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waitwhatno posted:Here is a link to the report. Apparently, Germany is a fundamentalist hellhole because a professor for islamic studies had his chair renamed after converting away from islam some years ago. Maybe humanist and atheist utopia Sierra Leone will give the poor guy asylum. In other news, the state of Berlin just made World Humanist Day (June 21st) a holiday for all pupils belonging to a humanist association. What a horrible place for atheists to live in 
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Nintendo Kid posted:In all honesty it was already on its way down, Ellen's popularity was just enough to get it to spike back up in an unnatural way for a few years. Battlestar Galactica should have bumped it back up 
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Broken Cog posted:Might have something to do with national holidays? Also, I know that in Norway, if your parents were part of the Norwegian church, you're automatically part of it as well until you withdraw from it. I'm not sure if something like that would count against. We also have a mandatory subject in school (starts in grade school ends in high school) about relgiion, which I think is mandated to be 51% Christianity (I think that the number), though in practice (and in my experience) it has always been alot more than this. The subject used to be called just "Christianity" and then "Christianity, religion and life stance" and then under the last government it was renamed again to "Religion, life stance and ethics" and it was supposed to be more balanced, though it still skewed heavily towards Christianity. The new government has refocused the subject towards officialy focusing on Christianity (though I think there is little change in practice). There is also a ton of Christian stuff on television during the holidays, and there's a service on public radio every morning throughout the year. Never really bothered me personally, but despite Norwegians not necessarily being very personally religious, Christianity is a huge part of Norwegian identity and society.
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ekuNNN posted:Haha, yeah. When I saw China I pretty much knew that it was a bullshit map, still funny enough to post, though. Also, Netherlands being Green is funny, because we only scrapped our law against blasphemy in 2013. Was it actually scrapped or did they do some bullshit where they reduced the penalties or called it something else or w/e?
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Orange Devil posted:Was it actually scrapped or did they do some bullshit where they reduced the penalties or called it something else or w/e? It has been removed from the criminal law as of February 2014. The Eerste Kamer (the senate i guess?) did accept a motion to 'research the necessitiy for separate protection of religion in some other way', apparently. Although I bet that was just a way to placate the Christian factions. ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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I agree with the non-religious parties who say the rights of religious folks are sufficiently protected by the constitutional article that forbids discrimination based on race, religion and so on. The anti-blasphemy law was completely superfluous. Also, it hadn't been actually used in any legal proceedings for nearly a century, I believe.
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waitwhatno posted:Here is a link to the report. Apparently, Germany is a fundamentalist hellhole because a professor for islamic studies had his chair renamed after converting away from islam some years ago. Maybe humanist and atheist utopia Sierra Leone will give the poor guy asylum. I don't even... what? Alligators only live in the US and China.  And this is politically loaded because... ummm... these statistics show an alligator gap between the US and China, but we all know how the PLA likes to fudge its numbers. So the USA must develop more alligators, and more kinds, so that we can preserve an effective second strike capability. Of alligators. Yes.
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Ponsonby Britt posted:I don't even... what? Reverse GIS isn't very good at finding maps because there are tons of visually similar maps.
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waitwhatno posted:Here is a link to the report. Apparently, Germany is a fundamentalist hellhole because a professor for islamic studies had his chair renamed after converting away from islam some years ago. Maybe humanist and atheist utopia Sierra Leone will give the poor guy asylum. I checked out that report to see what my country Sweden does for it to qualify as "systemic discrimination". It's because of the church tax, which you can opt out of, you only pay it if you're a member of the former state church. Also, because humanist associations can't take part in that system. That's, um, kind of a low bar for "systematic discrimination".
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waitwhatno posted:Here is a link to the report. Apparently, Germany is a fundamentalist hellhole because a professor for islamic studies had his chair renamed after converting away from islam some years ago. Maybe humanist and atheist utopia Sierra Leone will give the poor guy asylum. Apparently France would be in Free and Equal club if not for Alsace and French Guiana specific legislation.
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Kurtofan posted:Apparently France would be in Free and Equal club if not for Alsace and French Guiana specific legislation. It's almost as if making a map that summarizes all nations as a single entity may cause some slight misrepresentation. But then again, if they were concerned with making an accurate map, they wouldn't be running around acting like atheists are an oppressed (ir?)religious group in the western world.
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Jaramin posted:Thunderstorms? I sorta get rain, but why thunderstorms? I thought that was odd, but assumed there were some storms moving through on Thanksgiving. According to the National Weather Service there were a series of low pressure systems and fronts moving through that area on the 26/27th. A late-in-the-year thunderstorm would probably trend fairly heavily on social media. Whether it was tongue-in-cheek sarcasm or whether people were actually happy to have a thunderstorm, I dunno. Here's a looping map from the National Weather Service showing the systems moving through the region: http://www.weather.gov/bgm/pastWinterNovember272014Loop
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ekuNNN posted:
"Tauschen Wien gegen Suedtirol"
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Count Roland posted:What is the white area in south eastern Europe? Various small Balkan independent states. They just used one color for all of them so it looks awful.
