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Not all of them - France distinguishes between “Overseas Departments“ and “Overseas Territories“. I dunno exactly what the legal differences are, but the former are considered part of France and in extension the European Union proper, whereas the latter (e.g. St Pierre et Miquelon off the coast of Newfoundland or French Polynesia) aren't. Mayotte was a territory until recently, when they decided in a referendum to upgrade to a department.
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France has some overseas bits that are territories and some that are considered integral. USA does the same thing. Hawaii and (sort of) Alaska are "overseas" but are integral/states, whereas Puerto Rico and Guam are territories. Edit: UK does it too, yeah? North Ireland is integral, even though it's not on the same bit of land, whereas Gibraltar or wherever is more like a territory. The UK is full of bonkers edge-cases and half-counted bits as I recall due to it being the big colonial dog before. The Lemondrop Dandy has a new favorite as of 00:48 on Sep 13, 2017 |
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The Cheshire Cat posted:the US considers places like Guam and Puerto Rico as "territories" rather than "states" (which has been a point of contention in Puerto Rico especially, since territories don't get any congressional representation yet the Puerto Rican population is larger than several full fledged states). All of the states (besides the original 13, Maine, Kentucky, West Virginia, Vermont, Texas, and California) used to be territories. Puerto Rico has voted to remain a territory and not become a state every time the issue has come up. Note that this doesn't affect their legal standing - Puerto Ricans are US citizens.
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Byzantine posted:Puerto Rico has voted to remain a territory and not become a state every time the issue has come up. Nope, 5 years ago they voted to become a state. Congress just decided not to do anything about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012
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trapped mouse posted:Nope, 5 years ago they voted to become a state. Congress just decided not to do anything about it. It's kinda complicated. That vote isn't the best representation since there still wasn't a straight majority for statehood, just a plurality, when you factor in all the blank votes for that question left by most of the pro-status quo people. The 2017 referendum was also questionable because pro-status quo people boycotted it and as a result, turnout was abysmal. Of course, the Republicans' main reason for not letting them become a state is because they'd be a Democratic stronghold but hey
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trapped mouse posted:Nope, 5 years ago they voted to become a state. Congress just decided not to do anything about it. Kinda. [[same citation]].
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trapped mouse posted:Nope, 5 years ago they voted to become a state. Congress just decided not to do anything about it. I’m all for Puerto Rico statehood, but that referendum was a flaming turd. So Puerto Rico would fit right into U.S. politics. 
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The Lemondrop Dandy posted:France has some overseas bits that are territories and some that are considered integral. USA does the same thing. Hawaii and (sort of) Alaska are "overseas" but are integral/states, whereas Puerto Rico and Guam are territories. Yeah, there's a good video about the clusterfuck of UK territories here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10. He also did a later one about the US but it's MUCH less complicated.
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Decolonisation leads to some rather weird mish-mashes of territories with various statuses. Whereas France went the way of saying "oh, Algeria and Guiana are totally an integral part of Metropolitan France", the UK's attitude to the little islands with tiny populations was to give them some weird semi-independent status. Hence, the UN's list of Non-Self Governing Territories looks kind of weird, including Gibraltar but not Ceuta and Melilla, and Guam but not Puerto Rico.
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kind of cheating, because the map was created as an example of how NOT to do map visualizations, but holy moly did they nail it
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Those are some low test scores and some high GPAs. An average of 4.31?
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Where's Idaho?
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Idaho is fake news
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bookkeeper posted:Those are some low test scores and some high GPAs. An average of 4.31? Olive Garden tonight! posted:Where's Idaho? ranbo das posted:Idaho is fake news also this
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After having lived in Idaho I can confirm that it is basically the Western Sahara of the US.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Honors courses, perhaps? I know some places have ways of getting GPAs above 4.0 Could be this, my high school bumped accelerated courses up by 1, so an A in an accelerated course was a 5.0. Could also be incremental GPAs for +/-, so an A is 4.0, but they could give out A+ which is a 4.33, A- is 3.67. There's no standard nationwide for GPA scaling.
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Does Idaho even exist? Have you met someone from Idaho?
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Some school districts just use a 5 point scale.
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:Where's Idaho? 
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Zereth posted:Where's what? Idanno.
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I'm the three different ratings in South Carolina.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:kind of cheating, because the map was created as an example of how NOT to do map visualizations, but holy moly did they nail it So what we've learned from this graph is that Alabama is full of supergeniuses.
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Google Trends graph for the term "bootstrap paradox":
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Ah. Doctor Who used the term.
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Strudel Man posted:Ah. Doctor Who used the term. Not only that but he literally told people to google it. So, they did. 
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goose willis posted:Does Idaho even exist? Have you met someone from Idaho? You da ho.
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Adorable.
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Why isn't it organized by mean or something useful arrrrrgh
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Iraq and Iran- friends? They were definitely enemies under Saddam, but I thought they were still enemies because Iran sends forces into Iraq to destabilize them.
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Jurgan posted:Iraq and Iran- friends? They were definitely enemies under Saddam, but I thought they were still enemies because Iran sends forces into Iraq to destabilize them. They're friends because they're both majority-Shia, they have an interest in curtailing the power of Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism, and they do a lot of trade.
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Look, if you're trying to explain Middle East politics to an English-speaking audience, I think a Pokemon-esque damage type chart is probably the most appropriate medium considering your audience.
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The diagonal should be mostly red faces too
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Maybe a few yellows too, but no greens.
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Needs a big "randomize" button in the corner.
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With an American flag on the button
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I love that the guy's head is right above the source. Like "Source: this random Arab guy".
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FrozenVent posted:Needs a big "randomize" button in the corner. Sentient Data posted:With an American flag on the button  lol
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OutsideAngel posted:Look, if you're trying to explain Middle East politics to an English-speaking audience, I think a Pokemon-esque damage type chart is probably the most appropriate medium considering your audience. Zemyla posted:I love that the guy's head is right above the source. Like "Source: this random Arab guy".
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