nope

Based on some nonsense my Dad was spewing, apparently the right wing talk show nuts are talking about Bush having low unemployment numbers. Its pretty easy to misrepresent this stuff to the brain-damaged, so I don't see the GOP recovering for a while.

The R's have started out with low numbers in your graph


... it's what they did with them that is of concern. :rolleyes:

Unemployed? Here's a rifle get on the bus.

31 charts, many of which are surprisingly interesting.

Well, tiny homeless people are SOL, and used appliance boxes are getting harder to come by. I guess it's head to the bridges and fight it out with the trolls.

Hmm, lots of interesting things there, and some genuinely good things.

Only as a percentage of the global population. In absolute terms, there are more slaves now than ever before.

Some are pretty out of date - the one about woman homemakers not being stuck at home is from 1985. Update that one and we'll see if all that free time is being used for a second job.

I'm pretty sure that is a profile shot of the Loch Ness Monster.

Bush's unemployment numbers were better than Obama's.

And better and better, the further back from Obama you go.

If you toss something off a cliff, you're its high point.

Nice!

How To
 

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Where the hateful tweets come from... In your head you have to correct for population density. Full clickable by slur map here.

What's up with the Finger Lakes?

They seem to hate blacks and gays. The tweets are spread to the county level. There is a ton of animosity between ultra-progressive Ithaca and the surrounding right-wing red neck population...

Turns out you can scroll in. It looks like Watkins Glen (struggling tourist trap) has a problem. Lewisburg, PA has some issues as well. Sayre, PA used to have quite a local KKK branch.

Redneckery goes north right through central PA and up into central NY, in my experience

The "N" word line would support that. Its been my experience as well.

Sorry, but I don't buy it ...

For Oregon, the "red area" is focused on The Dalles,
a small city of 12K, in a county almost devoid of people.
But then if you scroll to Calif, there's almost no red or blue areas
over San Francisco, LA, or other cities.

Maybe there is 1 very busy Tweeter in Wasco County that
can't abide his gay neighbor's cow pooping on his lawn.

Also when you mouse over a spot, you can see the number of tweets is actually pretty small. This image was for "Chink." Only 10 people in all of Virginia using that word, and it's one of the biggest hot spots in the US.
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hmmm... I don't have that function. Looks like a mostly nonsense map in that context.

it works intermittently for me.

Maybe they were just quoting Sarah Silverman?

:D

Related*:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/settled.png

* Does not include Photoshop factor.

I say we throw money at it.

[dripping with]
It's obviously working, the drug problem hasn't gotten worse.
[/sarcasm]

Even if that is total population and not percent of population, the numbers still suck.

Well there is a very strong correlation between the green line doing whatever the hell it wants and the blue line staying exactly where it is. :right:

I'd like to see a graph of drug control spending Vs profitability of the pharmaceutical industry. Or drug control spending and the profitability of private prisons (and the companies like Victoria's Secret who use prisoners as forced cheap labour. [/predictable rant]

Beat me to it, and said much more eloquently than I would have.:thumb:

Bruce ... ... ye--e-es-s .... Bruce...

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That's Bruce Wayne.

Interesting, the shape was defined before the TV and pop-culture phase of Batman.

Huh. I remember always hearing that gas is at all time lows when you account for inflation. Seems that isn't true any more.

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Hmmm...

Here is one silly graphic...

... and I dispute any idea that Spokane is a happier place
to live than any other place in Washington or Oregon.
It's more likely there is just one or two very happy guys in Spokane
with computers and nothing else to do than Tweet all day and night.

... and Boulder CO, maybe, but Ft Collins ???
... likewise, San Clemente and Simi Valley, CA ???

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3696160.html
Huffinton Post
8/2/13

The Happiest States In America In One Map (INFOGRAPHIC)

It's all about the fees. They kill you with them.
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Gallup.

Lots of poor kids in the schools now.
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The article points out that this is a chart of the percent of kids who get a free or reduced price school lunch because they meet the federal income level for that.

Global incidents of terror by year.

Shoulda put this here.

Most popular girls' names by state through the years

It's amazing how parents get caught up in these name trends. But if you ask them, they will deny trends have anything to do with it.

My friend gave her daughter the number one girls' name. I tried to tell her she would regret it. I tried to tell her that, as the owner of THE number one name of the entire 1980s, I knew firsthand how much her daughter also would regret their choice. She wouldn't listen.

I did think about you when I saw it, Fob, and Shawfinite Monknee

Charts and graphs. http://visual.ly/

Lot of interesting stuff there, Buster.

Interesting in its duplicity....
http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/s...-jobs-ff-1.jpg


1) The unlabeled vertical axis: How close are 108.6 and 101.7? The chart appears to separate them by a factor of 5.

2) The welfare recipient count includes all members of the household; the jobholder count only counts the jobholder.

3) There's a lot of overlap. Many jobs don't pay enough to keep you off of welfare, and some types of welfare in fact require you to have a job.

Duplicity is an understatement.

But they are right about one thing, there are too many people eligible for benefits. Congress should be working on getting those people to work, at a living wage, by poking the economy in the ass.

Embarrassing really.

Countries that do not use the metric system.

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44 graphs explaining the most important 2013 financial news.

I think this is a neat graphical interface to show the reader
the "combinations and permutations" of the DNA code.

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From today's news of a "discovery of 2 genetic codes"


Forbes
Emily Willingham
12/13/13
Don't Be Duped By 'Duon' DNA Hype
and a supporting article:
Human DNA Is Not A Document, It's An App
Anthony Wing Kosner
12/13/13

Believable. Please notice SA 'Mericas great ally.

3 and 4 both are whole face and no hair showing. Is it the color?

(edit after reading link- yes.)

(edit after reading comments in link- maybe not. A "chador" is a cloak held shut with hands or teeth, apparently.)

My understanding is also that the chador is long and shapeless, whereas the fitted white hijab only extends to the shoulders and she may be assumed to have somewhat normal clothing on otherwise.

That's Plavalaguna on the left

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When Twil asks this question, my answers fall somewhere along this distribution:

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not sure if this belongs here or in one of the recipe threads ;)
http://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/.../piechart.jpeg

Winter sports

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China's hoping for ice ping pong to become an event ;)