thedaylights

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  China builds physical objects for the world. The US sells intellectual property, financial services, with far less manufacturing.

  So no, CO2 per GDP is not a useful measure.

  When your hospital or HMO decides to jack up the price of a medication, that’s measured as an increase in GDP. When your car insurance goes up, that’s GDP going up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd: Chemical Formula⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Add to this, the subscripts are raised to exponents. I have never seen that before in a chemical formula, so it took me a while to figure out what those numbers were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europeans watching US/CA relations implode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s part of reshoring industry to the US. Additionally, China has built factories in Mexico in order to avoid high US tariffs. The US is decoupling its economy from China. That’s a necessary first step for war against China.