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Well 3:

• Help endangered species thrive
• Kill off stuff that's endangered
• Don't actually look for at risk species in the first place

Kind of misleading as if you’ve completely exterminated a species to extinction, it would no longer appear on this list

Its also because the US does not actually meet the amount asked by the UN

I thought orchids were a florida thing

Best damn ICC board member I’ve ever worked with. Your graphs are impressive.

I'm more interested to see purchasing power, like what can 800B$ buy you in US vs what can 300B$ buy you in China.

I assume Chinese workers are paid like a lot less than US's, most materials in China should be cheaper so therefore difference might not be that huge.

Russia might be spending 65B$ but corruption is huge there, so who knows how much money really goes where it should go.

Fish. A LOT of the south east endangered species are fish. TN and AL both swap which state has the most native species of aquatic fish, they keep finding more. Some populations exist in just one tiny water shed.

I don't know about other regions of the US (my ichthyology degree is decades out of date and I studied in the South East) but I suspect is very similar in California as well.

Algeria's budget increased a 100% to $22b, at 10% of the gdp

You can't be endangered if you don't exist (anymore).

And who supplied the afghans with weapons they used to win against the US?

Thank you. Weather is wild.

The chart makes it look like the energy need mirrors relative humidity, but multiplying relative humidity by a constant wouldn't require high performance computing. Nor even just a defined two input map applied to every point. What was it that took the cluster so much time to compute? Did you have to model the local relative humidity yourself, or is there some more complex relation that I'm not seeing?

Something that is never mentioned for these posts, is the value of money, or PPP. The value of 1 USD varies from country to country. In the EU, you might be able to get a tiny 2 cm piece of chocolate, while in Africa you can actually buy proper food. This applies for defence spending as well.

Furthermore, there is a lot of stuff that is not included in the e.g. Chinese defense budget, that IS however included in the US one (but stuff that China nonetheless spends money on). This should be corrected before one can make a proper comparison.

If one applies a modifier accounting for the PPP difference, then China is suddenly at $465 to $514 billion.

If one applies a modifier for both PPP and wage differences, then the equivalent budget would be around $882 to $988 billion.

Short video that goes over this, if one might be curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o39SFpfr6E8

But well, do note. It's China. So numbers are only guesstimates.

It’s mind boggling that the US of A spends more than all of Africa combined. Military expenditure in Africa increased to 43 billion U.S. dollars in 2020, growing from roughly 41 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. (Statista)

The US still outspend China ($750 bn vs $237 per year.

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There's probably like 40 species of spiders alone in your house.

Ash Meadows alone probably makes up a decent chunk of them.

Yeah, there's also scrub desert, high desert, low desert, urban desert, and a small amount of water.

The biggest factor is having species with small ranges. Microclimates, sand dunes, islands, and oases are places you might find small-range species. Hawaii doesn’t have a ton of species overall, but obviously has a really high percentage of species with small ranges. CA has the most of the contiguous US. The plains, Midwest, and Northeast have very few.

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cause now u have to answer to

AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

(so lick my butt; suck on my balls)

I think that was the point.

Not necessarily. Not all endangered species were once found throughout the entire US. States with fewer endangered species may have had some species go extinct or may have lower biodiversity due to environmental factors.

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Yeah, it’s like, having a lot of creatures that are endangered is really good or really bad.

Wouldn’t it also mean states will fewer endangered species already had them extinct?