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I like how the Republic of London doesn't even include all of London. Also in my school in Edinburgh the safe area for what we called "tig" was "den", i hope i have helped the data collection
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The majority of Ireland would agree with this plan. Possibly a fair chunk of Scotland, too. Also Junts Per Si and Lega Nord voters.
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Regarding Tag, there’s one thing we haven’t addressed: what of hot lava?
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Institute of Internet Diagrams lmao
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One map I thought was awful, one map I thought was informative, and one map I found to be very entertaining.   
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actionjackson posted:Institute of Internet Diagrams lmao It's by a Lebanese guy making fun of Sykes-Picot :P
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:One map I thought was awful, one map I thought was informative, and one map I found to be very entertaining. Whats with New Hampshire?
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Frankly, it doesn't have enough absurd detailed borders breaking up the straight lines to match the typical European division of everywhere else.  The Paris and Luxembourg cutouts are a good start... Count Roland posted:Whats with New Hampshire? One of New Hampshire's big things is to have no sales tax and extremely low to no state tax on alcohol, depending on the type. And it's in easy driving range of all the parts of the Boston metro area that aren't already in NH. So it's a great place to show up and drink a lot and buy a lot to bring back. Delaware performs a similar thing for the Philadelphia metro and some of the Baltimore/Washington DC metro areas and you can see it standing out more int he later years there. And of course Nevada just has a ton of cheap booze because of casinos.
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I prefer that France to current France.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I prefer that France to current France. why mess with success? A gallia divisa in partes tres was good enough for caesar and it’s good enough for me
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"In the mid-18th century, roughly 50% of all rum produced in the American colonies was shipped to Portugal. The other half was shipped entirely to Ascension Island."
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CaptainRightful posted:"In the mid-18th century, roughly 50% of all rum produced in the American colonies was shipped to Portugal. The other half was shipped entirely to Ascension Island." Ascension is a bit further south. The arrow is pointing at Null island.
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CaptainRightful posted:"In the mid-18th century, roughly 50% of all rum produced in the American colonies was shipped to Portugal. The other half was shipped entirely to Ascension Island." Having lived on ascension I can confirm it's penchant for enormous amounts of rum
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Napoleon was a very heavy drinker in his later years.
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I don’t even get this, all of those Australias look exactly the same except one is much redder and one is taken at nighttime. Maybe I wasn’t around enough heavy metals in my childhood to understand a flat Earth post.
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Flat Earthers don’t have an understanding of object permanence. It’s the only explanation that makes sense.
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There's a group of Flat Earther Facebook pages ran by people who aren't flat earthers and regularly post clickbait gotchas like that one because outrage generates revenue.
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my dad posted:There's a group of Flat Earther Facebook pages ran by people who aren't flat earthers and regularly post clickbait gotchas like that one because outrage generates revenue. But actual flat earthers consume those pages in earnest
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Dreddout posted:But actual flat earthers consume those pages in earnest Yes.
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I tend to think most flat earthers are trolling/generating clicks. The I loving LOVE SCIENCE types love love love smugging it up and making fun of dumb people and flat earthers are really low hanging fruit for that. Since those types are pretty scientifically illiterate themselves it’s hard to feel superior to anyone other than the outright crazies like flat earthers or creationists so they flock to that poo poo to drop sick burns.
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I'd like to meet a flat earther irl, just to see if they really are serious. e: and are not obviously mentally ill e2: some unrelated map-like things:   Source http://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/city-street-orientations-world/ Count Roland fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Jul 12, 2018 |
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fishmech posted:One of New Hampshire's big things is to have no sales tax and extremely low to no state tax on alcohol, depending on the type. And it's in easy driving range of all the parts of the Boston metro area that aren't already in NH. So it's a great place to show up and drink a lot and buy a lot to bring back. In fact New Hampshire has state run liquor stores one I-95 north and south. So you need booze going in and going out.
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My only experience in New Hampshire was driving from Boston on into Maine, and then back for parts further south. Both ways included multiple liquor stores whose signs invoking insane discounts proved true, so we ended up traveling from Maine to Texas like 18th century aristocrats with a whole trailer of fancy booze greeting us every evening.
