We recognize the realities of race while Europeans continue to deny the Afro-European experience as valid.

Congrats to all of you. I found graphing it really motivating, it makes me want to get that line down.

It’s fascinating that on Mercator projections Russia is concave down, when in reality it is concave up.

This is a myth.

Very similar here. My goal is 199, though that may trend lower if it doesn’t look as I imagine. Either way, glad to see someone else seeing results.

It’s hard!

How dare they, getting more acidic ? Tsssk the audacity

For what region? If they are trying to get worldwide estimates, where did they get their data for pre-Columbian Americas?

If they used some regions in some eras, but a limited set of regions in early eras, wouldn’t that bias the comparison?

Incomplete data on the OPs part to extend the political stance of the west by not recognizing it personally. OP doesn't realize that by withholding data from the origin country's census he only creates more controversy

Now I want to hear what the populist drug doer group has to say about your side.

The Edelman Trust Barometer is a Saudi PR firm? How do you figure?

Why would the NYT be included and not IBM ?

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Spoils of war after being conquered by the USSR during their co invasion with Nazi Germany, you are correct:

After the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Lviv became part of the Soviet Union.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv

It's a relatively new territory (mid 17th century) as most of Siberia. Native Russian lands are located in 'Central Russia' (geographically those are actually the most western territories of Russia, some regions of Belarus and Ukraine).

The reason for low ethnic Russian population is very simpe - it's too cold there and locals were very hostile towards Russians, there was almost no reason for making settlements there. When cossacks advanced through Siberia they tended to stick to southern border, which resulted in cities like Irkutsk.

Harsh climate was also a reason why those territories were difficult to subjugate.

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Other pink areas are north Caucasus (south-western region, 18-19th centuries) with very hostile natives and Tuva (begining of 20th century, the newest territory of Russia).

Thank you! Depends how you interpret the chart haha, there's a lot of up and down swings.

I track every day to increase data accuracy and to keep myself accountable. But even if my day to days varied a lot, I tried to stick to the magic 0.5-1lb loss per week on average.

There is no purpose to your latter political anecdote other than to inject your own opinion

While you are at it also don't forget to mention that Stalin banished Poles from Western Ukraine and filled it with 'great Ukrainians'.

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I think the y-axis (polarisation) is pretty good and it feels correct, but the x-axis (entrenchedness) seems to be quite random, and an unjustified amount of importance is given to it. Like the US and Brazil are obviously super divided; aided by a centuries long two-party system. This is a huge problem and there seem to be no clear solutions for it.

Compare that to Sweden and the Netherlands that have representative parliamentary democracies and well functioning institutions; but this graph somehow classifies them as equally bad.

Musk isn’t a founder…Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are the founders

Sources:

• https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solution/bloomberg-terminal/ - The data for Alphabet, Amazon, Alibaba, NVIDIA, Netflix, and Coinbase were pulled from the Bloomberg Terminal.
• https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/ - The data for Meta was pulled from EDGAR.

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Tools Used:

• Microsoft Excel
• Adobe Illustrator

The same way forcing religion is bad but allowing people to practice their own faiths is not bad

I read it as the evolution of audacity in our oceans

As a person who lived in Omsk Oblast bordering Kazakhstan feels like there's way more Kazakh than shown here. Probably only citizens of Russian Federation are counted. Republic of Tatarstan looks correct though - about 50/50 there.

Thank you! Congrats to you too!

My next goal is just 5 pounds lighter at 205. If I can then maintain somewhere between 205-210 I'll be a happy guy. Haven't been that light in 10 years

Congratulations! I really like the fact that you didn't yo-yo diet like so many others do when they're trying to lose weight. This seems really healthy and you'll definitely keep it off because you worked it in to your daily routine!