Try the World Bank for a start.

Poverty index:
Russian Federation 0.1
United States 1.2

GDP Growth:
RF 4.3%
US 2.8%

Unemployment:
RF 2.5%
US 4.1%

Government debt % of GDP
RF 18.%
US 114.8%

In a number of aspects they're doing better than we are. (Yeah, that's cherry picked, obviously, but nothing there looks like 'immanent collapse'.)

Try the country with the single largest Muslim population on the planet, Indonesia.

OK, most installed non-phone OS.

Back in the '90s my instructor for BASIC programming told us, "If you learn COBOL next you'll never lack for a job for the rest of your life."

I studied RPG instead. Oh, well.

Yikes. One graph shows that the US customers bought about 2,000 electric trucks last year, European about 12,000, and Chinese 76,000. Of course China also has some of the cheapest electricity in the world, at an average of $0.08/kwh, as opposed to $0.18 in the US and $0.24 to $0.48 in Europe. I'm a bit surprised to see that India has the same cost per kwh as China.

https://www.statista.com/stati...

Amazon, although they already contracted with Rivian for 100,000 electric delivery vans.

OT: Rivian was unable to get financing to build its factory, since banks were hesitant to fund yet another US vehicle startup after everything but Tesla had failed in the past. Then Amazon committed to buy the delivery vans (which they designed specifically for the company's needs) and money suddenly appeared.

Not so sure about that, I rather suspect that most of the C-suite executives are really reptilian aliens. They don't seem to have a conscience like real humans do. /s

How is saying "From the River to the Sea all people will be free" imply a genocide? You hasbara-spouters always leave off the second half of that phrase. Really, if you spend two seconds thinking about it claiming that the only way that Jews can live in peace is if they eliminate every non-believer in their territory is quite anti-Semitic. In the rest of the world, including places like Iran and Indonesia, Jews live just fine as standard members of society with minimal to no friction. Only in Israel do they believe that everyone else must be exterminated for them to live freely, it's a sick, sick society.

Not all of us are ashamed of our opinions, even the ones we change over time. YMMV

Hope you don't mind if I steal that last line, it's an excellent summary.

And pretty much every macro and function in those dozens of spreadsheets is entirely undocumented.

That was the situation in 1999 among the electricity traders in North America, much of the energy flow was traded back and forth in an enormous and almost entirely undocumented Excel spreadsheet that was swapped back and forth. Fortunately Y2K broke the functions (and even better, no one could figure out how) so the process was entirely revamped. They put the new process in place Thanksgiving weekend of that year, to the relief of grid operators across the continent.

If we had been given the choice (which we weren't in the Puget Sound region) I'd have voted to defund SWAT and the purchase of military war toys entirely, and raise funding for local community policing and have officers who actually walk a beat again. Oh, and get rid of the frelling Israeli contract trainers teaching cops to respond to any resistance with overwhelming violence. (They only had one of those training sessions here, but other places in the country still bring them in regularly.)

I'd recommend you log out of The Daily Caller and Free Republic and never go back. None of that is true.

They have to be careful of their routing for the shipping containers, Hong Kong and Dubai, two of the busiest ports in the world, check 100% of containers. In the US it's still below 5%, or the same percentage as in 2000. This is the reason why most of the illegal drugs entering the country come in cargo containers (plus the almost trivial cost of suborning Customs officers), as well as tens of thousands of immigrants. Put a ton of coke in a container or semi trailer and there's a 95% chance it will be delivered unobstructed. (Bury it in bulk cargo, like ore or petroleum, and that rises to almost 100%.)

Way to tell us you only read the MSM, without just coming out and saying it. I bet you think Russia's economy is about to collapse too.