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Torrannor posted:Wow, you must really hate Finland to give the rest of the historically Finnish lands to Norway. At least you didn't give it to the Swedes for the biggest insult.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:That's not nearly as realistic as mine. I don't know my russian geography very well but am I right in thinking "Victory Lake" is Moscow?
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Peanut President posted:I don't know my russian geography very well but am I right in thinking "Victory Lake" is Moscow?
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kalstrams posted:Must be it. Slightly off Moscow, I think, but there aren't any distinct lakes that distinct in that area.
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Jun 26, 2015 06:59
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Plinkey posted:
Am I stupid for not getting this one? Or would it make sense if the text were actually legible (it's a blurry mess on my screen at least).
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Plinkey posted:
And for those of us who aren't Marylanders?
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Lemniscate Blue posted:And for those of us who aren't Marylanders? 1. It has to be black people not getting money. 2. Hey, isn't Baltimore in Maryland? That city is full of black people.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:And for those of us who aren't Marylanders? Baltimore City is that nicely carved out spot in the middle. AKA getting no money. Also killed a mass transit project today that was getting ~900 mill in federal grants instead moving it to the counties near DC which are much richer and whiter. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-transportation-20150624-story.html#page=1
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Plinkey posted:Baltimore City is that nicely carved out spot in the middle. AKA getting no money. Also killed a mass transit project today that was getting ~900 mill in federal grants instead moving it to the counties near DC which are much richer and whiter. Ah, thank you. I saw the cutout for DC but not the one for Baltimore.
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Plinkey posted:
Yeah, that's a Kinsley gaffe if I've ever seen one
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A Buttery Pastry posted:That's not nearly as realistic as mine. I don't know man, that's way more then a hundred war score even with a coalition war and the late game discounts from administrative efficiency.
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Vorpal Cat posted:I don't know man, that's way more then a hundred war score even with a coalition war and the late game discounts from administrative efficiency. They probably used the "Dismantle Empire" wargoal.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:You don't have to be a Marylander to realize Baltimore is missing. My thought process was basically: An even easier deduction would be: American goon -> post probably involves race somehow
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Phlegmish posted:An even easier deduction would be: American goon -> post probably involves race somehow
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A Buttery Pastry posted:That's not nearly as realistic as mine. Do you guys use tools to make simple maps like this? I could do it in photoshop or something but I feel it would be a hassle and ugly.
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Count Roland posted:Do you guys use tools to make simple maps like this? I could do it in photoshop or something but I feel it would be a hassle and ugly. ArcGIS?
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Count Roland posted:Do you guys use tools to make simple maps like this? I could do it in photoshop or something but I feel it would be a hassle and ugly.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I don't know, it could also be the start of a White Castle/Five Guys discussion, or a discussion of whether Baltimore was part of the Midwest or not. "This is where people say soda...and this is where people say pop. Thus exemplifying the incredible linguistic and cultural diversity of the United States." And then the European posters cut in with a discussion about Roma or municipal borders.
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Phlegmish posted:"This is where people say soda...and this is where people say pop. Thus exemplifying the incredible linguistic and cultural diversity of the United States." More likely a insightful discussion on how Walloon and Flemish are two different races, the same way black/white/hispanic/asian/etc. is in the US.
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"There is no racism in *insert country that isn't the USA here*, that is purely a problem for Americans and their population of animalistic, banana-loving apes roaming free in their cities"
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Pook Good Mook posted:More likely a insightful discussion on how Walloon and Flemish are two different races, the same way black/white/hispanic/asian/etc. is in the US. *adjusts glasses and points to chart* As you can see from this phrenological comparison, Walloons clearly belong to the underdeveloped alpine race.
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The Irish Times (Oct 28, 2005) posted:Belgium's history of linguistic bickering between Flemings and Walloons entered a new phase this week when police arrested a Flemish woman for calling her Walloon husband lazy, Belgian media said yesterday.
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But D.C. isn't a state!
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PittTheElder posted:But D.C. isn't a state! Neither is Kentucky or Virginia (They're Commonwealths *pushes up glasses*)
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Want to see what this looks like in 20 years time.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:That's not nearly as realistic as mine. Does anyone have the split map where the country colors make up the LGBT flag? I thought it would be trivial to find again but nope.
