures to enhance it. Your usual tourist is nothing like that.

Most people don't want anything near them, but want to use it... - roads - sure, but not close to my home, build it close to someone else's home - nuclear power - build it elsewhere, even if it's 200km upwind and would be less safe for me in case of a reactor failure than living literally inside the reactor control room. - garbage sorting/ burning plant/ factories - I want work and to have stuff yes, but not near me - high density housing - sure, build cheap homes, but not in my neighborhood

You can have dual citizenship here in Australia, but if you do you, you can't be a member of Parliament. 5 or 6 years ago, several conservative politicians had to resign from the Federal government because of this.

"If you're going to drink alcohol, do it in cars." - ibx2cat 2023

The necrophilia map is probably not "this is legal here", but rather "we never had to make a law to ban it because nobody tried it", which seems to be a thing with US state law. All those "ridiculous US laws" come from the same position. They are there because someone abused it in the past and they had to close that loophole. Just like how fake witchcraft was illegal in Canada until 2018. Real witchcraft, like for religious purposes was legal, but "fraudulently pretending to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration" was illegal. So if you were a real wizard, that was fine, if you were just pretending, you committed fraud.

Your driving ability deeply disturbs me with peace and love ❤

18:14 Actually during the pandemic even domestic travel was banned in many places such as outside your own state, province, region, etc.

Another thing with Canada is that 80% of the population lives within 40 miles of the US border

Strangely enough only the Asian portion of turkey was colored in on the Whole Foods map.

The positive spin on people traveling less is that it benefits local industry in many ways There are so many small thriving places in the world that has been destroyed because of globalization while bigger cities and well known places benefit more from tourism