How do we have all of these complete reversals in literacy and education over this span, but poverty remains a mess?

The “not in poverty” ratio has not even exceeded the “not in extreme poverty” numbers from the beginning. Really the only thing that has happened is that “extreme poverty” diminished in favor of just plain old “poverty”, but the “not in poverty” numbers have not really kept pace.

And then the next year it’ll just uncurl a bit and turn to show us its ass.

Jisho.org is a fairly helpful site for finding words like that. Sometimes you have to scroll a bit to find the “loanword” version of a term, but it helps with showing different nuances of translated words when looking them up.

Unfortunately I think it’s EN-JP only, but helpful if you know the English word you want.

https://jisho.org/word/スコア

Just say “…, n” after a few numbers, done.

…What?

The year ending in December predates Jesus.

You’re right, they just exchange it in circles to make themselves even richer.