Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

bestem t1_j05pnvm wrote

I apologize. I didn't mean to sound accusatory or anything, and I can see how it might have been.

I just wanted to show you that there had been one posted, very recently (recent enough you can still take part in conversation there) that had most of the chains you were looking for. No Popeye's though, so it wasn't good enough to hit them all.

Really, I was just trying to help, I'm sorry if it came across as anything else.

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GrimeOfTheAncients t1_j05nyz6 wrote

It's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy thoug.... expenditure on military bizarrely enough contributes to GDP.

So the USA pumps trillions into it's military industrial complex which shows up as a marvelous gdp whilst many of it's citizens are homeless and without medical care.

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bestem t1_j05npmi wrote

I find this more interesting than the last one I saw. I compared what we had locally to the 9 fast food restaurants it showed.

If I do that with this one, in my small city I have

  • 4 Subways
  • 1 McDonalds
  • 0 Dunkin Donuts
  • 0 Sonic's
  • 0 Chick-Fil-As
  • 1 Jack in the Box
  • 0 Waffle Houses
  • 0 Five Guys'
  • and 2 Carl's Jrs.

The last one I was missing a few, but the distribution wasn't that far off from the national distribution. This time I'm fairly far from the national distribution, comparatively.

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NrdNabSen t1_j05m0at wrote

Can't say this with certainty. But Tesla and SpaceX could sell the vision of being the first successful electric car company and commercial space venture, respectively, to employees. People who cared about those ideas would more likely tolerate a shitty CEO because they believed in the mission of the company. Not sure Twitter has that same greater purpose to overcome his fuckwittery. Especially since his fuckwittery often runs counter to what Twitter was before he took over.

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