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The X-man cometh posted:South Carolina and Louisiana is rice exports, right? There is also soybeans and in Louisianas case oil and natural gas
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The X-man cometh posted:South Carolina and Louisiana is rice exports, right?
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I could be wrong but I dont think SC does too much rice farming any more. It was huge in the 1800s but has tapered off if I remember correctly. The biggest rice grower in america is Arkansas.
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If you're an [water equivalent of the USA] fish. Completely erasing those filthy fresh-water fish.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:If you're an [water equivalent of the USA] fish. Completely erasing those filthy fresh-water fish. Those saltwater fish sure do swim up the Nile pretty well. All that island experience and they still can't get the right size of Greenland.
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Had no idea fish were Afrocentric
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These fish know a suspicious amount about the Sahara
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Napoleon Nelson posted:These fish know a suspicious amount about the Sahara Like aboriginal tribes with tales of antediluvian lands, fish pass mythic stories of the once-flooded Saharas down the many generations
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https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/docs/default-source/International-Commerce-Docs/china-louisiana_links.pdf?sfvrsn=2 Louisiana exports “agricultural products” (soybeans are the biggest then rice, sugarcane, maybe cotton?)to China an order of magnitude more than the next runner up, copper. Louisiana and China have a bizarrely large amount of trade even by US-China and vice-versa standards. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Apr 8, 2023 |
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Had no idea fish were Afrocentric Humans came out of Africa. Humans evolved from fish. Ipso facto benedicto cucumbo, fish rose from the sea in Africa. Must've done a fair bit of walking around to find a good spot to lay human eggs.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Humans came out of Africa.
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Crossposting somebody's cool map.Vincent Van Goatse posted:There's also an interesting thing related to what the different tribes adopted as a word for these strange new horse things. The earliest adopters, who got their horses from the Spanish, used a variant of the Spanish word for horse and presumably passed that word on northwards. After that, however, it gets interesting.
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Apr 8, 2023 23:07
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Lmao at the peoples who were like 'Look at these weird deer things fuckin FEET.'
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Apr 8, 2023 23:15
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Ojibwe making it clear that horses are not Kosher to eat.
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Apr 9, 2023 00:14
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SlothfulCobra posted:Crossposting somebody's cool map. It's not exactly a new thing - pretty much by definition they've been with us since we started domesticating animals. EDIT: Well, this answers a few things.
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contrast: europeans when encountering a new animal: "it must be from The Mysterious East" americans when encountering a new animal: "weird dog. possibly a weird elk"
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Mister Olympus posted:contrast: Portugal is Balkan confirmed.
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Mister Olympus posted:contrast: You can't handle the truthuhn!
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I like this one that points all the names to the places they describe.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:This is interesting, but makes me want to put in some time to find out whether any of them had a concept of beast of burden. Yep! Calling a horse a "dog" is less due to any physical resemblance and more due to the way horses were treated and the role they filled in society, which had pretty much been filled by dogs (at least as beasts of burden, hunting partners, companionship) before the spread of the horse. You can really see that in the Comanche and Cherokee words for horse. Those roles didn't completely go away for the dog, whose importance to basically every human society is huge, but once you have access to the horse, well, a horse is much better at handling burdens than a dog is.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I like this one that points all the names to the places they describe. The East Asian ones are good and I can see how a lot of them come about. I had to look up the Japanese/Korean one though because it's obviously so different from the others. (It has to do with how colorful their heads/necks can get)
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Apr 9, 2023 06:11
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SlothfulCobra posted:I like this one that points all the names to the places they describe. Scots: Bubbly-jock Fuckin lmao
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Apr 9, 2023 13:15
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SlothfulCobra posted:I like this one that points all the names to the places they describe. I wonder whether some of the “from India” etymologies are necessarily a direct reference to India as opposed to a reference to “the Indies” or borrowing from another language on the basis that one of the first Spanish words for the turkey was “from the Indies” (gallo/gallina de Indias). The Catalan word that is given is almost surely this.
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I squinted through the fine print at the bottom and yeah that's where it's from
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i say swears online posted:I squinted through the fine print at the bottom and yeah that's where it's from Ah, yeah, I see that in the other map. Still, it’s like that one map saying some city’s name means “whale’s vagina” or something when the direct reference is to someone’s name. Obviously “Indies” is itself ultimately a reference to India but putting the actual explanation in barely legible text considerably obscures the “reference.”
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jeebus bob posted:Scots: Bubbly-jock I'm going to guess that is one of those "a my little pony fan created 90% of Scots Wikipedia" things
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King Hong Kong posted:I wonder whether some of the “from India” etymologies are necessarily a direct reference to India as opposed to a reference to “the Indies” or borrowing from another language on the basis that one of the first Spanish words for the turkey was “from the Indies” (gallo/gallina de Indias). The Catalan word that is given is almost surely this. I like that all the Nordic countries went with a name that specifies which city in India the bird supposedly came from. It's like zooming in the map before guessing in Geoguesser to try to not lose a single point, and then getting 0 and seeing the map zoom all the way out to even be able to show you the correct spot in relation to your guess.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Bilbo and Frodo & Sams journeys if it took place in the USA (to scale). This makes perfect sense.
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Offler posted:I like that all the Nordic countries went with a name that specifies which city in India the bird supposedly came from. It's like zooming in the map before guessing in Geoguesser to try to not lose a single point, and then getting 0 and seeing the map zoom all the way out to even be able to show you the correct spot in relation to your guess.
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Rick posted:This makes perfect sense. Florida is definitely Mordor.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Florida is definitely Mordor. And the desolation of Smaug can definitely be found around Youngstown, Ohio
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Judgy Fucker posted:And the desolation of Smaug can definitely be found around Youngstown, Ohio Kansas City is the Shire?
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Owling Howl posted:Kansas City is the Shire? Lawrence is a little closer and it's basically full of Proudfeet
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Owling Howl posted:Kansas City is the Shire? People on the East and West coasts think people in Kansas live in holes in the ground, soo
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Judgy Fucker posted:People on the East and West coasts think people in Kansas live in holes in the ground, soo that's mostly south dakota
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Judgy Fucker posted:People on the East and West coasts think people in Kansas live in holes in the ground, soo They do during tornado season.
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Judgy Fucker posted:People on the East and West coasts think people in Kansas live in holes in the ground, soo They literally did until like the depression
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