This IG Page Is Home To All Kinds Of Cool Data, Here Are 30 Of Their Most Interesting Posts
It’s predicted that by 2025 we will reach 175 zettabytes of data created worldwide. For reference, one zettabyte stores as much information as 33 million human brains. Seeing such a figure, it can be hard to wrap around our heads just how much data is available to us, let alone be able to scratch its surface.
That’s why the creator of the Instagram account “We Have The Data” does their best to find and share data visualizations that present big amounts of information in an easy-to-understand and aesthetically pleasing way. Scroll down to find their best posts and make sure to upvote the ones that you find the most enlightening.
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A run-on sentence is not automatically a bad thing.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately I don't have the patience to write correctly. I am also not a doctor because I haven't any patience.
I agree. I used similar techniques to write work instructions that the factory production folks could retain. The engineers I worked with would write stuff that would put you to sleep.
As a classically trained typesetter I cringe at this offering.
I'm pretty sure that at least male human beings are able to p**s on trees. But I don't think this helps in keeping borders up...?
Load More Replies...I have a dear friend who turned 100 this year and imagine how much the world has changed for her, during her lifetime! (PS...hi Noelene!!)
Two World Wars vastly accelerated the technological push for flight and then for rocket use. Sadly we seem to innovate best for violent uses..
And porn. Don't forget how much porn has done for certain tech sectors. Of course they're two sides of the same human coin. War and sex are two of our most favorite and successful interests.
Load More Replies...There was a time when Orville Wright and Neil Armstrong were both alive. And living an hour's drive apart in Ohio.
My grandmother (of sainted memory) was born in the 1890s where they used horse carts in her town. She took jets to visit us later in life. Lived to be 94!
In only the last 50 years, the global human population has doubled!
And therein lies the biggest problem for the future of our planet...overpopulation. it could be 8.5b people by the end of the decade.
Load More Replies...These photos are in fact taken 69 years apart instead of 66: the right photo shows John Young during the Apollo 16 mission in April '72.
Hello Ludwig Michiel You are RIGHT with these 2 photos, however, you are WRONG with these 2 EVENTS. Because, the person who posted these 2 photos wanted to say: The INVENTION of AIR PLANE and the FIRST MAN landed on the MOON are 66 years apart. The first man landed on the Moon was the year 1969, not 1972 as you said.
Load More Replies...My grandmother was courted by grandpa in a horse and buggy, and she watched the moon landing on TV. Talk about seeing the world change!!!! omg
In the last eleven years, the generated volume of data grew by almost 5000% worldwide. And if someone would download all the information from the web today, it would take approximately 181 million years.
Despite these numbers being quite substantial, only 10% of the data we have today is original. The rest is copied and replicated. In fact, it’s predicted that the unique and copied information ratio will change from 1:9 to 1:10 by the end of 2024.
For clarity, this is a warning system that raises an alarm so that extra samples are taken and analysed in a lab (this is in addition to regular samples that are tested frequently, regardless of the sentinel clams). The fate of the Polish water supply is not dictated solely by all powerful clams.
Unfortunately. Because that would be awfully cool, honestly. 🤷
Load More Replies...If they get a bit hot and bothered, I wonder if they get all clammy?
Load More Replies...I wonder if they might have shed some light on the mass fish die-off that happened on the German-Polish border recently.
People who romanticize the past should be required to watch the complete series of "Horrible Histories".
I expect the US version to be the opposite, since the folks in charge seem overly concerned about women having babies.
Here in 'murica, the lack of "permission" to have an abortion when there are major heath issues and dangers to the woman's health and life, this number is going up.
War forced the UK Government to invest in the health of citizens. The Beveridge Report in 1942 led to the NHS being launched in 1948. Sadly there are people in Government now who would gladly see us go back to a time when only rich people could access healthcare.
Load More Replies...Careful, the "I did(n't) have X but I turned out fine" crowd are going to be upset.
I always ask them about the viruses they had when they were young. Specifically super virus. I ask about antibiotics, triclosan, how many cars were on the road & guns I’m the schools. How many stalkers were using the internet & social media to find their victims. I ask a lot of questions they’ve been too myopic in their thinking to consider. I have a lot of questions about all of their “X” data.
Load More Replies...All because we started washing our hands (it had something to do with it). The discovery of germ really started impacting us in the mid to late 1900.
Thank you, Ignaz Semmelweis. On behalf of humanity, I’m so sorry.
People who romanticize the past should take off their rosy coloured spectacles more often.
I can literally feel my face swelling up due to a chronic tooth infection... gotta love the American healthcare system and not having an extra $1000 to ya know not be in agony.
I’m sorry you’re in so much pain. Is there any way you can at least get antibiotics? Dental infections can quickly travel to the brain and heart. I hope you can get some relief soon x
Load More Replies...I have trigeminal neuralgia for 35 years now on both sides of my face. it is deliberating. can't go out of my house if there is wind, or cold. not enough research , since they are not enough people suffering from it.
Internet users spent around 2.8 million years online in 2018, generating more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day. This number just keeps growing, as it was found that in 2020, internauts created 1.7 megabytes of information every second, totaling 40 zettabytes that year.
Now take a moment to ask how many of those are different, unique individuals. Depending to a degree on population density there's a mathematical certainty that some of your ancestors appear multiple times on your family tree, so the total number could be very much lower than that. The smaller the population (think historically isolated tribes) the more the chance that e.g. your great uncle is also your grandfather, as well as your second cousin and various other blood relationships.
