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You're "insulated" when your economy doesn't run on Monopoly money. 😆 Some charts illustrating how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. Americans live shorter lives than the English at *every* point on the income distribution. It’s actually worse than that chart makes it seem because at most points on the income distribution, Americans earn much more than Brits. Plotting the same data by actual income instead of percentile, the US deficit is vast. 5 fewer years even among the comfortably-off. Things have deteriorated so much that the average American now has the same healthy life expectancy (years lived in good health) as someone in Blackpool, the town with England’s lowest life expectancy (by far), synonymous with deep-rooted social decline.  @yogthos I would be curious to see these charts expanded to look at diet or types of food available in comparison. I may be wrong but I think the UK has stricter regulations on food additives and the like. Wonder how much the extra crap in the US food supply, especially in the cheaper and over-processed foods, contributes to the mortality differential. I’m guessing it’s probably more than we even think. Two million Americans don’t have running water. The federal poverty rate — 11.6% in 2021 — has been roughly flat since 1970. Official statistics actually understate the problem because they exclude the more than 1mn in jail. Chemical leaks danger to community drinking water in Philadelphia https://www.workers.org/2023/03/70143/ Rent is so expensive that minimum wage workers in US need three roommates or four jobs to afford a two-bedroom apartment. To put this in perspective, USSR managed to eliminate communal apartments back in the 50s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_apartment https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rent-expensive-minimum-wage-workers-195430516.html Australia Isn't A Nation, It's A US Military Base With Kangaroos https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/australia-isnt-a-nation-its-a-us magnons can be used to encode and transport data without electron flows, which involve energy loss through heating of the conductor used https://phys.org/news/2023-03-magnon-based-paradigm-shift.html People between 18-45 are more likely be in favor of China by a factor of 5! 20% vs 4% for people over 45. 25% enemy under 45, and twice as much older. https://archive.ph/tD1lp Reading literary fiction improves Theory of Mind https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1239918  China successfully tested its first high-temperature superconducting electric levitation system with operating speed reaching 600km/h, in city of Changchun on Friday. On the floor of Germany’s parliament, Left Party MP Sevim Dağdelen called for the 38,000 US soldiers in her country to leave, and to take their nuclear weapons with them. She lamented that Washington “doesn’t actually want allies, just loyal vassals”. @yogthos she's basically a Russian asset at this point. It's always "bad US" with her. She has no qualms calling for a "diplomatic solution" for the war in Ukraine, which basically means Putin gets to keep whatever part of the country currently occupied. The term "proxy war" in the Ukraine says it all. It's the US's fault in her eyes. practically all clean energy tech is currently manufactured in China Major content creator with 5.7 million followers on TikTok had this to say about our government in Canada. It's particularly interesting to see such a large creator who’s platform isn’t political to speak out like this. @yogthos Same could be said for the U.S. Both countries need to channel their inner France. Otherwise our governments will railroad us.  |
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