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I will say, for a mainstream US news outlet this article wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Maybe just because there's no way to spin this anymore, but then again some outlets will just parrot IDF statements as fact

Ooh good catch. That makes sense. Not sure I would call this beautiful, especially without any way to tell how much time has passed, but fair enough

That doesn't make sense unless this was personal expenditure, which it doesn't seem to be

But.. from when? Surely expenditure hasn't gone up linearly with time

..how did the line come about? How did they determine what the life expectancy would have been with less expenditure per capita?

Das sagst du, nachdem du in deiner Antwort mit keiner Silbe auf den OP Kommentar eingegangen bist und nur weiter über Parkplätze gemeckert hast? So wenig Selbstreflexion möchte ich auch haben

Man kann ja auch mit was anderem als dem Auto zu Besuch kommen.

Wenn es um etwas geht, mit dem die Liberalen sich identifizieren können: "Anreize schaffen!"

Wenn es um soziale Grundbedürfnisse geht: "Angebot und Nachfrage regeln den Preis!"

Ok, I like this description a lot actually, it's a very quick and effective way to explain the effects of no backtracking. A lot of the answers here are either too reductive or too technical to actually make this behavior understandable to a layman. "It just predicts the next word" is easy to forget when the thing makes it so easy to be anthropomorphized subconsciously.

Inheritance is random

My favorite way to resolve method ambiguities.

Somehow Corrections gave a late night show parasocial vibes and I am here for it

Conveniently they are about to declare those the same thing