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Kate retweeted
🇺🇸 US Visa rejection rate in 2025:
🇲🇨 Monaco - 0%
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - 2.17%
🇯🇵 Japan - 5.68%
🇨🇭 Switzerland - 5.82%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 5.98%
🇦🇷 Argentina - 7.47%
🇲🇾 Malaysia - 7.92%
🇫🇷 France - 9.67%
🇮🇱 Israel - 11.32%
🇵🇱 Poland - 11.63%
🇿🇦 South Africa - 11.66%
🇩🇪 Germany - 12.22%
🇮🇹 Italy - 12.65%
🇨🇱 Chile - 16.38%
🇫🇮 Finland - 18.09%
🇨🇳 China - 20.21%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 20.44%
🇵🇪 Peru - 20.90%
🇲🇽 Mexico - 21.36%
🇸🇪 Sweden - 21.77%
🇮🇳 India - 22.04%
🇻🇳 Vietnam - 22.08%
🇹🇷 Turkey - 22.25%
🇪🇸 Spain - 23.67%
🇰🇷 South Korea - 24.73%
🇹🇭 Thailand - 25.67%
🇮🇩 Indonesia - 26.69%
🇲🇦 Morocco - 26.91%
🇵🇭 Philippines - 30.76%
🇰🇵 North Korea - 33.33%
🇺🇦 Ukraine - 33.92%
🇹🇿 Tanzania - 39.41%
🇷🇺 Russia - 40.38%
🇪🇬 Egypt - 47.61%
🇻🇪 Venezuela - 48.22%
🇩🇿 Algeria - 51.23%
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan - 51.75%
🇵🇰 Pakistan - 52.32%
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan - 52.46%
🇨🇦 Canada - 53.10%
🇳🇬 Nigeria - 57.00%
🇮🇷 Iran - 62.44%
🇦🇫 Afghanistan - 63.25%
🇲🇲 Myanmar - 64.19%
🇬🇭 Ghana - 64.34%
🇾🇪 Yemen - 67.98%
🇰🇪 Kenya - 68.23%
🇳🇵 Nepal - 69.47%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh - 61.45%
🇫🇲 Micronesia - 100%
Note: business (visa category B-1), for tourism (visa category B-2), or for a combination of both purposes (B-1/B-2).
Kate retweeted
Divorce rate:
🇮🇳India: 1%
🇻🇳Vietnam: 7%
🇹🇯Tajikistan: 10%
🇮🇷Iran: 14%
🇲🇽Mexico: 17%
🇪🇬Egypt: 17%
🇿🇦South Africa: 17%
🇧🇷Brazil: 21%
🇹🇷Turkey: 25%
🇨🇴Colombia: 30%
🇵🇱Poland: 33%
🇯🇵Japan: 35%
🇩🇪Germany: 38%
🇬🇧United Kingdom: 41%
🇳🇿New Zealand: 41%
🇦🇺Australia: 43%
🇨🇳China: 44%
🇺🇸United States: 45%
🇰🇷South Korea: 46%
🇩🇰Denmark: 46%
🇮🇹Italy: 46%
🇨🇦Canada: 47%
🇳🇱Netherlands: 48%
🇸🇪Sweden: 50%
🇨🇵France: 51%
🇧🇪Belgium: 53%
🇫🇮Finland: 55%
🇨🇺Cuba: 55%
🇺🇦Ukraine: 70%
🇷🇺Russia: 73%
🇱🇺Luxembourg: 79%
🇪🇦Spain: 85%
🇵🇹Portugal: 94%
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
These numbers represent the divorce-to-marriage ratio calculated for a given year as: #divorces/#marriages
A high number does not automatically imply high divorce rate, it can also indicate low number of new marriages. Theoretically the number can be higher than 100%
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_d…
Kate retweeted
one example of why it's so hard to compete w/AWS: we ran into a roadblock implementing new AWS service. already have call scheduled for thurs. to speed things up, engineer emailed on a saturday offering to jump on a call 'any time Monday/Tuesday.'
he's been at Amazon since 1999.
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Google pays Apple $20B a year to be their default search engine. That's 75% of Apple's entire research and development budget.
@narayanarjun pointed out to me that Google's basically funding all of Apple's r&d haha. Should put that on back of every device
Kate retweeted
This is Tehran University, students joined the protest against the murdering of #MahsaAmini by hijab police and chanting:
Woman, life, Freedom
Iranians are outraged. Yesterday the security forces opened fire at protesters in Saghez city but now Tehran joined the protest.
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Brave women in Saghez, Iran, risked punishment by authorities by removing their headscarves in protest against the murder of the 22-Year-old woman #MahsaAmini by hijab police, and chanted “death to the dictator.”
Lionesses, each and every one!
Kate retweeted
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
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If you're wondering what was the biggest story that got overlooked today, this may be it. A paper offering strong statistical evidence that the Chinese have in fact been harvesting organs from living people.
Kate retweeted
Spike in use of Signal (messaging app) in Ukraine in the last 24 hours. Smaller but significant increase in the use of Telegram as well.
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Challenge accepted! Here is a transition between surface area of US counties and their associated population. This arguably provides a much more accurate reading of the situation. @observablehq notebook: observablehq.com/@karimdouie… #HowChartsLie #DataViz #d3js
Kate retweeted
4/There are 6 billion characters in our DNA. Everyone has typos in this code. Some typos cause serious diseases, like Lydia’s. There are millions with serious typos just slightly different from each other. To fix them, we need a customized drug for each patient.
Kate retweeted
Ask the five basic questions: Is it open? Neutral? Borderless? Decentralised? Censorship-resistant?
The answer is no, no, no, no, and no! #LibreNotLibra
youtu.be/mPMsbgWl9p4?t=1427
Kate retweeted
Of all the initial use cases for Twitter, it feels like “Official HR System for the White House” was lower down on the list.
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Go read up on WhatsApp - a dozen Erlang programmers made the server in Erlang - the company was sold for $19B - highest ever valuation for a software acquisition.
I guess the WhatsApp programmers were happy they’d chosen Erlang. xitter.cf/140chars2/status/96888…
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How is this not already a $100M-funded startup. xitter.cf/johnmayer/status/91566…
Kate retweeted
.@Twitter is considering #280characters! Or as we say in Germany: 4 words. #Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
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Under the Constitution, the House tweets. If the Senate retweets, it goes to the President, who favs it into law.
