Intergalactic Summit

I thought his name was Captain Jacques Moineau? Or am I thinking of a different holo entirely?

Well I'm talking about Privateers of the Cloudsea, which, although it portrays fictional characters, is an at least partially historically-accurate portrayal of piratical skyship captains during the Skyship Wars on Gallente Prime. The main character was Captain Everett Ganoix, who was notionally a privateer in service of Hueremont, but in actuality simply raided any ships he could take in a fight.

Jacques Moineau was an actual historical figure with a very similar story - off of whom Everett Ganoix was largely based, as a matter of fact - which is the source of the confusion. There are several documentaries about the life of Moineau, some of which are heavily dramatized.

Already done that, well, except for the glasses part.
Most of your victories come when you are in fleets exceeding 10 pilots.
Most of your losses come from much smaller enemy groups. quite often solo pilots.
You'd probably do quite well in a 200 man nullsec blob.

While the current moderation system of this summit does not allow for links to the public capsuleer combat record, it is a simple matter to search for your name.

You should also perhaps refrain from calling someone ignorant if you are still unwilling to refer to them by their ethnicity.

Ignorant means ignorant.
You again show us you can't read combat reports.

You What?

I think it's clear by this point that to Diana, if you're not Caldari or disagree with her, you're Gallentean or might as well be.

Well the fact is even if she's talking about the Gallente "way of life," her idea of what that lifestyle consists of is woefully inaccurate. She seems to believe - like a child, really - that all the worst stereotypes apply to literally everyone in the ethnic group. She honestly seems to think all Gallenteans are indolent, solipsistic, heedlessly hedonistic self-idolators with no sense of community spirit or collective integrity. Actually, most Gallenteans have lives, jobs, families, friends, social groups, hopes, dreams and fears just like anyone does. Put the average Gallentean office worker next to the average Caldari office worker and you'll be hard-pressed to tell the difference - they might look a little different, hold differing political opinions, but I guarantee you they'd be able to strike up a conversation about the inefficiencies and minor irritations in their workplace or the perks of the bar they retire to on Friday nights after the office has closed.

Most Gallenteans are "hedonistic" only by the austere standards of Amarr monasteries or those who consider eating anything more nuanced than dry rations "decadence." It's true that Gallentean Federal citizens enjoy the highest average quality of life of any demographic in the cluster, but they didn't achieve this by being lazy or self-absorbed. Semitransparent clothing and legalised hallucinogenics might seem strange to outsiders, but corporate rulership or daily prayers seem equally strange to Gallenteans. Heck, I'm Intaki, and there's a lot of things about me that Gallenteans don't understand, and to be honest, vice versa.

According to the metrics used by a survey commissioned by a Gallentean university, yes.

The difference is that strength of religious feeling is a linear, well-defined metric. There's not really any argument about what the term "more religious" means.

"Quality of life" however is very subjective. What does it mean? Average holistic health? Lifespan? emotional well-being? combined value of all possessions? square meterage of personal living space? An aggregate of all of those things and more?

If you don't consider owning many possessions and a large house to play any role in quality of life, then the fact that most Gallentean families have larger homes and more stuff is largely irrelevant. If you consider it perfectly possible for somebody to have a high quality of life despite being obese and diabetic, then the fact that nearly all State citizens are in excellent health doesn't really matter in a side-by-side comparison.

Some people live happily with a spartan lifestyle and a healthy body, others live happily with an extravagant one and no real regard for their physique. There's no objective standard by which one's life is better than the other, though of course I favour the former myself.

So if a Gallentean univeristy claims that the Federation has the highest average quality of living in New Eden, I'm inclined to ask - "by what standards"?