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Peanut President posted:Neither is Kentucky or Virginia (They're Commonwealths *pushes up glasses*)
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Today I talk about Doggerland, an ancient European habitat lost to climate change. --- The North Sea is home to many oil deposits and fertile breeding waters for many species of fish -- the latter is especially true in the area now known as the Dogger Bank in the southern North Sea. The entire sea is relatively shallow; it is not truly oceanic but rather a part of the European continental shelf. As you can see in the bathymetry map below, much of the southern North Sea is less than 50 meters deep, with the Dogger Bank being less than 20 meters deep at parts.  Starting in the early 20th century, fishing trawlers have recovered strange items from the sea floor. These include mammoth bones and prehistoric human tools. As early as 1913, Reid hypothesized that the southern North Sea was once above sea level, allowing for people, wildlife, and vegetation to migrate back and forth from the British Isles to continental Europe. However, the difficulty of reaching archeaological sites that are submerged not only under dozens of meters of water but also obscured by the sandy sea floor has delayed research on the topic until the last few decades.  Our story takes us back to the end of the last ice age. The Earth constantly goes through a series of natural orbital cycles that change the amount and distribution of solar radiation it receives. These cycles have periods of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years. The last ice age occurred from about 90,000 years ago to 11,000 years ago. The map below shows the extent of maximum glaciation in the last ice age (~25,000 to 20,000 years ago.) During an ice age, much of the water that would normally be found in the ocean is instead stuck over land as deep glacial ice. This has the tendency to lower sea levels worldwide.  The Earth eventually warmed back up and the ice sheets started retreating. Prehistoric Europeans of the last ice age were mainly found in cave shelters of Spain, southern France, Italy, and the Balkans. As the glaciers and tundra retreated northward, wildlife and humans started filling in the gaps. The North Sea originally was no sea at all, as we can see below. The English Channel was a large river combining the flows of the Thames, Rhine, Meuse, and Seine, which emptied directly into the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the other British rivers emptied into the Norwegian Trench.  As the sea level slowly rose from the melting glaciers, the low-lying Doggerland started to flood. By 8,000 B.C., the Doggerland is hypothesized to have been an ideal habitat for mesolithic humans; the broad low-lying plains could support large mammal populations, and the increasingly coastal nature of the area provided fish and other marine resources for hunter-gatherers. Large forests covered the interior of the region. While the population density of mesolithic Europe was close to 0.05 to 0.10 people per square kilometer, Doggerland could have supported up to 1 person per square kilometer. However, by 6,000 B.C., sea level rise would have isolated Britain from the mainland, and Doggerland was reduced to Dogger Island plus some other minor islands.  Around the same time, in North America, the glaciers of the Laurentian Ice Sheet had also been retreating for a while. There, the geography of the continent was such that a very large lake formed at the border of the ice sheet. At its maximum, Lake Agassiz (in black on the map below) reached a maximum area of 841,000 km^2 (slightly smaller than Pakistan) and a maximum volume of 163,000 km^3 (enough to cover the land area of Australia with 20 meters of water.) By 6,200 B.C., the Laurentian Ice Sheet had backed over Hudson Bay and become so thin it couldn't hold back the waters of Lake Agassiz anymore. The freshwater spilled out into the North Atlantic, raised global sea levels by about 45 centimeters within the year. More importantly, the release of so much freshwater into the North Atlantic severely weakened the thermohaline circulation of the ocean basin, leading to 200 years of below-normal temperatures for northern Europe. This is the so-called 8.2-kiloyear event in the climate record. Today, the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island is the only remnant of the Laurentian Ice Sheet. Several lakes, including Lake Winnipeg, Lake Manitoba, and the Lake of the Woods, are remnants of old Lake Agassiz.  As if this wasn't enough, around the same time, a large submarine landslide occurred to the west of Norway. This landslide triggered a large tsunami that affected coastal areas of the British Isles, Scandinavia, and of course, Doggerland. Although Dogger Island likely was not submerged permanently due to the tsunami (the rising sea level would take care of that on its own), it was the final nail in the coffin for mesolithic humans still inhabiting the Doggerland. A recent hypothesis for the landslide is the catastrophic release of methane gas by methane hydrates trapped in permafrost. One cubic meter of methane hydrate expands to 164 cubic meters of methane. This is one of the dangers of the current anthropogenic climate change phase, though it is much more likely to occur in places like Siberia today.  In any case, by 5,000 B.C., Doggerland was no more. This was the last time the geography of the North Sea changed at this scale and magnitude. Nevertheless, since then we have seen other islands disappear along the southern North Sea: most of Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal in the Netherlands vanished in a storm in 1532 A.D., while the remaining part of the island survived into the 16th century; the island of Strand, Germany was eroded by storm surges before finally succumbing to a flood in 1634; Jordsand, Denmark followed a similar track, disappearing in 1999. Not all change has been negative, though. The Dutch have successfully reclaimed large sections of the North Sea by building a large system of dikes along the coast.  Some sources: The mesolithic landscape of the southern North Sea Examining the progression and termination of Lake Agassiz Changes in the Bathymetry and Volume of Glacial Lake Agassiz between 9200 and 7700 14C yr B.P. The catastrophic final flooding of Doggerland by the Storegga Slide tsunami
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mobby_6kl posted:Does anyone have the split map where the country colors make up the LGBT flag? I thought it would be trivial to find again but nope. This one?
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Guavanaut posted:Want to see what this looks like in 20 years time. A tad more in Europe and South America but that's pretty much it.
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Mystic_Shadow posted:Doggerland Another super rad post. Keep em coming dude! quote:The Earth eventually warmed back up and the ice sheets started retreating. Prehistoric Europeans of the last ice age were mainly found in cave shelters of Spain, southern France, Italy, and the Balkans.      (inb4 "that is where you can still find prehistoric men in Europe")Dogger Island would probably have ended up another viking country, can't have enough of those around.
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sbaldrick posted:A tad more in Europe and South America but that's pretty much it. Mystic_Shadow posted:
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Guavanaut posted:Don't think Australia will go all the way? I forgot about Australia, but yes maybe they will go all the way if only because of the shame.
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Guavanaut posted:Want to see what this looks like in 20 years time. This can't be right, the Irish legalized SSM in a referendum recently.
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Guavanaut posted:Don't think Australia will go all the way? When one of their state-level entities was about to legalize same sex marriage, their federal government banned it countrywide, and they've recently re-elected another government that still opposes. It's entirely likely that they'll keep having spiteful assholes in power for some time to come.
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Torrannor posted:This can't be right, the Irish legalized SSM in a referendum recently. The government can't legally renege at this point (without a massive constitutional shitstorm), but two guys or two women can't walk into an office and get a marriage certificate yet.
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sbaldrick posted:A tad more in Europe and South America but that's pretty much it. Japan maybe   . I think the city of Tokyo legalized gay marriage to the greatest extent they were able.
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