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Bloodnose posted:The tallest building in Kowloon is The International Commerce Center. It has 118 floors and tops out at about 1600 feet. Wow, it's like a real life version of this: 
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I'm cackling and falling out of my seat here, I never noticed that before. The hilarious thing is that that cluster of buildings was built as part of a complex called the West Kowloon Cultural District that has basically turned into Norman Foster & Partners Draining Billions of Taxpayer Dollars for No Reason. They've had to request like three times the initial estimate from the government since the project began and yeah at a certain angle they're giving the finger to Central. Hilarious.
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Muscle Tracer posted:Space: where Earth, renowned for never having had an ice age even once, is located. Run away temperatures on space stations because the heat shield came off a little bit has never happened in the hundreds of space stations we've built. :v Man, we wouldn't even be here without the ice ages, we flourished in that clime.
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Uncle Jam posted:Run away temperatures on space stations because the heat shield came off a little bit has never happened in the hundreds of space stations we've built. :v Yeah I remember building like 40000 snow men 
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Aug 8, 2014 13:49
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Aug 8, 2014 14:16
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The migrations of well known people during their lives, video included.  http://www.wired.com/2014/08/an-infographic-that-maps-2600-years-of-cultural-history-in-5-minutes/
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kalstrams posted:What is it? It was an e-mail forward that went around a lot right after 9/11 saying that we should rebuild the WTC to look like a big middle finger.
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CellBlock posted:It was an e-mail forward that went around a lot right after 9/11 saying that we should rebuild the WTC to look like a big middle finger.
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kalstrams posted:Huh. 2002-2003 were some very odd times. We weren't at our best.
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Count Roland posted:The migrations of well known people during their lives, video included. This looks like a sprinkler system.
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CellBlock posted:It was an e-mail forward that went around a lot right after 9/11 saying that we should rebuild the WTC to look like a big middle finger. Also note the Flak batteries on top of the buildings, a nice touch in my opinion.
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Guess the commodity! Consumers:  Producers:  (This commodity is produced from two plants: yellow is where one of them is grown, dark green is the other, light green is both.)
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Coffee.
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Mikl posted:Guess the commodity! Mocha
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It's got to be coffee. I know for a fact (from having been there) that Vietnam grows a lot of coffee, but not chocolate. Those West African countries grow lots of chocolate, but coffee as well. By inclusion, therefore, it's got to be coffee.
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Mikl posted:Guess the commodity! Ebola
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DrSunshine posted:It's got to be coffee. I know for a fact (from having been there) that Vietnam grows a lot of coffee, but not chocolate. Those West African countries grow lots of chocolate, but coffee as well. By inclusion, therefore, it's got to be coffee. Definitely coffee then, and yellow is arabica and dark green is robusta.
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It is coffee, but the consumption map clearly excludes several countries in the 1-2 kg/person range (e.g. Mexico).
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Knew it was coffee from the consumer map  (Scandinavia drinks a metric fuckton of coffee, which makes sense since it's black half the year there.)Does it irrationally piss off anyone else that Hawaii is absent from many of these maps?
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Albino Squirrel posted:Knew it was coffee from the consumer map Hawaii's at least in the consumption map, it's just very tiny.
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Dominus Vobiscum posted:Definitely coffee then, and yellow is arabica and dark green is robusta. 100% correct, congrats! 
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reagan posted:Ebola Truly the epidemic has reached apocalyptic propotions here in Finland.
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Albino Squirrel posted:Knew it was coffee from the consumer map Half the time the Great Lakes are completely filled in, then if you actually have to talk about or present a map like that, most people assume the Hudson Bay is now the Great Lakes.
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Uncle Jam posted:Half the time the Great Lakes are completely filled in, then if you actually have to talk about or present a map like that, most people assume the Hudson Bay is now the Great Lakes. If the Lakes are filled in and Hawaii is missing, can we just assume they filled the Lakes with Hawaii?
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Carbon dioxide posted:If the Lakes are filled in and Hawaii is missing, can we just assume they filled the Lakes with Hawaii? Hawaii's land area would barely cover 10% of the Great Lakes.
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Soviet Commubot posted:Hawaii's land area would barely cover 10% of the Great Lakes. The mountain Hawaii sits on could probably fill a few holes though.
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Interesting Kashmir solution there.
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Why do they have "Data not available" and "Not applicable" both be grey, and then make "Wine" a darker grey?
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Because the author didn't give a poo poo about the color-blind. Or not misleading people with the legend. Wine is brown on that map. Beer is purple. 
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Yeah if you think wine is grey you might want to have your eyes checked 
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Poizen Jam posted:Yeah if you think wine is grey you might want to have your eyes checked Unless you mean actual wine, in which case yes, it should definitely not be grey.
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Albino Squirrel posted:I dunno, my screen/browser renders it as kind of an olive-grey. Wine is brown in the legend.
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It looks like a kind of dark greenish-brown to me, though pretty unsaturated. I guess "olive" is the word for it. I could see how it might look gray on certain monitors.
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Torrannor posted:Wine is brown in the legend. It only appears brown on my screen if I tilt it at an odd angle. Regardless, terrible color choice as people typically associate purple with wine and brown with beer.
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It's #7E725A, which clearly brown, plebs.
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AKP are the Republicans of Turkey. Coastal Turkey is chill (except the Black Sea part).
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