If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed

Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by chroma on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:17PM (#35473069)

You can look this information up pretty easily.[1] If you only count physical goods, the US's biggest exports are cars, aircraft, petroleum, food, drugs, industrial machinery, and semiconductors. Even if we count the value of all the military equipment sold to allies such as the Netherlands, France, Japan, Korea, the UK, etc, and we count all the Ukraine aid, the total value last year was $205.6 billion. That's less than petroleum exports ($258.3B) or food ($208.2B).

1. See page 22-23 of https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/trad1222.pdf

2. FY2022 had $51.9B of sales to foreign militaries and $153.7B direct commercial sales, for a total of $205.6B: https://www.state.gov/fiscal-year-2022-u-s-arms-transfers-an...

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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by pasquinelli on Thursday April 06, 2023 @11:23PM (#35477665)

>> not all exports are on the books

> You can look this information up pretty easily.

if you read what i wrote carefully you'll see you can't just look this information up pretty easily.

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