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steinrokkan posted:It's just bizarre that a development that must rely entirely on the city it neighbours can justify not joining it administratively. Yep. And it plays merry hell with a city's tax base. When all of the middle- and high-income citizens fled back in the sixties, and now fight tooth and nail to avoid ever paying any taxes to the city again, the city's services suffer badly.
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Phlegmish posted:I live in the rape of Manhood. My personal favorite is the rape of Buttinghill. Though Battle Rape is a pretty close second. edit. Apparently the rapes are the big divisions. Which is a little sad, since boroughs aren't nearly as exciting. Quorum fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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TheImmigrant posted:The bloodsuckers on the federal government are mostly in Northern Virginia. Ahh, and yet somehow we managed to avoid getting saddled with their bad reputation, while still benefiting from their tax revenues! Sweet.
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HookShot posted:Greater Scandinavia wins for having parts on North America as well as Europe. I love this map because you can see the Varangian Guard retirement homes in northern Thrace.
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So, sort of a cross between distribution_of_suburbs.jpg and us_rainfall.jpg? I can see it. It helps that urban areas are already disproportionately in areas with actual water, with the notable exception of California.
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Aug 8, 2015 05:05
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vintagepurple posted:The obvious thing to take from this map is "the south is the poorest part of the country, especially appalachia" but I know so many people back in Texas that would look at it and think it confirms that "small government fiscal conservatism" keeps prices low and the economy healthy. To which the response is simple: it's supply and demand! There's more demand for parts of the country that aren't impoverished and sad, so the price of living there is higher! (Since it's literally impossible to increase the supply of New York. Except for housing I guess.) These folks are supposed to worship the Iron Laws of the Market, right?
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 And that, gentlemen, is how I straight-up murdered three seals before lunchtime! Crumpets, anyone?
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Didn't the Catholic Church in France historically have a little more institutional freedom than its counterparts in other places? Or is that just something my brain made up at some point? No, that's accurate, for much of the early modern period. Where other nations flirted with starting their own churches, the French crown basically clung hard to Catholicism, suborning bits of the Catholic hierarchy to its own service. It helped that France, as one of the most powerful remaining Catholic realms, could basically tell the Pope to gently caress off if it wanted to, and the Pope couldn't risk that happening.
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Jerry Cotton posted:The gently caress is a head of government? Head of government is the bigwig executive. Head of state is in charge of cutting ribbons and shaking diplomats' hands. Sometimes these are the same person.
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Sep 4, 2015 04:40
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DarkCrawler posted:I couldn't even name Denmark's monarch to be honest (and I'm Finnish). I'm pretty certain that if you asked say, a random American they wouldn't even know Denmark is a monarchy. Yes, and do you know who was one? 
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DrSunshine posted:Since the Holy Roman Emperor was elected, does that mean that Merkel is the Kaiserin? The closest thing to it, yep. Especially if you consider the German state a legitimate successor to the first two Reichs.
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Sep 12, 2015 21:21
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Torrannor posted:I must always laugh at these maps in which no part of the former USA ever joins Canada Also, all maps in which VA somehow goes completely to some sort of neo-Confederacy. You're gonna have to slice off at least the northern third and give it to the DC rump state, and that's assuming the southeastern third doesn't want to stay too because of the sweet sweet military money pipe.
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Sep 18, 2015 16:08
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Pretty sure it's not so much to do with them being hot and muscular (because basically all laborers are muscular), but more to do with blacksmithing being a respected, well-compensated skilled trade in constant high demand up until the Industrial Revolution. Same goes for millers, priests, bakers... pretty much all those things except shepherds and probably miners? Which are isolated.
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From this we learn that Europe played entirely too much Crusader Kings 2 and EU4, and in punishment, a congress of African leaders should be convened to redraw all of their borders arbitrarily.
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Sep 29, 2015 23:31
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Peanut President posted:The US isn't a country because it is a Union of States No this is super wrong sorry! A union of states can become a nation-- just look at Switzerland, or Germany! Typically it involves a new governing document indicating the transition, or else a constitutional crisis in which a 'new' interpretation of the original document wins out. Guess which one we had! And if I'm reading this post correctly it argues that the US isn't a democracy because it's a republic, and it isn't a republic because it's a democracy.  You are correct about not technically being at war though.
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Oct 15, 2015 07:28
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Finally all of Scandinavia is Advanced, while the US has entered the Modern period. Ugh. How long before Sweden is just repeating Future Tech whilst laying waste to Europe with Giant Death Robots???
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Oct 26, 2015 23:33
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Lord Wexia posted:I know pretty much nothing of Chinese politics. Yes. The ROC is what remains of nationalist China, which was overthrown in Mao's revolution. It maintained control over Taiwan, and only over Taiwan, but retained its claim to be the legitimate Chinese government. This is clearly laughable, but it took a while for the PRC's claims to be recognized, because scary communists. The web of international recognition is still pretty tangled, as for a while (and possibly still) the PRC was very prickly about maintaining diplomatic relations with a nation that also had relations with the ROC.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:It's probably been posted, but: Maybe we can compromise, and just give them Texas?
