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Hahaha at Delaware having the least number of national parks. No poo poo, it's loving tiny!
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DarkCrawler posted:Hahaha at Delaware having the least number of national parks. No poo poo, it's loving tiny!
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Mar 18, 2013 02:29
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Ammat The Ankh posted:How is Ohio the "Nerdiest State"? A vast majority of both astronauts and NASA personnel come from Ohio
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7thBatallion posted:A vast majority of both astronauts and NASA personnel come from Ohio I had a professor (from Michigan) who hypothesized they simply were trying to get as far out of Ohio as possible.
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Mar 18, 2013 02:37
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Washington State: Problem? Most invasive snails. Solution? Beastiality!
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I know one guy from Ohio. He is a nerd.
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Mar 18, 2013 02:43
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Soylent Pudding posted:I had a professor (from Michigan) who hypothesized they simply were trying to get as far out of Ohio as possible. I am not from Ohio but have lived here for 9 years, this is very true. Ohio sucks.
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Scans are detecting critical levels of Sonic the Hedgehog in Ohio! So yeah probably the nerdiest state.
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Antwan3K posted:It's all about marathon v 100m sprint. Consistency against explosiveness if you will. I can only speak for ND, but I don't think Arizona can beat us for either binge drinking or alcoholism. And from what I've heard Wisconsin is even worse. My point is ND sucks even worse than Arizona.
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Mar 18, 2013 05:23
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DarkCrawler posted:Hahaha at Delaware having the least number of national parks. No poo poo, it's loving tiny! It's almost as shocking as an enormous state with a scattered population and few roads having a lot of airports. How awful that all those small isolated towns have little airstrips connecting them to the world.
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Killer robot posted:It's almost as shocking as an enormous state with a scattered population and few roads having a lot of airports. How awful that all those small isolated towns have little airstrips connecting them to the world.
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Killer robot posted:It's almost as shocking as an enormous state with a scattered population and few roads having a lot of airports. How awful that all those small isolated towns have little airstrips connecting them to the world. Or a peninsular state with a huge water area with fine boating weather mostly year round has the most boat accidents. Um, no poo poo.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:How is Ohio the "Nerdiest State"? Some places make rock&roll, other places make rock&roll museums.
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My favorite is North Carolina with fewest Librarians per capita...
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I think "most airports" isn't really a negative, it's not like Alaska is a flat state that you can just walk or drive everything to. Also, that's nothing compared to my state's "Most dams in need of repair". I mean, it's not like Pennsylvania has a notable history of drat failures.
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I know this is from the first page but I learned something in class and want to share, dammit. Social darwinism was a common ideology at the time, which essentially held that the rules of evolution applied to inter-state relations, not just biology. So states would either succeed and conquer, or perish. This was obviously wrong, and it wasn't just believed by the Entente, but everyone.
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semicolonsrock posted:I know this is from the first page but I learned something in class and want to share, dammit. Social darwinism was a common ideology at the time, which essentially held that the rules of evolution applied to inter-state relations, not just biology. So states would either succeed and conquer, or perish. This was obviously wrong, and it wasn't just believed by the Entente, but everyone. Nah, that map is from a book which has a steampunk alt-history WW1 where the Entente powers use genetically modified animals as weapons of wars (Darwinist) and the Central powers use mechas (Klankers). That's all it is about.
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semicolonsrock posted:I know this is from the first page but I learned something in class and want to share, dammit. Social darwinism was a common ideology at the time, which essentially held that the rules of evolution applied to inter-state relations, not just biology. That and in everyday life, so according to the ideology the upper and middle classes deserved to be where they were because they were "fitter" than the "weak" poor.
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UK Election Maps 1955  1966  1974  For a change, the Tory landslide of 1983  And the Labour one of 1997  The UK's regional affiliations are ... not difficult to spot. (Credit for the maps goes to here.) 'Land of Strangers', 'Bright Helmet's Farm' ... and 'Newcastle', 'Blackpool', 'Oxford'. Sometimes we just mean what we say. Oxford City Council also has a particularly literalist bent in its logo: 
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Sleep of Bronze posted:UK Election Maps French election maps from the first round of the 2012 election. Basically, Alsace and the whole northeastern edge of the Hexagon are terrible while Paris, Brittany, the French Basque country and some weird area to the southeast of Limoges are pretty cool. Hollande (Socialist Party)  Sarkozy (UMP - conservative party)  Le Pen (Front National - extreme right)  Mélenchon (Front de Gauche - left and extreme left) 
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Is there a reason that France is more liberal in the south and west and more conservative in the north and east? It's like a reverse America.
