"Hey before I commit this murder, is the mayor woke??"

Mexico has all the ingredients to be a top 5 player in the geopolitical arena. All they need is to clean up their government and from there, disband the cartels.

Yep, "illusion of fairness" as in the absence of bias.

The Chicago mayorship is literally the most corrupt position in the country.

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LatAm (+ some Caribbean) is home to:

• 3 “full democracies”
• 9 “flawed democracies”
• 8 “hybrid regimes”
• 4 “authoritarian regimes.”

Essentially, a 50/50 split across the report's best two and worst two categories.

How long can the LatAm cling to its status as the world's most democratic emerging region?

Latin America's score has declined for 7 consecutive years, showing the biggest slip among all regions since 2008.

So, what's driving this decline? Lately, it's been three countries. Haiti, El Salvador, and Mexico showed the most significant score declines in the region in 2022.

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Source: EIU

Tools: Affinity designer, Rawgraphs

"trick people"

"tricks" ...successful tricks create an illusion of fairness: for example, a card trick requires the illusion that a "fair" deck is "fairly" shuffled and "fairly" dealt.

This post presents four data metrics. The tabular data is presented visually. The plot of missing persons illustrates definite random distribution; the plot of drug overdose deaths shows a 50/50 maybe yes/maybe no "fair" deal; the suicide and life expectancy plots definitely show a top/bottom distribution. The means and SDs quantify the random/non-random character of the deals.

The random/nonrandom, top/bottom, Rep/Dem pattern is mysterious; especially as it is repeated for other data metrics; e.g. "obesity, suicide, infant mortality , accidental deaths, incarceration rate, murder rate, violent crime, etc.".

The point: except for missing persons and (likely) drug overdose deaths, the data is being unfairly shuffled and dealt (assuming a fair deck). Who is this Trickster? Twain's "Mysterious Stranger"? or is it Maxwell's Demon operating politically?

I don't think so: the deck is not a fair deck: the deck is "stacked". The data is evidence of Systemic Bias, not the work of a Trickster presenting an illusion of fairness....

the illusion of fairness is a delusion:
The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It [delusion] soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances – of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.
H.L. Mencken

I assure you Texas would not be able to support itself. It's culture doesn't allow it and it lacks the human capital and resources. It's got oil and gas. That's it. It's soil is unfarmable, it's mostly arid steppe. TX only has the 2nd biggest GDP in the U.S. because other states absorb a lot of the load TX would need to make up for as an independent country. Without Washington's support, TX is not the powerhouse you think it is.

Hindenburg group? Isn't that research group run by a know shorter, i forgot his name

The only way to ensure that you aren't around people you disagree with is to ban them from being around you. Restricting where people live and work based off their political beliefs is deeply undemocratic.

Also, irreconcilable differences? Don't be a fucking drama queen. You can disagree with a tax plan without seceding from the union, you fucking baby.

Instead of the bars, maybe graph the national or urban average instead?

Are you dumb or something. I asked for how your source (and in this case, your sources source) defines “urban populations”.

In the 15 minute cities, sure. But out beyond?

Very unrealistic. How many billions will it cost City A with population 7,000 to City B population 2500 30 miles away?

At best, IMO, electric vehicles inside the big cities, hybrids and ICE out in the boonies.

https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/built-environment/us-cities-factsheet#:~:text=It%20is%20estimated%20that%2083,to%20live%20in%20urban%20areas.

I think a lot of this depends on if we ever actually get decent public transport like more trains.

Interesting to see that millennials are overtaking gen x home ownership among White people, and it’s on pace to happen with Black folks, as well. I don’t have much background knowledge here, but I wonder if this is related to 2008 happening kind of in the middle of Gen X’s prime home-buying years.

Source: BSE

Tools: Python, Adobe Illustrator

Possibly. Small Modular Reactors and Automated delivery systems could offset that.

Cost will be a limiting factor. Cities get exponentially more expensive as they build 'upwards' not just in dollar terms but also resource.

And? Secession is a very democratic thing. You can’t force people to be together with irreconcilable differences

I hope you're right. It's not like the military power would allow no territorial bridges from one side of the coast to another.

Ok but then you have to be pro Tessa’s anti abortion laws…. Everyone says this but everyone wants to violate other states rights

Also, if a red state seceded, many/most of its Democrat voters would flee east or west, and probably not make it all the way to the coasts. So, states like UT, CO, AZ, NM, and all of Rust Belt would go blue quickly.

Edit: just imagine the exodus from Austin. That alone would easily flip AZ, NM, and probably GA.

And you can't see any good reason why a person who already knows English should learn another language?

Change all “people” to Redditors.

Exactly. If one person owns ten homes. You aren’t counted as ten homeowner. You would just be counted as 1 homeowner.