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esquilax posted:Nah it was an american professor, and it actually kind of makes sense. Yeah you're right.
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Disco Infiva posted:Some of this maps were probably posted already but still: Kashmir?
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Barudak posted:Finally, every airport in the world will bow before the might of the English Empire (but only on request). Unless it's Narita. 
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May 9, 2014 17:33
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Kurtofan posted:Kashmir? Looks like they put Ireland back in the UK too, as is only fair.
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They made Belgium a part of La Francophonie. Some people are going to be pissed.
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Kurtofan posted:Kashmir? Taiwan would be my guess
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Disco Infiva posted:Some of this maps were probably posted already but still: Now put Russia in there.
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Broken Cog posted:Now put Russia in there. Hmm, looks like Africa still wins against Russia in the size competition.
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US map grab bag: Street price of weed per ounce:    Etymology of county names:  
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drat, Russia is over half as big as Africa, not bad considering it's a country vs a continent. Also, why is Africa and Europe the only continents on that page?
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That is the worst Cascadia I've ever seen.
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Lord Hydronium posted:Street price of weed per ounce: the gently caress is going on with this map
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made of bees posted:the gently caress is going on with this map quote:The map relies upon thousands of user reports on marijuana purchases referenced to city locations from the Priceofweed website. After cleaning the data to get rid of the outliers, we created a continuous surface using a statistical interpolation technique known as kriging to identify the average variance among price differences through a spherical semivariogram model. To obtain a price for each location show in the map above, an interpolated value was estimated as a weighted average of prices from its twelve neighboring points.
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Lord Hydronium posted:Etymology of county names: Probably mostly reliable, but I found at least one case that's clearly wrong: Williamson County, Texas was named for an American, not a Spaniard/Mexican. Unless he was nationalized Mexican while he was there.  Edit: Also, Edward H. Tarrant (Tarrant County, Texas) was named after a South Carolinian, not a Frenchman. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 19:08 on May 9, 2014 |
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Lord Hydronium posted:
I'm irrationally angry about the one white county in New Hampshire (the county I grew up in). It's Merrimack county, named after the Merrimack River whose name is generally considered to be taken from what the local Indians called it in the local dialect. It would have taken 2 seconds to Google it. Damnit lazy map makers.
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Koramei posted:Looks like they put Ireland back in the UK too, as is only fair. This. Taiwan and Kashmir are disputed, but you can still understand why have they put it there. Ireland being in UK is  Instead of UK, it should have been British Isles, that makes much more sense. Grand Fromage posted:Ah, so it's a fantasy thing about going off and conquering anywhere that has your language speakers in it. I guess that makes sense. To briefly touch on the language chat from before, this is the main political reason why Croatian linguists wants to distance Croatian language from Serbian.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Probably mostly reliable, but I found at least one case that's clearly wrong: I don't think it's about where the guy came from, but where the last name came from. So Williamson was obviously erroneous (probably British) but Tarrant? Yeah, that might be a name of French extraction, even if the Tarrant the county is named for came from NC.
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Iowa being completely unchanged is weird to me. edit: Along with Cascadia being backwards it also doesn't have Transylvania, a proposed state that's half of tennessee and half of kentucky.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:I don't think it's about where the guy came from, but where the last name came from. So Williamson was obviously erroneous (probably British) but Tarrant? Yeah, that might be a name of French extraction, even if the Tarrant the county is named for came from NC. But if that's the case, why highlight American individuals (e.g. George Washington) as American and not English? (Also, Tarrant is an English name derived from the Tarrant River in Dorset, itself an anglicization of a Gaelic name per Ancestry.com. No French involved either way.)
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I... don't know. Guess it's just poorly-researched. Pity, because that's a neat topic for a map. I bet the guy's research for Tarrant county was the same as mine: "Tarrant? Yep, that seems French to me!"
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It doesn't have Sequoyah either. Eastern Oklahoma is "Green" instead, which I've never heard of before. Despite some of the odd choices, I can't fault it if only for having Absaroka, my favorite bizarre alternate-history-state bit of trivia:  And its  flag:
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Lord Hydronium posted:It doesn't have Sequoyah either. Eastern Oklahoma is "Green" instead, which I've never heard of before. Despite some of the odd choices, I can't fault it if only for having Absaroka, my favorite bizarre alternate-history-state bit of trivia: Behold! The forgotten, almost poorest state in the Union!
