Fundraising idea for the war charities right there.

Failing that, looks like you can buy or rent it in the US from something called Fandango. And probably pirate it, although obviously you’re shafting the creators that way.

I’m sorry, I think they have a lead. You (?) can come up from behind and get ahead afterwards, though, like in the space race!

Indeed. If this happened it seems unwise - even if it was part of an essay suggesting doubling down on Putinist “family values”. I don’t recognise the source, though, and not much else comes up that I trust more on a search.

Edit: I found this. Maybe it’s time to get my Russian practice in. The title does indeed read as described, at least.

Somewhere like North America I could see how it makes sense. There’s a lot more road infrastructure than rail, and this can be built over it fairly cheaply and easily.

They’re definitely going to run out of money eventually, and this isn’t a highly disciplined and ideological place where they can push through desperate measures to keep going. There’s been efforts towards becoming that that during the war, but Russia has been doing the controlled chaos mafia state thing for quite a while, and I doubt it will be enough.

But yes, OP seems pretty anecdotal and I’m not going to put too much weight on it.

They predate America itself, FYI. I think the Netherlands had the first one documented in like 1600, or something. Edit: 1602

No stock markets is arguably worse, because then the only way to be a capital owner is if you can afford a whole company, as opposed to just a share. (And from the company’s standpoint, there’s less people to get startup funds from, although that’s kinda-sorta offset by the way higher inequality that results)

There is a lot of very similar vibes between the Canadian and German government, I’ve noticed. They even both love faxes the same.

Generally they’re by type of good, IIRC. So, a grocery store can still sell eating apples, but not computers or phones called that.

I mean, the King’s English is technically a dialect too. It’s just the one on top.

I’m guessing you could take French as well, regardless of where you’re going, right? Language equality is serious business.

Yes, unnecessary documentation is very our style. And no guarantee you won’t have to do it again for some other entity. Somehow we’re still one of the easiest destinations to immigrate to.

Is there as much fibre in a web as a silkworm cocoon, though?

Hmm. I wonder. It can’t be just humans, right? Why not spiders?

I thought it was output that was the bottleneck.

Well, I guess in any case there’s no doubt now.

Isn’t this basically an implementation of spaghetti sort? I’ve seriously taken the delay approach before in distributed memory situations.

I actually did. I have nits to pick with the map, but the conclusion that Russia has a lot and Europe has (relatively) little is well known. And again, what does the US have to do with it?

Reading the thread back again, you’re probably right that inequality in Europe has grown somewhat, if that was your main point.

Edit: And your source is excellent, by the way. Very interesting. Picketty delivers.

This seems to be a trend everywhere right now. The global order is blowing up, and companies see it as an opportunity to extract regulation rollbacks and handouts. Even if it has nothing to do with national security or sovereignty, like here.

OP didn’t even mention the US, though. I’m not sure what you’re arguing against.

Finally, something politicians of all parties can agree to!

I’m not sure it was tilted away from them in the first place, but Trump being insane isn’t hurting.