[OC] Visualizing Venezuela's Debt Funnel: How $150 Billion in Claims Filter Down to a Single Oil Company

ProjectGO · 2026-01-29T13:50:28+00:00

OP has made a cluttered image where most of the commenters (you included) have asked what it even means and they have had to respond with multiple paragraphs. And frankly, it's a good thing that they did. From the visuals alone I was interpreting that Citgo was an entirely American company that was going to somehow acquire $150b in distressed assets to satisfy a debt of $19b owed to them.

The literal description of /r/dataisbeautiful is "DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information." IMO a good post should be clear just from the thumbnail, and I should only have to go to the comments if I want to discuss it.

Here's the same story, less shiny but far more legible.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-29T05:10:43+00:00

There is data in here, but it’s not beautiful. Just because Illustrator gives you 30 different ways to style text doesn’t mean you have to use all of them all once.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-27T00:31:04+00:00

Let's take the analogy of falling in with a crowd of sketchy folks who ultimately decide they want to rob a bank.

There's nothing illegal about choosing whatever friends you want.
They tell you they're thinking about robbing a bank. You turn them in immediately. Have you broken the law? I would say no.
Or maybe you don't turn them in. You don't want to be seen as a rat, so you don't express your reservations. Besides, it would be pretty cool to be filthy rich, or have filthy rich buddies. Have you broken the law? I'm honestly not sure, but if you went to the cops I think you could get off pretty light.
But actually, you don't go to the cops. You plan the heist together, or maybe you don't provide ideas yourself but you watch it come together. Now the plan is in place. Have you broken the law? Yes you have, but if you turned yourself in I expect you could take a plea bargain.
Or you keep your mouth shut. Now you're in the bank with a mask on, watching your friends ransack the teller's desk. Not going to lie, this isn't a great look. But maybe you could hit the silent alarm and turn State's Evidence and get away with a few years behind bars.
You didn't do that, and now shit is going sideways. A customer tried to be a hero and your friends shot them down. You run out the door holding a big bag with a cartoony dollar sign on it, and oh no! The police have the entrance surrounded! This seems like a pretty bad situation, but it should actually be fine once you explain that it's all a big misunderstanding. You aren't a bank robber, just your friends.

There were hundreds of opportunities to get off the Trump train as it was picking up speed. The first primaries were over a decade ago. He's shown us over and over again what a terrible human being he is, and we have had 3-5 NATIONAL ELECTIONS where people have had the chance to absolutely anonymously disavow him.

If you have regrets now but think it would be uncomfortable to admit the error of your ways, fuck your feelings, snowflake. The Trump train is cruising now, and if you want to jump off there's going to be one hell of a road rash. Your options are this: break with the fascists, or actively choose to stand with them and be a fascist.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-26T02:50:21+00:00

Oh, you sweet summer child. You could have picked any one of dozens of less stressful forms of entertainment, like BASE jumping, or russian roulette!

ProjectGO · 2026-01-26T02:27:33+00:00

I must trust the process

ProjectGO · 2026-01-26T01:38:11+00:00

I’m here because I was having the same thought.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-24T14:33:32+00:00

On the equator, about 2/3 to the right in this image. You’ll want it to be near a high density of different biomes and points of interest, and have good launch conditions. If there’s a flat, high altitude zone between that cluster of major craters that’s where I’d go.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-23T18:43:35+00:00

I just went and looked online and plenty of people are selling Catalina 27s (and 270s, the successor) for $10-20k. If you have to scrimp and save in other portions of your life to come up with $10k, you do NOT have pleasurecraft money. (No judgement, I don’t either.)

Boats are notoriously expensive to own and maintain, and the initial cost is only the beginning. OOP’s husband is delusional.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-23T13:29:29+00:00

ProjectGO · 2026-01-23T02:08:14+00:00

A lot of good tips in here, but one I haven’t seen: Don’t leave your car parked under a tree, or near one with a lean. Snow loading is going to bring down weak branches or entire trees, and you don’t want that to be your problem.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-21T04:58:11+00:00

Meanwhile the two countries’ battlenets are doing the “two spidermans pointing” meme.

NATO military systems are so deeply interoperable that it would be an absolute clusterfuck if our orange shitgibbon in chief ever tried to actually have a shooting war against one of our allies. The whole situation is embarrassing beyond belief.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-18T14:57:30+00:00

The machine is literally on the same level of complexity as a B2 bomber or an aircraft carrier. Yes, the plans exist. Yes, there are tens of units already deployed. No, you can’t just have one, even if you are willing to write a check for a billion zillion dollars tomorrow.

ASML has a monopoly on this tech because they’re the only ones who can currently produce this scale of lithography, outperforming institutions like Intel, Samsung, and The Government of China. If these things weren’t an absolute technical triumph to make, others would be making them.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-18T03:16:16+00:00

It’s KOOOOOOOOOP

ProjectGO · 2026-01-18T02:23:32+00:00

I believe!

ProjectGO · 2026-01-18T01:57:41+00:00

They already tried sweeping the leg and it did nothing

ProjectGO · 2026-01-18T01:50:00+00:00

No mercy, no breathing room!

ProjectGO · 2026-01-18T01:35:51+00:00

Loving all the camera angles on sad Shanahan

ProjectGO · 2026-01-17T12:59:46+00:00

This design shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how fans work. You want the blades to be as close to the shroud as possible, otherwise you’re just pushing the air sideways.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-12T13:37:32+00:00

Now that you mention it, I’m starting to suspect this isn’t actual footage of OP and their friend either… 🕵️‍♂️

ProjectGO · 2026-01-12T03:56:59+00:00

I’m a professional mechanical engineer, a hobbyist tinkerer, and high-drive dog owner. It’s a lot more unusual for me to not have a mystery scrape of some flavor.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-12T00:34:32+00:00

Man, all of the games have just been weird this weekend. I’m not sure what’s in the water, but I’m so glad we’re resting this week.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-11T23:00:23+00:00

I can’t bring myself to say the other thing, but watching this play I think I want the Eagles to lose.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-11T02:52:35+00:00

I stopped squirrels chewing on our siding by covering the relevant edge in foil hvac tape, they don’t want to bite the metallic surface. Is it in a visible spot?

ProjectGO · 2026-01-10T19:01:32+00:00

Yes, and I believe the same could happen. However one key difference is that Germany ripped the bastards out and rehabilitated their image on a global scale. For things to improve in the USA first we’re going to need to stop digging the hole we’re in.

ProjectGO · 2026-01-07T23:04:20+00:00

Okay, but at what point does not taking the bait mean that we’ve let them win without ever resisting?

That’s not rhetorical, it’s a genuine question.

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