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Albermarle County is the island of cherry-red in west-central Virginia, circling Charlottesville. It's also Virginia's wine and horse country, where an inordinate number of wineries (including Trump's) are located. I can believe it's only half natives. Also visible is the DC agglomeration, trailing down from Arlington toward Stafford. The dark red in the southeast is VA Beach, obviously, but I'm not sure about the one on the peninsula between Richmond and Norfolk. James City or York County, I think, so it's probably down to military bases. We've got a lot of them. I think the one down in the far southwest is just people straying across the border from Tennessee.
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Whiteness is a social construct the nature of which changes from generation to generation, A Good Map.
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Dec 30, 2015 21:29
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For some reason, white supremacists have a hard-on for the Holy Roman Empire and its various descendents and bastard children with Christian Scandinavia. I wonder why this could be. I mean, this map is literally just HRE.jpg plus the most Normanized bits of England and the populated parts of Scandinavia, leaving out the bits that stayed with ancestral belief practices longest.
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Dec 30, 2015 21:39
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Byzantine posted:That's not the HRE, it's Charlemagne's Empire. Well, granted-- crusader kings 2 leads me to conflate the two, and the HRE certainly liked to trace itself directly to Charlie. Either way, very much germaniceurope.jpg.
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Juffo-Wup posted:It's always kinda a coin toss whether Colorado shows up on maps of states that are bad in whatever way. Hmm! I wonder if you could compile a meta-analysis map, in which states were colored on a spectrum of blue to red based on what percentage of maps have them in the "good state" category.
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Promontorium posted:Yes you could. And what constitutes "good" would differ between everyone else. Well, at least your map would show you where you could go to find the most people who agree with your specific version of good. Unfortunately the map would be useless for everyone else...unless you made it interactive. Like a better version of one of those terrible "What _____ are you?" surveys. Each person could choose all the "good" aspects in their opinion, then the map would show them where they can get the most applause for patting themselves on the back. I'm aware of the concept of relative morality, yes.
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No Safe Word posted:Rivers are for nerds. Cities not built around rivers or the coast are modern abominations created by the steel demons of the railroad, hth
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fishmech posted:This. Furry conventions?
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People who use the wrong system of units are subhuman and bad people, and should be outlawed, IMO.
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The Belgian posted:The Vatican also has the college of cardinals. College of Cardinals isn't a legislature, as it makes no laws. It's more like the Electors of the Holy Roman Empire. Either way, it doesn't have authority over the Vatican, but over the Catholic Church. The closest thing Catholicism has is an ecumenical council, but the Vatican itself is essentially the modern translation of the personal fiefdom of the pope.
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Feb 8, 2016 00:22
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ZShakespeare posted:The USA after destroying Canada and Mexico in order to be more geographically compact. Also, using planetbuster bombs to destroy Alaska and Hawaii, and replacing them with artificially constructed islands in the new Sea of Mexico.
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Feb 12, 2016 20:17
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American English = anyone with a name like Bradford or Byrd.
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oystertoadfish posted:it is a pronunciation map. what is the word whose first syllable is pronounced one way in the red colored areas and another in the blue? Pecan?
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Mar 2, 2016 21:50
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Done well, both are genres which explore familiar subjects (man's inhumanity to man, the terror of the unknown, war and politics) in unfamiliar settings, like how Game of Thrones is basically just the Wars of the Roses with dragons and ice zombies, and the Foundation series is basically the collapse of the Western Roman Empire IN SPACE. Done poorly, they're both garbage wish fulfillment in worlds where humans do cool poo poo they can't really do, like fly through space or do fire magic. (Do love me some acceptably-written garbage fantasy, though, so I'm not one to talk.)
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Mar 8, 2016 21:30
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Jaramin posted:Problem (poorly) solved!     Utterly impractical, but God bless Meximericanada.
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The DC flag really is top-notch. It's as though they channeled all the creative energies they don't get to express in Congress into making a good flag! And while the only redeeming quality of Virginia's mediocre seal-flag is that it's the only state flag with tits, Richmond's flag is pretty cool too:
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Mar 14, 2016 04:16
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Dreddout posted:I don't know what your talking about that one looks like a corporate logo. That's the point! North American Union, powered by Viridian Dynamics.
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Mar 14, 2016 20:47
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Jaramin posted:Israel, a notably better place to be born than the United Kingdom, France, or Japan. Yep. I can see it working out that way, depending on what statistics they used and what weighting they gave each of them. Israel excels in quite a few metrics, even if the "proximity to never-ending hell-war" factor tends to tank its numbers. That's assuming they didn't just arbitrarily pick categories, of course.
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Mar 14, 2016 20:59
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Jaramin posted:It beats none of those three countries in Corruption, Press freedom, "Global Competitiveness," Education, Deomocracy, or obviously Peace Gives credence to the "just arbitrarily assigned categories" theory, then. It's odd because Canada is higher than the US, which seems to indicate that this isn't an America gently caress Yeah map, but Israel gets more points than most of western Europe, which is a point of view with substantial overlap with America gently caress Yeah.
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Mar 14, 2016 21:27
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Dreddout posted:Also it ignores the fact that quality of life varies by location. This is why some of my favorite maps are those speculative Balkanized-US maps, because nobody ever does their research for them.
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Peanut President posted:There's a lot of great ones I'm the Bible Belt saying "dang" and Utah saying "effing."
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Debate & Discussion > politically-loaded maps: white people
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