Why?
Both of those. Elon has basically turned Twitter into his personal website, and as it turns out, not everyone wants to advertise on personal websites.
That mostly results in US goods being more expensive, making (checks notes) the totally carbon neutral goods from China more affordable.
That still does touch on the problem. The RCS group was formed in 2007. Let that sink in.
I think if you try to have regulators come up with standards for things like airdrop or location sharing, it's going to be a bad time.
RCS you can just regulate as a telecom feature. It's contained. It doesn't touch things like finance (which vary by country).
I honestly get it. Apple has been excruciatingly stubborn to adopt RCS.
I think in the past this was excusable because RCS has been such a moving target. First it was the carriers disagreeing about how to implement, and dragging their feet, then Google got tired of waiting for carriers and sort of bypassed them. But even then RCS is messy when it's part carrier, part Google, etc. Even Google Fi doesn't support RCS if you want its text-from-computer function working! Then came e2e encryption, which has been haphazard.
At this point though, it is starting to solidify. Apple should implement it, and if Apple drags their feet, regulators should intervene. Don't rule out that happening in the EU, either.
You must be lost.
Well, no, because that sentence doesn't make any sense. There's no such thing as a "PPP adjusted GDP," PPP is just a way of measuring GDP. I'm suggesting that if you want to use PPP to measure GDP, by all means, use PPP. PPP merely corrects for currency imbalances.
In other words, if you don't like nominal GDP (valid), by all means, use PPP. Both PPP and nominal GDP are measures of GDP though.
SO: China spends between 1.7% of its total economic output directly on its military. The US spends closer to 3.5%.
If the US spent what China does, as a percentage of GDP, that would be just shy of $400bn. A lot of money, for sure, but we're closing on a $2.0 trillion budget deficit.
I think you need to learn the concept of purchasing power.
By all means, use PPP.
My point was that GDP is not a useful metric, and I even gave you a concrete example of why.
Use PPP if you prefer.
You're the one who compared US spending to China's in absolute dollars.
The reality is that US spends more on military than the next 10 countries combined.
Unless we're going to start paying soldiers $1,000/yr (roughly what China does), that's going to be the reality.
For context, overall manufacturing output of US is only around $1.9 trillion.
And New York City's manufacturing output is almost nothing. Manufacturing isn't GDP.
One distortion of excessive national debt can be inflation. Good thing that’s not a conce—oh wait.
I think you can be reasonably sure that anything you put out in the fediverse is indexable by any large company. Google is already indexing Mastodon posts, for instance.