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Jewish_Kernel t1_j4anskl wrote

Reply to comment by Labor_Zionist in [OC] Top 15 cities with the highest population density by giteam

הנתון הזה נובע מהחברה החרדית וגם הערבית מסיבות ברורות, אבל זה פשוט אורח החיים במגזר הזה כפי שאפשר לראות כל הערים החרדיות נחשבות לעניות. אבל בתור עיר, ירושלים היא אחת הערים הכי מפותחות בישראל שמספקת את כל הצרכים האפשריים של תושביה. לקרוא לירושלים עיר ענייה על סמך נתון יבש כזה זה קצת להיות ראש קטן, ולא להסתכל על התמונה הגדולה. בתור אחד שגדל בלוד, לוד היא עיר הרבה יותר ענייה מירושלים. (ועדיין לא כזאת ענייה שלא טוב לחיות בה)

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jakubkonecki t1_j4an9ws wrote

Reply to comment by UsandoFXOS in [OC] Heavy Metal bands in Spanish-speaking countries · Jan'2023 by UsandoFXOS

The line didn't "stand out" for me, especially since the Y axis is on the right hand side. I read from left to right, so I first noticed the values for the bars.

Also, country labels are much closer to the bars than the line, so when I started reading country names from left to right I was confused why they are not in order: neither alphabetical nor according to the primary Y axis (left hand side).

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genericdude999 t1_j4am0r6 wrote

Reply to comment by ledow in USA Credit Cards: Card Balances v. Interest Rate [OC] by rosetechnology

In the US house size has been growing for decades and houses are priced by the square foot. That's what I was referring to on growing house cost. If average people couldn't borrow enough to buy 2500+ sq ft houses they wouldn't sell, and post WWII size houses like my grandparents' would still be built today. For comparison I grew up in a 1400 sq ft house built in the 1960s and it was plenty for four people.

With cars, the gap between my parents' early sixties VW Beetle which they bought new when my father was a blue collar mill worker, is surprisingly small. Only about $2000 in 2023 dollars between that and a modern base level Kia or Hyundai. If you can believe the old ads, mileage is only about 4 mpg better today.

Before you say "yeah, but a 2023 compact is so much better!", it is, but imagine if you built a vintage car today with modern longer lasting materials and better tires and brakes and crash safety and a catalytic converter for emissions, how cheap it would be and little it would cost? As little electronics and power accessories as possible so you would get better reliability and cheaper repairs, and the mileage would still be about the same.

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