The US seems to be a huge outlier on both axes. You would have to exclude it to make any sense of the data.

Conclusion drawn a journalist. Not the treasury or even an accountant. It’s certainly not a good thing, but that’s not how that works at the level of a nation state.

You’re supposed to sit there awkwardly looking deeply embarrassed.

High call volume is any amount greater than zero.

I can guarantee making them wait won’t make them read if that wasn’t their first choice to begin with. All you’re doing is making them angrier for when they finally do get connected to a person.

Actually, the tough love approach can encourage them to find a job less damaging to the soul.

Least expensive until you have to buy ink or toner.

Right, that’s not what I was talking about.

Not eating anything at all is “just a bit of a learning curve”?! What, are you one of those breatharians?

Last meal adjacent.

That should apply to all living things. Kind of makes it hard to survive if we do that, though.

I mean, they certainly don’t understand it yet. They absolutely feel it and react instinctively to it, though. It might even form a traumatic memory of a sort that will affect them later in life.

In the '80s we’d need a building to do a fraction what our phones do now. Even in the 2000s they would qualify as a supercomputer. I guarantee you wouldn’t be able to install whatever you wanted on any of those computers and even if you could, a days wait would be lightning fast in comparison.

That does happen. You can see stuff like that on scam baiting videos all the time.

They changed their “don’t be evil” motto years ago. I guess they must have kept two thirds of it.