Very interesting, thank ya for sharing!

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From what I've seen theyre just telling different stories, but im not informed enough to know which ones to believe.

So the for-profit prison industry is really the only winner of the “war on drugs.” Absolutely shameful.

Sources: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/ , https://www.sentencingproject.org/ , https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_population_rate?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All

Tools: Tableau, Adobe Illustrator

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Maybe they are optimistic about human extinction

The banking system is essentially fine as long as you trust it and are happy to leave most of your money in it. As soon as you don't you discover that they are all over leveraged and you can't all get all of your money out. It is a system that gave up the gold standard back in 1970 (or 71) where money was backed by gold and now relies on a system of faith to ensure it works. So for the love of mankind, please don't be worried!

Did you use the CAEv2 plugs?

Did the same for me. Still got 10% for tinnitus.

This is a beauty of data visualization, you can tell the same story many different ways.🙂

How do you get the subdivisions on the right given the category labels on the left?

How can 10% of optimists say AI will be bad or extremely bad long term?

The marker size and marker color are duplicating the same information. I would get rid of the color scale since it's harder to read than the size.

Ordnance Corps.

I know why I went, but I still don’t know why we went.

I feel like I've seen the size of different bank failures represented in this sub 15 times in the last month and its different everytime.

THIS! I was fortunately enough to be hand carried from office to office by my VA Advocate when I was enrolling in the VA. That system is a labyrinth, and they are your guide.

Very interesting. Thanks for the insight.

Just curious, what did you do in Iraq? Like were you a tank commander or a cook or a logistics officer or something?

I was born in 1996 so I didn't really understand what was going on in the middle east at the time we invaded.

Of course not! Socialism for the rich, feudalism for the poor! Bootstraps!

OK I get it now, thanks.

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Hijacking. Meet with your VA advocate too. The VA hospitals have an advocate and they can hook you up with the VFW or the Legions. They can, and will, do the heavy lifting for you if you ask when it comes to paperwork and appeals.

Wait until you're issued hearing aids and they do audiologist appointments with someone that's 500 miles away, on a webcam, tuning your hearing aid remotely and you can't hear crap to begin with. Or PT in another town and you don't get an overnight...oh so many stories. Gotta love that VA! The VA advocates rock though.

Ok, so audiograms have the y,-axis inverted to show hearing loss as a downward graph. 0dB refers to the calibrated baseline volume. Each non-zero value states how much volume must be added from baseline to hear the pure tone frequency.

Edit: u/eahle_565 asked a good question. Upvote curiosity, you pessimists bastards! Everyone who hated school or believes they’re not “math people” had a teacher just like you! 🖕

Source: https://banks.data.fdic.gov/explore/failures

Tool: Microsoft Power BI

You know, for all their failings, I have excellent healthcare. We had a saying when I was still in the service: “Where you’re going is the best place you can go, where you are is the worst place you can be, and where you came from never really was that bad”. It’s about duty stations, but speaks generally to the notion of contentment and hindsight.

Since my disability rating totals more than a specified threshold, my healthcare is free for me forever, service-connected or not. I have socialized healthcare. And it’s awesome.

I can walk in to see my doctor unannounced. I can phone in or email prescriptions I never pay for. I have not known a medical bill, copay, or premium since 2010 and never will again.

The VA has its flaws, and had made good progress since the influx of OIF/OEF veterans filled its facilities with youthful anger. The mental health care has dramatically improved. I won’t sing their praises more than that. I just don’t feel I’m in a position to really complain about the VA when medical debt can ruin your life.