Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

godkiller t1_jd5jacr wrote

>The only difference is territorial clams.

A rather significant difference.

The USA regards Russia and China as threats to the freedoms and liberties of a free society. Neither country has any legitimate free press, protections of individual rights, or a system of government that affords its citizens a say in the actions of their governments. That is why Russia and China are dangerous - they are dangerous to the average persons rights and freedoms.

If Russia and China country a free and open society with protections of individual freedoms and representative governments, we would not be having this conversation.

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NotTheTimbsMan t1_jd5h838 wrote

NATO gives no guarantees to non-members regarding attacks. NATO bombed many countries illegally.

Countries join NATO so they don't get attacked by NATO or to protect their sovereignty (North Macedonia for instance, is now safe from Albanian Extremists/Nationalists who committed terrorist attacks on FYROM soil in hopes of annexing territory.)

The west doesn't want Russia as an ally. They want Russia's resources.

You say Russia has imperialist ambitions. How is USA any better? The only difference is in territorial claims. USA colonizes countries through regime changes. Is China imperialistic too? Why is USA breathing down China's neck?

There are too many fallacies in NATO supporter beliefs.

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boganvegan t1_jd5fnsh wrote

Can you clarify exactly what is the commodity? The source link only goes to the OEC homepage.

If we total the $ per quarter in 2022 we get to approximately $600m. If we are talking about 1.2 million standard cargo ship containers then the price per container is only around $500 which would be cheap even for used containers.

Considering that there around 65 million shipping containers on the planet then a single country purchasing 1.2 million new is huge purchase for something which has a lifespan of around 20 years.

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godkiller t1_jd5f9bb wrote

Countries join NATO to reduce their chances of being invaded by another country and are free to leave NATO any time they choose.

Putin (and I should specify that I believe its mostly Putin and his idolators, not most of the Russia people) just wants to rebuild an Russia empire so he can be a big boy imperialist like the dictators and tsars that preceded him. He's just a power hungry ego driven man-boy.

If you think about it, the west and Russia really should be allies. They have tons of shared history, similar ethnic and religious diversity. Aside from Russia's history of autocratic and dictatorial governments, the west has more in common with Russia and vice versa than each does with most of the rest of the world.

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mata_dan t1_jd57iti wrote

I like this kind of thing.

For Portland I can sort of confirm almost everyone else in the world assumes Oregon too (though I also knew of Massachussetts Portland).

London is a fun one (London, Canada often comes up in this "thing" out in the wild).

Put in my hometown Aberdeen too, because until the past 2-3 years if you were literally searching from an IP address geolocated in Aberdeen, Scotland, then search results for Aberdeen would be full of random American stuff despite those being villages.

Quite fun to go through this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._place_names
Chester is a fun one, with 2 close and relatively insignificant so nearby it's a toss-up to either but farther afield enters probably/mainly for one or the other.

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no1name t1_jd567eo wrote

and .... that chart is blown out of the water,

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https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/search-engine-market-share

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>As of February 2023, a whopping 93.37% of all search queries conducted across all search engine providers are done through the internet giant. In other words, more than nine out of ten internet users who search for information online do so through Google.

By comparison, its closest rival, Microsoft’s Bing, is only managing a fraction of Google’s volume. Bing currently has a market share of 2.81%.

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