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Count Roland posted:What is the white area in south eastern Europe? These independent countries 
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Did the Russian Empire really control all of Finland? That's news to me. Edit: Wow, they were a part of Russia for more than a century! I always thought that only the Swedes ever bothered to conquer Finland.
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Torrannor posted:Did the Russian Empire really control all of Finland? That's news to me. Yep, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Finland
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Count Roland posted:What is the white area in south eastern Europe? Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro.
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Torrannor posted:Did the Russian Empire really control all of Finland? That's news to me. Finland did enjoy special status within the Russian Empire, though. I can't be arsed to look it up, but there was at least one tsar that allowed the Finns to experiment with early democracy like some sort of lab to see how it would work out and whether he might be able to introduce it in Russia as well (I think it was Alexander II?).
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the jizz taxi posted:Finland did enjoy special status within the Russian Empire, though. I can't be arsed to look it up, but there was at least one tsar that allowed the Finns to experiment with early democracy like some sort of lab to see how it would work out and whether he might be able to introduce it in Russia as well (I think it was Alexander II?).
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the jizz taxi posted:Finland did enjoy special status within the Russian Empire, though. I can't be arsed to look it up, but there was at least one tsar that allowed the Finns to experiment with early democracy like some sort of lab to see how it would work out and whether he might be able to introduce it in Russia as well (I think it was Alexander II?). If you're wondering which Tsar did something that wasn't retarded, its always going to be either Peter the Great or Alexander II.
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Disco Infiva posted:Various small Balkan independent states. They just used one color for all of them so it looks awful. Nobody cares about those countries anyway. I was partially aware and looked it up anyway, I was wondering if there was some short-lived confederation that I'd never heard of.
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*Maximum speed limit on paper. It's a rare and frustrating time when somebody actually does just 70 on the highway. I'm actually more curious about default speed limits. If memory serves from when I contested one of a few speeding tickets I got when I was younger Michigan roads default to a 55 mph speed limit if not posted otherwise, with a "safe and prudent" caveat on dirt roads and further restrictions in residential areas.
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HBar posted:Maximum speed limits: I'm surprised so many areas have under 45.
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Nintendo Kid posted:I'm surprised so many areas have under 45. Most of them seem to be mountainous or jungle areas.
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Nintendo Kid posted:I'm surprised so many areas have under 45. Nunavut doesn't actually have any highways or roads outside the few towns. Probably the same in Greenland.
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Chicken posted:Nunavut doesn't actually have any highways or roads outside the few towns. Probably the same in Greenland. Yeah, but plenty of places will still place higher limits even on dirt/gravel roads.
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HBar posted:Maximum speed limits: Fun fact: The 85mph speed limit is basically a marketing technique for some of the toll roads in central Texas. They're mostly trying to convince truckers to take some of the newly-built toll roads and bypass the super-congested public highways, hoping it will ease traffic. Along with having the super-high speed limit, they've also done things like special discount periods where an 18-wheeler can pay the same toll a regular car would, and doing marketing outreach to businesses that send out lots of trucks so they know about these deals. So far it hasn't worked all that well and the toll roads aren't seeing too much traffic.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:If you're wondering which Tsar did something that wasn't retarded, its always going to be either Peter the Great or Alexander II.
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e_angst posted:Fun fact: The 85mph speed limit is basically a marketing technique for some of the toll roads in central Texas. They're mostly trying to convince truckers to take some of the newly-built toll roads and bypass the super-congested public highways, hoping it will ease traffic. Along with having the super-high speed limit, they've also done things like special discount periods where an 18-wheeler can pay the same toll a regular car would, and doing marketing outreach to businesses that send out lots of trucks so they know about these deals. So far it hasn't worked all that well and the toll roads aren't seeing too much traffic. Dismantling and selling safety protections for scrap for a quick buck; Is there any action more easily representative of right wingers' ideology?
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e_angst posted:Fun fact: The 85mph speed limit is basically a marketing technique for some of the toll roads in central Texas. They're mostly trying to convince truckers to take some of the newly-built toll roads and bypass the super-congested public highways, hoping it will ease traffic. Along with having the super-high speed limit, they've also done things like special discount periods where an 18-wheeler can pay the same toll a regular car would, and doing marketing outreach to businesses that send out lots of trucks so they know about these deals. So far it hasn't worked all that well and the toll roads aren't seeing too much traffic. I take the toll road on the way out of Austin, it's pretty amazing. Lets me get past Georgetown with almost no other cars on the road.
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icantfindaname posted:Dismantling and selling safety protections for scrap for a quick buck; Is there any action more easily representative of right wingers' ideology? Speed limits are rarely safety protections dude. They're near universally set much lower than they should be for safety. A freeway designed to meet or exceed Interstate Highway standards is safe with a speed limit of at least 80, and if you go beyond that it'll be easily 90-95 (The original PA Turnpike was safe at 90 mph when originally built, and that was with much worse cars and trucks on the road).
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