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computer parts posted:That map pretty clearly shows why swing states are the ones they are. California is conservative as all hell outside of a few small but influential areas. There's a reason why they have Republican governors so often.
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Grand Fromage posted:California is conservative as all hell outside of a few small but influential areas. There's a reason why they have Republican governors so often. Massachusetts does too and they had their White Men go to Obama one year.
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Ras Het posted:Love too see scifi writers' bafflingly wrong ideas about what computers would go on to do i like the part of Ender's Game where Usenet gets so big/popular that anonymous posters can get elected president. remember it was written between 1977 and 1985
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icantfindaname posted:i like the part of Ender's Game where Usenet gets so big/popular that anonymous posters can get elected president. remember it was written between 1977 and 1985 Instead of "Demosthenes" writing eloquent rhetoric about the human condition, it's a guy writing racist tirades 140 characters at a time who's running for President.
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computer parts posted:From what I can remember that's a "science man meets dumb heathens, but it turns out the latter is actually correct" story. Computers are very tangential to it, about as much as The Star. It's very important because it contained the idea of a computer as a machine that manipulates symbols, not just something that solves math problems. This was not common knowledge in 1953, a time when the operation of computers was mostly regarded as clerical work. Ada Lovelace is regarded as the first computer programmer because she (and not the machine's inventor) recognized the capability of the first computer to be used to process anything quantifiable, not just grind out a bunch of polynomials. Clarke was one of the first writers to identify and depict in fiction the sort of things that computers are actually useful for, and furthermore to depict this use as having world-changing consequences.
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Antti posted:Instead of "Demosthenes" writing eloquent rhetoric about the human condition, it's a guy writing racist tirades 140 characters at a time who's running for President. so sort of like the actual demosthenes?
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Not a map but I feel like this fits in with the spirit of this thread: http://mashable.com/2016/08/27/abc-for-baby-patriots/#YgFxOUc66qqP
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HookShot posted:Not a map but I feel like this fits in with the spirit of this thread: http://mashable.com/2016/08/27/abc-for-baby-patriots/#YgFxOUc66qqP Where sun never sets; The larger we make it The bigger it gets.
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Bongo Bill posted:It's very important because it contained the idea of a computer as a machine that manipulates symbols, not just something that solves math problems. This was not common knowledge in 1953, a time when the operation of computers was mostly regarded as clerical work. Ada Lovelace is regarded as the first computer programmer because she (and not the machine's inventor) recognized the capability of the first computer to be used to process anything quantifiable, not just grind out a bunch of polynomials. Clarke was one of the first writers to identify and depict in fiction the sort of things that computers are actually useful for, and furthermore to depict this use as having world-changing consequences. Nice post
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HookShot posted:Not a map but I feel like this fits in with the spirit of this thread: http://mashable.com/2016/08/27/abc-for-baby-patriots/#YgFxOUc66qqP lol that everyone going to India to shoot tigers is literally two letters after boasting about preserving game
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Britain (Gibraltar) is a pimple on the turd-sniffing nose of a demented old wizard.
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icantfindaname posted:i like the part of Ender's Game where Usenet gets so big/popular that anonymous posters can get elected president. remember it was written between 1977 and 1985 Has a huge fan of science fiction: Science fiction is dumb and stupid. Anyway the science fiction part of this is maybe some day politician will use the Internet to be e-famous and leverage that to influence how a country is run. We are not there yet, but is not a imposible, is not even a big stretch. These days only Trump is a fan of the Internet, posting stuff on Twitter and that probably has helped him somewhat, but is not the main vehicle, people still choose the president based on what they see in TV.
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:lol that everyone going to India to shoot tigers is literally two letters after boasting about preserving game
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Tei posted:Has a huge fan of science fiction: Science fiction is dumb and stupid. Anyway the science fiction part of this is maybe some day politician will use the Internet to be e-famous and leverage that to influence how a country is run. We are not there yet, but is not a imposible, is not even a big stretch. These days only Trump is a fan of the Internet, posting stuff on Twitter and that probably has helped him somewhat, but is not the main vehicle, people still choose the president based on what they see in TV. The Five Star Movement in Italy is pretty much that already, right?
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I'm loving this Afro-lion You tried, Mary Frances Ames.
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HookShot posted:Not a map but I feel like this fits in with the spirit of this thread: http://mashable.com/2016/08/27/abc-for-baby-patriots/#YgFxOUc66qqP D is for the Dutch Republic We'll remember the day The only time Brits were beaten At the Raid on the Medway.
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HookShot posted:Not a map but I feel like this fits in with the spirit of this thread: http://mashable.com/2016/08/27/abc-for-baby-patriots/#YgFxOUc66qqP
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Ofaloaf posted:loving W made me gasp for air It was so on the nose I had to go check a second source to make sure it's real.