These numbers are the maximum. The real numbers are lower and in many cases much lower, as people tend to marry in their communities and thus some family members will appear in more than one branch. Also, purely mathematically, add a few generations and you'll have more family members than people lived at that time. After all, "humans" come from a very small initial group (like all animal types) and at some time - after some time of expansion - only a few hundred survived a crisis and started again.
2 parents, 2 grandparents, 2 great-grandparents......
Load More Replies...Yeah, but Cleopatra's doesn't look like this - she only had two great great great grandparents and a sum total of 11 antecedents instead of 32+16+8+4+2 (62). She was seriously inbred and all the talk of her being beautiful was propaganda. Smart lady though...
She was brilliant, including with showmanship. Rolled into a carpet and laid at Caesar's feet - that's an entrance!
Load More Replies...Me too! I like to think that I am preventing future pain and suffering.
Load More Replies...The logic behind the maths is incorrect. It is estimated there have 117 billion people have ever lived. Using this logic, in 37 generations, there would have been 137,438,953,472, or 137 billion, ancestors. If 12 generations encompasses 400 years, 37 generations would be 1,234 years, and it would only take us to 790CE. We know human beings existed before 790! The only conclusion is people can appear multiple times in a person's person genealogy.
Just think of all the missed birthday presents that you never received.
Ugh. As a Canadian and a railfan....I just shake my head. They've been talking of plans to do something about this longer than Ive been dlive.
OMG I am laughing my head off because there is a Chatham-kent in Canada. I live in Kent UK quite near Chatham and it is a shíthole. I hope the place in Canada is nicer.
Chatham Kent is not a bad area to live in it's one of the most southern spots in all of canada, it's fantastic growing land, and a lot of our agriculture comes from there...(when we're not paving over farmland for more homes/shopping malls)
Load More Replies...Maybe because the population is so dense there, there isn't room for a train track to fit through there?
I understand what you're saying and your point has validity, but that's not really the case here. The corridors that used to have train tracks three, four, five, six tracks wide in many places, is still there, and most of the track has been pulled out. If existing land corridors and right of ways were utilized, that wouldn't be a problem. But to have to redesign entire cities, to accommodate a transit system, yes that would be economically unfeasible. Doesn't matter... It's nothing that any of us can do anything about.
Load More Replies...You just have to look at the mess the UK has made of railways to see that you got off pretty lightly.
If an electric train, with good electricity production. Then the train is always better than car regarding CO2. Much bevause of really low rolling resistance steel wheels agains smooth tracks. Not my dv.
Load More Replies..."The journey of an Arctic Fox who walked from Norway to Canada in 2018"
How do we do it? Well, WhatsApp users alone exchange more than 65 billion messages and complete 55 million video calls daily. The app allows more than 1 billion groups to connect and interact with each other, generating large amounts of data.
A bunch? The group noun for sperm is a swallow. Trust me 😉
Load More Replies...By these calculations and how my memory functions, I must be carrying something else in my skull.
Not just trade, also taking control and invading countries.
Load More Replies...Why so many in southern India, but not in the pathway between Rome and India?
because of shipping routes through water ?? just guessing
Load More Replies...There were other inter-connected networks by that time, going by various names and using various networking protocols, in Europe as well as the USA. That one is thought of as the precursor to the internet just by virtue of the way it set many ground rules for what would become TCP/IP, the backbone of the very much later World Wide Web..
Ace, yes. An example being that packet switching was developed in the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. There was an intranet running there, but the first remote login was in 1969 when a login attempt was made from the University of California to a computer at the Stamford Research Institute.
Load More Replies...This map *is* a very early map of DARPAnet, showing the first 4 locations.
Load More Replies...According to 2023 statistics, Facebook produces 4,000 terabytes each day and ranks as the most visited site worldwide. Meanwhile, X accumulates 500 million posts daily, totaling 560 gigabytes of information. And the young people’s favorite app, TikTok, averages 7.35 terabytes of data each day.
The fertile soil is a result of cretaceous sediment. The fertile soil was perfect for farming but Africa slave labor was needed. After slavery was abolished, the African descendants stayed in the area and are now in areas that predominantly vote democratic (Blue for Biden in 2020).
Load More Replies...Wight is effected by the density of ingredients. For example, a place where I worked had a cafeteria that based the price of a salad on size of the bowl instead of weight. So I would pack in all of the heavy ingredients and then use them over the weekend for other dishes. It was cheaper than going to the grocery store.
JK, True, but I think the point here is ordering the same item from a chain restaurant should be a fairly consistent weight since the ingredients would presumably be the same and the packaging (bowl size) would presumably be the same. Small deviations are understandable but roughly 14-27 ounces / low-high is quite a swing.
Load More Replies...And the "suggested" tips are the exact opposite. The less the workers are allowed to put in the bowl by management, the higher the tip demanded. Most likely they also make use of unmanned self-checkout terminals with standard 20% tipping (and you have to work through 5 pages to lower the rate)
Typical Wells Fargo graph - lets cut the y-axis in half to make this look impressive!
Yes, rather than attempting to reduce fees and interest rates to benefit customers/borrowers, THIS is what passes for productivity.
So you're saying you don't have the first clue about business and finance?
Load More Replies...Is the photo taken at an odd angle, or is it really that vertiginous? I ask because it should take an incredible amount of force and reinforcement to anchor those structures into even a rocky hillside, let alone a soft one.
