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America's entire idea is a strongman who oversees the country. That's why our first president was a General.
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Peanut President posted:America's entire idea is a strongman who oversees the country. That's why our first president was a General. What about the second through sixth presidents, who were all limp-wristed sissies?
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fishmech posted:There were hardly any proportional representation or instant runoff vote based democracies back in the 18th century, you realize? Monroe winning by larger margins than Kim-Jong-Un
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Randandal posted:Monroe winning by larger margins than Kim-Jong-Un Just goes to show that bad things always happen to political parties that collaborate with hostile foreign governments! Wait...
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Randandal posted:Monroe winning by larger margins than Kim-Jong-Un He ran effectively unopposed that year! The other major party, the Federalists, had essentially collapsed, and they didn't even nominate a candidate. The only thing that stopped Monroe from being unanimously elected in the electoral college was a faithless elector deciding to vote for another Democratic-Republican candidate who didn't even run or get any popular vote, solely because he wanted George Washington to be the only unanimously elected president.
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Badger of Basra posted:What about the second through sixth presidents, who were all limp-wristed sissies? Shaking things out.
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https://twitter.com/Quality_Anime/status/797582740321226753
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You know, other than the misspellings and Denver being labeled as Dallas, that's pretty good
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This map is representative of a broader problem some conservationists have identified in the US national park system. Species at greatest risk of extinction are concentrated in areas with relatively little protection. Below: six maps depicting the concentration of endemic species. Endemic species are those found only in one small location, like a fish found in only a single tributary. In descending order on the left side: Mammals, birds amphibians. Descending on the right: reptiles, freshwater fish, trees (probably derived from the same source as Pakled's map.
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Squalid posted:This map is representative of a broader problem some conservationists have identified in the US national park system. Species at greatest risk of extinction are concentrated in areas with relatively little protection.
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I don't actually know anything about that, but I would guess that it has to do with the more humid climate and that those areas were settled before the doomsday brutality of modern agribusiness and forestry.
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If you wanna read up on that, search for "North American coastal plain". AFAIK it is because of a very stable climate in combination with regional fragmentation by altitudal differences, river valleys etc, which supports strong speciation. Unfortunately only something like 5% of original habitats remains, and only 2% of original pine savannah growths, which are by far the most biologically diverse biome in North America.
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Climate is the biggest part of that, there is a strong correlation between warm, humid climates and genetic diversity. Species can evolve to fill more specialized roles when they don't have to deal with wide temperature variations and seasonal availability of food. Tropical rainforests are an extreme example of this, where you have animals that feed exclusively on one specific species of plant or live their entire lives in one tree.
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Squalid posted:This map is representative of a broader problem some conservationists have identified in the US national park system. Species at greatest risk of extinction are concentrated in areas with relatively little protection.] Isn't that always going to be true though? A species in a highly protected area is always at a lowered risk of extinction - it's one of the reasons we protect places.
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Hambilderberglar posted:What exactly is happening in that part of the US that it seems to result in a much greater diversity of species? As far as I know these areas have been subject to intense settlement and human activity for a couple of hundred years at this point, how are all these endemic species not having their habitats trashed? warm, wet climate leading to the growth of semitropical rainforest, wetlands, and swamps from a human standpoint the south has traditionally been more rural, even today there's not much population in that part of the country. so even though the deep south has been subject to european habitation for 500 years or so (the inland south was pretty sparsely populated by native americans) a lot of habitat was left alone and even today isn't relatively unthreatened as far as virgin habitat goes. a large portion of the agriculture of south georgia is tree farms, which is basically just a forest fishmech posted:Isn't that always going to be true though? A species in a highly protected area is always at a lowered risk of extinction - it's one of the reasons we protect places. i think the implication is that southern states have less environmental protections and are less prone to environmentally protect at the expense of agriculture, which is true boner confessor fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Nov 15, 2016 |
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boner confessor posted:lot of habitat was left alone and even today isn't relatively unthreatened as far as virgin habitat goes. a large portion of the agriculture of south georgia is tree farms, which is basically just a forest Unfortunately the most important sources of endemic populations are nearly gone, and in fact the whole region relies on second-growth forests after the old growth had been destroyed in early 20th century. In fact, it is the most vulnerable of all recognized global biodiversity hotspots.
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Hambilderberglar posted:What exactly is happening in that part of the US that it seems to result in a much greater diversity of species? As far as I know these areas have been subject to intense settlement and human activity for a couple of hundred years at this point, how are all these endemic species not having their habitats trashed? hot and humid
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fishmech posted:Isn't that always going to be true though? A species in a highly protected area is always at a lowered risk of extinction - it's one of the reasons we protect places. Think less in terms of proximate causes of extinction and more about the distal or ultimate cause, then refer back to the maps. Preventing extinction is one reason we protect places, but it was very much a secondary concern during the period in which most National Parks were created. boner confessor posted:warm, wet climate leading to the growth of semitropical rainforest, wetlands, and swamps Uh... not really. There are no semitropical rainforests in the continental United States, pre-columbian Indian populations in the continental US were quite dense in the inland south-east (see all those mounds they left everywhere) and heavily modified the ecology producing the extensive fire-dependent systems like Longleaf savannas the south is now known for, virgin habitat is extremely rare, and last but not least tree farms are absolutely NOT "just a forest." Try taking a stroll through a five year old loblolly stand before thinning and then tell yourself that again. That said I'm optimistic about southern biodiversity. The region is dominated by a different conservation modality than other regions, with "wild" land viewed more as a productive addition to the landscape to be used rather than preserved. It is possible to keep land productive and protect biodiversity, but the region definitely needs more progress. Squalid fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Nov 15, 2016 |
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Related to above, map of global biodiversity hotspots, not including the recently added North American coastal plains: And the same data transposed on a terrible map of human population:
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What's this?
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steinrokkan posted:Related to above, map of global biodiversity hotspots, not including the recently added North American coastal plains: kyushu
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Peanut President posted:What's this? Red Cross Blood Services Regions. I had thought they were nationwide but apparently not by a long shot. http://www.redcrossblood.org/our-regions
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ulmont posted:Red Cross Blood Services Regions. I had thought they were nationwide but apparently not by a long shot. I like that the region Chicago is in is named after college mascots from two other states.
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https://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/publication/7493
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The only reason that the UK is at 0% is because they bribed the surveyors.
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"Bribery Rates Across Europe and Central Asia*" *Does not include Central Asia.
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Golbez posted:"Bribery Rates Across Europe and Central Asia*" The map is split across two pages
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steinrokkan posted:Related to above, map of global biodiversity hotspots, not including the recently added North American coastal plains:
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Albino Squirrel posted:Sorry, the Amazon, Congo, and Australia-New Guinea rainforests are *not* biodiversity hotspots? Sorry,I should have added that "hotspot" in this case signifies endangered status - all these regions have lost at least 70% of their original vegetation, while containing a certain share of endemic species (0.5% of total in the region)
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Trump's America Clinton's America http://nyti.ms/2eEV43O
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It would take a lot of effort to recreate the second map with nukes, I imagine.
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Djibouti’s is the best. Spain uses a hashtag.
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IRAQ The other Iraq (Kurdistan)
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 02:23 |
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spa in in detail Where It All Begins, Land of Origins, Land of Creation.
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Slovakia is nice and to the point.
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Visit Armenia, it is beautiful.
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Yes, it's JordanAndorra posted:Where It All Begins, Land of Origins, Land of Creation. Come to where it all started
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