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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Prevalence of kidney stones? This sounds like the most obscure map ever. Naturally, it exists and also is surprisingly politically loaded:  quote:Map of United States with current 'stone-belt' or high-risk stone area (risk ratio >1.2) in yellow. Computer model predicts expansion of stone-belt over time in orange (2050) and in red (2095). Currently, 41% of the population is within a high-risk zone. Computer model predicts 56% of the population will be in a high-risk zone by 2050 and 70% by 2095. Reprinted from Brikowski et al. 3 with permission. And I like guessing maps! Here's another one - guess the disease:   It's Lung Cancer. Jesus, Kentucky, what is wrong with you? 
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System Metternich posted:
Coal mining is what's wrong with them.
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System Metternich posted:This sounds like the most obscure map ever. Naturally, it exists and also is surprisingly politically loaded: I only knew about it myself because I saw a map about kidney stones when I got my first one and looked up the causes 
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Antti posted:Coal mining is what's wrong with them. I also thought that, but the areas with high lung cancer prevalence don't seem to correspond with coal-heavy ones:  And the abstract of this paper tells me that 90% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking, so it seems that Kentuckians just smoke a lot? No idea 
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Antti posted:Coal mining is what's wrong with them. Nope, it's smoking.
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Antti posted:Coal mining is what's wrong with them. Yeah no Kentucky is just the smokingest state. The Eastern Coalfields basically just have a whole lot of problems.
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Huh, that's surprising. I guess in modern times there's enough safety precautions?
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Basil Hayden posted:Yeah no Kentucky is just the smokingest state. While Kentucky leads in percentage of smokers, New Hampshire apparently leads the nation in consumption per day by a full three cigs.  Better Resolution Tedd_Not_Ed fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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I wonder if those smoking rates are getting skewed by bad smuggling stats. They say they take smuggling into account, but when NH has like half the tax MA does, and then you see the NH has a super high rate, and MA has a super low rate, I wonder if there are more cigarettes being smuggled than they think. Other possibility is that high excise taxes are really having that detrimental of effect on smoking rates in those states.
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Mikl posted:Let's play a round of "Guess What This Map's About"! Horse Archers per capita.
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DrSunshine posted:Horse Archers per capita.
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Tedd_Not_Ed posted:While Kentucky leads in percentage of smokers, New Hampshire apparently leads the nation in consumption per day by a full three cigs. Utah, not many people smoke, but those that do...
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System Metternich posted:
  
Mike the TV fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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Jun 20, 2014 18:58
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Oh crap, how did Oregon get so much PCB contamination? quote:Boardman! 
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Hedera Helix posted:Oh crap, how did Oregon get so much PCB contamination? https://public.health.oregon.gov/healthyenvironments/EnvironmentalExposures/ToxicSubstances/Pages/pcbs.aspx
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Meltathon posted:I wonder if those smoking rates are getting skewed by bad smuggling stats. They say they take smuggling into account, but when NH has like half the tax MA does, and then you see the NH has a super high rate, and MA has a super low rate, I wonder if there are more cigarettes being smuggled than they think. Other possibility is that high excise taxes are really having that detrimental of effect on smoking rates in those states. NH always ranks high on maps like this because of low taxes relative to the other states nearby (and no sales tax), the fact that so many border stores capitalize on this, and the fact that the liquor stores are the highway rest-stops (seriously). NH also ranks first in alcohol consumption but it uses the same method of measurement, units bought divided by population. The liquor store at the Portsmouth Traffic Circle used to be the busiest in the world; it's basically at the crossroads of the highway up into NH's lake region and the highway into Maine. Every weekend it would make a killing on weekend vacationers from Massachusetts and points south coming up to their vacation homes and then stocking up on the way back because it's so much cheaper. Not surprisingly they sell cigarettes at those stores as well. The other thing that apparently makes a killing in those border towns is car tires, apparently Massachusetts wants NH to pass a law that requires you be a citizen of the state before you buy tires. Not sure why it's such a big deal.
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drat, NH owns. Also, if they do pass that law, what the hell are you supposed to do if a visitor's tires get destroyed somehow while in the sate?
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mobby_6kl posted:drat, NH owns. Also, if they do pass that law, what the hell are you supposed to do if a visitor's tires get destroyed somehow while in the sate?
