Population density thread because you and I both know you have nothing better to do.
Let's start with this cool way to visualize population density, by @undertheraedar. The height of each spike displays the population density in that location.
Couldn’t sleep so I asked ChatGPT to depict a penguin making pizza in a hot tub. Still couldn’t sleep so I did the “make it more” game, continually demanding that the scene become cozier.
Today’s morning bed spiral: prison population per capita. At 505 incarcerated per 100,000 people, the US has the 6th highest rate of the 223 countries listed by World Prison Brief.
[all images from Wikipedia]
By state
The rate has been coming down since its peak in 2008 (but still 6th highest in the world today).
Imagine that liberalism (in the classic sense: free speech, free markets, equality of opportunity, etc.) is a house. There are lots of people in that house, but let's simplify it to liberal progressives and liberal conservatives.
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In the US, the progressives and conservatives in the house are in heated arguments about a lot of things: abortion, immigration, taxes and spending, public education, gun laws, foreign policy, etc.
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Some arguments are literally about whether to progress or conserve: progressives look for flaws in the house and try to fix them, conservatives focus on the house's strengths and try to prevent them from deteriorating.
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