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System Metternich posted:"berlin" - "munich" - "hamburg" - "cologne" (i.e. Germany's four largest cities) lmao Baden-Württemberg
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think most stereotypes of victorian prudishness are vastly exaggerated. Ironically people can prudish but also gently caress like bunnies.
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elbkaida posted:lmao Baden-Württemberg
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think most stereotypes of victorian prudishness are vastly exaggerated. It really doesn't take a lot of loving to make a bunch of kids when nobody is using birth control.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Naked table legs being scandalous was a Victorian joke about how those religious nut Americans were a bunch of puritan prudes who were afraid of phallic table legs Right. The story comes from Frances Trollope's "Domestic Manners of the Americans", which is a travellogue of her trip to the US. She apparently hated it, because the book is savage as hell, but all really funny. It's basically "America is full of evangelical prudes, slaveowners, people who spit tobacco everywhere, and provincial hicks who think they're sophisticated. She ends it like this: quote:A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.
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That is both a horrendously ugly map — use a real drawing program like Illustrator and not MS Paint for christ's sake WTO — and the color scheme is incompetent. "Yes, dark blue, orange, light blue, red, teal, this is a good spectrum of colors." That really makes me trust their analysis if they can't even color a map correctly.
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Also what the hell is going on with France and Britain there.
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I'm "No data" Black and Caspian sea.
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I'd be more worried if they had data. 
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Private Speech posted:Also what the hell is going on with France and Britain there. 100% reduction in trade costs from being obliterated by an asteroid.
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The funny thing is that the warning criteria for places like Houston is 2" or so of snow.
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I feel like this map is too clever for its own good and conveys less information than, say, a map of the geometric center of each zipcode, which is more or less density.jpg. Unless for some reason you didn’t know that they ended at state borders or something.
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Private Speech posted:Also what the hell is going on with France and Britain there. They dropped their guard and forgot to add "France", which is not a real country.
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King Hong Kong posted:I feel like this map is too clever for its own good and conveys less information than, say, a map of the geometric center of each zipcode, which is more or less density.jpg. It does nicely show the "regional boundaries" within each state where they deliberately kept the numbers close together. You wouldn't get that on a dot map that doesn't show the numerical ordering at all. 
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King Hong Kong posted:I feel like this map is too clever for its own good and conveys less information than, say, a map of the geometric center of each zipcode, which is more or less density.jpg. there are a handful of multi-state zipcodes, for instance for island communities in one state that are serviced by ferries from another state, or military bases that are mostly in one state but have an entrance in another state etc.
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Some of these maps make zero sense. For instance why is this all disconnected bits?  Some actual maps of Dutch postcodes:  First two numbers: 
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Powered Descent posted:It does nicely show the "regional boundaries" within each state where they deliberately kept the numbers close together. You wouldn't get that on a dot map that doesn't show the numerical ordering at all. Yeah, that’s a good point. I was looking at CA, OR, WA, and so on where the clustering is more or less a function of where settlements exist and are divided by mountains and deserts so it isn’t as obvious.
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galagazombie posted:Seeing how hopeless the E.U has been at getting Europe to work together, I wonder how the hell the US managed to get 13 essentially independent countries to give up far more sovereignty than the EU has ever asked of it's members. the constant threat of being reinvaded by the biggest naval power in the world. Similar to why Central America united together after seceding from Mexico then quickly disintegrated when Mexico showed no interest in reconquering them.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:the constant threat of being reinvaded by the biggest naval power in the world. Similar to why Central America united together after seceding from Mexico then quickly disintegrated when Mexico showed no interest in reconquering them. Given how the isthmus is split by a mountain range that made travelling between the Caribbean and Pacific coasts a major pain, its actually quite curious that the region didn't end up in a Chile/Argentina-style configuration.
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:Given how the isthmus is split by a mountain range that made travelling between the Caribbean and Pacific coasts a major pain, its actually quite curious that the region didn't end up in a Chile/Argentina-style configuration. I thought you were talking about the US itself there for a moment. An interesting thought on its own.
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Rule of law? Scandinavia: No. (I'm the mixed indigenous and Napoleonic systems being 'civil' in Europe and mixed civil and customary in Africa.) (I'm also the Jewish law of the sea.)
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This site is keeping track of power outages across the US and if you click a state, it'll show you a county breakdown. https://poweroutage.us/area/regions Something interesting is that if you click in through Texas, you'll see that El Paso and the panhandle are doing much better because they're not actually on the Texas power grid. People theorize a lot about how social differences would separate areas if there was an apocalypse, but I don't think many people consider how a lot of areas are split apart by their infrastructure.
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I don't quite understand the coloration—so we have sky blue, such as France, which is "pure" civil law, and with a flavor often mentioned, such as Napoleonic. (Also "Chilean law", is that an actual common term? I guess I could Google it.) You then have teal Tunisia, which means it's a mix of Sharia and civil law, and that Civil Law has a Napoleonic flavor, whereas Morocco and Algeria are a mix of Sharia and civil law, and the civil law has both Napoleonic and Sharia elements? Why does Tunisia not get the "P" modifier, when it has Islamic law applying to it in e.g. issues of inheritance? Not trying to nitpick the map, just trying to understand it, perhaps there are some mistakes. Why does Mali not get an "N" for it? Does the person making the map think it's a mix of customary and civil law (i.e. light blue) but they don't know what "flavor" the civil law has? Also wait what, it shows the Vatican City law as... Napoleonic civil law? That doesn't seem very accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Vatican_City Saladman fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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I am not sure who decided to enlarge Europe and place it much closer to the US and Canada, but I think I am in favor.
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Minenfeld! posted:The funny thing is that the warning criteria for places like Houston is 2" or so of snow. The west and panhandle genuinely does look like Canada right now, although likely all the snow will be gone before the weekend. dwarf74 posted:I am not sure who decided to enlarge Europe and place it much closer to the US and Canada, but I think I am in favor.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:And Iceland is ideally placed to benefit from global warming
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dwarf74 posted:I am not sure who decided to enlarge Europe and place it much closer to the US and Canada, but I think I am in favor.
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Albino Squirrel posted:I'm personally interested by Thicc Labrador Morally Inept re-reg alert FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Feb 16, 2021 |
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 Power outage in Texas. The blue areas are (mostly) not part of ERCOT (the independent Texas power grid), but part of the Western and Eastern Interconnections. Blue is 0% outage. Source: https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas] DTurtle fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Feb 16, 2021 |
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Lubbock is in the blue area up north but desperately wants to be under the red waves.
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I have goon friends from San Antonio. It's a collapse. The state was completely unprepared for the cold wave, and homeless people are freezing to death. As much as I dislike US and wouldn't mind a few well targeted meteors dropping on it, the people hit hardest by this are the ones who did me no harm, and I'm furious at how much they've been failed by their countrymen. And there's a... special kind of disgust I feel for Yanks who are gloating about this tragedy. hurrrr, republican stronghold, as if a dirt poor black dude who died yesterday had the power to change anything.
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