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SaltyJesus posted:Next time I dump USA maps for balance, you can only have so much (eastern)eurocentrism. Voters in the South in the 2008 election:  North American coastline in the Late Cretaceous: 
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Germany and Austria have embraced their Nazi heritage I see. If you had clicked the link you'd found out that grey means it's unclear what party is dominant or there's a special circumstance there.
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Carbon dioxide posted:If you had clicked the link you'd found out that grey means it's unclear what party is dominant or there's a special circumstance there. If you had read this thread, you'd found out that A Buttery Pastry is usually joking. 
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Carbon dioxide posted:If you had clicked the link you'd found out that grey means it's unclear what party is dominant or there's a special circumstance there.
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Carbon dioxide posted:If you had clicked the link you'd found out that grey means it's unclear what party is dominant or there's a special circumstance there. In this case, black is the actual color of those parties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_People%27s_Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany
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icantfindaname posted:Riso is literally shaking with rage at the idea of the Musselmen being let into the golden utopia that is Europe Europe is a white Christian continent, that is where the divide ends. If he was posting here in the 600s he'd be bitching about Spain being included too.
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HookShot posted:Europe is a white Christian continent, that is where the divide ends. Yeah, gently caress you, Albania
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Weren't the futhark largely the latin script adapted to carving rather than penmanship, with a few changes here and there for sounds exclusive to one language or the other? Soft of. The Latin script and the futhark have a common precursor, the Italic script, which developed into the futhark among North Germanic tribes and the Latin script in Rome. Since the latter was also the script used in the Western Roman Empire and the introduction of Christianity in Western Europe, it eventually came to replace other scripts like the ogham in Ireland and, of course, the futhark.
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SaltyJesus posted:Interesting you say that because I originally found that map through looking for maps for this post: The interesting thing about that Poland map is that when the orange area was a part of Germany, most of the population were ethnic Germans. When that area was given to Poland after World War 2, nearly all of the Germans left and they were replaced with displaced Polish settlers from the eastern part of pre-War Poland that was given to the Soviets. So people in the formerly "German" part of Poland actually has more recent Eastern Slavic influence than the parts that were actually physically a part of the Russian Empire.
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ChipNDip posted:The interesting thing about that Poland map is that when the orange area was a part of Germany, most of the population were ethnic Germans. When that area was given to Poland after World War 2, nearly all of the Germans left and they were replaced with displaced Polish settlers from the eastern part of pre-War Poland that was given to the Soviets.
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ChipNDip posted:Next time I dump USA maps for balance, you can only have so much (eastern)eurocentrism. The interesting thing about that Poland map is that when the orange area was a part of Germany, most of the population were ethnic Germans. When that area was given to Poland after World War 2, nearly all of the Germans left and they were replaced with displaced Polish settlers from the eastern part of pre-War Poland that was given to the Soviets. So people in the formerly "German" part of Poland actually has more recent Eastern Slavic influence than the parts that were actually physically a part of the Russian Empire. [/quote] Was it just German-built infrastructure that led to the difference then? This rail map from Wikipedia (oh no fishmech gave me his autism) pretty much checks out with that 
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It's like you people never read the thread before where various posters are complaining how Turkey is not Europe.
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Turkey is a bird how can a bird be part of a continent. loving euros think they're so smart. Air pollution (fine particulate matter):  http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/health-sapping.html
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Rah! posted:Turkey is a bird how can a bird be part of a continent. loving euros think they're so smart. I'm impressed by how the US has managed to really get it down. Does Europe still have it rough because a lot of trucks driven about have laxer emissions standards than in the US?
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Nintendo Kid posted:I'm impressed by how the US has managed to really get it down. Does Europe still have it rough because a lot of trucks driven about have laxer emissions standards than in the US? 
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Yes and the dense areas of America retain significantly less particulate pollution than similarly dense chunks of Europe, is the point.
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It's cool how you can see some of the major rivers/valleys. The Po Valley is clear as day.
