Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

Spid1 t1_j8mcsmw wrote

Is the fish nice? I saw it for the first time on my last visit and it surprisingly looked like my local chippy's whereas I was expecting it to look like my school dinner's. Looked appealing but want too hungry and didn't fancy eating standing up

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amadmongoose t1_j8mc411 wrote

I kind of also feel that the comparison from start of graph until WW1 is not quite right to exclude the colonial possessions of the UK from the UK numbers (and likewise does US include or exclude historical and current colonial holdings like Philippines and Puerto Rico?). While it does work to compare economic output of the existing geographical areas ignoring colonialism also ignores the associated economic impacts

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