The zombie list is more like "some good movies" rather than "the best movies." (Didn't look at the vampire list -- not my monster, so no opinion there.) Fido definitely deserves a place on any list of good/best zombie movies. Also notably absent were Pontypool, Rammbock and Warm Bodies, each of which had added something new the genre. Certainly more so than, say, Zombieland or Dead Snow.
Interesting to compare that map against the one on this page from the CDC showing opiod prescriptions per capita in each state: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/prescribing.html Especially for Virginia vs. West Virginia. (Sorry, Virginias!) Whether the happiness map is showing people who are unhappy because they live in the Bible Belt as fulgora77 points out or if it's simply a map of where they think people should be happy as Edward suggests, taken generally this seems to suggest a relationship between the thoughts "life sucks" and "give me the drugs that make me not care about things being painful."
This is not a one size fits all concept, though. The logic works best on uncrowded freeways with long distances between exits that are all on the same side of the road. In denser urban environments that are very crowded and which may have closely spaced exits on either side of the road, it is reasonable that slower drivers may have to position themselves on either the left or right.
Drivers of slower vehicles may be driving that way for a reason, like they have a passenger who has just been through surgery. Similarly, drivers of faster vehicles may also be driving that way for a reason, like there is an emergency where someone's life is in danger. Yes, we our knee jerk reaction will almost always be to assume that the person is a jerk, but if you assume they're doing what they're doing for good reason (which do exist!) you'll have a better experience. Things will still be annoying, but they'll feel less arbitrary or malicious and will start to seem like something where we're all cooperating to make things better.
Which is true! Driving works amazingly well, all things considered. We have a system where many, many vehicles regularly move together gracefully at very high speeds with almost no coordination between the participants. It's incredible that this works at all! Not to mention that providing concessions for slower or faster drivers now means that you, too, will have the right to drive slower or faster when you're in one of those situations yourself.
We're all in it together. Usually. (Admittedly, some people really are just jerks.)
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/prescribing.html
Especially for Virginia vs. West Virginia. (Sorry, Virginias!)
Whether the happiness map is showing people who are unhappy because they live in the Bible Belt as fulgora77 points out or if it's simply a map of where they think people should be happy as Edward suggests, taken generally this seems to suggest a relationship between the thoughts "life sucks" and "give me the drugs that make me not care about things being painful."
Drivers of slower vehicles may be driving that way for a reason, like they have a passenger who has just been through surgery. Similarly, drivers of faster vehicles may also be driving that way for a reason, like there is an emergency where someone's life is in danger. Yes, we our knee jerk reaction will almost always be to assume that the person is a jerk, but if you assume they're doing what they're doing for good reason (which do exist!) you'll have a better experience. Things will still be annoying, but they'll feel less arbitrary or malicious and will start to seem like something where we're all cooperating to make things better.
Which is true! Driving works amazingly well, all things considered. We have a system where many, many vehicles regularly move together gracefully at very high speeds with almost no coordination between the participants. It's incredible that this works at all! Not to mention that providing concessions for slower or faster drivers now means that you, too, will have the right to drive slower or faster when you're in one of those situations yourself.
We're all in it together. Usually. (Admittedly, some people really are just jerks.)