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Meltathon posted:Is there a reason that France is more liberal in the south and west and more conservative in the north and east? It's like a reverse America. The northeast section of France is Alsace-Lorraine -- they trade it back and forth with Germany every few decades. I bet that's involved in some way.
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Meltathon posted:Is there a reason that France is more liberal in the south and west and more conservative in the north and east? It's like a reverse America. I'm not entirely sure why the south and southwest are so much more liberal. That peninsula sticking out of the northwest is Brittany, a Celtic nation annexed by France in 1532, which is still pretty culturally different from France proper. Here's the French equivalent of the 2004 election map and Civil War map comparison.  Pink = Hollande, blue = Sarkozy, black = Le Pen. On the map on the right the areas in green were "somewhat foreign provinces" and in red "really foreign provinces". So basically with a few exceptions  Real France except for Paris voted for the liberal so in a way it's kinda like the US.I thould point out that Hollande did win a lot of the departments in the northeast, it's just that the far-right candidate did extremely well there. The second round of the election by city.  prefect posted:The northeast section of France is Alsace-Lorraine -- they trade it back and forth with Germany every few decades. I bet that's involved in some way. Yup. Fun fact: Because they were part of Germany when secularism was legislated in 1905 there still is not legal separation of church and state in Alsace.
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On the topic of electoral maps: alberta.jpg
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Soviet Commubot posted:I thould point out that Hollande did win a lot of the departments in the northeast, it's just that the far-right candidate did extremely well there. That area is also where a lot of the industry and mines were (emphasis on 'were'). Economic decline typically helps far-right parties. I'm puzzled by that staunchly conservative blotch south in the Massif Central. The answer is farmers, isn't it?
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colonel_korn posted:On the topic of electoral maps: Sometimes I hate being here.
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Sleep of Bronze posted:'Land of Strangers', 'Bright Helmet's Farm' ... and 'Newcastle', 'Blackpool', 'Oxford'. Sometimes we just mean what we say. Oxford City Council also has a particularly literalist bent in its logo: Instead I'm from a city named after a town founded by some rear end in a top hat named Brand.
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Soviet Commubot posted:Le Pen (Front National - extreme right) Haha, I like how there's a perfect cutout in the shape of Paris.
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John Liver posted this in the GBS thread about the Tea Party Facebook-equivalent:
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univbee posted:John Liver posted this in the GBS thread about the Tea Party Facebook-equivalent: LOL @ Mississippi = Bangladesh edit: Alabama = Nigeria isn't much better.
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sincx posted:LOL @ Mississippi = Bangladesh Bangladesh has over 50 times as many people as Mississippi.
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Isn't GDP a little 20th century?
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Uhh, what exactly is the point of that map?
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Abel Wingnut posted:Uhh, what exactly is the point of that map? To give a sense of the size of the economies of many countries, and of the United States.
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Oh. I figured they were trying to insult blue states somehow.
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Abel Wingnut posted:Oh. I figured they were trying to insult blue states somehow. The Economist wasn't. But maybe GBS was, there are a lot of stupid people on the internet.
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I, too, find having my state compared to an oil rich nation with a GDP of a bit more than half a trillion dollars and more than 4 times it's population to be insulting.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Isn't GDP a little 20th century? The last time I've seen GDP used as a standalone figure by anyone other than Americans was some time in the mid-eighties when I was a kid. It's used quite a bit as a comparison figure (for instance, to show how GDP per capita has risen massively while household income has sunk or stayed the same).
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cheerfullydrab posted:Isn't GDP a little 20th century? Its just one measure of a countries wealth and should not be treated as the end all of measurements. GDP per capita is basically useless though unless you want to find the average though. 
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For what it's worth here's the other "map" that was posted on the Tea Party Facebook-equivalent: The GDP map was posted in response to that to point out what a terrible idea that would be on a pure economic level.
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