Meanwhile, ”let’s retreat to this old abandoned building that nobody cares about and that is located at a strategic and easily defensible location overlooking the city“ is probably as old as humanity itself.

This falls into the category: ”justified anger“.

I usually focus on one artist or band for a couple of weeks or months, annoying my family with it, and then move on to the next. I make sure to keep a mix playlist with the best songs for re-hearing it in a couple of months, though.

Thanks for the re-post. This looks really helpful and I missed it two years ago!

Oh wow, an explanation of a really complex issue that even I could understand. I tip my hat with respect!

The problem is that while all these issues can indicate a manipulative data presentation, there are also use-cases where each of them does make sense.

For example, if you look at stock prices, it is usually not informative to see them plotted as absolute numbers, as the viewer is normally only interested in the changes - which would be under-represented or even invisible with two almost identical bars.

Same with the double Y-axes: it can be useful to plot two different types of charts on top of each other, and then it is useful to have two axes. For example, you can have absolute values on one chart and percentage change on the other.

And last but not least: sometime only the last three years are indeed interesting.

But in general: very good overview :-)

How fast Internet down there?

Thanks a million, will check them out in the morning :-)

Oh, that would actually be very practical - I was actually struggling to find a good selection that fits on my screen … there is always a good part missing :-)

Ah, there it is: my new desktop background. I have been waiting for you..! :-)

She literally had to stop in every village to buy out the supply, because they only sold it in small bottles and their engine wasn’t exactly fine-tuned for fuel-efficiency.

The legend goes that following that experience she suggested to set up what we would now call “gas stations” along the roads…