Resources - Germany was occupied by 4 countries, all of which had large, drafted armies. The US didn’t ever really attempt a full occupation of Afghanistan and outsourced the occupation to blatantly unprepared Afghan forces.

Depletion of resistance - As Germany fought almost until the complete end, there just weren’t many young male ardent Nazis left after they lost 2,000,000 people during the war. The Taliban by contrast melted into the South of Afghanistan and eventually Pakistan, and never really went away.

Common enemy - Remember, Germany was divided between east and west for decades. Whatever Nazis were left likely retained their hatred for communism, and had at least that as a reason for collaborating with the western allies. This wasn’t as much of a factor for the Eastern part of Germany, but then again that regime didn’t last either.

Better occupiers? A bit speculative, but one might imagine that the occupying forces would’ve been more sympathetic to Europeans that had more in common with themselves as compared to Afghans from a completely different world. American forces in Afghanistan were rather heavy-handed, walling themselves off from the common Afghan people and building detention and torture centers. The resulting Humiliation and frustration among Afghans may have contributed to sympathy for the Taliban.

I totally see your point. It still feels like wikipedia is missing something - like if I were trying to debate my uncle on whether its fair to tax people for public transportation, I’m not sure if this article would really get me the quick statistics I’d be looking for. But in order to find out why not and clarify the idea a bit I think I’ll try to make a wikipedia article like the one I’m thinking of and see how it goes.

The fact that everyone has been aware of it for 3 years. The decline in corporate properties has been priced in already - many if not most commercial real estate property holders are trading below book value right now.

In 2008 by contrast the way derivatives were rated hid the underlying issues with the mortgages and this made the problem for banks less obvious.

The political situation would prevent any new bailouts. If there’s anything it’ll have to come from fed, which doesn’t seem to be in the mood right now.

One thing to note on rates though - presumably any mortgages held by troubled companies would be a pre-pandemic rates, or were refinanced in the temporary period of low rates during the pandemic. This means in a way inflation is its own bailout because many of these mortgages are below the rate of inflation, and this enhances whatever revenue streams these properties are able to produce.

Of course it’s a double-edged sword though, because high rates also reduce property values and means that selling has an additional financial cost (losing the favorable mortgage rate). Which also reduces the incentive to sell. As usual, the future is unknowable, but I’m not worried about it because the market has already priced in the worst outcome.

The Model 3 owner’s manual states that “only the front doors are equipped with a manual door release.”

Well clearly anyone in the rear could just go out the front doors. And there’s absolutely no conceivable way that would ever not be possible, right?

The basic problem with media is that copyright creates a monopoly for 100 years or so depending on various factors. This means that unless you’re into Arthur Conan Doyle or whatever, the media landscape is fundamentally monopolistic.

Sometimes I feel like I’m in a cult. Other times I feel like everyone else is in a cult. Is that bad?

Does anyone actually want the Commanders back? They should just auction the land off and use the money to improve city services, especially in underserved areas.

It took 16 years to build the network to where it was, it’ll take a long time for it to fall apart. Think of it like a train network. Imagine if the NY subway lost 3% of its stations, and some riders who either went from or to that station stopped using the subway. People might say “oh, it’s no big deal, just 3%, it’s still super useful to have a subway.” But then those riders that stopped using it are no longer using the other stations on their trips, and it’s then 3% harder to justify every station on the network. So any station that was borderline not worth it before now becomes definitely not worth it, and those drop. So now it’s 6% lower, and so on until there’s no stations left.