I’m just scared of heights and an introvert. No houses that high or close to other people for me! Thankfully
Load More Replies...The internet tells me this is Petare, Venezuela. On Google maps, I can't find this exact spot, unless maybe if this photographer used angle/lens to make it look steeper than it is. But you can see several places where the general density of shack roofs touching shack roofs is about the same. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Petare,+Caracas
Before most of this information is stored away, it’s converted into numbers 1 and 0. When it’s changed into symbols that computers can process quicker, it can be stored away in one of three locations. First are devices that can be linked to the internet, like our personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and other similar technologies.
"The Amazon River and its tributaries"
I don't know if a body remembers this but when Amazon first started out, they had a commercial. They were showing different bulldings or areas saying is this place big enough? No. Is this place or area big enough? No. They did this like 3 to 5 times, finally they settled on Amazon forest. They said yes. That is why I believe it is called Amazon.
I find it crazy that in 2024 around 20% of people in russia have no indoor plumbing
Or that in 2024 people can see this image and still believe the moon landing was faked.
Load More Replies...Uhm wasn't that pic taken somewhere in 2023? The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. So not the Soviets then.
Yes, it was the Soviets. That picture was taken by the Soviet Venus probe, Venera 14, in March, 1982. Venera 14 was the last space craft to enter the Venusian atmosphere and take photographs from the surface. Every spacecraft to visit Venus since then have been orbiters, either studying Venus from orbit or using its gravitational pull to 'slingshot' the craft onto a new trajectory to other planets or most recently to the Sun (NASA's Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter). So there hasn't been any opportunities to take photos from the surface since 1982.
Load More Replies...Too flippin' hot! Not a good vacation spot!
Load More Replies...This is why politicians should not be allowed to benefit from their decisions - being a landlord or owning company shares should bar you from public office. In Plato's republic, the lawmakers were the wisest people motivated by wanting to build a great society for all. Their needs were all met by the state, but they owned no private property.
Medium density housing is fantastic. We don't all need, nor want to have a house on a quarter of an acre of land. It is also crazy to segregate residential and business zone. People don't want a steel mill two streets away, but a little bakery within 5 minutes walk, or doctors, dentists, vets, hair dressers, small supermarkets, pharmacies, etc, these are really useful things to have within a short distance from home.
In Toronto we do nothing about it, add more people and homes are millions of dollars
I live in MN, it is STIL beyond expensive to rent here. Just not as bad as other states Un
Here in the UK, there's a lot of blather about "affordable housing". And I always wonder, "affordable" to who?
We’ve done the same here in Tempe, Arizona but with the opposite effect. The rent rates are so high that some students at the local university are homeless because they can’t afford a place to live.
The second is called the edge, which already includes bigger infrastructures like cell towers and servers used in institutions like universities, government offices, factories, and banks. The third location that stores the most amount of data is known as the core, which are traditional data servers and cloud data centers.
"Uptown, midtown, downtown of Toronto"
I was astounded to see photos of "the great metropolitan Toronto" from the late 70s/early 80s. Aside from the CN tower (1976) it doesn't even LOOK like Toronto!
I can almost see my house in here... strictly speaking, I can see the condo and office towers near the 3-story Victorian I live in.
Condos and construction. Everything in this picture costs too much. Who has 2m for a home built in 1967 that has not been renovated
Nothing in this photo is suburban. There are actually a lot more trees in the older urban neighbourhoods than there are in the new suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area. This is a city of ravines, with a lot of parks.
Load More Replies...🕯 for people, from all countries, who have lost their homes or worse
What bothers me is the research that says believers think that you must believe in god to be a moral person. Without being watched by some uber-dad, you would naturally do horrible things to people. That insight into how religious people think explains a lot of the atrocities conducted in the name of god.
Not to mention, if a god exists and is behind all the bad things that happen, supporting it just because it's more powerful than you is a cowardly and immoral thing to do.
Load More Replies...Let's hear it for New England. I have many reasons to love living here, now I have another.
I would really like to move. Do you have any areas youd recommend?
Load More Replies...In the Netherlands, the percentage of people who are part of ANY religious organization, has officially dropped below 40. That includes ALL religions, not just Christianity.
And yet I doubt that rates of murder, rape or assault are much higher in Europe (per capita) than in the USA.
United States has a higher homicide rate than Europe as a whole. The overall homicide rate in Europe dropped from 7.8 per 100,000 people in 2000 to 2.4 per 100,000 people in 2020. The US homicide rate was 10.5-7.9 per 100,000 population. Rapes and assaults are more difficult to compare due to differing views on what constitutes rape (19 out of 31 European countries now have laws that define rape based on the absence of consent). However, US crime rates for the three violent crimes homicide, rape, robbery were several times higher than the averages for reporting European countries.
Load More Replies...Interesting that in the so-called Bible belt of the US (the blue part), the top percentage was only 82 percent.
I'm an atheist and I live in the blue part. Maybe I'm not as alone as I thought? 🤷♀️
Load More Replies......Odder that the Vatican City gets the same colour.
Load More Replies...How about the others part of the World, such as Asia, Africa, South America and Australia???
The largest data center in the world belongs to China Telecom Data Centre, in Hohhot. It occupies 10.7 million square feet, equivalent to about 180 football fields. When we say that we store information in the cloud, it’s not being stashed away somewhere in the atmosphere. It’s being kept in massive data centers—physical objects that actually take up quite a lot of space on our planet.
"Football" and "pitch" are two words that never are together in most of North America, so we appreciate the translation of "soccer field"
Far too many if you ask me. In Czechia, for example, there is football pitch in every little village and it's often the ONLY bit of entertainment in many km radius. I just cannot see any reason why the football pitches should be literally everywhere.
What? Only one per village? We have at least two because you need enemies.
