U.S. counties with the highest and lowest rates of excessive drinking

Critical minerals scoreboard. Most important is not who owns them. It's who refines them. > China is No. 1 in all categories, except nickel. > Other countries are mostly footnotes. > USA does not even get an honorable mention. via WireScreen

World’s top phone makers. 2010 vs now.

One needs to take long-term forecasts with a pinch of salt, but this is the scariest chart I have seen in a while. BTW, things are not much better in Italy, Spain and Poland. There will be a lot of really affordable real estate as we go forward.

Map illustrating the decline of native Irish speakers over time

"Anyone who likes meetings should be banned from attending meetings." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"People overvalue their knowledge and underestimate the probability of their being wrong." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Fooled by Randomness

“True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.” Daniel Kahneman

Map of tropical storms, 1848–2013

The perfect trio💖

“Why is there so much effort being put into trying to find intelligent life on other planets, when there is a serious question about how much intelligent life there is here?” — Thomas Sowell

Global Trade Dominance: US vs China

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"Heuristic: when picking a restaurant in an unfamiliar city, don't look at the menu, look at the clients." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #heuristic

Tom Mueller: “Elon was always about making all the vectors – the employees – pointing in the right direction: Forward.” “He was technically very strong even though he was just learning about rockets. And the one thing I noticed, if people were negative, they were not in the next

Sunshine hours per year in the USA and Europe

He didn’t follow rules. He rewrote them after the war was over.

Daily Irish speakers in the Republic of Ireland

Europe committing industrial suicide in one chart. But hey, who needs industry? Becoming an open-air museum for American tourists is also an option.