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Powered Descent posted:Some years ago I ran across a website for globes of some various alternate Earths. The creator is admittedly an artist and not a scientist, but he does his best to figure out how things would be different if (for example) the Earth's poles were in different places with respect to the continents, or if altitudes were inverted (as in the quoted map). i clicked on the website and clicked on a random earth and started scrolling down and discovered that he had decided to depict his idea of what animals might live on it by cutting up barbie dolls because "I was already building a troupe of modern dancers who are Barbie centauroids." 
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fishmech posted:The relocations had nothing to do with actual genetic ancestry, everything to do with religion and language. Yeah those are NBD
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Feb 21, 2017 17:10
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fishmech posted:The relocations had nothing to do with actual genetic ancestry, everything to do with religion and language. "Language and culture do not matter, only blood!" -- Fishmench circa 1933
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Feb 21, 2017 17:33
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Platystemon posted:Religion and language have no correlation with ethnicity? The entire area has been a long-term melting pot, and people shuffled around the borders in the aftermath of the various wars of the 19th and 20th centuries are very much the same. Much like how although the steppe society of the Bulgars took over and formed what is now Bulgaria, yet the population under their rule there remained almost entirely Slavic. The Turks who came into Anatolia and give their name to modern Turkey, displacing both Arab and "Greek"/Roman rule did very little to change the existing mass of population which you would generally call Greeks in a modern context. Particularly with millenia of frequent movement of people between Anatolia and what we call "Greece" today. It's also similar to how despite the various invaders like Angles and Saxons and Normans and Vikings that the British Isles experienced, and which generally resulted in those invaders getting dominance over the people who were already there, most of the native British population appears to be of a Celtic ancestry (the Celts generally believed these days to have so subsumed any prior inhabitants that there is little remaining trace of them). This doesn't stop idiot racists in England from decrying the Irish as backwards subhumans or anything, of course, just as modern day Greeks and Turks sometimes accuse the other of being despite extreme amounts of common ancestry.
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Feb 21, 2017 18:13
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I don't know of many haplogroup based political parties but I know of a bunch of religion and language based ones.
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Feb 21, 2017 18:26
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Genetic ancestry doesn't mean poo poo.
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Feb 21, 2017 18:29
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Baron Corbyn posted:was this map made by German Greek nationalists? Macedonia is labelled as Skopje too. Die Partei are a joke party 
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Feb 21, 2017 18:50
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TinTower posted:Die Partei are a joke party And they are always right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxb2YX0SmhE
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Feb 21, 2017 19:06
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Kopijeger posted:And they are always right: They've obviously changed massively since the 1950s and even the 1990s, but it's still a somewhat weird thought to me, a West German born at the tail end of the Cold War, that the party this song was dedicated not only still exists, but is also represented in the Bundestag, forms part of three state governments and has a non-negligible chance of being part of the next federal government. e: vote shares for Die Linke at the 2013 federal election 
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Feb 21, 2017 19:24
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System Metternich posted:They've obviously changed massively since the 1950s and even the 1990s, but it's still a somewhat weird thought to me, a West German born at the tail end of the Cold War, that the party this song was dedicated not only still exists, but is also represented in the Bundestag, forms part of three state governments and has a non-negligible chance of being part of the next federal government. Why are they relatively strong in Saarland anyway?
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Feb 21, 2017 19:30
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TinTower posted:Why are they relatively strong in Saarland anyway? Perhaps a relic from the Saar Protectorate days under the French? They didn't get to join up with West Germany until 1957, after all.
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Feb 21, 2017 19:39
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TinTower posted:Why are they relatively strong in Saarland anyway? Die Linke is the result of a merger of the PDS (the East German SED under another name) and the WASG, a party that formed in 2004 out of disappointed members of the SPD left wing and unionist under the leadership of former SPD chairman Oskar Lafontaine who is from Saarland, so it's mostly dependent on his local influence and prestige e: Saarland also has a long socialist/social democratic tradition owing to the historic dependency of the country on coal mining and the steel industry, though that translates mostly to a historically strong showing of the SPD System Metternich fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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Feb 21, 2017 19:40
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La Sarre est française
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Feb 21, 2017 19:51
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Guess the business
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Feb 21, 2017 20:21
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Radio Shack?
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Feb 21, 2017 20:25
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Flipperwaldt posted:Radio Shack? It's a category of business, not a single company.