Load More Replies...It's 'football' Other games are called - Rugby Football and American Football. The game existed for centuries before any associations so it's not 'soccer'
I can't understand why Americans just call football ( as just about everyone else in the world does) rather than soccer. American football is more like rugby, with ridiculous padding, than actual football. Why they need to re-name everything to suit themselves is one of life's great mysteries.
Since when are the alps coated in football pitches? Or the appenines? I’m gonna take this one with a huge pinch of salt
Do the Alps and Apennines have alpine villages? And do the villages have pitches?
Load More Replies..."Tracking of an eagle over a 20 year period"
Eagle thinks, "You know, I've SEEN Africa. I've HEARD it's an interesting place, but I've never actually been there. I'm gonna go!"
Load More Replies...Sometimes it likes to take the scenic route along the coast of Iran.
Thanks. I've now got "Once in a lifetime" as my earworm for the day. Could be a lot worse.
Load More Replies...You should look at Chad. The center is Lake Chad, the rest is a very very wide beach
(Once again) my long-retired parents set off there today to visit their favorite pile of ancient rubble...this time is DEFINITELY their last time, they said, just as they did back in 2023...and 2022...🤷🏽......🧓🏽 ♥️ 👴🏽, watch your steps, and please don't feed sugar cubes to the camels again...🐪 🇪🇬 🐫
As the Sahara dried up, all the people moved to the last source of water.
It only there was a Muslim country with enough room for the Palestinia...
Since data generation is ever-growing, to meet the demand for storage, around 100 new data centers are built every two years. It’s estimated that if it continues to increase at the rate it is now, to sustain it, in 110 years we’ll need all the planetary power we consume today.
"The easternmost point of Brazil is closer to Africa than to its westernmost point"
And the southernmost point of Spain is closer to Africa than to its northernmost point. And the westernmost point of Russia is closer to Poland than to its esternmost point" OMG, that's freaking amazing!
The northern most point of Brazil is closer to Miami in the USA than it is to Barra de Chui in the south of Brazil. The northern most point is also closer to the capital cities of many other countries than it is to its own capital city. This area extends from Bolivia northward, but not quite reaching to Mexico nor Cuba.
What determines where the solar system ends? Is this the radius of where the furthest things can be that orbit our sun? I'm surprised how populated the outer 'skin' looks, or is that just to help us visualise it?
I think it's the point at which the gravitational attraction from the sun stops being the force that determines the movement of objects.
Load More Replies...From Wiki: The heliosphere is the magnetosphere, astrosphere, and outermost atmospheric layer of the Sun. It takes the shape of a vast, tailed bubble-like region of space. In plasma physics terms, it is the cavity formed by the Sun in the surrounding interstellar medium. The "bubble" of the heliosphere is continuously "inflated" by plasma originating from the Sun, known as the solar wind.
That isn't the heliosphere in the picture, it's the Oort cloud, the 'left-over' material from the formation of the Solar System which extends for up to 2 light years from the Sun.
Load More Replies...It's about a light year in radius, or more than 60,000 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
It's possible that it extends halfway to our next nearest star, which would give it a radius of 2 light years.
Load More Replies...I thought there is no edge of the universe. It’s been determined that it’s round?
No. The visible Universe is a sphere because we can see the same distance in all directions, but the overall shape of the entire Universe is most likely saddle-shaped (as incredible as that sounds). The image is just of the debris left over from the creation of our solar system and shows a sphere with a radius of between 1-2 light years, so only halfway to the next nearest star to the Sun. To put it into perspective, the Milky Way galaxy that we sit in is about 105,000 light years wide, and that is just one of anything from 200 billion to 2 trillion (2,000,000,000,000) galaxies, each separated from it's neighbours by hundreds of millions of light years in a visible Universe that is 93,000,000,000 light years in diameter - and that's only the part we can see. The light from anything beyond that hasn't had time to reach us yet.
Load More Replies..."A cool guide showing you the various patterns of black and white or tuxedo cats"
Manu is a tuxedo. His markings are a star pattern; he has a black star shape covering his nose and it has a tail that goes under his chin. the white "collar" is also in a star shape meeting at the back of his neck - he's extraordinary.
TIL: My one cat Popo is a true "tuxedo", but "Olive" and "Flynn" are harlequins
What do you call the ones that have it everywhere but their: Belly, tuft, and paws?
Is this correlation or causation? People who are able to dance are definitely feeling better than those who are unable (by dint of a depressive illness I mean) Maybe more research is needed??
No, just get of your butt to some groovy beats. You're over thinking it.
Load More Replies...I totally think dancing is good for the soul, but I also love cycling, which came last out of the exercises. A person could incorporate cycling into their daily routine to get them from A to B, but they still might not enjoy it. On the other hand, there is no such thing as utilitarian dancing - the only reason to dance is to dance, so the people who choose this exercise are more likely to enjoy it. That said, all kids like dancing and it's always a shame when you see an adult who had learned to be too self conscious to enjoy it any more.
Absolutely! Its hard to dance if you're feeling depressed, you have to be a person that gets joy from dancing anyway - its confounding
Load More Replies...In my Indigenous culture, we don't dance for one year while mourning the death of a close family member. After several passings within a short time, I haven't danced in nearly sixteen months - and I missed two whole pow wow seasons. I have two days left until the first anniversary of my grandmother's death (which was just shy of four months after my mother's). I wonder how it will feel to dance again?
I’m sorry for your losses but I hope you have an absolutely wonderful experience dancing again 🌸
Load More Replies...Notice that "Physical Activity Counselling" has very little effect. *Telling* people to exercise/dance doesn't help them significantly. Depression makes it very hard to actually go and do the exercise, even when you know intellectually that it is likely to help. Loss of executive function is a major problem.
