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For those who continue to ask me about asphalt. Guys, this is the main road in diamant- and gas-rich Yakutsk region. Photos of cars stuck there after rains appear regularly. I understand that Moscow can be chic and cool, and you havn't seen anything else, but Russia is not Moscow

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And if you say "oh, it is far in Siberia, but this is not what happens around the capitals": this is a photo from a "Federal Highway" in Petersburg region. Please note the perfect "asphalt".

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Here are photos from Russian hospitals. Note that three are from: St.Petersburg, Elektrostal (Moscow suburbia) and Kislovodsk (a regional center and a resort in rich Russian south). Source (a RUSSIAN web page): kaifolog.ru/russia/7724-no

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As a former Russian, and a son of a medic, I can smell these pictures, so much they are authentic. It is a mixture of urine, chlorine, cold air, and cheap drugs. A terrible smell I need to say. A one cannot be erased from memory.

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For those who say "but Russian GDP is so high!" or "but average wealth is bigger than in Ukraine!" Guys, this is Norilsk, the home of world biggest nickel producer. 177,000 ppl live in Norilsk. The owner of NorNickel Prokhorov has $11bn wealth. This makes $62,000 per person, aha.

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Daniel

@growing_daniel

I'm confused about why you keep showing us mysterious dirty city pictures instead of just telling us median incomes to avoid the well-established statistical issues with per capita income

Kevin Chadwick

@AstartesKC

I believe modal is better, but that data strangely isn't always made available

Daniel

@growing_daniel

Modal doesn't really mean anything for a continuous distribution like income

Kevin Chadwick

@AstartesKC

11:05 PM · Mar 28, 2022Twitter Web App

It gives you the most common wage and so Joe Bloggs wage. How is that not the least weighted and most important!

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because $4931.98 is different than $4932.03 So the most common wage is going to end up being a somewhat random number Median is better, I don't think I've ever seen anybody discuss modal income

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He’s an engineer for chrissakes, he’s a people person

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A modal is an average, and actually the absolute opposite of random. They don't want to highlight modal, but they should. It is what most of the people take home whilst median is weighted upwards!

Daniel

@growing_daniel