I don't question that it's by design, but I can question if there are better designs available -- designs that optimize for a greater overall level of happiness for the citizens of a society. It seems suspect from the get-go -- if that's the only way the larger states could convince the smaller states to join, perhaps that's red flag on the overall premise.

If you could actually design a system from the ground-up, would you actually give some people a larger voice based purely on the number of people who live around them? Seems less than ideal.

Ukraine and Russia number of births, 1962–2021

Sources: Ukrstat; Rosstat

Made with ms Excel instruments

This is exactly what will happen in the U.S. if we go to a national healthcare system.

Tipping points folks. Wait for the tipping points. That’s when the dominoes will start to tumble and I honestly believe they will fall much faster than anyone can comprehend.

If anything this chart should be “data is horrifying” not “data is beautiful.”

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We provide Apple with government subsidies equal or greater to the GDP of the bottom 10 countries on the list.

We pay apple more than some countries are worth just to keep their shareholders rich. We don't help our own companies compete with Apple, We just pay the giants to get bigger.

Now compare the violent crime rate in Pittsburgh to the number of whales in the Pacific, that will give you the real information

That's very relevant and important information; good to know. Thank you for your prompt reply.

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Exactly this, it's a temperature anomaly map. This shows the temperature difference from the long term average (1992-2020). It's much more effective than a normal temperature map because you don't have to be familiar with what normal temperatures should be in each region to understand how unusual they are

It displays the difference in temperature between this year and the mean over 1990 to 2020. It is not the temperature of the places. Since we are computing a difference if the temperature this time was the same as the previous ones the difference would be zero being it Celsius or Fahrenheit, and since Fahrenheit increases faster than Celsius they don't have the same value when the difference in temperature is different from zero.

It’s the temperature difference between that day and the average for January. So that area is much hotter than average, but not necessarily hotter than most of Russia on that day

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It appears that the colors represent the difference between the Jan 1 temperature and the average temperature 1991-2020 for January. I was confused at first too, there shouldn’t be 20C temps in the arctic circle.

Why is the arctic over Russia on fire?

Can anyone explain the temperature key/coloring? Shouldn’t 0 C be at the same position as 32 F?

oh yeah i forgot to add, i have taken most of the active doses from psychonaut wiki.
Whilst it is obviously not a reputable source, they usually have pretty accurate information and finding reputable source for recreational doses is pretty hard

I thought this might be it, but it doesn't match the data - FDA says fentanyl is about 100x more potent than morphene. Assuming this matches the ED (a big assumption), the ED of fentanyl would be .0024 mg/kg (or 1/100th of morphene), and the TI to be 1.25. But such a low TI can't be right... can it?

theres a big black bar labeling it

Thanks for posting the source. Weird that you're having trouble posting links, though. Regardless, I was hoping you might be able to help me find the info inside of a source. I was surprised to see that the TI of fentanyl was 7x that of alcohol (given the fear mongering), and I couldn't find the ED-50 on the DEA's website. It's possible I missed it - could you identify the paragraph on the DEA's website that talks about the ED-50 of fentanyl? I'm kind of surprised they'd give out that info, to be honest.

I noticed that the ED-50 of fentanyl was italicized - does that mean it is perhaps not listed in the source provided?

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Dishonest comparison. GDP is annual. Cap is total value. You cannot compare the two. If you are at all honest, compare GDP to annual revenue, or total value of countries assets to market cap.

This is pretty hard to interpret without label or explanation of what exactly what the y-axis represents…

Is that only a projective predicted report, right?

-25C is normal temperature in January ? You must live far up north somewhere.