SSRI saved my life. I have chronic low serotonin. Feels like constant panic attack. Awful. But SSRI = normal serotonin and I'm fully functioning. Mental health is health, people!
That's okay. More room on the dance floor for the whirlwinds.
Load More Replies...How long do you have to dance to get the benefit. Is it the length of one song or is it multiple songs?
LOL at the bottom of the list. Who knew that being on a waitlist or having someone tell you that you should be physically active wouldn't relieve a lot of depression? /S Serious answer though - I'm a little surprised at the difference between dancing and the aerobic choices. Dancing is usually a form of aerobic so I would have expected them to be closer. And people often do aerobic to music. Like Zoomba classes and such.
"The numbers 0-99 sorted alphabetically in different languages"
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Numbers in German ("eins zwei drei" instead of "one two three")
Load More Replies...That's a little misleading, shows the areas where wolves have been reported but doesn't give any true idea of how few there still are in those areas.
There are about 3500 wolves in Italy, about the same number that is estimated was the average before being hunted almost to extinction. The number is limited mostly by the large territory wolves clans claim as semi-exclusive, and the limitation on wild prey availability.
Load More Replies...Wolves were endemic in Italy until the early 1900. Since the middle ages they started to be mercilessly hunted for eradication because they were considered dangerous, despite the danger was mostly to farm animals than to humans. Until 1950 the Italian state paid a bounty on killed wolves, an heritage from a late 1800s practice that was introduced to favor the growth of agricultural economy in the less developed and poorest regions. In the 1800s it is estimated there were about 4000 wolves in the whole Italy. The wolf has been protected, but not actively reintroduced. Just some bare minimum of protection allowed the populations to stabilize and reclaim the woodlands. Some wolves tribes spread from Italy to France (where they were extinct) and even Germany and Spain.
Well you can make some homemade Soylent Green for free!
Load More Replies...So no one can reproduce anymore and we’ve started eating people
Apart from the time travelling thing? Or where you at Stephen Hawkins time traveller party? 🙃🤓
Load More Replies...Why they chose that starting point I don't know, would have expected 1984 to have been included.
I guess the film didn't do as well as the book so it didn't get included.
Load More Replies...I’m sure this is the typical truth but I’m 18 and can’t stand most modern music (there are exceptions). The same goes for most people my age that I know. Potentially, modern music really is just rubbish
I think there's something too that. Look at the enormity of the Taylor Swift fanbase. Maybe a part of that is a lack of decent alternatives?
Load More Replies...68 to 80... All the classics come from that time. Then they stopped putting LSD in the drinking water and life turned Madonna and Vanilla Ice
I love a lot of classical music from around 1600/1700s. I must be positively ANCIENT! 😆 Tbh, I didn't much like the music from when I was around 17. Preferred what was popular around 10-30 years later. Stuff today... is very meh.
Part of the problem is a lot of the newer stuff is written by the same people, meaning it all sounds the same regardless of who is singing. That said, there are a few newer things I like. I give it a chance, I don't assume it's all bad until I hear it.
You can blame Autotune and the program Garage Band.
Load More Replies...I'm an outlier too, I'm 50 and I love discovering new music on Spotify. (Melodic) Techno is my favourite genre and the musicians are often half my age.
"Ugly Gerry" is a font created by gerrymandered congressional districts
Google ugly gerry font and go to the Wikipedia entry about it
Load More Replies...Can you register in an place where there are lots of non-kamala voters perhaps?
Load More Replies...These are all gerrymandered congressional districts: artificially drawn regions patched together in order to create a political majority to elect someone to the United States Congress.
I guess this is why the years seem to go faster as you get older. I turned 50 last month and was thinking best case scenario I'm half way through my life, but now I see even if I live to be 100 I'm already nearly dead!
Time speeds up because you forget. You forget almost everything you do on a daily basis.
"Music was better when ugly people were allowed to sing" I think there's some truth in that. These days it's pornographic music videos instead of just the music.
I agree with your point, but not your example. Music doesn't really rely on traditional music videos anymore.
Load More Replies...One summer I was visiting Glacier National Park, looking at a mountain and, you guessed it, a glacier. An older woman, there with her teenage children, piped up asking, "What's all that white stuff on the top of the mountain?" To which one of her kids replied, "It's a glacier, Mom." The mom, no joke, retorted, "I don't think so cuz it's summertime and there isn't snow during the summer. I think it's probably a bunch of sheep grouping together to stay warm." Seriously! A grown woman argued that the glaciers in GLACIER National Park, are actually herds of sheep clumped together. 🤦🏾♀️🤣🤦🏾♀️🤣
And 20% of that freshwater is in Canada: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-402-x/2011000/chap/env/env-eng.htm
I'm shocked! Isn't Berlin a beautiful, clean, safe and vibrant city full of friendly, caring and hard-working people?
The data would suggest that Germany is the best at generating its wealth across its country, not that Berlin is somehow a poor place. I'm just surprised how low UK/London is on this list because the rest of our country thrives despite our London-centric politics.
Load More Replies...🤦🏾♀️ Obviously not all European countries are accounted for. 🤦🏾♀️
Load More Replies...I wouldn't think there's many, if any, old growth trees in the lighter green middle-of-Australia sections on this map! This makes it look like the arid, desert regions are vastly wooded lol.
If it's still old growth native flora, it still counts, even if the wording is a bit odd
Load More Replies...Hasn't anyone told the Americans, Trump is NOT recyclable? It should be disposed of as TRASH
Load More Replies...Clever! I see what you did there and I'm stealing it!
