PhilippAchtel posted:

:thatsbait:

Palladium posted:

pretty sure the $20 socks cost $0.20 out from the chinese factory but you see it's the perfidious orientals that are ripping you off

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One limitation is that while this econometric strategy provides estimates of differences across districts, the approach is unable to capture aggregate nation-wide effects of the war on Vietnamese development. The counterfactual – Vietnamese economic performance in the absence of the “American War” – cannot be observed or estimated. This is potentially important to the extent that the war led to major institutional and social changes, or if the cross-region spillovers of the war within Vietnam were large. Still the rapid rate of economic growth in Vietnam since the early 1990s – at 6% on average between 1993 and 2003 (World Bank, 2004) – indicates that any nation-wide war impacts on economic growth rates were not persistently negative, and did not generate a national-level poverty trap.

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Poverty traps can also be averted by government redistribution of capital towards poorer regions, lifting them above the poverty trap threshold, and thus ultimately generating sustained saving, investment and growth.

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Another major difference between postwar Vietnam and Japan is that the former was a centrally planned economy until it launched market reforms in the late 1980s while the latter was always a market economy. This raises the question of what general lessons we can learn from these empirical studies, since other countries with different institutions might have reacted differently.

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To be absolutely clear, the humanitarian costs of the Vietnam War itself – which led to millions of civilian deaths by all accounts – were massive and the short term disruptive economic effects were certainly quite strong. No matter how rapid the recovery, the war, in addition to all the direct pain and suffering it wrought, meant an enormous amount of time and energy was wasted fighting rather than engaging in economically productive activities. Vietnam's southeast Asian neighbors did not suffer from the American War, and income per capita was $16,481 in Malaysia and $8666 in Thailand but only $3256 in Vietnam in 2005 (in 2005 U.S. dollars at PPP).7 This gap provides suggestive evidence that Vietnam, despite its high recent growth rates, might be much richer today had it not been for the war, although this is admittedly speculative given all of the other institutional, social and policy differences between these countries.

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1789402207336423910

PhilippAchtel posted:

deleted like a coward

loquacius posted:

What did it say

Some Guy TT posted:

i dont understand why he was prompted to do this did the staff think biden could remember the name on his own and they didnt need to bother looking it up

Some Guy TT posted:

Did the Biden administration have unfettered access for a large portion of 2021 to Donald Trump's transition documents and papers that were later shipped from storage near Washington, D.C., to Mar-a-Lago in Florida? No, that's not true: The General Services Administration, which provides transition support for outgoing presidents, told Lead Stories that the documents were "accessible only to the former president's Outgoing Transition Staff and those who they permitted." There was never unsupervised access to those documents, a spokesperson for the federal agency said.

The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Facebook by Peggy Traeger Tierney on April 27, 2024. The post's caption said:

This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:



The General Services Administration (GSA) is a U.S. federal agency that manages government property and records and provides services to the federal government. It additionally provides transition support for outgoing presidents. In this case, Donald Trump.

In a May 8, 2024, email, a GSA spokesperson told Lead Stories that the agency never had unsupervised access to the Trump documents mentioned in the social media post, which were stored at a facility in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. They said the materials were managed by Trump's team:

The GSA said this about the chain of custody for the papers:

Visual evidence comes from an image of the boxes obtained by Bloomberg from the GSA and included in an article published on October 5, 2022, called "Trump Says US Agency Packed Top-Secret Documents. These Emails Suggest Otherwise," with the subheading: "A federal agency worked with Trump staff to move the boxes that were already packed and loaded on pallets, emails show."

The caption for the photo says:

This is what the image looked like on the Bloomberg website at the time of writing:



The GSA spokesperson told Lead Stories that the task of placing the boxes onto pallets and securely wrapping each one with shrink-wrap fell under the responsibility of the Trump transition team. They said:

The GSA email concluded with the agency saying it did not know what was in the boxes that were sent to Florida. It said:

Clark Nova posted:

anybody else remember when yglesias tweeted that he had covid then posted pictures of himself riding the bus around a couple of hours later?

Danann posted:

Thinking about the several billions reserved specifically for EV charger stations that resulted in only 7 charger stations built.

PhilippAchtel posted:

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/NewYorker/status/1789480413259317626

biceps crimes posted:

Why are there so many white women claiming to be native american? Are there white guys that do this in academia too? I feel like I've only heard of women doing this

biceps crimes posted:

Why are there so many white women claiming to be native american? Are there white guys that do this in academia too? I feel like I've only heard of women doing this

biceps crimes posted:

Why are there so many white women claiming to be native american? Are there white guys that do this in academia too? I feel like I've only heard of women doing this

Zoran posted:

it is extremely common for white families in the US to claim that some distant ancestor was a Native American, and for them to tell their kids so at an age when they’ll completely believe it

biceps crimes posted:

Why are there so many white women claiming to be native american? Are there white guys that do this in academia too? I feel like I've only heard of women doing this

biceps crimes posted:

wtf

joepinetree posted:

There was a black guy who claimed to be Cuban who turned out to have no connections to Cuba whatsoever (H G Carrillo)

Clark Nova posted:

anybody else remember when yglesias tweeted that he had covid then posted pictures of himself riding the bus around a couple of hours later?

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/NewYorker/status/1789480413259317626

silicone thrills posted:

My mom / aunts totally repeated the "our great grandmother was dakota" poo poo all the time when I was a kid and I have no idea if they still claim it but I figured it was bullshit pretty early and my sister did a DNA test and confirmed we are not infact any part native american in our family lol

stumblebum posted:

the hilarious double-whammy of it is that "im 1/64th cherokee" was originally a meme intended to argue away accusations of one's perceived "swarthiness" as being of black ancestry

World War Mammories posted:

suddenly realizing the implications of the omega metroid

biceps crimes posted:

Why are there so many white women claiming to be native american? Are there white guys that do this in academia too? I feel like I've only heard of women doing this

insane clown pussy posted:

they got a cherokee princess somewhere back in their family tree

PhilippAchtel posted:

Nichael posted:

elizabeths must be stopped

1glitch0 posted:

my guess is the person is made up and the staff put LAST NAME in there as a placeholder while they workshopped the best non-threatening but idpol correct last name to use and then forgot to do it.