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This is just horrifying.

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Not a map, but pretty informative.

[romad1]

19 hours ago, chasfh said:

Not a map, but pretty informative.

People in that top 20 have so little interest in emigrating to the United States for some reason.  Slovenia is a surprise actually.  Former communist countries tend to still be lower on the list but Czechia, Slovenia good on you.  The East German reunification was and remains turbulent but still.   

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

People in that top 20 have so little interest in emigrating to the United States for some reason.  Slovenia is a surprise actually.  Former communist countries tend to still be lower on the list but Czechia, Slovenia good on you.  The East German reunification was and remains turbulent but still.   

The US keeps trying to comfort itself over falling behind the rest of the developed world by every measure of quality (and quantity!) of life by clutching to productivity growth numbers, but Krugman has done an interesting series this month blowing up the idea that those numbers mean anything like what we think they do. When you use the wrong yard sticks, measure the wrong things, you tend to get bad outcomes.

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[romad1]

7 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

The US keeps trying to comfort itself over falling behind the rest of the developed world by every measure of quality (and quantity!) of life by clutching to productivity growth numbers, but Krugman has done an interesting series this month blowing up the idea that those numbers mean anything like what we think they do. When you use the wrong yard sticks, measure the wrong things, you tend to get bad outcomes.

i.e., body count in Vietnam

[romad1]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

i.e., body count in Vietnam

Been reading Mark Bowden's excellent "Hue 1968" and that MOP/MOE always comes up. 

One of the more interesting historical questions I came away with thus far:  Walter Cronkite and Creighton Abrams had a conversation during Cronkite's visit to the Hue battlefield in which he came away and did his "war is unwinnable" report.  Abrams was friends with Cronkite during WWII and Abrams had good press in comparison to the Westmoreland who was basically every French General during WW1 .  Westmoreland sued CBS in the 1980s. 

I wonder if anyone did a more in-depth book on that Cronkite/Abrams relationship and its impact on the course of the War.