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the_artic_one , in Lowest-taxed group in each state of the United States

How the heck does Oregon manage to have the lowest earners paying more than the median earners without a sales tax?

Johnmannesca ,
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Gas and income taxes

Swedneck , in Politicians think a lot about their own interests and care little about the public
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Loving how these communities invariably contain the most boring visualizations possible or the most boring data you could collect

Anyolduser ,

"Data is lackluster" just isn't as catchy.

nulluser , in Total eclipse path vs. Google search volume for "eyes hurt"

I'd like to also see the search volume for the week prior for comparison.

WhatAmLemmy , in Airline Incidents: How Do Boeing and Airbus Compare?

Graph is shitty useless clickbait without proportionality — e.g. If Airbus planes only flew 1/6th the distance as Boeing, they'd be more dangerous than Boeing.

Laser ,

This however is implying that the distance traveled is the metric to measure against, which might skew data. It plays a role, but in aviation, other factors play important rules as well, like starts, landings, touch-and-gos, bad weather conditions flying hours, (as opposed good weather flying hours which relates to distance traveled) and so on. For military aircraft, even more metrics might exist, like contour flying hours, desert flying hours and whatnot.

If (accidents / distance traveled) was the only important metric, the safest means of transport would possibly be space travel.

Rayspekt , in Food: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across the Supply Chain

The difference between beef and lamb, and pigs and poultry is way more than I thought.

elekitty , in Politicians think a lot about their own interests and care little about the public
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did they take measures between 2020 and 2024? if not, from a dataviz standpoint, i don't think years 2021, 22, 23 should be included in the x-labels; it makes it look like a clean, linear increase through the years.

boredtortoise OP , (edited )

Yes, 2020 and 2024. I like your idea, I'm not sure if I can implement it with Google Sheets

Edit: They can be stacked maybe

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/0266b90f-2253-4139-b658-66a6a000c0cf.webp

Aviandelight , in Life expectancy vs healthcare spending of US compared to other developed countries
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What good is getting a diagnosis if you can't pay for the treatment. I'm stuck in this position right now. American health insurance is nothing but a glorified discount plan/coupon book scam.

ivanafterall ,

And getting a diagnosis can be an absolute shitshow all by itself. God help you if you need a "specialist."

IrateAnteater , in Total eclipse path vs. Google search volume for "eyes hurt"

I chuckled at the thought that there's just this one county in Montana where people haven't figured out that staring at the sun is bad.

samus12345 ,
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Apparently an area shared by Florida and Alabama, too.

ChicoSuave ,

The more north you go in Florida, the more Southern is becomes. Right there, where Alabama can't go more south and Florida can't go more north? That's prime sister-wife country.

cabron_offsets , in Lowest-taxed group in each state of the United States

I expected better from New England.

Gork , in Conceptual

But don't we all want to experience 10^26 m?

perviouslyiner ,

JWST has some pictures of it

Acters ,

Some are looking at 10^-15 for the answers too

JustEnoughDucks , in Food: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across the Supply Chain
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I didn't think coffee and chocolate would be so high.

I wonder where tea falls there?

hitwright ,

To be fair a kilogram of coffee or chocolate lasts for a month if not more. It's hard to say that it's that high compared to others.

De_Narm , (edited ) in Politicians think a lot about their own interests and care little about the public

Give me that amount of money and power, combined with almost no repercussion for being a selfish prick to keep that life style, and I too may not be the upstanding citizen I like to think of myself.

I honestly think we would be a lot better off if decisions where made by random citizens - kind of like jury duty, instead of professional politicians.

vatw , in Airline Incidents: How Do Boeing and Airbus Compare?
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Still - a very odd choice of graph. Don’t really account for the market share - and it looks like the two things being compared are stacked?

Not saying the conclusion is wrong. But an odd choice.

jeffw ,
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Not a great viz and also not a clear conclusion. Boeing is the top in North American sales and we are looking at incidents in the US and international waters. So we’re comparing apples and oranges here. And, as you suggest, there’s really no specifics on how many planes are being flown. Even revenue, which isn’t really accounted for, is a bad metric. Are Boeing planes more expensive (eg do they sell more large planes?), do they fly more miles, etc.

bus_factor ,

Also, what does incident mean here? Death? Injury? Warning light in the cockpit?

Deceptichum , in Life expectancy vs healthcare spending of US compared to other developed countries
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Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. What factors may explain this?

Hmm streets with c and ends with ism.

Lmaydev ,

Communism. God they've been doing this since the 50s. Even though they don't actually seem to be doing anything. Strange.

ivanafterall ,

Yes, I'm so sick of all the cuntism all over the place these days.

JackGreenEarth ,
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Conservatism?

JoMomma , in Lowest-taxed group in each state of the United States

I'm confused, WA has no income tax, OR has high income tax... As someone who moved from WA to OR, got a raise, and ended up with smaller paychecks I can attest that this doesn't represent everyone accurately

iAmTheTot ,
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This chart is not displaying income taxes. It is displaying the share of all taxes contributed by income brackets.

evasive_chimpanzee ,

For anyone not reading between the lines, taxes like sales taxes and property taxes are designed to disproportionately target those with lower income (i.e., regressive), while income tax is mostly supposed to target higher incomes (i.e. progressive).

Thunderbird4 ,

And Washington actually has the most regressive tax structure in the US because of these factors.

HubertManne ,
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this is the problem with illinois which has a fixed flat income tax in its constitution.

Blackmist ,

So the red states actually have a less wealthy 1%, and therefore less inequality.

This is a wildly misleading chart at first glance.

iAmTheTot ,
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Uh, the thing about percentages, as in "the top 1%", is that they are proportional. It doesn't matter if one state has fewer billionaires than another state, that's not what the chart is displaying.

Blackmist ,

If the average income tax of the top 1% isn't 20 times higher than the average tax of any of the 20% groups, then they'll be paying less overall tax. Because there's 20 times more people in the bigger group.

Or it could be showing that those states have unfair tax rules, which is undoubtedly the case for some of them.

This chart is honestly completely meaningless, because there's no way to know which of those two conditions exist.

It's lies, damn lies, and statistics, poured into a rage-bait map.

Edit: However, I would be intrigued to know how the middle 20% managed to pay the least tax in Oregon.

iAmTheTot ,
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This chart is honestly completely meaningless, because there’s no way to know which of those two conditions exist.

You could read the accompanying article.

GreyEyedGhost ,

Or even just the text on the chart.

Hildegarde ,

WA has no income tax, but it does have a state level sales tax. Low income people spend a larger portion of their income on purchases which results in a much higher tax rate.

Anticorp ,

States like California have both high sales tax and State income tax, so that's definitely a worse outcome.

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