Notices by Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to), page 7

Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people travelled by horse and carriage to being the first in space in the span of 40 years. Russia showed incredible growth after the revolution that surpassed the rest of the world:

https://wid.world/document/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-property-russia-1905-2016/

https://wid.world/document/appendix-soviets-oligarchs-inequality-property-russia-1905-2016-wid-world-working-paper-201710/

Soon after formation, adult education schools popped up in every town and every village.

USSR provided free education to all citizens resulting in literacy rising from 33% to 99.9%:

http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm

http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000013/001300eo.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez

USSR doubled life expectancy in just 20 years. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. the Semashko system of the USSR increased lifespan by 50% in 20 years. By the 1960's, lifespans in the USSR were comparable to those in the USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5054/index1.html

USSR built solar power plants as early as 1930!

Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s.

By 1983, they had become completely food sovereign and eating better than Americans (according to the CIA)

https://www.scribd.com/document/430076844/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5-pdf

USSR moved from 58.5-hour work weeks to 41.6 hour work weeks (-0.36 h/yr) between 1913 and 1960:

https://books.google.com/books?id=x8JYjwEACAAJ

https://b-ok.cc/book/2669908/77497f

Declared the US apartheid campaign against their own black citizens were genocide.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we_charge_genocide_petition

USSR averaged 22 days of paid leave in 1986 while USA averaged 7.6 in 1996:

https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.pdf
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm

In 1987, people in the USSR could retire with pension at 55 (female) and 60 (male) while receiving 50% of their wages at a at minimum. Meanwhile, in USA the average retirement age was 62-67 and the average (not median) retiree household in the USA could expect $48k/yr which comes out to 65% of the 74k average (not median) household income in 2016:

https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.pdf
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-you-get-by-on-the-average-americans-retirement-income/

Diabetes is the seventh highest cause of death in the U.S. Cuba has a diabetes miracle treatment that could save tens of thousands of lives but the US is blocking its entry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWTzgqRRMAU

Things move fast in the crypto world

a great way to tie a scarf

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A list of journalists on Mastodon https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/

German optical giant Zeiss breaks ground on US$25 million plant in Suzhou in vote of confidence in China

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3196785/german-optical-giant-zeiss-breaks-ground-us25-million-plant-suzhou-vote-confidence-china

More than 3 hours speech not a single mention of America, meanwhile China lives rent free in the minds of the American political class 😆

the cyberpunk dystopia we deserve

How Denmark became the NSA's listening post in Europe https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20210601-how-denmark-became-the-nsa-s-listening-post-in-europe

China's $1 trillion 'artificial sun' fusion reactor just got five times hotter than the sun https://www.livescience.com/chinas-1-trillion-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-just-got-five-times-hotter-than-the-sun