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Count Roland posted:I'd like to meet a flat earther irl, just to see if they really are serious. It's true, all roads really do lead to Rome. Also, didn't realize second map was just of the US, was hoping it would have Charlotte, was not[?] disappointed. Charlotte's grid is complete insanity. Edit: And for all the others that aren't strictly crosses, there's a justifiable reason. Boston: Shoreline, old as gently caress. Detroit: Shoreline. Manhattan: Shape of island. Philadelphia: Shoreline, old as gently caress. St Louis: Shoreline. Charlotte: Uh... well.. the local joke was they paved over the cow paths, but seriously, what the gently caress. Golbez fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Jul 12, 2018 |
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Count Roland posted:I'd like to meet a flat earther irl, just to see if they really are serious. A pet peeve of mine is that every time flat-earthers are mentioned, everyone inevitably says they're all just trolls or just loving around. I've had several acquaintances turn out to be flat-earthers despite not otherwise seeming to be nuts, all just "idk man they make some good points hmmmm..." It doesn't help that the not-flatness of the earth isn't easy to demonstrate in an intuitive or layman-digestible fashion. Barring those with severe mental illnesses, my (casual and limited) irl experience has been that flat-earthers are people seduced by the allure of having something on those arrogant know-it-all scientists; people with very weak understanding of science and math who distrust any explanations that aren't "common sense" or superficially intuitive. The only other type of flat-earther I've encountered irl is one strongly religious Christian co-worker who has the above qualities but was especially hooked by a video he saw that used Bible verses to support its argument. Maybe at one point the flat-earthers were all trolls, but I think there's a growing population of susceptible people, already primed to distrust "elitist" science, who are vulnerable to taking it in in earnest.
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Golbez posted:It's true, all roads really do lead to Rome. Most US cities can be gridded because they are built in fairly flat places. Does Charlotte have rolling or rough topography?
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Jaguars! posted:Most US cities can be gridded because they are built in fairly flat places. That's not really true or relevant. You can build to a grid plan on a lot of kinds of terrain, and at most just end up needing to skip some chunks of the grid for tricky spots - many US cities do that. Pittsburgh and San Francisco, for instance, valiantly slap in as much gridding as possible up against some rather ridiculously hilly terrain. This topo map is from 1979 (because for some reason there isn't a nice large scale usgs update for that section since then) but shows the grid versus hill stuff fairly well: 
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Mr. Belpit posted:A pet peeve of mine is that every time flat-earthers are mentioned, everyone inevitably says they're all just trolls or just loving around. I've had several acquaintances turn out to be flat-earthers despite not otherwise seeming to be nuts, all just "idk man they make some good points hmmmm..." It doesn't help that the not-flatness of the earth isn't easy to demonstrate in an intuitive or layman-digestible fashion. It's stupid as gently caress and nothing about our understanding of physical reality would make sense if it were true, have you tried putting it like that
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AgentF posted:Rio de Janeiro looking like a swastika there That Rio one is really strange to me. Very symmetrical. Way fewer roads 30 degrees off from the cardinal directions in one rotational direction. How does that happen?
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How do Glasgow and Charlotte etc. have notable difference between streets going north and south? Most of the others are almost mirror images.Leviathan Song posted:That Rio one is really strange to me. Very symmetrical. Way fewer roads 30 degrees off from the cardinal directions in one rotational direction. How does that happen? I guess that's just a natural result of having several slightly misaligned grids. Kennel fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Jul 13, 2018 |
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Kennel posted:How do Glasgow and Charlotte etc. have notable difference between streets going north and south? Most of the others are almost mirror images. I don't know exactly what they're counting as Glasgow but the city does have a fair few one-way roads going around, so my guess is the northish and southish ones aren't always perfectly aligned e: or there's just plain more going north, which isn't incredibly logical but wouldn't surprise me Angepain fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Jul 13, 2018 |
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Jaguars! posted:Most US cities can be gridded because they are built in fairly flat places. Does Charlotte have rolling or rough topography? Looking at Google maps, Charlotte doesn't look that different from Atlanta. Has Charlotte annexed more suburbs, placing more areas with irregular street networks within city limits? Generally speaking, grid plans are usually an indication of a strong top-down planning process. Ancient Greeks and Romans loved grids, whereas the Eastern Roman empire wasn't that good at enforcing a plat, as illustrated by the historical centre of Thessaloniki, Greece. 
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fishmech posted:That's not really true or relevant. You can build to a grid plan on a lot of kinds of terrain, and at most just end up needing to skip some chunks of the grid for tricky spots - many US cities do that. Yeah my neighbourhood looks like this  but still managed grids for the most part  Founded in 1907
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Jaguars! posted:Most US cities can be gridded because they are built in fairly flat places. Does Charlotte have rolling or rough topography? The streets in Charlotte are shaped like a wheel. The major roads being circles and spokes centered around downtown and the roads in between kinda going all over the place. Downtown there is more of the sterotypical grid pattern but instead of being N-S and E-W they are more NW-SE and SW-NE. That could explain it. The topography, the city has its fair shere of hills, but nothing too extreme.
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this is neat https://twitter.com/jellevanlottum/status/1018203637263355905
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Jaguars! posted:Most US cities can be gridded because they are built in fairly flat places. yeah places like notoriously flat Denver, Colorado
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Peanut Butler posted:yeah places like notoriously flat Denver, Colorado Denver isn't in the mountains, it's near them. 
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