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Its been around for millions of years but because it is slow it doesn't ever get press coverage

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[–] nul 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The US is developing? That's great news!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Technically slowing down is also a form of acceleration, because it’s a change in speed/direction. Technically the US is developing, just downwards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Worse, downwards implies gravity. There's no gravity to it, it's not driving the car if we stop it stops. We're actually regressing, we see the path forward get scared and start aggressively reversing.