News websites need to stop saying Russia’s economy is crashing, I feel like I’ve read this headline 100 times over the last 3 years. It’s the wartime economy of a petro-state, they don’t need that many outside buyers of their oil to make their highly controlled domestic wartime production work. Traditional global indicators of economic health shouldn’t be applied for as long as this continues, claiming otherwise is just false hope and a poor excuse for providing less help to Ukraine.

I try tapping when I encounter an unfamiliar mobile app interface. I’ve not been trained to vertically scroll tiktok style when something looks like a complete page.