[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[metatron]

"It never happened before the Na... erm... before Merkel brought us austerity."

 

[metatron]

No guarantees. Had to tinker with an intuitive (non-) understanding of Czech and everything.
Poland cannot into space. Not before their postal service gets their poop together on the internets.

Three cents? This is about three cents, right?

Edit: I pm-ed Crezth. I think i've done enough wage gap debate spillover.

 

[Crezth]

Btw: I find the above graph ineresting because it indicates that - apparently - that US women below the poverty line agree with my outrageous claims regarding unpaid labor at home (i.e. them doing more of it than men and that having an impact on the labor market).

What exactly is your point? Seems like the argument is that women make less money because they do less paid work. Well... Isn't that a form of inequality?

 

[peter grimes]

Here's a chart that plots the Megatons of CO2 added to the atmoshpere every year as a function of national population growth. This belies the myth that there's no reason for the US to undertake a robust program of CO2 reduction in the interests of global warming:

Spoiler :

Source:
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/09/the-real-population-problem/

This shows that India can add 30,000,000 people to its population for the same exact carbon footprint that 3,000,000 Americans exact on the global ecosystem.

 

[warpus]

Different languages' version of "It's all Greek to me"

 

[stfoskey12]

All of the known hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean from 1851 to 2012:

Spoiler :

 

[Cutlass]

Some of those got amazingly far inland.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Some of those got amazingly far inland.

Very rarely are they still tropical by the time they get there though. Most of the inland dots you see are dark blue, which would indicate that system is a tropical depression, or a triangle, which would indicate a post-tropical system.

Though on the rare occasion you get weird stuff happening, like Tropical Storm Fay strengthening over land. Or Tropical Storm Erin, after going post-tropical, restrengthening over Oklahoma, developing an eye like feature, and almost reforming into a tropical storm.

 

[Winner]

Estonioa, Czechia and Germany, with their rabid sexism on the one hand and Malta, Italy and Romania (!), the feminist utopias on the other.

I wonder if this correlates with the overall level of female participation in economic activity. It seems to me that the Czech labour market is quite feminized (and yes, this is my personal observation, nothing more; the jobs I've been trying to get are mostly taken by women, the companies/agencies for which I want to work are again mostly staffed by women, the university courses I attend are 80% filled with female students, etc. etc. - sometimes I feel like a member of a minority banging my head against a pink wall here).

Perhaps the more women work, the more certain averages skew the statistic; in countries, where female participation is lower, this is not as readily apparent from the numbers.

 

[Hygro]

oh poor you, 4 girls per every guy at school

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Estonioa, Czechia and Germany, with their rabid sexism on the one hand and Malta, Italy and Romania (!), the feminist utopias on the other.

At least for Romania it's odd because in the cities they get payed the same as guys i guess. Outside of cities tho, women don't work (they take care of the home while the husband works) and are caught up with the third favorite romanian national sport which is beating your wife.

 

[metatron]

I wonder if this correlates with [...]

At least for Romania it's odd because in the cities they get payed the same as guys i guess. Outside of cities tho, women don't work (they take care of the home while the husband works) and are caught up with the third favorite romanian national sport which is beating your wife.

Yes. That's the point. Hence the irony.

 

[warpus]

I wonder if this correlates with the overall level of female participation in economic activity. It seems to me that the Czech labour market is quite feminized (and yes, this is my personal observation, nothing more; the jobs I've been trying to get are mostly taken by women, the companies/agencies for which I want to work are again mostly staffed by women, the university courses I attend are 80% filled with female students, etc. etc. - sometimes I feel like a member of a minority banging my head against a pink wall here).

Perhaps the more women work, the more certain averages skew the statistic; in countries, where female participation is lower, this is not as readily apparent from the numbers.

I guess generally speaking women tend to prefer a certain type of job and men prefer a certain other type of job. Which could put a bit of a dent in the whole "Women on average making less means they're being discriminate against", but I'm not sure what other conclusion to draw here.

 

[Winner]

oh poor you, 4 girls per every guy at school

A few years ago, a guest lecturer from the US came to teach a course. He asked "where is the bathroom here? I only saw women's bathroom out in the hall." We told him to go to the 2nd floor, that's where men's bathroom is. He was baffled to find out that our department is totally female-dominated and that men only have two toilets in the whole building, compared to 5 for women We of course joked that men are a tolerated minority here

I am not complaining

 

[Winner]

I guess generally speaking women tend to prefer a certain type of job and men prefer a certain other type of job. Which could put a bit of a dent in the whole "Women on average making less means they're being discriminate against", but I'm not sure what other conclusion to draw here.

Yeah, that was my point.

But to be fair, Czech NGO's and media and shedding light on some pretty disgusting cases of income inequality here where a woman doing the exact same job as a guy under the same conditions gets 2/3 the salary. But from my experience (in the kind of jobs I want), there is no inequality. Most bosses I've got were women, so if they discriminate against other women, what else can be done? I guess not much.

 

[CavLancer]

I guess you didn't get the memo that its all the fault of men.

 

[Winner]

Well, not here. Radical feminism has never got much traction in this country.

A few years back I read an article by an American woman living in the Czech Rep., who compared Czech and American approaches to emancipation. She said something like "while American women sipped coffee at home, waiting for their husbands to come back from work, they had plenty of time to chat with their friends and formulate the feminist programme. Czech women at the same time went to work in a factory and then had to care about three kids when they came home to their cramped little apartment; they had no time to worry about the feminist agenda." She thought that as a result, Czech women's feminism is more of the "practical equality" kind, rather than about the "100% equality in everything or the state is sexist" kind of ideological rambling.

 

[Yoda Power]

At least for Romania it's odd because in the cities they get payed the same as guys i guess. Outside of cities tho, women don't work (they take care of the home while the husband works) and are caught up with the third favorite romanian national sport which is beating your wife.

What's number one and two?

 

[CavLancer]

Well, not here. Radical feminism has never got much traction in this country.

A few years back I read an article by an American women living in the Czech Rep., who compared Czech and American approach to emancipation. She said something like "while American women sipped coffee at home, waiting for their husbands to come back from work, they had plenty of time to chat with their friends and formulate the feminist programme. Czech women at the same time went to work in a factory and then had to care about three kids in their cramped when they came home to their cramped little apartment; they had no time to worry about the feminist agenda." She thought that as a result, Czech women's feminism is more of the "practical equality" kind, rather than about the "100% equality in everything or the state is sexist" kind of ideological rambling.

I'm all for this Winner. Life is best when faced by a couple doing all they can to achieve a common goal which is very difficult to reach. Only by making it really tough do men and women not become divisive, being such different critters. Unless the couple are both particularly wise and selfless this relationship is best. Everything around this relationship is hell, except for the relationship itself. True love can be found here.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

What's number one and two?

#1 is football
#2 is hating on Gypsies/Hungarians/Bulgarians/Szekely/Aromanians/etc (depending on the region where you live)