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Ofaloaf posted:loving W made me gasp for air You're like "oh ok I'm getting to the end these are bad, but it's almost ov - HOLY poo poo"
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HookShot posted:Not a map but I feel like this fits in with the spirit of this thread: http://mashable.com/2016/08/27/abc-for-baby-patriots/#YgFxOUc66qqP I love how on daring the army is chasing away what looks like the French army.
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HookShot posted:Not a map but I feel like this fits in with the spirit of this thread: http://mashable.com/2016/08/27/abc-for-baby-patriots/#YgFxOUc66qqP You just set my rants against any American news relating to the British royal family back a decade. "My ancestors died* so that I don't have to give a poo poo about these assholes!" *More accurately, fled Ireland later on, but who's counting?
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tbf it's not like America was any more enlightened at that period in history. Arguably less.
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Whorelord posted:tbf it's not like America was any more enlightened at that period in history. Arguably less.
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Hambilderberglar posted:"How poo poo was country X around the fin de siècle" is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel. But i'll bite anyway, not knowing much about America around this time period. What manner of atrocities were you guys getting up to back then? Helping coin the term "banana republic", Hearst instigating a war against Spain, and the occupation of the Philippines come to mind.
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The problem is that some countries are still doing this now, in 2016. PS. I like how the British one has J=Judges instead of, oh, Justice. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 10:50 on Aug 29, 2016 |
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Antti posted:Helping coin the term "banana republic", Hearst instigating a war against Spain, and the occupation of the Philippines come to mind. Ofaloaf posted:loving W made me gasp for air
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So I know nobody gave a poo poo about the Irish, but weren't the Scots and the Welsh kinda peeved about the whole "BY JOLLY IT SURE IS GOOD RULING AN ENGLISH EMPIRE FROM ENGLAND AS AN ENGLISHMAN" thing? I mean there wouldn't even be an United Britain without a Scottish King who got it from a Welsh royal family!
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DarkCrawler posted:So I know nobody gave a poo poo about the Irish, but weren't the Scots and the Welsh kinda peeved about the whole "BY JOLLY IT SURE IS GOOD RULING AN ENGLISH EMPIRE FROM ENGLAND AS AN ENGLISHMAN" thing? I mean there wouldn't even be an United Britain without a Scottish King who got it from a Welsh royal family! Until the 20th century Scots nationalism wasn't really a thing and Welsh nationalism has never been a big thing.
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Rumda posted:Until the 20th century Scots nationalism wasn't really a thing and Welsh nationalism has never been a big thing. Welsh kids at school used to be forced to wear a token around their necks if they were caught speaking Welsh. The only way to get rid of it was if you heard another kid speaking Welsh, then off it would go from around your neck and on to theirs. Whichever kid had the thing around their necks at the end of the school day was beaten.
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Over 80% of the country thinks that immigrants should be required to learn English, even if they're immigrating from Welsh Patagonia to Gwynedd to work for a Welsh language publication, even though Welsh is an official language in Wales and English is not an official language in England. Purple - more than one official language, green - one official language but functionally multilingual, blue - no official language and multiple languages in practice.
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If immigrants speak Welsh they should be let in to work in curiosity museums The Devil Tongued Patagonian
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I just meant that hundreds upon hundreds of years of practices such as the one I described do some things to a people and their identity.
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Guavanaut posted:Over 80% of the country thinks that immigrants should be required to learn English, even if they're immigrating from Welsh Patagonia to Gwynedd to work for a Welsh language publication, even though Welsh is an official language in Wales and English is not an official language in England.
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Grey is where people don't speak any languages
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Kurtofan posted:Grey is where people don't speak any languages Brazilians, much like the common bee, communicate by shaking their posterior.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Sweden and United Kingdom both should be green. Kurtofan posted:Grey is where people don't speak any languages
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You can't classify what Australians speak into any category.
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Hambilderberglar posted:"How poo poo was country X around the fin de siècle" is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel. But i'll bite anyway, not knowing much about America around this time period. What manner of atrocities were you guys getting up to back then? -The US Supreme Court upheld Plessy v. Ferguson which stated that segregation was okay as long as everyone got equal treatment. -Haymarket Massacre. A bunch of striking workers were holding a rally in Chicago when a bomb went off and the police open fired on the crowd. The reason everyone (except the US) celebrates Labor or Union or Worker's day on May 1. -Massacre at Wounded Knee. The US Army opens fire on a camp of Lakota men, women, children, killing at least 150. Peanut President fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Aug 29, 2016 |
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cheerfullydrab posted:Welsh kids at school used to be forced to wear a token around their necks if they were caught speaking Welsh. The only way to get rid of it was if you heard another kid speaking Welsh, then off it would go from around your neck and on to theirs. Whichever kid had the thing around their necks at the end of the school day was beaten. anyone whose actually seen/heard welsh knows that the welsh deserve to be beaten up
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