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Absolutely true. The propaganda that says "Everyone in government is crusty old white men and all equally the problem, it's not worth even trying to improve things, just be unproductively bitter and angry instead, while we're taking all your stuff"

Is very much of a piece with the propaganda says "All the poors and immigrants are the problem, it's not old white men in government, just be unproductively bitter and angry instead, while we're taking all your stuff." The target audience is just different.

And you know what? They both work real real fuckin' well. See, look all the problems.

Why isn't it your job to do something? The conservatives certainly consider it the rank and file's job to get involved in changing the system to the way they want it to be; that's part of why they're having such an outsized impact.

That one looks right to me (or, “right” meaning consistently using period LEB) - it’s a little hard to compare because of the difference in granularity but it shows about a 20-year drop for WW2 which is what I would expect.

I edited my comment above; I think what’s happening is that the OP article is mixing different metrics for different parts of the chart. I think this one you’re sending is consistently using period LEB which is why the size of the dips is different.

I am suspicious of this

So Russia’s death rate was pretty much unchanged from 1930 to 1935 to 1945, and then things got way better in 1950?

Maybe I could see, they are counting only Russia (not the USSR), so the holomodor is largely absent from 1930, and then Russia advances in living standards meant that there was a huge underlying boost that masked the unprecedented deaths during WW2, and then after WW2 the apparent life expectancy shot up because a lot of the vulnerable or old people were already dead. But I don’t buy it. Idk what's going on with their data, but China looks fine and Russia looks simply wrong; it is missing some big dips that it should have.

Edit: Hm, I guess there is a 6-year divot in 1932… I guess I just expected the Holomodor to show up bigger and less spread out over surrounding years. But yeah maybe it is showing up.

Edit 2: Okay, I looked more and I am confident that this isn’t exactly right. It says “the remaining average lifespan for a hypothetical group of people, if they experienced the same age-specific death rates throughout the rest of their lives as the age-specific death rates seen in that particular year.” There’s no possible way that extrapolating out the death rates people were experiencing in the middle of a famine or war would lead to these gentle dips and small divots.

I suspect that by combining data from different sources, they wound up using cohort LEB for the distant past and period LEB for the more recent past. That would explain why e.g. the dip in Russian life expectancy because of the Ukraine war shows as the same size as the dip for WW2. If they were doing the calculations the same for both, the WW2 dip would take away half the chart or more. So maybe it’s not really wrong per se but just mismatching their metrics in a way that makes it hard to draw anything of precision from the chart beyond “things getting better”.

With a dash of sour milk

STOP TAKING DOGS ONTO THAT BRIDGE

What is wrong with you people, this problem is solvable

Enjoy thinking “hey why hasn’t that horrifying short film happened yet, there’s nothing to stop it” every now and then for a few years, until it happens

Ever seen Slaughterbots?

The 757 isn't part of the fuckery. The McDonnell-Douglas merger that supposedly doomed Boeing's engineering department (and hundreds of passengers so far) happened in 1997, six years after Trump's plane was built. It's part of the good airplanes Boeing used to make.

$10 million is the approximate value of the jet; the amount it was sold for wasn't disclosed.

You have discovered the essential flaw in the plan yes

Engineering a world without war sounds like a great idea. Just disarming and hoping everyone else will do the same isn't it.

Ask GPT to rewrite your configuration, check over it with diff to make sure it didn’t do something dumb, bingo bango