Why is Africa always the odd continent out in all these maps?

Finland has it all

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Not that I’m aware of. There are rankings though.

I think about this alot when people compare Bitcoin to the alleged Tulip bubble. The Netherlands actually won big time, over many many generations through early adoption .

It’s called Prozac.

Finland is 11th in the world for per capita antidepressant consumption.

That choice of colour scale caused a measurable reduction in world happiness

Cool, but should just be a static image, not a video. Good luck on the animation journey! (Not trying to be a spoilsport)

Only 1/7th is imported vs what is exported https://www.vgb.nl/over-de-sector/

Most gets produced locally. Also check “glashart”. It’s an area full of greenhouses, which produces a lot of things year-round.

Here’s the data. 7 billion in export, 1 billion in import. https://www.vgb.nl/over-de-sector/

I am a huge dataisbeautiful fan but this graph, not so much. What is the point of left vs. right displays?

Thanks for this info! I didn’t know there was an eclipse coming up.

One occurred a few years ago in late August right around my mom’s birthday. The path went just south of my hometown, 300 miles south of Chicagoland. I was going to take my boys to see it and celebrate her birthday, but it was just after school started. When I heard how many people planned to got SIU to see a special presentation on the eclipse, I decided against pulling them out of school. Glad I did. Motels were booked. Several of their classmates went and were stuck on I-57 for hours coming back the next day.

I see this one is heading to the northeast from Mexico and Texas through Maine and Quebec instead of the southeast from Washington through St. Louis to the Carolinas. I think that’s due to the Earth’s tilt at that time of year. No?

I see it is going directly over my hometown and Indianapolis. Indy is going to be PACKED with Chicagoans. If I go, I’ll take 57 to my mom’s house and hope the traffic’s not too bad going down that way — and back.

yeah they're like a flower hub, importing from everywhere then sell (technically export) to the rest of Europe

if you counted imports theyd be at an enormous deficit I'd bet

This is the sum of the seeds of the teams which make the round of 16 of the US NCAA Basketball Tournament. Each of the 4 regions works like its own sub-tournament with seeds of 1-16. There are 64 or is it 128 now? teams total. Actually a few more pairs of teams have to win one “play-in” game. So it’s something like 66 or 68 teams total, but the winners of the play-in games get a 16th seed.

If the brackets perfectly predict the results in a region, then seeds 1 through 4 will make it to the semi-final of that region. Their total would be 1+2+3+4=10. If all 4 regions have no upsets in the first two rounds, the sum of the seeds will be 40. This is the minimum possible number for this metric. The more upsets (a lower seed with a higher number beating a more favored team), the higher the sum of seeds.

They use the term seed in professional tennis, NFL playoffs and just about any sports tournaments where they have an estimate of the strength of teams or players and want to give the best teams the best chance they can of meeting each other in the final rounds.

The NCAA works these “students” as slave labor. The basketball and football athletes take ALL the risk of injury and get paid NOTHING. Most of them will never make the NBA or NFL. The schools, the NCAA, and network TV make all the money. American collegiate sports are a very immoral slave labor market.

Do note that most of what the Netherlands exports is imported, not produced.

Same! Might do a little camping during that time.

Admittedly I used the table not the pie.

Thank you, very insightful, impeccable timing.

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Damn, 17 years is a long time dude. What was Reddit like back then? Did the distinct Reddit subculture start to emerge back then?

ROFL. I nearly suffocated from laughing.

Ah, thanks a lot for the full explanation! The post really should have mentioned the name NCAA and also that the “sweet 16“ are simply the teams that make it into the round of 16.

The NCAA Basketball Tournament in the US.