People are terrified.
Everyone is more subdued, people are going into debt as prices continue to shoot up when they're already stretched to their limit, and ice is kidnapping people willy nilly
Oh, plus tourism is basically over
All in all, this doesn't surprise me. Things are getting very bad
This is actually as bad as citizens united. They're trying to end free speech entirely
Let's be honest, we only stood against the Nazis because of political alliances, and even then there was debate over if we should cut off aid to our allies and be more isolationist
There was a lot of "America first" ideas floating around at the time, if it wasn't for perl harbor things might have gone very differently
It wasn't until the world saw video of the camps that Nazis became considered unambiguously evil, a lot of people supported their ideology until they saw the end result
It means that you're asking for a metric that will not inform the subject at hand. Even worse, it will muddy the issue even more and mislead people
Math is a tool, and if misused it does damage, like any tool
People need to accept that the rule of law has failed.
The law will not save us, we need people in power to take back control by any means necessary. We need to bite and scratch
I think it does fully explain it. Germany has never made CPUs, but they have definitely been there on the software scene though
Germany has long been a powerhouse on software. It trends towards mission critical stuff rather than anything consumer facing, but it's been very much around for many decades now
What are you talking about? What numbers?
Numbers are a tool. This is apples and orange drink, you can't reduce this to numbers
Because you can't just make up the numbers, everyone has to lie a little bit at every step or you get endless whistleblowers
It takes time to build that kind of administrative understanding
Come on... Things have been getting worse for a while, but this is a huge turning point
That's easy, brain drain. When programming was coming into existence, the US was in the cold war - Russia did have a lot of IT stuff too early on, it just wasn't publicly facing
And during this period, the US was spending infinite money investing because we had an ungodly strong economy - Europe, China , and Japan were doing reconstruction from the war and paying back loans, the global South was being economically colonized... The US and Russia were the only players with the funds to advance tech at the time
But if you fast forward a couple decades, every developed nation was doing things in the computing space. But the US had a huge lead on chip manufacturing, manufacturers were signing deals with Microsoft, and everything just kind of converged around the base architecture.
But even then, arm was invented in the UK, Linux came from Sweden (?), things were happening all over
So long story short, the US was in a position to invest while no one else was. That gave us a huge head start, one which, combined with a loosening of anti monopoly enforcement over the same period, created huge barriers of entry around certain parts of the stack
I'm literally wearing a shirt from a decade ago right now. It is made of 100% cotton, and the underarms have ripped recently
Why? Because my more recent clothing dissolved we when I tugged at them gently. Just fucking fell apart, not even at the seams, just tore like paper
So I practice on the plastic bullshit so I can sew up the cotton when I need to
It's not just money. There's very real fear as well, it's both