First couple seasons were rough

Oh joy of being colour blind 😉

Source Original source has map that changes per year, but we collected the most recent data for each country and put it all together (i.e. USA data is from 2018, so on the 2020 map it shows as no data)

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Tools: Figma, Tableau

you have to obey your mom now go wash your hands

And that is just avocados and Roma tomatoes!

You just don't have "Faith of the heart"

My 12yo daughter prints out drawings and crafts multiple times a week… she uses it way more than I do, that’s for sure.

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You can like the show or not, that's fine.

But I can say with confidence that your opinion that Shades or Gray is better than any episode of Picard is not something that many people would share.

I didn't care for season 1 and 2, but they had their moments too - and they were all better than the absolute worst of TNG. When your benchmark on a 1-10 scale is 0.1-1, you're being ridiculously hyperbolic.

I sentence you to repeated viewings of Shades of Gray, Sub Rosa, and Code of Honor!

You have to obey your master.

I’m assuming Texas may be the crossing point but the final destination of the goods has to be all over the US.

Edit: after a simple google search, the 2022 trade between the US and Mexico was $780 billion. This chart makes more sense to me now.

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From our newsletter:

It may seem unbelievable, but Mexico's leading trading partner is not the US per se, but Texas. In fact, in 2022, Mexico traded more with Texas ($286B) than it did with all of Asia ($262B) and six times as much as it did with all of Latin America ($48B).

It's no longer news to most that nearshoring has taken Mexico by storm following COVID-19. International consumer goods companies and vehicle manufacturers are moving production to the country's northern states. Big news came from the state of Nuevo Leon as Tesla announced a new Gigafactory in its capital city of Monterrey. However, most may not know that even Chinese companies are now choosing to manufacture in Mexico instead of China!

As of 2021, China's GDP per capita was 25% larger than Mexico's ($12.5K vs. $10K). China's official minimum wage ($377/Month) is now larger than Mexico's ($234/Month). The assumption that Chinese labor is cheap by definition has changed in recent years. Also, the disruptions to the global supply chain from the pandemic and the Suez Canal blockage have raised concerns about the risks associated with manufacturing predominantly in Asia to provide for a US consumer market. In addition, the imposition of tariffs on about 66% ($300B) of Chinese goods imported to the US that the Trump administration set are still in effect. Meanwhile, the USMCA trade agreement guarantees little to no tariffs between Mexican and US entities.

The nearshoring craze in Mexico seems to be here to stay. So long as the US remains a large consumer market, the world will adapt to sell to it. Meanwhile, the decay in international relations and the fear of further supply chain complications have turned the dial back to when trading overseas was risky and unattractive.

The "Made in China" days may be behind us, and, as Nuevo Leon's governor, Samuel Garcia, recently stated regarding the new line of Tesla vehicles built in his state, these will hit the market branded as "Made in Nuevo Leon."

Tools: Rawgraphs, Affinity Designer, Sheets
Sources:

• Texas | OEC - The Observatory of Economic Complexity,

• California | OEC - The Observatory of Economic Complexity

• Consulta de cuadro resumen (SIE, Banco de México) (banxico.org.mx)

• Consulta de cuadro resumen (SIE, Banco de México) (banxico.org.mx)

And since 2021 you can no longer cash checks at Dutch banks. Which in winter 2021 led to a bunch of post in Dutch subs from American immigrants asking "where can I cash my Covid stimulus check". Well, you can't. Not here anyway.

In the pre-youtube/streaming/filesharing era, people were a lot more forgiving of clip shows. Not that they were ever good, but now they get rated as the absolute worst, rather than being average-bad, which is contextually more realistic.

Now you can watch "Ten times Deanna uses her telepathy to deduce the obvious" on youtube, so a clip show is far more redundant than just being a spruced up rerun.

Oh that’s fine then. Let the market decide.

Maybe it's just me, but I use it regularly. Handouts for youth programs, maps, spreadsheets, documents I have to sign etc.

Rules? I'm not saying it doesn't meet the requirements for posting visuals in this sub. I'm just saying it's not actually a good looking graph

I had to do a search. A modern telegram is a online service that will print a physical copy and deliver it. It isn't the telegrams from my youth.

Owning a printer and keeping a few stamps around is just smart.

Same here in the Netherlands, checks were barely used in the 1990s already and completely abolished in 2002. It's a peculiar US thing.

You really think there is some administrative process so secret that none of us have heard of it, but that 15% of people under 29 and 10% of people under 44 have had to do recently?

This doesn’t require a wealth of knowledge, just some bare minimum of critical thinking skills

You know every single administrative process in the US? Wow, you really must have a wealth of knowledge

You would be incorrect in that theory.

I'm saying maybe there is some administrative weird thing that is there since immemorial times and nobody bothered to modernize.