🎶❌ SAY GOODBYE TO UNIQUE STATION MELODIES?? A Thread 🧵 Frequent users of Tokyo's JR trains have started to notice something: Wait a minute—are all the melodies becoming standardized? What happened to the original jingles at each station?? It seems that JR has started

A big part of why the UK is able to have lower taxes than the typical European country is that state pension spending is relatively low, btw

I looked up this thing that's becoming a meme. Like the heat map thing, the image is compelling and "feels true" to a lot of conservatives, and maybe is. But really, it's all question selection. The study's questions are stuff with high agreement for left-of-center people.

Finally got around to learning how national rail CIF timetable files work and how to parse them

Very true. But not just Poland. Most of Central and European has been an incredible growth success story in these last decades - due to strengths in the region *and* also European integration.

🚨New paper that provides comprehensive, macro-historical empirical support for the conflict view of inflation. Paper: users.ox.ac.uk/~econ0628/Meas…

Corporate profits in the U.S. rose markedly over the last few years, both in dollar terms and as a share of national income. Learn which factors—and industries—drove this trend ow.ly/2RNx50Walm6

In 2024, in the EU, actual individual consumption per capita (in purchasing power standards) was highest in: 🇱🇺Luxembourg (41% above the EU average) 🇳🇱Netherlands (20%) Lowest in: 🇭🇺Hungary (28% below the EU average) 🇧🇬Bulgaria and 🇪🇪Estonia (26%) 👉europa.eu/!x3hHP6

Next week marks 9 years since the EU referendum; most Britons would now support rejoining Closer relationship without rejoining: 67% support Rejoining: 56% Status quo: 28% Further loosening ties: 18% Results link in following tweets

I’ve got my air conditioning unit on today and I can use it almost completely guilt free as the overwhelming majority of energy being generated right now is renewable. ☀️☢️💨

Asahi x Dong-a Ilbo survey on Japan-ROK relations - 19% of Japanese "like" Korea (+9 pts. from 2015), 12% "dislike" (-14 pts.) - 23% of Koreans "like" Japan (+18 pts.), 23% "dislike" (-27 pts.) digital.asahi.com/articles/AST6L…

It's remarkable the extent to which London *feels* overrun by cars in a way that I don't think is supported by data on car use or ownership