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Lord Hydronium posted:It doesn't have Sequoyah either. Eastern Oklahoma is "Green" instead, which I've never heard of before. Despite some of the odd choices, I can't fault it if only for having Absaroka, my favorite bizarre alternate-history-state bit of trivia: Less lazy flag than the "let's slap our seal on a navy blue background" flags.
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What's the deal with Vermont and Montana (and by extension Idaho and New Hampshire)? Canadians stealing their jerbs? Low population so one hateful dude skewers the numbers?
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Yeah seriously, Vermont has looked absurdly lovely on a lot of these maps. If anyone in this thread is familiar with Vermont Culture, I'm really curious. My internal stereotype of the state was always that it contained a few dozen rich white liberals in McMansions scattered across an otherwise empty green countryside, which I'm aware is ridiculous and almost certainly not even an exaggeration of the actual place. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 07:24 on May 10, 2014 |
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Disco Infiva posted:What's the deal with Vermont and Montana (and by extension Idaho and New Hampshire)? Canadians stealing their jerbs? Low population so one hateful dude skewers the numbers? For Idaho it's a combination of low population, conservative population, and there being a lot of empty space to run off and start a hate group in. I'd imagine the same holds for Montana.
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Ditocoaf posted:Yeah seriously, Vermont has looked absurdly lovely on a lot of these maps. If anyone in this thread is familiar with Vermont Culture, I'm really curious. Anything outside of the Burlington metro is full of poor people and the state has a crippling oxy/heroin problem. Vermont is actually a really depressing place in alot of ways. Even in Burlington, I've been offered heroin on church street by a teenager and had a young girl ask if she could suck my dick for money outside of a gas station at 7 am. You couldn't pay me to live in that state again. gagelion fucked around with this message at 08:20 on May 10, 2014 |
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Pook Good Mook posted:Behold! The forgotten, almost poorest state in the Union! Woman on the right mos definitely isn't interested in living in Absaroka
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Frostwerks posted:Woman on the right mos definitely isn't interested in living in Absaroka You'd feel the same way too if you were from Gillette.
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Pakled posted:I had no idea that nearly a thousand years after the last time a Greek state ruled the area, there were still Greek-speakers in Southern Italy. I recently watched Italy Unpacked and they mentioned that greek was a dominant language well into the 16th century in the southen parts of Italy.
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Disco Infiva posted:What's the deal with Vermont and Montana (and by extension Idaho and New Hampshire)? Canadians stealing their jerbs? Low population so one hateful dude skewers the numbers? Vermont has ~650,000 people, In other words, to get 6 hate groups per million people they need about 4 of them (and note that hate groups don't have a minimum population - if one dude starts a hate group, that's the same thing as having one with 1,000 members). The same thing goes for those other states, but they have about 2-3 times Vermont's population (so at most they need about 12 hate groups).
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Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I would think that hate group membership per million might be a more meaningful statistic. But I guess those numbers might be harder to get.
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Disco Infiva posted:Hottest and Sexiest Wait so Poland is only normal sexy but the Baltics get to be very sexy? Why is Bolivia excluded from the sexy South Americans party?
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OctaviusBeaver posted:Wait so Poland is only normal sexy but the Baltics get to be very sexy? Why is Bolivia excluded from the sexy South Americans party? Babushka bomb hits at age 35 in Poland. Bolivia and Peru and Guatemala are ranked low for Latin America, and coincidentally the most heavily indigenous countries there.
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OctaviusBeaver posted:Wait so Poland is only normal sexy but the Baltics get to be very sexy? Why is Bolivia excluded from the sexy South Americans party? Sri Lanka isn't green enough. 
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OctaviusBeaver posted:Wait so Poland is only normal sexy but the Baltics get to be very sexy? Why is Bolivia excluded from the sexy South Americans party? You've never seen Bolivians? Ugh! But on a serious note, I am guessing that it has to do with more 'western' values of beauty, and Bolivians are among the most native looking latinos, whereas Argentina, for example, is whiter. TheImmigrant posted:Babushka bomb hits at age 35 in Poland. Bolivia and Peru and Guatemala are ranked low for Latin America, and coincidentally the most heavily indigenous countries there. Basically this, if I had read this post before posting myself.
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Argentina is 98% white; primarily Italians, with lots of Russians, Germans, and Ashkenazi Jews. There are even isolated Welsh settlements all over Patagonia. The joke is that Argentina is a country of Italians speaking Spanish who think they're English. Colombians are just smoking.
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