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Maybe the ideal law will limit the number of tires to one? So they can't buy a whole set? It's a moot point anyway, clearly NH is never going to pass something that both: A) Limits their take on taxes, and B) helps out Massachusetts. Back to NH liquor stores and maps, look at this foolishness: http://www.liquorandwineoutlets.com/stores/store_locator All those ones on the highway? Like I said, they're on the highway. This picture doesn't do the best job of showing it, but if you look in the background you can see the highway guardrails. This is literally the rest stop and since certain parts of the highways are tolled for some of these you can't go anywhere but back on the highway.  Also, you can buy beer and wine at grocery stores, but if you want hard stuff these are your only option. The State is making a fortune on liquor sales. EDIT: Oh, and if you're looking at the linked map and you see a liquor store in the north of the state not really close to any highways or borders? Chances are it's in a town on a lake or near a ski resort. Pook Good Mook fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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It feels loving bizarre that Europe has had a single market for two decades, but the US, a loving federation, is still having internal border issues like that
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Pook Good Mook posted:Maybe the ideal law will limit the number of tires to one? So they can't buy a whole set? C) Runs afoul of the Interstate Commerce Clause in the Constitution.
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Old James posted:C) Runs afoul of the Interstate Commerce Clause in the Constitution. No Massachusetts wants NH to either pass it's own law or they want sales of tires to Mass residents in NH to be reported to MA taxes. The first would be fine (it just won't happen), the second one is probably more iffy (and also won't happen). Pook Good Mook fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Jun 21, 2014 |
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steinrokkan posted:It feels loving bizarre that Europe has had a single market for two decades, but the US, a loving federation, is still having internal border issues like that Now you know why it's called the UNITED STATES of America.
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steinrokkan posted:It feels loving bizarre that Europe has had a single market for two decades, but the US, a loving federation, is still having internal border issues like that You could probably pass a federal law about it but no one outside of Massachusetts really cares.
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steinrokkan posted:It feels loving bizarre that Europe has had a single market for two decades, but the US, a loving federation, is still having internal border issues like that I'm not sure which part you're referring to. Alcohol and cigarette smuggling takes place in Europe due to differences in regulations and taxes. It's pretty common for Finns and Swedes to come to Estonia to buy cheap alcohol.
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Mu Cow posted:I'm not sure which part you're referring to. Alcohol and cigarette smuggling takes place in Europe due to differences in regulations and taxes. It's pretty common for Finns and Swedes to come to Estonia to buy cheap alcohol. You are right that there's not a full harmonization in taxes and duties, but elimination of direct market regulation within the EU, combined with legal and executive efforts by the Commission have led, and are working towards convergence: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparliament/en/displayFtu.html?ftuId=FTU_5.11.3.html http://www.res.org.uk/details/mediabrief/4247901/EUROPES-SINGLE-MARKET-HAS-KEPT-TAXES-ON-ALCOHOL-AND-TOBACCO-LOW.html
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At least in the case of booze laws, you can blame a lot of the bizarre patchwork on prohibition. Some areas were less happy than others about its repeal and so put their own restrictions in place, and there generally isn't enough push to change them. I know my state only cared about them once breweries started generating enough cash for their concerns to be politically relevant.
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Ignoring...every other problem with that, couldn't 'Arabia' be called Najd, after the kingdom that merged with Hijaz to make Saudi Arabia?
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Greater Azerbaijan :wiz:
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Why the gently caress did they rename South Sudan into New Sudan (as if this map wasn't batshit enough to begin with)
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steinrokkan posted:Greater Azerbaijan :wiz: Why not? There are plenty Azerbaijanis in Iran: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Azerbaijanis
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I like how Syria loses its coast, a chunk of the south and a large part of the north but calls itself Greater Syria because it own a bit of Lebanon.
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System Metternich posted:Why the gently caress did they rename South Sudan into New Sudan
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There was actually a Sino-Albanian split. That's right, by the end of the Cold War Albania considered itself to be the only properly communist country in the world.
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Phlegmish posted:There was actually a Sino-Albanian split. That's right, by the end of the Cold War Albania considered itself to be the only properly communist country in the world. Yeah, it was pretty crazy. I can kinda get Yugoslavia being seen as a proper alternative to both Soviet and Chinese communism, but poor Albania turned into a forgotten corner of the Balkan and turned into a shithole nobody spoke nor heard of during the cold war.
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How is occupation of a country the best option? If you're redrawing the map, why not just annex Eritrea to Ethiopia?
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Is that Balochistan on Iran's southeastern border?
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System Metternich posted:Why the gently caress did they rename South Sudan into New Sudan The map is from a 2007 vintage Atlantic article http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2014/06/20/the_new_map_of_the_middle_east_334996.html
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^^^^ Then the Eritrean thing makes even less sense unless people have a hard-on for spreading democracy to a repressive state that lacks oil ^^^^ How old is this map to not bother showing a free Eritrea? Or is there some Ethiopian irredentism at play here? ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jun 22, 2014 |
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