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US with massive debt piling up
Debt increase: As of August 2023, the US government debt about doubled in the past 10 years to a record level of almost $33 trillion, or 122% of the nation’s GDP.
Going negative: The US government has depleted $28 trillion from 2020 to late 2023.
Expert: The financier Ray Dalio warned in June, 2023 that the US is at the start of a “classic late, big cycle debt crisis” characterized by the US facing a shortage of buyers for its bills and bonds.
EU law laying the foundations for social media
Laying the bricks: From the EU bloc’s Digital Services Act, current users of Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, ByteDance’s TikTok and Snap’s Snapchat can easily decline personalized content based on relevance.
For example: Facebook launched globally a chronological new content tab prior to the DSA compliance deadline. Even YouTube recently announce that logged in users with the watch history feature turned off won’t be bothered by next video recommendations.
Your choice: Now users can switch to the kind of news content that is populated with posts from your friends displayed in chronological order in the EU governed countries at the minimum.
Supersonic plans from NASA
Mockup: NASA awarded Boeing and Northrop Grumman contracts to develop roadmaps to make “Mach 2-plus travel a reality.”
Routing signal: According to NASA, there is a passenger market for supersonic flights on about 50 existing commercial flight routes.
Silent noise: To make supersonic flight happen again, it needs to become quieter. The non-military supersonic flight over land has been banned by federal regulations and was implemented in 1973, due to the public being startled by the loud sound and other concerns.