South Texas is south Texas; not Mexico. The US has a recognized language of American English - Texas is part of the US. Why should students (of US origin) learn a language to better understand the people south of the border? It's like forcing a German to learn French. (comparing Germanic language to Romantic language)

ETA: The US as a whole used to have MANY different native languages.. why aren't there requisite courses for those?

And Ukraine is 2 steps from Russia, but not imprisoning journalists. Just killing them.

That is some really nice art you've got there! Do you have anything for sale?

Furthermore, perhaps the quantified self approach to how your art may be impacted by medication is an art project of itself. I would love to see your works. Send me a message back please (-:

I just read up on it. This, while tragic, isn't really relevant unless you live in/near Forsyth. I live in Georgia, went to school here, they do cover a lot of bad parts of our history, but this wouldn't even be a blip on the radar of all the fucked up shit our ancestors did

"These two things are bad, so we should just equivocate and throw our hands in the air and give up!"

The regions where China and Russia border have many more languages than just Mandarin or Russian. They are decently well blended despite the border. South Texas is basically Mexico and in fact used to be Mexico. It’s absurd that a state with a high Hispanic population doesn’t have a better foreign language requirement to help understand its own residents.

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My college required students to be conversationally fluent in a foreign language before graduation. I had 4 years of middle school/high school French under my belt, but had to take another year of college French before I could pass the fluency test. The first day of class I showed up to a room full of people speaking French completely naturally, which confused me until I realized my classroom with filled with native speaking French-Canadians from the hockey team looking for an easy A. Overall it probably helped me because it was a more immersive experience, but walking into that room on day 1 was a shock.

This! If your friend or acquaintance recommend you to their employer for a position, you are much more likely to have a real person look over your resume as well as more likely to receive an interview.

It doesn't mean you'll get an offer for the job though, that's still on you.

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fair enough

How does one come up with good ideas to visualise? The key goal is to tell a story through data; but I am struggling to find out something interesting worth visualising - something that catches peoples' eyes - which hasn't been done before.

Can anyone give me any tips?

I agree and I would add that deep dives into local history makes the teaching experience all the more relevant to the kids. For instance, it would make sense that all North Carolina kids be familiar with what happened in Wilmington in 1898, while for Alaskans a less detailed overview should suffice.

I did. Do you usually use red herrings or are you a fan of making falicous arguments in general?

Did you know that center square is a rebranding of watchdog.org and affiliated with the state policy networks and is tied to anti-tax policies that have advocated for cutting military and social policy benefits?

Wal Mart has always used "Cost of Sales" over GOGS.

Everything is relative. Walmart making $11B is different than the mom & pop shop making $11B. For some context, for every dollar you spend at Walmart the company keeps only 1.8 cents. The rest goes to pay for goods, facilities, staff, taxes, etc. Plus, much of the net profit is retained for future growth, and any dividends paid out are divided among hundreds of millions of investors.

This is why I doubt the sentiment this map is conveying, even if it has a legit data source. In Illinois you need 2 years of foreign language to graduate high school as well, but this map makes it look like no one takes it...

Nice work. This is a good plot.

That’s called a non profit my brother

People not from the region don't realize that as long as you're ok with unpredictable weather and utterly brutal winters, the Dakotas are a great place to live.

Relativity enters the chat

What's different down under?

If it's like my experience taking four years of French in high school, no one, not the teachers, not the parents, and not the students, were under the delusion that we'd be sitting down in a French cafe having in-depth conversations with the locals, or even that we'd find it useful in general. You could pass the class and check if off on your college application if you could write down that "bathroom" = "la salle des bain" on a test with being nowhere actually fluent.

I wonder if that means they calculate wages into that number or some other expenses, I was assuming it was just the actually cost of the goods but I guess that doesn't make sense because revenue should be way higher than that number, like over double