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We're all familiar with the classic satellite nighttime city lights picture. But check out this little detail: what the... that's in north dakota! There are like 2 people living there, yet the lights are equivalent to the twin cities  Any guesses what that is?
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Yup, flare gas. Figured it would be easy-ish but I think it's fascinating/horrible that it's as bright as a drat city.
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Jul 8, 2015 20:58
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my dad posted:Meh. What's the difference between that and people in frozen-rear end parts of the Earth depending on winter heating? Huge differences in energy efficiency between the two processes?
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Aug 15, 2016 21:36
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HookShot posted:West Vancouver is in fact a completely different city. Similarly, there's an "East Pittsburgh" that is a totally separate town, about three towns from the eastern city limits in fact. Distinct from the East End, which refers to a swath of neighborhoods on the eastern edge of the city. At least we have a West End to balance it out 
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Aug 18, 2016 12:17
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cheerfullydrab posted:As a map nerd, I would like an article that asks the people of Colorado who reside in the tiny area "ceded" by Texas if they feel they are better or worse being citizens of Colorado rather than Texas, and, if either, then why? Along this line, what do people who live in the northwest angle feel like?
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Aug 19, 2016 12:02
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Woah, I never knew cities could have enclaves like that, with the exception of Vatican city
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Aug 22, 2016 00:42
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joshtothemaxx posted:Fun fact: there have been seven independent cities that have voted to abandon city status and be absorbed (as a town) by the surrounding county, another city, or something else. One of those is my home town. Most recent was Bedford, who in 2013 voted to become part of Bedford County. Was one of them Birmingham, PA voting itself to be annexed by Pittsburgh, or do I misunderstand you?
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Aug 23, 2016 13:07
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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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Aug 28, 2016 18:22
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Nor is nation a synonym of nation-state 
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Aug 30, 2016 15:21
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New version of Alpha Centauri looking good
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Sep 16, 2016 01:28
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mcustic posted:And that's how you fall straight into a black hole. i remember when AppleGalaxy first came out to compete with Google and it was like telling people to go thru a wormhole that didn't even exist, or like siri would telepath you "burn prograde for 62.4 seconds" when there was a star just a few million km in front of you smdh
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Sep 16, 2016 13:33
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Istanbul and Athens  I'm not surprised considering Athens is one of the most polluted cities and then the Erdogan park thing
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Sep 16, 2016 14:12
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double nine posted:it's a polarized country Very nice
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Jan 11, 2017 00:10
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But even the binary flip part of it is dumb, because 50.1% veg is not different than 49.9% veg in any practical sense
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Jan 19, 2017 14:52
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Fun fact that y'all probably knew: the potato is a new world plant, and so was not part of Irish (or German or any European) cuisine until well into the 16th century at the earliest. Same goes for tomatoes and peppers (Italian food without tomatoes??  ), which are all nightshades along with potatoes. There are many more interesting things about the Columbian exchange but since they're not in map form I'll stop here.
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Jan 19, 2017 15:35
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Pakled posted:Isn't most of the corn Americans consume in the form of corn syrup? Corn everything! Corn syrup, corn derived "natural flavors," corn filler, corn based cereal, corn fed to animals, corn corn corn. Buy your very own Corn today!
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Jan 19, 2017 17:45
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HookShot posted:AdiEU and Quitaly are the best. Also Espanope. I really like Departugal too
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Jan 20, 2017 15:57
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These Mercator apologists have really gotten out of hand
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Jan 30, 2017 13:55
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Platystemon posted:No one cares where the wind is going. And its smell 
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Jan 30, 2017 18:03
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HBar posted:
I was going to start with"I'm the..." but no, there's nothing even close to recognizable there except maybe.... Australia?
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Jan 31, 2017 02:50
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:
Still better than the Peters protection...
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Jan 31, 2017 20:31
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When americans call Afghanistan part of the middle east I can never tell if they just have no idea where it is (probably), or are racistly lumping it in with the other muslim countries we bomb (probably), or if they just have a more expansive definition of "middle east" than I do.
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Apr 13, 2021 17:16
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Huh well it looks like I'm the fool then, I think of the middle east as being centered around the levant / arabian peninsula, in part because it's not easy to assign that region to a continent. To me afghanistan is SW Asia.
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Apr 13, 2021 18:01
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A whole lot of places develop some kind of... I'll call it a "colloquial north," based on coastline or some other water feature. Montreal was the first place this was explicitly pointed out to me but I've noticed it a bunch of other places since.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:19
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Vatican? San Marino?
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Aug 20, 2021 18:17
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lol at the anglosphere
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Oct 20, 2021 04:53
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Also why the Caspian Sea and not the Aral Sea? The aral doesn't really exist anymore
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Oct 22, 2021 02:32
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What's up with the US enclave in, i wanna say Saarland or just next to it? Military base?
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Oct 27, 2021 17:01
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:land owned by the government Yeah it's good farmland but the abrupt change across the state borders makes me wonder if there's a policy involved, like lower land taxes or higher farm subsidies than surrounding states, making the land more valuable. Anyway I'm the graduated colors in most of the eastern cities vs the western cities that immediately clip out to the darkest color
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Oct 28, 2021 17:39
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That certainly is politically loaded.
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Oct 29, 2021 00:28
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Guavanaut posted:Amazing that none of them are in Europe. That was my first of many reactions
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Oct 29, 2021 00:33
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Phlegmish posted:The nation-state is a Western invention of the modern era Yeah the map's concept is all hosed up and this is really the ultimate conclusion if you run with it. I think what they were trying to get across is something like, "countries whose borders were at least partially drawn and imposed upon them by European imperial powers" but it fails at that... you could add "in the 20th century" and it's a bit closer but still rife with problems
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Oct 29, 2021 17:13
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frankenfreak posted:The biggest being that the Berlin Conference happened in the 19th. Haha damnit... I was trying to find a way to explain why the americas have no red.
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Oct 29, 2021 17:23
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Yeah the franchise system has always bewildered me. How can a team change cities, players, and owners, and still be considered the same team??
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Oct 29, 2021 18:04
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:in their attempt to move from baltimore to indianapolis, the colts had to dodge state police because the governor ordered the team seized by the state My god... It's like when the topes moved from Springfield to Albuquerque e: bonus fact, Albuquerque does in fact have a minor league team called the Isotopes, named after that Simpsons episode. They have Simpsons themed cheers and stuff.
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Oct 29, 2021 18:29
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Blut posted:
Wow, I'm from Pittsburgh and I didn't realize the Steelers fandom crept that close to Philly or Cleveland.
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Oct 29, 2021 19:11
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Tree Goat posted:anyway here’s another map that purports to be on the same topic but they added a bunch of weird elon musk “androids” to it for no obvious reason One of them is carrying a Bitcoin pumpkin too 
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Oct 31, 2021 17:28
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Yeah Swiss German is crazy different, talk to anyone outside of a train station and it's incomprehensible until you reveal that you are not local, then they will speak "standard" German for you. Bavarian/Austrian are weird sounding to me but not incomprehensible, it's more like a very thick accent with some funny dialect words but not the different beast that Swiss German is.
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Nov 2, 2021 01:30
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Randarkman posted:I mean the distinction between language and dialect is pretty arbitrary and ill-defined to begin with, especially in how its used generally (which varies by language among other things). Some famous linguist once said "a language is a dialect with an army" or something like that. The point being that the distinction is often driven by nationalism. An interesting opposite example of this is that IIRC the PRC insists that Mandarin and Cantonese are simply local dialects, rather than the completely different languages they are, because they have an interest in pushing Chinese unity.
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It's all about the letter's you don't pronounce
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