SWING, and a miss.

Atta-boy! You'll get the next one.

Thats the important takehone message

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The russians probably have other things to worry about an US pilot missing an balloon. Like not turning into fertilizer in Ukraine.

And based on the pictures of the balloon a lot more that 50$ of stuff was attached to it.

Nena predicts 98 more luft balloons!! 🎈🎈🎈…😁

According to Wikipedia Turkey is classified as Western Europe, which drags the region way down. The difference between NA and WE is still tiny, 8.37 and 8.36 respectively.

And Australia/NZ are probably carrying the "Asia and Australasia" category.

Can it hit a 50 cent balloon on the first attempt?

Hahaha 😂🤣😂 China, with its $10 balloon, is making you Americans look like incompetent idiots.

Nothing happens.

I’m sure there’s a significant amount of sunk cost built in these numbers. The systems being used would still be costing money while idle. Missiles don’t get replaced by the single missile used. If the whole budget needs to be reworked because new balloons need to be shot at regularly that’s one thing; but a single event isn’t going to register on the bottom line.

Yeah, pie charts are somewhat problematic but I don't hate on the 2D ones quite as much. They can be useful. Sometimes. There are sound reasons for the hatred, something about perception of area being harder than perception of length, idk.

This is plain misleading. The 30+ abstaining countries that include China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other large countries change the picture massively.

From what I recall, only the first balloon was thought to be an actual spy balloon. Every other object was considered a likely commercial or hobbyist in nature, especially given their altitude.

Ok, point taken. But for 141:7 it's not really making a difference.

Also I feel people hate pie charts in general?

Of course US is more democratic than EU! Look at all the democracy they provided in Iraq and Afghanistan 🤡

"everything is happening according to plan", as the official channels say.

"if this is what the plan looked like, the plan is retarded" as Z fanatics answer...

A lot of people are missing the salient point here.

In shooting it down over shallow water and recovering it, the US military will analyze what they were looking for. Discover weaknesses in their own networks and look for solutions to upgrade their information security.

It also gives them an idea of what a near peer adversary was looking for specifically.

It can. Imagine a UN but without a separate security council, that has the power similar to the central government of a nation. No single country could do such shit without hard consequences.

Ok than the best visualisation would be

Yes: 141
No: 7

You're welcome.

Some people seem to think this. I for myself find many very interesting charts here that are not visually beautiful and I would miss them if the sub would only allow charts that are unique and visually nice. Stunning data is also beautiful.

In my case it's just a historic vote with no consequences. But it contradicts Putin's propaganda.

Edit: From the subreddit rules:

>Does appearance matter?

>Yes! But pretty pictures are not the aim of this subreddit. Posts should strive to present information as effectively as possible. Part of that process is visual design. Default output from Excel, R, mapping programs, etc. can be overly cluttered and hard to understand. Try looking at font sizes, erroneous grid lines, alignment, and aliasing. A lack of good design ultimately limits the ability of a visualization to convey information.

>However, don't downvote because you think a post is ugly. If you have some design experience, please add some constructive criticism, so people know how to improve.

That's because you did not consider how it is important that so many countries have the balls to openly condemn the action of a powerful aggressor even if this has no direct consequences.

But maybe you have a solution what the 141 countries can do?

It's not pointless to show a dictator that a vast majority disagrees.

But yes, the veto rights in the security council and the possession of nuclear weapons make it difficult to give a an aggressor the answer he deserves.

What's your recommendation to the 141 countries?

From an aesthetic point of view I have no beef with them; that's just personal taste. But they mislead. Look at the darker blue "side wall". That has tends to exaggerate the sense of blueness in the image. It dominates the yellow far more than it should in the basis of the raw data. The aim of a visualisation should be to communicate the data accurately, not to mislead. 3D pie charts mislead, so should be avoided. Unless you want to mislead. Then you should definitely use them.

7 vs. 141 is small. And it's standard to start the data in the north.