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   Kieran Healy (kjhealy@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 01:10:21 JST Kieran Healy

   Nice example for your Time Series Are Tricksy files. When “Compared to the same time last year” leads you astray because the same (calendar) date is not the same (social) time.

   https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/30/world/us-travel-decline.html

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 01:38:45 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     @kjhealy
     Does this chart really say that, at a time when any Argentinian with a Hello Kitty tattoo is being renditioned to a gulag in El Salvador, travel to the US from Argentina is *up* from last year?

     How is that even possible?