I should add that the Gini coefficient has declined in the US a little bit in 2022.

Read up on the Gini coefficient. It is quite different in different countries. In the US it is fairly high and rising but in like Norway it is much lower och declining.

Are you saying that all governments are terrible and therefor the horrors of China are without relevance? The Cultural Revolution kill between 0.5 - 2 million people. A close relative of mine was on business trip to Beijing at that time and fled to Hong Kong after a couple of months, after finding dead bodies in the Hotel's restaurant.

There is a huge difference between authoritarian regimes and democracies, in lots of ways: minority rights, free elections, free press and speech, etc.

Even within democracies there are significant differences,. and differences in how people perceive democracy.

And studies of all this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The mean is 5.33 and the mean deviation 1.47.

I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong? Here are plenty of world statistics for most countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Numbers from the World Bank Group for 2021 for the world average are:
Life expectancy = 71.33
Male life expectancy = 68.89
Female average expectancy = 73.95
Gender gap = 5.06

For the US:
Life expectancy = 76.33
Male life expectancy = 73.50
Female average expectancy = 79.30
Gender gap = 5.80

There are lots of more numbers to digest, for those eager. Meanwhile maybe I should move to Hong Kong?

Don't know why you are downplaying EVs. The growth of sales of all-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid vehicles on the world market during the first half of 2023 was 40%. BEV sales during Q2 2023 grew by 50% and was 10% of the world's vehicle market. And the current market share of xEV is about 18%. Tesla remains the largest seller of BEVs, but it's dominant position is declining.

That said the decline of capitalism is nonsense. Most of the economies are mixed economies that combine a free market with state intervention. But there is a serious discussion that should be had about how automation and IT will and has effected global production, jobs and power.

Global sales of BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles) and PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrids) have grown by 40% the first half of 2023.
The growth in Europe was 28% to a market share of 17%.
The growth in China was 37% to a market share of 5.2%.
The growth in US and Canada was 50% to a market share of 12%.

The largest manufacturers are in order: BYD (Chinese), Tesla and VW Group.

Just a minor point. This posting is about the "nation's swelling debt repayment" and states that it had swelled beyond 1 trillion.
There is a difference between dept end deficit.
The deficit is the spending minus the income (taxes), and that is over 1.7 trillion in 2023, which is lower than in 2020. Here is yearly deficit curve: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se... One can see that 2023 is a bit worse than 2022 but has gotten better during 2021 and 2022. Historically the US had it's highest deficit percentage during WW1 and WW2.
The national debt is the sum of yearly deficits over time, and that is approaching the current max of $31.38 trillion.

My comment was written with a bit of humor, but yes.
Einstein introduced the constant to make general relativity work in a static universe.
Then along comes Hubble and shows that the universe is expanding, so the constant was not necessary. It doesn't even lead to a static universe.
But now we need the constant again because the universe is not just expanding, but expanding at an accelerating rate.

1917 Einstein proposes the cosmological constant.
1929 Edwin Hubble discovers the expansion of the universe.
1931 Einstein abandons the constant and calls it “my biggest blunder”.
1998 Astronomers measure the accelerated expansion of the universe implying a positive cosmological constant, possibly caused by the mysterious dark energy.

It is easy to take world standard time for granted.

A short fascinating article about the history of standard time and DST: https://americanhistory.si.edu...

Denmark's PtX (Power-to-X or Power-to-gas) for H2 production is fascinating and ambitious. A number of other countries are ambitious too when it comes to PtX, like Germany, France and the UK.

According to Orsted, the North Sea breeze blows too little 8% of the time and to much 1% of the time.
But you're right 91% of the time. :)

Oh come on! The BBC is primarily funded by a television license for £159 a year. And the BBC and other similar organizations in other countries have strong rules about impartiality.

You might want to check out the Reporters Without Borders RWB/RSF's Press Freedom Index for different countries.
See: https://rsf.org/en/index
Norway comes in first place and the USA in 45th place.

Orsted is the world's largest developer of offshore wind power. They have developed about 25% of all the world's offshore wind power.

And the name comes from the Danish physicists who described the connection between electricity and magnetism.