[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Monsterzuma]

They manage bonds. BONDS. Why do they even need any employees.

 

[luiz]

They manage bonds. BONDS. Why do they even need any employees.

You can speculate with bonds as much as with stocks... the opportunities are endless.

 

[El_Machinae]

Deaths caused by obesity: millions
Deaths caused by climate change: zero

So I think McKinsey is right and the climate-hysterics are wrong on this one.

The graph is measuring economic damage, not deaths. So, you can measure economic damage and say something is 'bad' even if it causes no direct deaths. And so, yeah, climate change will cause economic damage

Directly trying to get people to 'ignore' climate change in favour of obesity is dumb. In a technical sense it's correct, but it's functionally useless. It's intended to be a Red Herring, in function.

It also creates a large win/win opportunity I guess. We're eating too much processed food, and we're burning too much fuel and maintaining too much land as monoculture in order to do so. Eat less candy is a something that would both slow obesity and slow AGW changes.

There are also win/wins available on ... let's see: automobile accidents, and both indoor and outdoor air pollution.

The saddest part about that graph is how little 'economic damage' is done by those last indicators. Dirt-poor people dying in their own feces doesn't really cause economic harms, if we just assume they'd not have contributed much in the first place.

 

[Tee Kay]

The saddest part about that graph is how little 'economic damage' is done by those last indicators. Dirt-poor people dying in their own feces doesn't really cause economic harms, if we just assume they'd not have contributed much in the first place.

Should have made another graph adjusting for income differences and so on.

 

[El_Machinae]

It's just a different set of metrics.

 

[Cutlass]

Spoiler :

 

[cybrxkhan]

California aw yeah.

(Most of my friends who went to college in CA never want to go back.)


I don't agree with Kansas having bad scenery, though. There's a charm in the steppe-like farmlands.

 

[JohannaK]

It is hilarious how the only map in which California isn't lit up is the 'most underrated state' map.

 

[KMRblue1027]

Woo weird accents and rude people! I love New Jersey.

 

[Takhisis]

Sweet Home, Alabama…

 

[Algeroth]

Hussite zombie/vampire/undead invasion sounds like a great story idea.

One theater group originating from my high school actually managed to produce quite successful play based on Hus using dark magic to raise an army of zombies. It had everything: Undead warriors, magic, big swords, court intrigue, time travelers, sex, everyone talking in rhymes (except the time traveler and progressive Wenceslaus IV.)... It was everything that a 17 years old could ask for.

 

[cybrxkhan]

One theater group originating from my high school actually managed to produce quite successful play based on Hus using dark magic to raise an army of zombies. It had everything: Undead warriors, magic, big swords, court intrigue, time travelers, sex, everyone talking in rhymes (except the time traveler and progressive Wenceslaus IV.)... It was everything that a 17 years old could ask for.

Are you serious?

I mean, no offense, but I wouldn't expect most high school theatre groups to be top quality, but the sheer hilarity of that sounds very appealing...

 

[Fr8monkey]

How can New York have the best and the worst sports fans at the same time?

 

[Samson]

How can New York have the best and the worst sports fans at the same time?

I know nothing about New York sports fans, but this is not inherently inconsistent. One could make the case that the UK has some of the best sports fans (cricket fans who spend 5 days watching a test match while drinking pims and eating cucumber sandwiches) and the worst sports fans (the football hooligans who got us banned from europe for 5 years).

 

[Domen]

Apropos "zombie Hussites".

Did you know that for some time the Czechs controlled what is now Western Ukraine during the 10th century?

There is a good book about the beginning of the Czech realm (it describes Czech history until year 1055) written by Marzena Malta:

 

[Algeroth]

Are you serious?

I mean, no offense, but I wouldn't expect most high school theatre groups to be top quality, but the sheer hilarity of that sounds very appealing...

Yeah, hilarity, that's the word. And yes, I'M serious. It started as a small play they've done in their final year iirc, so they had to be around twenty when they started playing it for public.

 

[Monsterzuma]

You can speculate with bonds as much as with stocks... the opportunities are endless.

i'll wager their strategy roughly comes down to a heavily leveraged bet on bonds in general with not much speculation within it. a nearly effortless strategy that pays off royally while the bond market as a whole remains strong.

anyone's a genius in a rising (bond) market.

the other half of the strategy is a marketing ploy to make people looking from the outside in think it's a rocket science rather than something any idiot could have reproduced at the same hidden risk.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Pandemic Severity Index.

 

[madviking]

How can New York have the best and the worst sports fans at the same time?

new yawkers think they're the best sports fans while everyone else in america thinks they're annoying.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

African arms spending.

Spoiler :