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Anglosphere cost multiplier is an interesting way to put it.

I would agree except we still live in a world where making a few dollars more a day is a perfectly valid way to make money in alot of places. A bunch of guys in some electronic sweatshop in Vietnam or Indonesia working on pis is a reality.

I wonder if they could even unwind the fortune to pay 40% in cash.

"The solution was what we now call the rules-based order, and means that European-style legal systems control business across borders, so armed force need not be used to enforce contracts."

I wonder how Europe got there? Maybe they all decided to talk through their problems.

So rich but nobody has any money anymore.

"US officials also acknowledged that they had initially provided inaccurate information, and that her husband's last pay cheque had included – but incorrectly itemised – "combat pay", which amounts to $225 a month, and was not conditioned on a formal war declaration"

What's ridiculous is Canada Goose being in that category.

All the stated problems are just problems in peacetime; Pay and bureaucratic red tape.

But which party (or faction of it) is at least talking about it? You can find corporate rent seekers in both parties sure.

It's easier to understand when you know that the decisions that Americans and others have made over time were never designed to be covered and taught in a Capitalized Theory of A Particular Time Period academic subject.

Historians likes overarching themes and stories that make everything easier to understand, it does not like "History is just one damned thing after another."

We are on the tail end of a 75 year old experiment in the West of divorcing where you live or were born from any sort of responsibility for anything in either direction, except for paying taxes to government and fees to your patron.

Well that's an opinion.

This is what happens when you sacrifice a generation of people to make a "soft" landing for the rest.

Police overtime is quite complicated. Assuming 23 hours of work represent actually 23 hours of work will lead to confusion. Alot of these overtime jobs are where the government mandates that a police officer simply be on site. Regardless if they are sleeping or actually doing any police work.

That's interesting because it's way more complicated than that. Boston had the 128 loop and Digital. TI in dallas. Simi valley. I think it's more like the end of defense spending in the late 80s early 90s winnowed down the several "SV"s into only one.

Americans needing fresh bananas did it.

Nope. THe story doesn't make any sense at all.

They stole about 5 milion dollars worth of computer equipment, which depending on how it's purchased is either a single cabinet of storage or a few cabinets of compute, which is largely worthless on the resale market, or if you believe the criminals, they were stealing evidence of illegal activities of the "bankers".

The story is way too sexed up and hollywood'd

It's probably obvious to say, but I think a nation's most important resource is people. And if you can just order them around and kill the dissenters and not care about what individuals want, then you can achieve quite a bit, be it industrialization or war or agricultural surplus.

"Grocery store tourism is the practice of visiting local grocery stores while traveling as a way to experience a destination's everyday culture rather than just its tourist attractions."

I got it from this RAND survey. https://glp1newsnow.substack.com/p/how-many-americans-are-ac...

12% of the adult population. I think it's a good theory.

That review is hilarious.

"To summarise, then: George Orwell in 1984 was, in my opinion, engaging in a private feud with Stalinism, rather that attempting to forecast the future."

He really got it!

And shows how fundamentally Asimov misunderstands how totalitarian societies work. "Furthermore, he has a system of volunteer spies in which children report on their parents, and neighbours on each other. This cannot possibly work well since eventually everyone reports everyone else and it all has to be abandoned"

Haha you can tell I listen to a lot history podcasts. I won't fix it.

Well at least we can filter out the Jeffrey of Monmouth's though.

California is not a great place to build data centers. If you need to service CA, there are better options

History doesn't stop. Majority Muslim states in Europe might have different priorities.

How does this change affect food waste by consumers?

I remember the good ole days when the White House would coordinate with former employees that got jobs with SV companies in their "online safety" orgs and would just ban or shadowban people. Less legally suspect because it was action by private companies.

She claims that the post with his name is the one that triggered the visit.

You have to compare Europe to California.