Load More Replies...If you want a better look at who lived where, go here--> https://native-land.ca/ . It shows where the native peoples lived. It's mostly North America, but there are some in Africa as well. Edit: They've added the tribes in Australia!!! Those weren't there last time I looked.
Nope. There were no "borders". Everything was fluid and varied on a timescale of just a few years.
yep...and then Colonialism, capitalism, and religion destroyed the whole continent!
Load More Replies...I think the "European" scramble for Africa began when a Greek woman ruled Egypt.
Thank god I went to school in the 1900s. I recall having to fill in one of those outline maps where you have to remember the names of the countries. It didn't seem too useful then but doing this version would have been a nightmare. Also, it hasn't been too useful. I've been to Africa twice - Egypt and Kenya. Meanwhile the names of several of the other countries have changed and if I need to know I google
Motorcyclists have a chance of accident 30 TIMES higher than car drivers. Chance of injury is on average 4 times higher and chance of death is 28 times higher. A biker is 120 TIMES more likely to get hurt in an accident than a car driver or passenger. Statistically, the biker is overwhelmingly more likely to be at fault, and the most common cause is the aggregated "Driver error" category, that includes distracted and aggressive driving, lane splitting or overtaking where not allowed. 34% of fatalities are from speeding on the biker's part, and 28-40% of accidents depend on the biker being under influence of alcohol. Even in most accidents where the car driver is at fault, there is often a concurrent cause of the biker erratically driving (crossing lanes, zigzagging through traffic) or lack of visibility conditions (no high-viz -and often black- clothing, moving too close to vans and truck blindspots)
Learned that from my EMT wife. Enough to keep me away from them
Load More Replies...Nobody going to comment on the OP's serious lack of basic math skills??? ;)
Ew, you have to have people within a square kilometre of you, getting all their germs and ideas on you!
Load More Replies...I've survived 45 winters in the "red zone." Even in Toronto, that can mean ice storms, snowbanks taller than me, months without clear skies. Now, I love exploring my country - in the spring, summer, and autumn. (Especially heading north in the summer, because the heat and humidity here in the city can be just as bad as the cold.) But I have no desire to spend January anywhere darker, colder or drearier than it can be here, certainly not for more than a week at a time.
Wow! The furthest I have lived from the sea was during my childhood, and that was 12.5km. Currently, I live less than 1km away from the sea.
I feel like I've been at whatever you call the opposite of that in the ocean. Possibly not literally farthest but I remember one abandon ship drill where they announced the nearest land was 400+ miles in (compass direction). If I'm bobbing around in a navy life raft it might as well be 4 gazillion miles because I can't steer it anyway. Would just be at the mercy of the currents / wind.
Chad is the opposite. In the middle, there's Lake Chad. The rest of the country IS the beach
I was born in blue with one parent born in red but living in & with citizenship in blue, whilst the other parent born in red living in & with citizenship in red. Which is why I have jus soli citizenship/ passport & jus sanguinis citizenship & passport, having lived back & forth between both.
At least for the US it goes a bit farther than that as well. Yes to if born in the US. But also, your parents are married and US citizens and mom gives birth to you in a red country, you are still a US citizen. As long at least one parent is US citizen / lived in US prior to the birth.
Eight months: Convict ships from England to Australia when colonisation happened. They really must have thought they were going to the end of the world.
JoNo, Oh my. My first navy cruise was 9 months before we got back to the US and that seemed really long. And that was on a modern aircraft carrier and we stopped at several countries along the way. Doing it as a convict on a much smaller sailing ship must have been hell.
Load More Replies...Nothing really changed, if you have to rely on public transport and ferries
This is based on where people are resident when they die, not where they lived. The Florida cluster demonstrates how skewed this one is, due to the fact that many people don't move there until their old age.
I am from Michigan, tip of the mitt, Traverse Bay and much of the UP. Except for the UP, all "80+" areas have health systems headquarters.
Load More Replies...Quite the solid belt of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Must be a bunch of aging country stars in Nashville.
Harrison Tyler must have a hell of a lot of paternal mutations in his DNA.
If you don't mind me asking, how come? Is it because of the aged his father and grandfather were? Or another reason? *just saw the other post. It's further down, so sorry*
Load More Replies...This is a compound of the technology maturing far faster than expected with scientific breakthroughs, production cost dropping far quicker than expected from technological improvements and scale economy, and panels outperforming even the best life expectancy estimates by a factor of 5. Countries who invested in solar and wind production have seen the price of energy visibly drop as a result, and being far more stable than any other countries, including those that focused on nuclear energy.
I love this chart. We were the first in our town of 60k to put solar on the roof. So new, the newspaper did an article on it!
Always wondered why people are talking about 'fusion' when all we need to do is 'collect' energy from the fusion of the sun..
The worst parts are nights, clouds, and seasonal variations. But with some cheap storage there are potential year around.
Load More Replies...As of now, it outpaces the prediction. Most technology adoption trends follow an S curve shape. It will maintain this steep uptrend stage for some foresable future before tapering off soon thereafter.
Let me share the older Welsh way of saying it. 47 is "dau ar pymtheg ar deugain". The word for word translation, left to right is "two on fifteen on two twenties". In modern Welsh, it's a boring "pum deg saith" or "five tens seven". The old way isn't shown above, but the new way is a lovely green.
Thank you! I wish I could speak Welsh. Maybe I should add it to my linguistic arsenal.
Load More Replies...I can muddle along fairly well in French, but the numbers always stump me, because it requires too much math!