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It should be pointed out that the particulate density in the Arabian and Sahara Deserts are mostly dust and sand, not exhaust emissions.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Yes and the dense areas of America retain significantly less particulate pollution than similarly dense chunks of Europe, is the point. Even the densely populated areas of america are significantly less dense than europe.,
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Rah! posted:Turkey is a bird how can a bird be part of a continent. loving euros think they're so smart. :cryingscandinavia:
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SaltyJesus posted:It's cool how you can see some of the major rivers/valleys. The Po Valley is clear as day. (work rant warning) Also, Po Valley is a really nice bowl collecting all emissions. Add frequent atmospheric capping inversions, and you have one of the most polluted regions in Europe. PM2.5 is not so well captured by satellite products, but the results are quite indicative of the overall levels. One of the main differences between US and EU levels is the wind direction in respect to the pollution source regions: In US the pollution corridor is NS (East Coast), which means that the dominating winds are blowing perpendicular to the emission regions - i.e. most incoming air is relatively clean. In EU instead, the cross-border pollution transfer is a major component, and the local particulate emissions are added to the crap accumulated in more West parts of the subcontinent. Aging of pollution makes also more particulate pollution - e.g. organics change from gas phase to particulate when oxidizing. This has some interesting policy implications, as e.g. Netherlands own emissions mostly affect the Northern Germany downwind, and their air quality problems are mostly caused by UK and France. Thus when the EU requires the communities to control their air quality issues, the solutions need a little more complex negotiations than in some other places.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Even the densely populated areas of america are significantly less dense than europe., Europe as a whole yes, but specific places to specific places, no. For example England itself and New Jersey are pretty close in density (~1100 people per square mile in England, ~1200 per square mile in New Jersey). Yet England has proportionately much more yellow and orange areas on the map for its size as compared to NJ, despite quite dense population in many parts (some areas as high as 50,000 people per square mile):   What's with the English polluting so disproportionately, for example? (And heck the clear denser populated areas of Scotland don't pollute nearly as much as similar areas in England at that..) There's clearly a lot more at work here than "density", hell, density alone shouldn't mean vastly increased pollution. Nintendo Kid fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Apr 28, 2015 |
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Britain is the Alabama of Europe?
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All the largest cities in the UK have been literally deemed in violation of air pollution standards: http://www.clientearth.org/news/press-releases/supreme-court-rules-uk-government-is-breaking-air-pollution-laws-2170 In more recent news the government has already failed to meet EU demands for 2015 following the 2013 Supreme Court ruling, and there is currently another ongoing trial to make the government accountable: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/17/air-pollution-quality-laws-uk-government-supreme-court So the answer seems to be - the UK doesn't give a poo poo about regulations.
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SurgicalOntologist posted:I see Poland has embraced Taoism. SaltyJesus posted:It's cool how you can see some of the major rivers/valleys. The Po Valley is clear as day.
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Looks like Wrocław.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Europe as a whole yes, but specific places to specific places, no. On the other hand, the UK probably just sucks really bad at combating air pollution like steinrokkan points out. Still an improvement from back during Thatcher's day, when Scandinavian politicians were openly calling their British counterparts shitbags to their face because (the massive) British air pollution all ended up in Scandinavia. Nintendo Kid posted:density alone shouldn't mean vastly increased pollution. Pakled posted:In this case, black is the actual color of those parties. 
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steinrokkan posted:So the answer seems to be - the UK doesn't give a poo poo about regulations.
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Stolen from the chatthread:
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Stolen from the chatthread:
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The most anti-racist places. They're clearly searching for the word friend of the family to combat its use. Hey if you keep using it, it'll lose it's meaning! 
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Is this with or without a hard r, which is a weird but very delineating distinction
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Stolen from the chatthread: How offensive. That is obviously a map of rap aficionado density. They're just looking up lyrics.
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I bet they're not even differentiating between sincere and ironic use either.
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why would somebody, racist or not, google the n-word
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majormonotone posted:why would somebody, racist or not, google the n-word Looking up song lyrics or movie lines or the history/controversy behind the word itself.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Stolen from the chatthread: What's their unit of granularity there?
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