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@m I guess the effect is that, apart from direct participants, people simply learn _not_ to read those conversations (admittedly this is a hypothesis with some conspiracy potential 🙂 ).

Anyway, who needs conversations on a platform designed for broadcasting one's "self" or for screaming at each other?

👆 is not a criticism, rather an observation based on very shallow, but careful analysis of the ratio of boosts per post (appropriating somebody's fancy content for one's own) vs. likes/fav-stars (sending 👍 to the original author).

On the upside, the current design leads to the only meaningful mode of interaction which is 1-to-1 dialogue in DM.

@udittmer as far as I found, it's not straightforward to remove a specific country from the plot, but you can have it different aggregated geo regions, which might be close to what you are actually looking for.

@maxroser

@geo_lectures

Here's the same plot in absolute numbers: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-population-between-different-poverty-thresholds-historical?stackMode=absolute&country=~OWID_WRL

Draw your own conclusions.

@maxroser

@udittmer Check yourself at https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-population-between-different-poverty-thresholds-historical?country=~OWID_WRL

All the plots at ourworldindata.org are interactive and backed up with open data.

@maxroser

@piggo I see, Are you going to take out the "filling" of the "propeller blades"?

Just asking, I have no clue about 3D printing...

@piggo what is it? It generally looks like a propeller, but I doubt it's one.

@rasmansa and often also running their own instances.

@rasmansa for instance at qoto.org #qoto

@m Interesting reading indeed.

@apilsetas

Nightwish - Amaranth

https://youtu.be/GdZn7k5rZLQ?t=128

@piggo dutch is good 😜

@m what is MTG in your world?

P.S. in mine, it's [Meteosat Third Generation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteosat#Third_Generation_(%22MTG%22)) 😄

@academicalnerd I guess the thread was indeed 1) enumerating observations; and then 2) extrapolating from there. So yes, (2) is just a speculation, nothing more.

As for societal inertia - middle class/mainstream has that indeed, but where the author of the thread is IMO correct is that crooks and the underworld have no true inertia in any society - they are the most dynamic segment of any society and react/adapt the fastest. Just ask your parents about how the wild west of the 90's "felt".

When it comes to inertia, though, what I find most intriguing is that as sanctions and the new image of Russia entered middle-class "consciousness" in the West over the last year, the inertia will keep it there for at least one full generation. That is societal inertia at work. And that is no smart extrapolation, it's cheap to bet on it by now.

@academicalnerd This https://nitter.hu/betelgeuse1922/status/1606249858926612485#m reminded of your post to which I respond. Seems like the same "mood" there.

@pony Should I send you a "like/fav" to cheer you up? Whataver, here you have 👍 to cheer you up a bit today. Take care there!