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Good tweets
^(this is clearly correct but) “very little info to compute” besides, in the US, the 3000 souls and billion dollars that make up the 😍national statistical agencies😍
Charts
^facts I probably should have been aware of, episode 1210. This graph has rewired my brain!
John Arnold@johnarnold
Six states have seen their working-age populations decline even faster than Japan’s 4.9% drop over the past decade.
1:31 PM · Aug 15, 2026 · 325K Views
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