Typo was me 😅

> Military Expenditure is black hole into which you pour money and misery emerges.

World peace exists because of, and not in spite of, US military spending. The last 30 -50 years are among the most peaceful in human history.

Interesting map @malxredleader ! Can you help me reproduce the data? ... I go to https://www.iucnredlist.org, click the "magnifying glass" by the search box, leave type=species, leave taxonomy as default (fungi, plantae, anamalia, chromista), Red List category (I select Endangered and Critically Endangered), I expand Land Regiona -> expand North America -> expand United States, and select North Carolina. I assume the (63) beside North Carolina means there are 63 matches. ... but the map says 136.

These numbers of that wikipedia article are based on FMI and Heritage published data. In the wikipedia article there are the links.

The FMI grouped the countries by geographic continents... not political agreements. For this reason i mentioned the continent specified by original source data (FMI).

I’m surprised that many people made a typo when searching for Saudi Arabia

What did you use to make it?

The Smokie mtns (NC) have the highest concentration of different species in the nation

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Basically just a biodiversity map

Hey I think making a scatter plot will convey the information much better. Try a scatter plot with gdp per capita on x-axis, pop growth on y axis, and each point representing a country. Then in excel you can add a trend line and R value if you want to see how closely correlated they are

i worked at a school in berlin with 90% polish pupils for years and i didnt even know that that amount of misguided catholicism still existed in europe. of course one could argue that these were all polish expats but i have my doubts that they turn religious as soon as they leave the country but are atheists before :)

I think you're confusing GDP (in the chart) with government spending. GDP is goods produced / services etc.

UK, in EU? Well that's odd!

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I dislike rude people.

What do you mean? 40 % of GDP in tax revenue is quite a lot and finances most of the welfare and social spending programmes.

Yea, no country reaches 0.

And likewise you stating that I have no right repeatedly will not make that true.

Are you one of OP’s parents or something? He wasn’t even offended by my question, why are you so up in arms about it?

That’s the line that acts as the border for the graph. I’m saying that each country’s data never reaches 0.

It is the clearest among the indices. Solid gray line

My guess is that the index is calculated from searches since the birth of Google and not just searches since 2004.

I do see the 100 indices for every country, but most of them don’t have an index of 0.

The values mean exactly what you say. All countries have indexes from 0 to 100.

Very puzzling, to say the least. How do most of them pay for welfare and other social spending programs? Large deficit spending? The EU does not permit that. Lotta unanswered questions.

What do the values mean? I thought they were a metric of interest for a country compared to that country’s times of highest and lowest number of searches where 100 is the time when it was highest and 0 is lowest. However, I noticed that not all countries have an index at 0.