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I'm kind of surprised Jamaica just abstained. What's Guyana and Suriname's problem? e: wait, what's the difference between "abstain" and "no vote"?
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Jamaica voted against, with Guyana and Suriname, they're on the map as a small dot so the colors might be off though. Abstained is that they were recorded by the UN as abstaining, 'no vote' is that there is no record of a vote either way. I'm not sure if there's a procedural difference in the recording of that.
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The abstaining countries (yellow) in the Caribbean are Haiti (attached west to the Dominican Republic) and Trinidad & Tobago (just north of Venezuela). No vote means absent from the vote. Whether they refused to attend, couldn't be bothered (does this even happen at a geopolitical level) or literally have no representative in the United Nations isn't in the scope of this map. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Nov 22, 2016 |
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Countries I am surprised by: all of Southeast Asia that voted yes, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Ecuador
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Badger of Basra posted:Countries I am surprised by: all of Southeast Asia that voted yes, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Ecuador The southeast Asian nations may partially come down to geopolitics; all of them have reason to oppose the regional dominance of China, which tends to ally them with the United States, even in votes like this where there really isn't any relation to geopolitical objectives at all. Genuinely quite surprised by Turkey as well.
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Turkey is possibly a geopolitical 'I'm with the EU, not the Middle East' vote. e: dont be mean to me posted:No vote means absent from the vote. Whether they refused to attend, couldn't be bothered (does this even happen at a geopolitical level) or literally have no representative in the United Nations isn't in the scope of this map. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Nov 22, 2016 |
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Mameluke posted:Also, the 21st will be Canada's century as global warming unlocks our millions of acres of permafrost, and we productively settle and cultivate a mud patch that makes Siberian roads look firm. Enjoy the occupation of said mud patch as an extension of North Pole Oblast. Google Translate tells me that среда обитания is Russian for Lebensraum
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Tumblr of scotch posted:Wanna play that map in Civ.  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=321645690&searchtext=earth There are many other Future Earth maps too.
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tough stains posted:среда обитания is Russian for Lebensraum I think this literally means habitat. The historical word is жизненное пространство.
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Quorum posted:The southeast Asian nations may partially come down to geopolitics; all of them have reason to oppose the regional dominance of China, which tends to ally them with the United States, even in votes like this where there really isn't any relation to geopolitical objectives at all. Genuinely quite surprised by Turkey as well. They also have very different ideas about gender than either the modern West or countries voting red. Katoey in Thailand for example play by very different rules. Not that's all sunshine and roses but I doubt they would be amenable to the arguments that Russians or Africans would put forth. Their culture treats these issues completely differently.
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Kill all Africans.
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Kennel posted:Kill all Africans. 
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Leviathan Song posted:They also have very different ideas about gender than either the modern West or countries voting red. Katoey in Thailand for example play by very different rules. Not that's all sunshine and roses but I doubt they would be amenable to the arguments that Russians or Africans would put forth. Their culture treats these issues completely differently. Right, SE Asia isn't great on LGBT issues, but they don't have any of the religious stigmas against it that the West or Muslim world had, and didn't inherit any laws against homosexuality from their colonial overlords. Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are some of the few parts of the world that have never had laws against homosexuality.
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Kennel posted:Kill all Africans. Bit harsh
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Kennel posted:Kill all Africans. --europe
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 All the pubs in the UK
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ekuNNN posted:
Not quite, they missed at least 200, according to the people who made it. Possibly as many as 600.
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Scotland doesn't seem dense enough. Don't tell me that's uninhabited highland, I don't see why that should stop them. 
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Distilleries aren't pubs i guess
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BonHair posted:Distilleries aren't pubs i guess There's also far fewer distilleries than I think most people would guess. 
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 quote:German media reacted with amusement Wednesday after French presidential front-runner Francois Fillon published a map in a campaign brochure that showed a divided Germany, 26 years after reunification.
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And the Scottish Indyref passed too in Fillonworld.
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Isn't that Fillon's dream, having Russia take over Eastern Germany again?
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I'm the Italian Istria
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Lord Hydronium posted:Scotland doesn't seem dense enough. I'd agree, actually - like the top right corner of the mainland, I've never been to Thurso or Wick myself but I'd be shocked if they didn't have so much as a single pub between them.
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Angepain posted:I'd agree, actually - like the top right corner of the mainland, I've never been to Thurso or Wick myself but I'd be shocked if they didn't have so much as a single pub between them. [Pretend there's a Yelp map showing three results for pubs in Wick. Awful app is hating my image file] Thurso has six results, but to be fair some seem more like restaurants , not sure where the line is officially drawn. But I bet Yelp could make some pretty good maps of things like this.
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I'd never heard of this guy before, but apparently the next French president - likes Russia - condones inaccurate maps They must really be sick of Hollande.
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Phlegmish posted:I'd never heard of this guy before, but apparently the next French president Can't trust a man's loyalties when he literally shares his name with another country.
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Hollande basically tried to gently caress over the workers horrendously and it turns out when people voted in a socialist party they're not huge fans of that sort of thing.
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Germany should be divided again. Like this: 
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I see he's also a big fan of Greater Serbia
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HookShot posted:Hollande basically tried to gently caress over the workers horrendously and it turns out when people voted in a socialist party they're not huge fans of that sort of thing. Could you go into detail on this? I remember reading about a garbage strike during some soccer tournament last July.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Could you go into detail on this? I remember reading about a garbage strike during some soccer tournament last July. So, as you might imagine, the France was crawling with working class people and students ready to hang Hollande on the first streetlight.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Germany should be divided again. This, but unironically (he said while German) Also, Hollande has an approval rating of 4%. No, that's not a typo. Recently a book was published that's nothing but background interviews with his, all officially endorsed. Hollande managed to piss literally everybody off in it, it's really something. You don't often get to see somebody committing political suicide as forcefully as this
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System Metternich posted:This, but unironically (he said while German)
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FreudianSlippers posted:Germany should be divided again. This just reminds me of how I read an excellent book on the Holy Roman Empire, "Heart of Europe" and learning how everything was actually structured and why left me feeling even more confused as to how it ended up that way really. Just the more you know the less it makes sense.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:He proposed, and used a special degree to get it past the parliament as it was contested, a labour reform that allegedly would allow businesses to offer permanent contracts on a more regular basis (short-term contracts are commonplace in France). In reality, the bill eases conditions for employers to fire workers (In case you are American, European laws can get very much the opposite of the at-will employment.) and partially enables them to force work weeks longer than 35 hours. On top of that, the special decree mentioned is 49.3, an article of the constitution, which allows the government to bypass parliament and just basically declare something a law without having to go through the actual process. As you can imagine, it is rarely used, and is being met with a lot of disgust from the French people.
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So because Hollande was a fake socialist they're now going to vote a right winger in? That's very British of them. We also vote against our best interest if the party in power doesn't do what we expected.
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