Load More Replies...The less positive possibility: COVID fatalities?
Load More Replies...is it because fat people run slower than thin people when there is a mass shooting? /s
1400 dollars a month to lose weight. Think I'd rather eat healthier. That's what it would cost me for diabetes.
I want to know how big a drink is. Is it the same as the standard(-ish) 'unit of alcohol' commonly used by governments telling us how much we should (or should not) drink?
I think any way you slice it, ten drinks a day is too many! (Also it's usually one ounce)
Load More Replies...How man of those are part of a venn diagram? When I am eating I am usually also watching a show or playing a game. I enjoy a good "let's all sit down at the table and eat together" but I rarely experience it these days. It got me wondering about other countries and whether it is common to multitask in daily food intake or 'just eat'
Yes! David. I am either watching TV or reading while I'm eating. So that lengthens the time it takes me to finish a meal.
Load More Replies...From Nevada, lived all over the west coast, and I use y'all all the time.
I was born in Michigan, moved to Georgia at 11. I find myself going between 'You Guys' and 'Y'all' based on who I'm talking to. Especially notice it when I'm at work (retail) and am talking to customers.
Load More Replies...I do the same thing. Sometimes you can't tell the gender just by looking at someone, so y'all is the safest way to go.
Load More Replies...This is why we're doomed - We're not going to tackle climate change because rich countries will not reduce their energy use. They tickle the problem by talking about sustainable energy sources, but you'll never win an election by saying we're using too much. A rake is cheap, will last a lifetime and is powered by your breakfast, but it doesn't generate wealth like a leaf-blower does!
My neighbours use a flipping leaf blower - they can't use a rake because they also have a plastic lawn.
Load More Replies...So, do we consume more energy to become rich OR do we consume more energy BECAUSE we are rich??
Both. And although people don't like to hear it, rich countries do a better job with conservation than poor ones.
Load More Replies...I'd love to see that as well, but I bet the statistics are harder to get accurate, since not every father is identified or known (or heck, he may not even know!)
Load More Replies...Big up the geriatric mamas! (Had my first at 35 and second at 39 so that's what I was referred to as.)
If you want to know: Spain eats so late, because they share Middle European Time (the same time zone as Poland), so the sun rises and sets a lot later on he clock than in most other countries.
CET is most of Europe. eg France which borders it. The thing that affects evening meal times most is latitude. The further north you go the cooler it is. In southern (Mediterranean) areas it is still common (particularly in Spain) to have a 'Siesta' as a long break, rest and meal. This is why evening meals are delayed.
Load More Replies...My dinner is dictated by acid reflux: have to eat before 5 and nothing after that.
What's the normal working hours of businesses in Norway? I wouldn't be able to have dinner between 4 and 5pm as I don't finish work until 5.30. Then it's about 20 minutes to get home, and dinner can be eaten any time from 6-7.30pm, depending on what is being made.
Typical Norwegian working hours are 8-16, including with a 30 minutes break and a second 30 minutes break if you do more than 2 hours of overtime. Work schedule can be flexible, so some days can be longer and other shorter but the maximum is 40 hr/wk and no less than 11 hours between one shift and the other, plus a minimum of 35 continuous hours off every 7 days.
Load More Replies...I wonder which definition of 'dinner'. It means the largest meal of the day (which for some is lunch) but a lot of folks treat it as meaning the same as 'supper' since for many, supper is the largest meal. As a farm boy, our dinner was at lunch time and for supper we had a lighter meal.
Chai is a different process, where the leaves are processed with the "Crush, Tear & Curl" process (CTC), while Tea uses fermented full leaves (the so-called "Orthodox" method). In China the first type is called "Cha", while the second is called "Tê". Both come from the same word (茶), that is pronounced differently in the north (where the CTC process was born and trading mostly via land transport, thus Chai) and in the south (where full leaves were common and trade was mostly via sea, so "Tea"). It's a mistake to conflate the two processes since they are different per culture and tradition, the fact they spread in different ways is just a consequence.
150.000 USD is crazy affordably compared to Germany. The average price for a house here is 345.000 USD (320.000€). (And before people explain it to me, this is because we build our houses of brick, not wood.)
$150k IS cheap but you have to sacrifice your happiness and live in the Midwest. Or surrounded by a bunch of racist people in the south. It's a trade off.
Load More Replies...That tier from Lake Michigan across. Can confirm, live in Osceola. Bought our house with 10 acres in '87 for $28,900. Up around $125k now
Avg home in Florida is 400,000. And it's built of wood. Poor quality wood at that.
I like how this one shows the curvature of the Earth. No flat earth here!
Seems weird at first glance, you would think that the age of the mother has a higher influence than the age of the father. But I guess since the mother is the one growing the child inside of her, pregnancies in older women with more and more serious mutations just are not viable.
A woman's eggs are already present in her body when she is born, they are grown and matured when she has her cycle, but the genetic material is already laid down and relatively well protected by chemical treatment of the DNA. A man produces sperm constantly from puberty to death, and there are multiple levels of cell division required to produce each sperm. This means that the DNA is much more exposed to risk of degradation.
Load More Replies...This is very similar to some algebra tests you do routinely in 3rd and 4th year of high school (i think it's equivalent to 10th/11th Grade in the US). Current admission tests to our public universities are way harder, including derivatives, integrals and analytical functions that require graph plotting (sorry not sure how it translates in technical terms), and that's for the math module alone.
I trade your comment wrong at first, probably because I'm still waking up, and thought you said just 3rd and 4th grade. I was like, I'm so glad I'm out of school. Makes more sense now I reread it.