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Feb 21, 2017 20:27
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video rentals
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Feb 21, 2017 20:28
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Kurtofan posted:La Sarre est française 
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Feb 21, 2017 20:28
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Kurtofan posted:La Sarre est française L'Algérie est française et le restera
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Feb 21, 2017 20:33
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Electronics repair?
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Feb 21, 2017 20:34
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Schizotek posted:Instanbul alone has more people than that lovely decrepit backwater. That state would be so overwhelmingly Turkish that the Greeks wouldn't even form half a political party. You seem remarkably angry at the Greeks for a map they didn't even make.
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Feb 21, 2017 20:38
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AriadneThread posted:video rentals No, but somewhat related. There were still many more video rental places in the country in 2013 than the just 190 of this business. If it helps, the business type depicted had its peak year in the US at over 7500 locations in 1993, and had well over 6000 locations in 1988, the first year anyone bothered to count them. Plinkey posted:Electronics repair? Not that either. Although part of the reason this category declined had a lot to do with electronics that you wouldn't bother to take to a repair shop.
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Feb 21, 2017 20:38
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Yo put the subject of the map in spoiler text or something. Guessing games are dumb.
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Feb 21, 2017 20:39
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Pog factories
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Feb 21, 2017 20:39
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Lewinsky scandal comedy t-shirt printers.
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Feb 21, 2017 20:40
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fishmech posted:Not that either. Although part of the reason this category declined had a lot to do with electronics that you wouldn't bother to take to a repair shop. Video arcades?
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Feb 21, 2017 20:43
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Photography shops/developers?
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Feb 21, 2017 20:56
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Feb 21, 2017 21:19
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Kopijeger posted:Photography shops/developers? It's this. It's specifically shops that were dedicated to photography, especially developing and selling film, and stores that were primarily that line of business and sold a few extra things on the side. As of 2013, newsstands had lost 51% of the locations they'd had in 1998, video rental stores had lost 85% of the locations they'd had in 1998, but photo developer/shops had lost 94% of locations. Nobody has any 2014-2017 figures for photo places, but they've probably lost at least a third of what was left in 2013. This came up because I found an old roll of film that doesn't appear to have been developed in a box, and was wondering where you'd even go to get it developed these days...
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Feb 21, 2017 21:20
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Feb 21, 2017 21:34
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I knew a girl from Alsace back when I lived in Freiburg right across the Rhine. She spoke standard German with a really strong French accent so at first I didn't even realise that she was Alsatian until I got to listen to her talking to her dad and they spoke in such a thick Alsatian German that it might as well have been a different language, especially to my Bavarian ears
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Feb 21, 2017 21:45
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fishmech posted:This came up because I found an old roll of film that doesn't appear to have been developed in a box, and was wondering where you'd even go to get it developed these days... Order chemicals and do it yourself, it's fun!
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Feb 21, 2017 21:47
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cis autodrag posted:Order chemicals and do it yourself, it's fun!
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Feb 21, 2017 21:52
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 I’m DPRK’s № 2 mobile phone network.
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Feb 22, 2017 01:17
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I need a colorblind mode for 4 and 5, 2 and 6, 7 and 9
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Feb 22, 2017 01:18
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Bloodnose posted:I need a colorblind mode for 4 and 5, 2 and 6, 7 and 9 The scheme sucks for us mantis shrimp as well. It ought to be a gradient.
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Feb 22, 2017 01:23
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Guavanaut posted:A lot easier for monochrome than color though, especially if you're just starting out. C-41 is almost as easy as monochrome as long as you keep your wits about you
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Feb 22, 2017 01:33
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Platystemon posted:
That's an odd number to use for the US. You'd normally either go with the big 4 which each have over 50 million subscribers (with the 2 biggest having over 130 million subscribers) or you'd dig down into all the minor carriers that still offer large region (but not national) service, which means one provider at 5 million and then 2 other carriers that manage around 1 million subscribers each.
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Feb 22, 2017 01:36
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Platystemon posted:I’m DPRK’s № 2 mobile phone network. Cellphones are pretty ubiquitous there and have been for a decade or more now. Over the past few years even smartphones have gotten to be common in the wealthier cities.
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Koramei posted:Cellphones are pretty ubiquitous there and have been for a decade or more now. Over the past few years even smartphones have gotten to be common in the wealthier cities. Yeah but, if you have a command economy, well uhh, why would you need two. I guess one for higher-ups/soldiers/w/e and one for ordinary proles?
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