That trend is directly traceable to a spreadsheet mentality that makes all decisions from costs - not from value.  Same created a major shortage of welders.  Companies refused to pay for training welders.  Since a more experiences (better trained) welder requires higher pay.  Or will move on.

According to business school graduates, training only increases costs.  Better trained welders have no value.  Reality: a better educated welder who is paid more money ACTUALLY means higher profits.  But reasons for those profits does not have an entry on spreadsheets.  So it does not exist.

Cost controls claim training is an expense - not an asset to a company.  A problem directly traceable to top management that does not come from where the work get done.  That comes from business schools.  Another example of a well proven reality.  85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management.
 

Found this site that lists police departments in over 1000 US cities, cops per 10.000 citizens, total cops, cops +  support people per 10,000, and dept total cops + support.
The problem is I can't discern any key to the order, looks like they were just added in the order they were found.
Here's a sampling...

This is a hard to decipher diagram of somebody's (I don't know who) prediction of future employment opportunities.

Graphs funny you should ask... 
Popularity of types of movies, compare year to year but not type to type because the vertical scale changes...

Galluping right along...

Ford and GM are legally powerless to stop dealers from charging whatever the traffic will bear. But they are strongly suggesting they may alter allocations to dealers who sully the corporate image, especially on new tech cars.

griff wrote:

I was looking around for a chart showing the difference.

I've venn always wondering about that.

 

It's always malinformation if it comes from one of them.
It's always misinformation if it comes from one of US.
Response to those is easy, just promise yourself you'll do your own research when you get time.

Meanwhile eat that leftover Valentine's candy...



Unlikely there's Halloween candy left...


Just the thought of 558,178,736 lbs of candy corn made me throw up in my mouth a little.
Maybe better to just grab a snack....




 

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Projections for coal the next couple years...

Last edited by xoxoxoBruce (2/25/2022 10:14 pm)

I didn't realize the Adelaide area was so densely populated.  Brisbane kind a surprises me too.

griff wrote:

Looking at the lights extending from the cities, I was thinking highways not rivers?

Lights, where? The yellow dots? They're not lights they're people. Well not people but representing population.

Onward, this tells me the places that have cheap gas I don't want to live there..