there is a statistically high likelihood that any individual audience member you hear laughing on certain modern TV shows may have been dead for decades.
Serves them right for being in a canned laughter track!
No but seriously, that's both haunting and beautiful at the same time. They live on. Like laughing ghosts.
I looked at one of those ship monitoring sites and there was almost a continous string of oil tankers going to and from St. Petersburg, so I'd say they're probably selling a fuck ton of oil still.
In the interest of fairness every citizen should have their own mandatory public dream channel on DreamTube.
Shit wait that'll lead to some people becoming popular DreamTubers. Oh no, Dreamfluencer will become a thing. Quick, burn that timeline to the ground!