This is a key part of fascism, government and industry being one and the same entity.

Unfortunately 46% of women voted Trump. So I guess they like this?

I am fortunate to live in a country where amazon is not strong and we have aggregated search engines that over all the small shops, compete against Amazon on selection and cost, often beating it. I hope it stays this way.

I wish the old Pizza Huts would come back with the deep dish pizzas and everything. The pizza was so much better back in the day, or is that just me?

I thought PS5 and switch were some of the best selling consoles of all time? Just because they are in the later part of their generation now doesn't change that.

Brain cable management be like

Actually coal plants which are in use, spew thousands of times of nuclear material into the air what any nuclear plant ever has.

Russia started with 14000 tank chassis. No one really can know to what extent any of those were still usable. Most of them probably weren't. The best analysis I've seen has been from Covert Cabal who attempts to track the number of chassis left in storage and their condition from satelite imagery. IIRC they also give Russia about 1-2 more years.

[Edit corrected 12000 to 140000]

Building things and then blowing them up increases your GDP but it provides negative benefit to your society. All of that labor is wasted just for products that are destroyed and cause destruction.

And wage growth will be very robust if you force 1 million of your best workers to flee the country and then kill or cripple 300,000 more workers on top, and then create tons of jobs to build stuff that gets blown up instead of things people can actually use for something productive.

Neither of these metrics tell the real story for a wartime economy. Subsidizing useless production that gets blown up has to take largely from state coffers, robbing from essential services for the population.

And if you lose your revenue streams like oil because your refineries and pipelines keep getting blown up and you lose customers to sanctions, and you take workers from useful sustainable jobs with real benefit and move them to building things you blow up instead, eventually you will have to choose between any services for the population and funding the war.

You don't get tax revenue from state spending that you blow up. Take it far enough and you'll just run out of money for the war and will have to enter hyperinflation to keep printing the money to fund it.

These trends are under way in Russia, they spend 40% of their national budget on war already. They lost 20% of their refining capacity in the last couple months alone. It will take a while to reach a full disaster, but they can't continue this way indefinitely. They will hit the wall at some point in the next decade.

I can't believe that this is economically viable. Strange times.

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I love how they do this right after the Black Mirror episode comes out. Black Mirror is really doing a good job of getting us ready for the future.