I've got black bears walking through my yard. Wolves, too - Minnesota

With no bears listed for Wyoming, it brings the whole data package into question.

George Carlin was a genius

Super interesting, though slightly incomplete: Wyoming & Colorado do have bears.

Well, you need a source of energy for the incinerator, and that has an environmental cost

I have photographed a wild bear in Wyoming. even the source you posted cites ‘unknown’, not zero

I love the bears at that big zoo they call Yellowstone.

I love our airport

What’s nuts is that in the 18th century, military spending was around 30% of GDP for many countries.

A little note on the graph saying the black line represents 2% would help.

Tools: MS Office
Sources:

https://a-z-animals.com/blog/black-bear-population-by-state/
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/grizzly-bear-population-by-state/
https://www.wwf.eu/what_we_do/biodiversity/beauties_nature/bear/facts___figures/

Yes. The US spends a higher percentage on healthcare than any other country. Significantly higher than other ocad countries. Problem is the system is not efficient. Huge amounts go into administrative costs because it isn't centralized. Wages for health professionals are also a lot higher in the states than any other country. And drug costs are higher than everywhere else too.

Which would make both airports transport ~50% of city's population pre COVID.

I used this:

#   geom_smooth(
#     method = "glm",
#     formula = y ~ x,
#     method.args = list(family = gaussian(link = 'log')),

is that not how to do a log-log-transformation in ggplot2? So far haven't worked with a lot of log-scaled data

EDIT: ah, seems to only log y. That explains the curvature.

How did you collect the data?

No one spend more in Ukraine than Europe. Military aid is just a part of what is necessary.

The unit is lbs. It's in the post title but I agree it should be on the graph as well

Unlikely, European countries do not need to increase their defense budget, regardless of the US being part of NATO. Unless you think the US declares war on Europe.

In the industry an enplaned passenger is a passenger that gets on an airplane at a specific airport. A deplaned passenger is one that gets off at a specific airport. Generally when comparing places against each other enplaned passengers are the metric that everyone looks to.

I read lewd gloves, I'll see myself out.

But the US kind of needs the power projection capability to be a useful alliance member. Having a strictly territorial-defense oriented US military wouldn't do NATO any good. If it can't get to the battle, what use is it?

where are you using that much poly styrol?

US remembers 2% GDP spending on military like I remember the cost of my college apartment 15 years ago.

Sure, the sit and wait strategy. Only problem is that doesn't stop enemies from getting to you in the first place.

The US has spent 25 billion in military aid to Ukraine which is practically double the aid from the EU. And Russia isn't advancing on our doorsteps.

If the US spent zero, there's a good chance Ukraine would be a Russian state by now becuase the EU couldn't do it alone, that's sort of what I'm saying.

And its more understandable and clearer to everyone.