Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

PraetorianOfficial t1_j3slso9 wrote

Sierra snow won't help Lake Mead.

The sad thing is California uses the lion's share of the Colorado River, and their rainfall contributes essentially nothing to it. They consume all the rain falling on their own state, and most of what falls on Utah, Arizona, and Western Colorado.

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/colorado-river-basin-map

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mikevago t1_j3sjdf6 wrote

Obviously, everyone has their own priorities (and I absolutely understand wanting to live in Cleveland). And I'm in Jersey City, which is a little cheaper than NYC proper, and we have a few of the best public schools in the state. (and we have public pools here too, and an indoor ice skating rink!) And not to brag, but my mortage is less than yours (I happened to buy when interest rates were at their absolute lowest!).

But you can't really tell a children's book designer "you could have been an electrician!" any more than you can tell an electician "you could have been a children's book designer." I'm really not cut out for that kind of work at all. I gravitated to this career because it was what I was good at and enjoyed. (And I was lucky to be able to do that, and everyone should be just as lucky).

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Coomb t1_j3sac93 wrote

You sure do, or at least I believe that you do. That doesn't change the fact that in order for the boat not sink, it has to displace slightly more than the weight of water equivalent to the weight of the boat plus all of its occupants. For any given boat, if you put more weight in it, it must displace more water (or be able to provide additional dynamic lift, but that's irrelevant for rowing sculls). Your boat and your boyfriend's boat have approximately the same freeboard, but his boat absolutely must have additional volume displaced below the waterline, and that necessarily induces additional drag.

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johnnyB1994 OP t1_j3s9whf wrote

Funny I started these since Covid! Probably out of boredom.

We have two cats, both are insured. One had an overnight ER visit in June. One requires daily meds. We have to get a special food for urinary health too. And we use Rover to watch our cats while we are away - almost monthly.

After typing that out I’m actually pretty happy with $3.9K for the year.

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77Gumption77 t1_j3s9tgv wrote

> It's a problem for the whole country. There are places with lots of high-paying jobs that are too expensive to live, and places that are cheap to live and don't have good jobs. And maybe you can luck into a situation that avoids that trend, but overall that's the trend.

There is, of course, absolutely no problem with the choice you made. But you have to understand that you did just that- you made a choice. And your perspective is one endemic to those living in NYC- there aren't the kinds of jobs I want elsewhere, therefore there aren't jobs elsewhere. You chose to have a career in a very particular field: publishing. This is not a high-paying field. You made a choice to earn less for a job you preferred.

There are literally 100,000s of unfilled jobs that pay more than publishing all over the country. With comparable experience, you could have earned more tiling floors or doing roofing. You could have been a sheet-metal worker, plumber, electrician, cop, welder... the list is long.

Personally, I cannot understand the appeal of living in NYC (as someone from Cleveland, having visited friends there many times). It's a fine place to visit. But have an acre of property on a street with a community center (with an indoor pool!), good public schools, and the rest... for less than the cost of a 1BD Brooklyn apartment. Really- my mortgage is around 3K/month. I don't understand it, but, then again, you probably don't understand why I'd want live in Cleveland, either XD. To each his own.

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ar243 t1_j3s5ghr wrote

Yeah... It's a little tiring seeing the same LatAm posts with fishy data and headlines.

Last time it was "Denver is more dangerous than Mexico City". Now it's "LatAm currencies are doing so well". These posts need more context to get out of the clickbait-zone.

And OP's response is always the same: "We just show you the data". Bruh, it is your responsibility to make sure the data is solid and doesn't take things out of context.

It's great to see data that shows improvement, but I associate suspicion with these posts instead of happiness now.

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