Load More Replies...Yeah, my problem with Maths like this was always "Oh who cares just tell me."
I failed math miserably but if this was still the entry level for MIT, I'd get in.
Then you didn't fail math miserably......my math teacher once said...listen little idiot, 1 + 1 = 2, okay? I replied...okay, but what do you mean by »1«? 🤷🏽
Load More Replies...I believe in the past (certainly in Europe) an understanding of maths was a prerequisite of attending university. I think the reasoning was that if you didn't understand the logic of maths, how could you contribute meaningfully to any other field?
You do know where there's most people with Finnish heritage, right? This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who knows anything about Finns and our drinking habits...
Because the option is increasingly limited--before you had multiple ways to meet someone and find out if they're compatible. Now it's all online, and you run the risk of being scammed. On the plus side though, you can meet people from further away, other side of the world even, so that part is less limited.
Load More Replies...Oh no, people can meet much more people in many more places, such a tragedy "on par with the loss of a language"
I agree "tragedy" is a ridiculous word to use, but some of us have a really hard time dating online. Real life is easier for me. You now immediately is someone is into you or not, people's body language is a gage of their feelings. That's hard to tell via text/messaging.
Load More Replies...Because the rise in online dating has led to "gamification". Instead of meeting someone face-to-face and deciding on compatibility, people are developing a check-list of must-have features and choosing based on that. This leads to a type of FOMO response that there might be someone a bit better if you just keep looking.
Load More Replies...First of all, define "couple". Marriage / long term partner or does it include "DTF" / casual dating? Now show a related graph of how large the pool of choices was over time. The internet and relative cheaper / easier travel makes it a lot easier for people to meet others outside of their little 50s town and somebody your Aunt Bessy knows. Last thought ... source of data? Because if this was an online poll that might skew the answers in favor of the online activity.
Same here! 20th anniversary is coming up! Hardly a "cultural tragedy" for us!!!
Load More Replies...If you extend the curve far back before 1950, the curves look very different too. I suspect "through family" probably dominated the chart. So, the cultural tragedy is just transient phenomena. Nothing is truly lost here.
To be fair, it's a null-sum situation. If I look for a partner online (with way more chances to meet a match) and find one there, then my friends can't get me another one. Okay, unless in polyamorous cases. So, it makes sense that the graph with the biggest chances 'overpowers' all others.
I wonder if / how much this has changed over time. I live in Washington. I see windows so dark that are apparently allowed but I THINK (not sure) would have been illegal when I was younger.
Also, I know, at least in certain states, with an optometrist you can get a darker tint. I have a darker tint on my car due to how sensitive my eyes are due to my astigmatism.
Load More Replies...Yeah, moved from Fla to Mich. Had to get an optometrist docs note for our tinted windows in '88. My wife demanded I remove it, as we were pulled over frequently. Not sure why the black and zero.
Load More Replies...Stop carrying a bottle around all the time. You are no longer a baby and you will not die of dehydration while walking down the street.
I DO need to carry water with me. Doctor's orders. I was not drinking enough, so I carry some with me at all times.
Load More Replies..."Get a life?"? Really?! His clothes fit him, his neck no longer hurts leading to better sleep, his spine is better, he's more hydrated, he can see perfectly, and he's no longer wasting time waiting in line. How the hell did you come to the conclusion that this man doesn't have a life or is somehow a loser for doing all of this, but missing out on life? The man has been bettering his life with each year. It would be mighty difficult to better something he doesn't have.
Load More Replies...This is NOT the map of New York, but the map of New Amsterdam on the island of Manahata. Later traded with the British for a small island in Maluku. The only place on earth (back then) where nutmeg grew
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I can't say, maybe they liked it better that way--? ;)
Load More Replies...Because they felt Wall Street was a silly name without a wall along it.
Load More Replies..."Most Valuable Player" usually the player who scores the most points.
Load More Replies...I googled and it comes up with 'Most Valuable Player' but not sure if it's specific to a certain US sport or not..
The red line extending just south of Chicago, across to just north of where the interstate 80 symbols are is the state boundary for Indiana. Gary and South Bend are towns. Guessing there are no major towns along Lake Michigan because everyone goes across the state line to Illinois where Chicago is.
Load More Replies...Indianapolis is Indiana state Capitol is in the middle of the stste. So my guess this why. Plus Indiana doesn't boeder as much of Lake Michigan as does Michigan and Wisconsin.
Best guess, Indiana is on the leeward side of the lake. There are times of year frozen spray makes living on that coast difficult. Any port city on the east would get the brunt. The west and south coast are better shielded and have better access to other transportation; river and rail. This is 100% hypothesis.
Starts around Gary and goes to the left of South Bend on the straight line.
It used to. Gary was that city. Until virtually all industry left, and the city has been declining ever since. From a peak population of 178,000 in 1960, to a 2023 population of 67,000. Gary's population currently declines at a rate of between 10k and 15k per decade, and is expect to drop below 60,000 before 2030.
I belive the blue represents the regular season and the red represent the playoff area of the sports.
Load More Replies...Blue indicates when my favorite teams win. Red indicates when they lose.
In number 21, there are some parts of the World were left-out, you didn`t bother to mention. These are places where worship and belief in God and Saints are many times greater than in North America and Europe, such as Asia, Africa, South America, Antarctica, and Australia
In number 21, there are some parts of the World were left-out, you didn`t bother to mention. These are places where worship and belief in God and Saints are many times greater than in North America and Europe, such as Asia, Africa, South America, Antarctica, and Australia
