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Quoted the wrong post, weird
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Apr 26, 2018 22:12
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Congrats, Arizona and Hawaii
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Apr 26, 2018 22:18
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Phlegmish posted:Congrats, Arizona and Hawaii *squints* and rhode island looks like also, new york state saved by its least populous county, with appx. 5k residents. tho i dont know if new york borough/county, the island of manhattan itself, would appear on this map at this scale
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Apr 26, 2018 22:41
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Makes me proud that my county comes up blue on this map. 
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Apr 26, 2018 22:45
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Was not expecting California to be that grey.
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Apr 26, 2018 22:48
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Golbez posted:Makes me proud that my county comes up blue on this map. Irritates me that mine comes up grey, knowing it would otherwise be blue.
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Apr 26, 2018 22:50
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Oklahoma-North Dakota corridor confirmed worst states once agian Also is Fairbanks notoriously liberal or is that a fluke? E: oh even weirder, Fairbanks is grey. The blue Alaska country is presumably like three people then.
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Apr 26, 2018 22:52
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Very curious how doing that apparently flips Maine from Clinton to Trump somehow
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Apr 26, 2018 23:04
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maine splits its electoral vote and the map... didn't really know how to deal with that, I guess.
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Apr 26, 2018 23:12
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In Nevada we can vote for Nobody. None of These is an option on the ballot. Not many people actually vote it.
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Apr 26, 2018 23:13
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reignonyourparade posted:maine splits its electoral vote and the map... didn't really know how to deal with that, I guess. But it does, you can see Maine's individual districts on the small map. Nebraska too.
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Apr 26, 2018 23:18
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Bloodnose posted:In Nevada we can vote for Nobody. None of These is an option on the ballot. Not many people actually vote it. I imagine those motivated to vote Nobody are more motivated to just not waste time voting
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Apr 27, 2018 00:07
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I imagine those motivated to vote Nobody are more motivated to just not waste time voting There have been times where None Of The Above got the most votes there, although the person with the most votes gets to still win the office in question. Pretty humiliating way to win though.
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Apr 27, 2018 00:58
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That's dumb. They should just have a new race where no one who ran the first time is allowed to run again.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:13
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 it's almost as if the whole american system is dumb
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Apr 27, 2018 04:14
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More like DUMBocracy
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Apr 27, 2018 04:26
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Lycus posted:Was not expecting California to be that grey. Why would you vote for president in California?
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Apr 27, 2018 04:36
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In the last Dutch national elections, one of the new parties you could vote for was the "party for the non-voters". Their sole party promise was that if elected, they'd abstain on every single vote in parliament. Surprisingly, no-one voted for them.
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Apr 27, 2018 07:52
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Carbon dioxide posted:In the last Dutch national elections, one of the new parties you could vote for was the "party for the non-voters". Their sole party promise was that if elected, they'd abstain on every single vote in parliament. It's because almost no one actually wants that except for anarcho-capitalists.
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Apr 27, 2018 07:59
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Lycus posted:It's because almost no one actually wants that except for anarcho-capitalists. There were also strong suspicions that the people running that party were just hoping to get a parliament salary without doing any work, or they did have another agenda entirely.
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Apr 27, 2018 08:08
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Arglebargle III posted:Why would you vote for president in California? Because there are local races and issues on the ballot?
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Apr 27, 2018 09:09
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Platystemon posted:Because there are local races and issues on the ballot? Even though it's silly, my experience is that people disenfranchised at the presidential level who buy into "both parties are identical and bad" think the same of all levels, even though affecting change locally is very possible.
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Apr 27, 2018 16:47
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Isn't there that Northern Irish nationalist party that gets bunch of seats in British parliament in every election but refuses to participate?
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Apr 27, 2018 20:48
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Sinn Féin. They still do their local constituency jobs, they just don't do the bit that requires swearing an oath to the Queen, so can't take their seats.
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Apr 27, 2018 20:53
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Guavanaut posted:Sinn Féin. They still do their local constituency jobs, they just don't do the bit that requires swearing an oath to the Queen, so can't take their seats. My favourite thing about Sinn Fein is that when Gerry Adams wanted to run for the Dail Eirann, he decided to resign as an MP. However, the only way MPs can "resign" is by taking an office under profit of the Crown. So when he sent a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer saying "I resign", they appointed him to a Crown office without his consent.
