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1988 1989 1988 1990. Also I never get why people are impressed by china building poo poo quickly. You can do all kinds of neat stuff when you can do whatever you want without having to worry about poo poo like worker safety. Hell, look at America in the 19th century.
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Here's the animated map for NYC's subway, though unfortunately without time scale.
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Oct 10, 2015 05:02
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Well look at that, it started in Brooklyn? e: And that S Line looks almost unchanged!
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bagual posted:Subway systems across time
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Deltasquid posted:I'm going to guess something related to income inequality. The contrast between Russia and Eastern Europe could be caused by their oligarchs? This. It's a map of Gini index values, it goes from 0 to 100 with 0 being perfect equality (all people have the same income) and 100 perfect inequality (one person has all the income, the others have none).
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Mikl posted:This. It's a map of Gini index values, it goes from 0 to 100 with 0 being perfect equality (all people have the same income) and 100 perfect inequality (one person has all the income, the others have none). Well, now I'm wondering about computer parts posted:Doesn't explain Belarus.
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Deltasquid posted:Well, now I'm wondering about From what I recall, Belarus didn't go through the privatisations that Russia and other post communist countries did, and as a result most industry is still state owned, meaning Belarus has a very small number of rich people who are still not all that rich compared to their countrymen.
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ecureuilmatrix posted:Well look at that, it started in Brooklyn? It only shows parts that are still there today (well in 2005, as many of those routes have changed by now). That shuttle line was part of a much longer line when it was built, for instance. The current oldest parts of the system are in fact in Brooklyn, but older street and elevated lines existed in Manhattan.
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Oct 11, 2015 20:18
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Ah, the correct view of Europe. 
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Oct 11, 2015 20:33
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Unlucky in hockey, lucky in olumpics 
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Oct 11, 2015 20:37
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Swedes are pretty good at trolling. "Why is Denmark so small?" 
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Oct 11, 2015 21:04
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Swedes googling Greece. 
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No one's searching for Montenegro, ever or Luxemburg
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Iceland's peacefulness doesn't strike me as mysterious.
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Oct 11, 2015 22:37
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There were the Cod Wars.
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I think cold War still applies in that context too.
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Amazing. As far as I can tell, Australia is the only country in the world that actually has a bad looking passport.
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Oct 12, 2015 01:31
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What's wrong with it? SAY IT TO MY FACE MATE
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Oct 12, 2015 02:47
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freebooter posted:What's wrong with it? SAY IT TO MY FACE MATE Probably looked fine before the guy who submitted the design let his five year old draw a bad looking emu and kangaroo on it. Unless you can make your animals look cool then keep them off your passports man. Crests are classic, keep that part.
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WTF is it with australia and NZ having terrible terrible art? Their flag is boring as hell, their crests are like something a 7 year old would draw.
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Does anyone have the version of this that had "good in Civ 5" for Poland?
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Vorpal Cat posted:Does anyone have the version of this that had "good in Civ 5" for Poland? What I'd like to know is why did searching for "why is country so from polish google" on Bing bring up so much porn?
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Jaramin posted:Probably looked fine before the guy who submitted the design let his five year old draw a bad looking emu and kangaroo on it. Unless you can make your animals look cool then keep them off your passports man. Crests are classic, keep that part. That emu looks like a duck that worked out with its legs.
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Jaramin posted:Probably looked fine before the guy who submitted the design let his five year old draw a bad looking emu and kangaroo on it. Unless you can make your animals look cool then keep them off your passports man. Crests are classic, keep that part. That's actually the official coat of arms of Australia, and our animals are rad.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Australia
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these maps suck poo poo and take forever to load for anyone else?
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Frostwerks posted:these maps suck poo poo and take forever to load for anyone else?
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Rehosted:     
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Baloogan posted:WTF is it with australia and NZ having terrible terrible art? Their flag is boring as hell, their crests are like something a 7 year old would draw. What's wrong with NZ's crest? And some of the new NZ flags seem fine. Australia needs to sort their poo poo, though.
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... why is Serbia so good at sports?
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Arglebargle III posted:... why is Serbia so good at sports? Survival of the fittest. 
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fermun posted:Rehosted: United States Mexerica? Now that's loaded.
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Rejected Fate posted:What's wrong with NZ's crest? And some of the new NZ flags seem fine. ... What is NZ's crest anyway? I've been squinting at it for the better part of 5 minutes now and all I see is:  Hm.  Actually, the fern thingies on the side are kind of inspired and pretty unique!
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I really love the notion that passports have two languages to them. So NZ gets English and Maori, and my Irish passport has English and Irish, while Australia is super old-fashioned and goes with English and French, purely because it's the old language of diplomacy (you know, back in the 19th century) even though my Australian passport was issued in 2014 and we use biometric scanners and I don't think anybody even bothers to teach French in schools any more.
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freebooter posted:I really love the notion that passports have two languages to them. So NZ gets English and Maori, and my Irish passport has English and Irish, while Australia is super old-fashioned and goes with English and French, purely because it's the old language of diplomacy (you know, back in the 19th century) even though my Australian passport was issued in 2014 and we use biometric scanners and I don't think anybody even bothers to teach French in schools any more. I'm legit surprised that no one has complained that "THIS IS A STRAYAN PASSPORT WRITE IN FUCKIN ENGLISH MATE" enough that they've gotten rid of the French in it.
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I just think it's hilarious that we've decided we CAN'T just have one language, because that would be uncouth, so we fall back on the old standby of French - for lack of anything better. (Since there are far too many Aboriginal languages for one to claim primacy like Maori does in NZ.) It's interesting that apparently US passports also still use French, but they also use Spanish, making them trilingual. Like, "a shitload of our citizens use Spanish and plus it's the language spoken in the largest number of countries in the world... but we're still going to sneak French in there."
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freebooter posted:I just think it's hilarious that we've decided we CAN'T just have one language, because that would be uncouth, so we fall back on the old standby of French - for lack of anything better. (Since there are far too many Aboriginal languages for one to claim primacy like Maori does in NZ.) At least they have Louisiana and French-speaking neighbors in Canada as an excuse.
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freebooter posted:I just think it's hilarious that we've decided we CAN'T just have one language, because that would be uncouth, so we fall back on the old standby of French - for lack of anything better. (Since there are far too many Aboriginal languages for one to claim primacy like Maori does in NZ.) French is the fourth most widely spoken language in the US, after English, Spanish, and Chinese. And it used to be the third most widely spoken. Torrannor posted:At least they have Louisiana and French-speaking neighbors in Canada as an excuse. There's plenty of french speakers in New England as well.
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