[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Paul in Saudi]

 

[Terxpahseyton]

There will be more property and more valuable property to be destroyed as time goes on and this is not even inflation-adjusted.
So not sure about that graph, though the trend is still pretty remarkable.

 

[klar_heiland]

and this is not even inflation-adjusted.

so what do you think "(2017 dollars)" means?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

hm I guess inflation adjusted

 

[Arwon]

Yeah that's in constant prices. Fully comparable.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

What are the grey squares labeled as "other"? Cant figure many 1+ billion dollars disasters other that hurricanes, excepting quakes or tsunamis.

 

[Cutlass]

What are the grey squares labeled as "other"? Cant figure many 1+ billion dollars disasters other that hurricanes, excepting quakes or tsunamis.

Tornadoes. Floods not related to hurricanes. Wildfires. Some winter storms. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/events.pdf

 

[Paul in Saudi]

I am sort of surprised Maryland did not make the big leagues.

 

[Hrothbern]

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I am sort of surprised Maryland did not make the big leagues.

Just adding some info for ignorant foreigners like me, that do no see at once the consequences of this effect:

From the report containing that graph:
"This decade’s congressional maps are consistently biased in favor of Republicans.

• In the 26 states that account for 85 percent of congressional districts, Republicans derive a net benefit of at least 16-17 congressional seats in the current Congress from partisan bias. This advantage represents a significant portion of the 24 seats Democrats would need to pick up to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018."

https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/extreme-maps

Living in a country where both the lower as the upper chamber are elected by proportional representation, which is doing fine, I am (ofc ) biased towards proportional systems.
No need (again ofc) to change the basic system, but I do not understand that a mature democracy like the US is accepting the vulnerability for abuse possible with their system.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Forgive me. I seem to be posting a lot here, but this one is really good. The New York Times has a series of charts showing what Americans thought are the biggest problems facing the nations. The go back to the 1940's. The article is well worth your time. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...mportant-problem-gallup-polling-question.html

Here is the most recent chart of the series:

 

[Hrothbern]

We are drowning ourselves in plastic, meanwhile all over the place. Not only the oceans, whales and far away beaches of tropical islands, but also in most tap water we drink, the air we breath, and even beer produced.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...es-found-tap-water-around-world-study-reveals
The surface of plastic particles being a sweetspot for bacteria. I could not find articles that go into that lung infection risk for plastic particles accumulating in our lungs, and whether our slime & lunghairs system can clean our lungs.
Besides the macro sources of plastic like the million plastic bottles we produce per minute https://www.theguardian.com/environ...c-bottle-binge-as-dangerous-as-climate-change
we also use since decades nano plastic particles in cosmetics like scrubs. https://www.unep.org/gpa/plastics-c...ting-environment-our-personal-care-products-0
These cosmetic nano particles have meanwhile been banned for 2018 onward in many countries, in the US by Obama. https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-ban-microbeads-from-cosmetics-by-end-of-2017

 

[civvver]

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I am sort of surprised Maryland did not make the big leagues.

I had no idea Michigan was so gerrymandered, but there is some new bill coming against it. Or a proposition or something. They were collecting signatures at the state fair. Our districts are kind of weird.

We are drowning ourselves in plastic, meanwhile all over the place. Not only the oceans, whales and far away beaches of tropical islands, but also in most tap water we drink, the air we breath, and even beer produced.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...es-found-tap-water-around-world-study-reveals
The surface of plastic particles being a sweetspot for bacteria. I could not find articles that go into that lung infection risk for plastic particles accumulating in our lungs, and whether our slime & lunghairs system can clean our lungs.
Besides the macro sources of plastic like the million plastic bottles we produce per minute https://www.theguardian.com/environ...c-bottle-binge-as-dangerous-as-climate-change
we also use since decades nano plastic particles in cosmetics like scrubs. https://www.unep.org/gpa/plastics-c...ting-environment-our-personal-care-products-0
These cosmetic nano particles have meanwhile been banned for 2018 onward in many countries, in the US by Obama. https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-ban-microbeads-from-cosmetics-by-end-of-2017

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Can't we filter them out though? I have a reverse osmosis filter in my house, probably 90% of the water I drink is filtered through it.

 

[Hrothbern]

I had no idea Michigan was so gerrymandered, but there is some new bill coming against it. Or a proposition or something. They were collecting signatures at the state fair. Our districts are kind of weird.

Can't we filter them out though? I have a reverse osmosis filter in my house, probably 90% of the water I drink is filtered through it.

Tons of articles on the internet with the warning of the tap water pollution, and nothing on the size of the particles, how much is filtered out and why not everything is filtered out.

Anyway:
Reverse osmosis should have pores smaller than the size of the plastic particles used by science to do their research on negative side effects of this plastic pollution.
Typical size used in research down to 10 micro meter diameter and 40 micrometer long. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep34519
Typical size pores of reverse osmosis between 0.1 and 5,000 nm (between 0.0001 and 5 micro meter)
Perhaps the amount of particles reported in tapwater are only the very fine particles that go through the standard filters of utility water plants.

BTW
Digging to find those numbers I saw that there is another big source of the micro plactic particles:
"The research found that laundering an average washing load of 6kg could release an estimated 137,951 fibres from polyester-cotton blend fabric, 496,030 fibres from polyester and 728,789 from acrylic".
https://phys.org/news/2016-09-thousands-microplastic-particles-environment.html

 

[dutchfire]

Significant figures ftw

 

[Cutlass]

http://theweek.com/articles/723060/death-rattle-trump-evangelicals

 

[El_Machinae]

Some graphs are so terrible, like the above

 

[Yeekim]

The Trumpability Index.
Enjoy.
Not sure if it is possible to directly link, as it's interactive.
http://www.politico.eu/article/the-...il&utm_term=0_10959edeb5-70c617cf66-189907245

 

[Silurian]

Some graphs are so terrible, like the above

I can't see any colour!

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Cant post, running to the oculist...

 

[really]

Why do they separate the Catholics?
The name itself originally meant universal/all embracing.