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Apr 27, 2018 22:50
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Arglebargle III posted:Why would you vote for president in California?
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Apr 28, 2018 00:00
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hey, a food map: https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/989942784915329024
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Apr 28, 2018 08:40
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Holy crap, Switzerland.
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Apr 28, 2018 09:34
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you think that's bad, take a peek at Cyprus. e: wait, no, still smaller in total numbers than Switzerland. My mistake.
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Apr 28, 2018 09:46
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I wonder how many more "unknown" billionaires could be added to the list. Lukashenko's personal wealth in Belarus has been estimated by American diplomats at 9 billion dollars back in 2010 and probably only grew from there, for example, and I'm guessing that especially in Russia there are quite some more personal friends of Putin who have the odd billion lying around.
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Apr 28, 2018 10:13
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Lycus posted:Holy crap, Switzerland. I mean, Switzerland has honed a reputation for rich people to move and be able to live with low taxes and anonymously (still in fabulous luxury, but without like paparazzi and poo poo following you for tabloid news) for what, like 70 years? I mean half these billionaires with citizenship elsewhere still park a ton of their money and business in Switzerland, like Tetra Pak or the 5000 multinationals headquartered in Zug. double nine posted:you think that's bad, take a peek at Cyprus. Plus Cyprus is kind of misleading, since 4 of the 7 billionaires are the same (the EasyJet family). Those lists are all kind of weird since they usually include a bunch of different family members for the same business, and since the overall numbers are so small this skews stuff a lot. Like, the Sultan of Brunei could make his country have the highest density of billionaires in the world by a mile by just nominally giving all his children $1bn shares in the state oil company, like the IKEA family did and, apparently, the H&M and Tetra Pak family. (Jesus, Tetra Pak is worth like $50bn?)
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Apr 28, 2018 11:40
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Found some interesting maps when checking out gun laws/deaths on the internet and though I'd share some of them here. From this site  From this site  From this site with clickable version of the map
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Apr 28, 2018 17:12
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Kamrat posted:Found some interesting maps when checking out gun laws/deaths on the internet and though I'd share some of them here. Ah yes, the well known mountainous Lesotho city of oceanic Cape Town.
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Apr 28, 2018 18:43
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Those maps, especially the first one of the world map, make it seem very strongly as if there is zero correlation between gun laws and gun deaths. Maybe it is true and it's just missing the cofactors you normally see, like gun ownership / gun prevalence? Which seems an important and relevant piece of missing data. On the third chart, I was surprised that Maryland was not on the top 10 and looked into it, and broadly the third graph has a lot of discrepancies with Wikipedia's listed stats ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state ) although that does not include gun suicides, and the source is not properly cited so maybe it's not just gun deaths in that table.
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Apr 28, 2018 18:46
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chestnut santabag posted:Ah yes, the well known mountainous Lesotho city of oceanic Cape Town. The misleadingly named Cape Town, which is not on a cape or even near the sea
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Apr 28, 2018 18:48
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What the hell makes them think Netherlands, Belgium and France only have 'moderate' gun laws?
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Apr 28, 2018 19:12
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Carbon dioxide posted:What the hell makes them think Netherlands, Belgium and France only have 'moderate' gun laws? Yeah, and they have Croatia marked as “lenient”. You get extensively checked here, your family and neighbors are interviewed and asked if they oppose your gun purchase, your medical records and army service are reviewed. Plus, you can never get a license to carry if you’re not law enforcement. You can only own the gun and transport it to the shooting range/hunting grounds packed in a secured bag. I think that the map might be bad, even politically-loaded.
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Apr 28, 2018 19:32
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Carbon dioxide posted:What the hell makes them think Netherlands, Belgium and France only have 'moderate' gun laws? Are you saying you think they should be lenient or strict? I don't know about the other two countries but France's gun laws aren't exactly super strict from a non-American perspective.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Yeah, and they have Croatia marked as “lenient”. You get extensively checked here, your family and neighbors are interviewed and asked if they oppose your gun purchase, your medical records and army service are reviewed. Croatia is marked down as moderate, same as France and Britain. Are Canada's gun laws stricter than those in Scandinavia (I'm thinking Norway perhaps more specifically where getting a gun is pretty easy, provided you are a licensed hunter or you are part of a marksman's club or something like that, or you are a farmer)? I would have thought they would be at the same level or more lenient, given that gun ownership rates are pretty comparable. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Apr 28, 2018 |
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