[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Cutlass]

Yes, but you can make bad food, which is still healthy.
How bad does a meal plan need to be that 1 apple weekly would contain probably the whole vitamin content in it?
(that's an exaggeration, but it makes the point)

But they are not going to. Because prisons are run by people who should be the inmates.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Samson]

The biggest circle I can see on that map is a big blue one in the wilds of Washington state. Does that mean the biggest energy generator in the US is a hydroelectric dam on the Columbia river or something?

 

[elmurcis]

Oh, it is Grand Coulee Dam with 7 GW max power output (that will be TIL too, thanks!)

 

[Cutlass]

The biggest circle I can see on that map is a big blue one in the wilds of Washington state. Does that mean the biggest energy generator in the US is a hydroelectric dam on the Columbia river or something?

Yes. The Pacific Northwest is lousy with major hydroelectric stations. That's why Boeing is where it is, BTW. Aluminum takes a lot of electricity to smelt. So they went where electricity was cheapest.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yes. The Pacific Northwest is lousy with major hydroelectric stations. That's why Boeing is where it is, BTW. Aluminum takes a lot of electricity to smelt. So they went where electricity was cheapest.

Worth pointing out that while hydro power is clean, it's arguably orders of magnitude more destructive to environments than nuclear. Dams tend to have massive ecological impacts on the rivers and lakes they're built on.

 

[Ferocitus]

Uncanny similarity!

 

[JohannaK]

I laughed. Then I was sad that I laughed.

 

[stfoskey12]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...ople_killed_by_police_forces_annual_rate_per/

 

[Paul in Saudi]

All the money in the world.

 

[Ferocitus]

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Nations whose military budgets are less than the budget for the police department of Austin, Texas.

 

[Arwon]

I had a look at this to contextualise to here - the New South Wales police have a 3.9 billion AUD budget for the entire state of NSW, about 2.7 billion US dollars. That is a police force that covers nearly all aspects of policing, ie there are no equivalents to county sheriffs, to state highway patrols or state rangers, to specific college police agencies, etc. NSW Police is it, except for federal customs functions.

That is 2.7b USD for all the policing functions covering about 7.5 million people and an area twice the size of Texas. Austin is a city of 700k people, and its budget is spending about twice per capita on police as New South Wales' police even as the Austin Police have a smaller span of functions given the existence of the state highway patrol, rangers, county sherrifs and college/university police.

 

[Cutlass]

I had a look at this to contextualise to here - the New South Wales police have a 3.9 billion AUD budget for the entire state of NSW, about 2.7 billion US dollars. That is a police force that covers nearly all aspects of policing, ie there are no equivalents to county sheriffs, to state highway patrols or state rangers, to specific college police agencies, etc. NSW Police is it, except for federal customs functions.

That is 2.7b USD for all the policing functions covering about 7.5 million people and an area twice the size of Texas. Austin is a city of 700k people, and its budget is spending about twice per capita on police as New South Wales' police even as the Austin Police have a smaller span of functions given the existence of the state highway patrol, rangers, county sherrifs and college/university police.

But do they have as many cool toys like helicopters and armored cars?

 

[Arwon]

They have 6 helicopters, 3 planes and 11 boats. Apparently two armoured cars.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

More on police spending:

 

[Paul in Saudi]

This shows just Des Moines. Look at Police & Fire v Public Works.

 

[Cutlass]

View attachment 559267 This shows just Des Moines. Look at Police & Fire v Public Works.

For whatever organizational reasons, the school system is not part of their general fund budget. Which means that you are not comparing apples to apples with most cities.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Hrothbern]

And area proportional to number of horses in Europe: