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Is there somewhere I can live that is dark, cold and constantly overcast?
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Aug 1, 2019 02:09
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Byzantine posted:Is there somewhere I can live that is dark, cold and constantly overcast? Dikson, on Russia’s Arctic coast.
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Aug 1, 2019 02:12
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Aug 1, 2019 02:14
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luxury handset posted:your argument has shifted from macro scale population comparisons between nationally recognized cities to the details of local tax law and i guess the contents of your argument are less important than that arguing makes you feel alive. good luck to you Those are both things that can be compared and measured between cities my dear. This is hardly a controversial statement. Shockingly you can compare both New York City's population and New York City's income tax rate to Philadelphia's - or Yonkers', or Fresno.
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Aug 1, 2019 02:23
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Byzantine posted:Is there somewhere I can live that is dark, cold and constantly overcast? Faroe island sound like they'd be up your alley, the capital of Torshavn averages barely more than 2 hours of sunshine a day. However just about anywhere with a subpolar oceanic climate(Cfc and Cwc on this map) should fit the bill:  This map doesn't have the resolution for them to show up but I'm pretty sure most of those dinky little islands in the southern ocean like the Falklands fit the bill
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Aug 1, 2019 02:41
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fishmech posted:Nope they are in fact useful. Turns out you can in fact compare aspects of cities, by comparing aspects of cities, and this is meaningful. Here's a pretty good article about different ways you can look at urban areas, which mostly uses Los Angeles as an example. https://www.citylab.com/design/2011/09/defining-cities-metropolitan-world/102/
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Aug 1, 2019 03:00
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Can't believe this place that never rains is running out of water and constantly on fire.
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Aug 1, 2019 03:22
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Platystemon posted:Dikson, on Russia’s Arctic coast. I want to live somewhere that's always above 70, below 80, and always constantly terribly foggy. I've asked this on the internet multiple times multiple places hoping some tiny parcel of land somewhere in the whole world would have this microclimate but it seems it just doesn't exist. Which makes sense considering the conditions necessary for fog.
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Aug 1, 2019 07:08
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Xelkelvos posted:Shameful. That's the width of the state I live in. The length of my state is at least a 7 hour drive iirc, not counting the key. I thought the average state size was 4 hours. This is very disconcerting.
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Aug 1, 2019 07:22
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I want to live somewhere that's always above 70, below 80, and always constantly terribly foggy. I've asked this on the internet multiple times multiple places hoping some tiny parcel of land somewhere in the whole world would have this microclimate but it seems it just doesn't exist. Which makes sense considering the conditions necessary for fog. Some options would be the west coasts of most dry tropical deserts. Lima, Peru is pretty drat close to what you want, with very frequent fog and very moderate tropical temperatures. Slightly colder than you desire at some times of the year, but pretty close:  However some people say Lima's "fog" is more like a light rain, so if you are determined to be picky it might not suit you. The other climate that could possibly meet these criteria is tropical cloud forest. So Monteverde Costa Rica for example, and a lot of areas in the Andes. I don't think any place will have a temperature band THAT narrow though. Monteverde is like 60-80 all year. I don't know if anywhere on earth has temperatures that regular
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Aug 1, 2019 08:07
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I want to live somewhere that's always above 70, below 80, and always constantly terribly foggy. I've asked this on the internet multiple times multiple places hoping some tiny parcel of land somewhere in the whole world would have this microclimate but it seems it just doesn't exist. Which makes sense considering the conditions necessary for fog. Two approaches come to mind. One is cheating and I’ll get that out of the way: hang out near a hot spring. The world’s second largest is Boiling Lake on Dominica.  Pont Cassé has the nearest weather station. It’s nine kilometres from the lake and on the other side of the ridge, so it’s not necessarily a perfect representation of the weather of the lake. That said, the weather doesn’t do a particularly bad job of aiming for the goals even without the lake’s help.  There’s a good chance of busting the lower end of the range at night but other than that it looks great.  Cloud cover could be better. Those are rookie numbers in this racket. Not all cloud cover is fog, but all fog is cloud cover. Still, the steam coming off the lake might be enough.  This is the deathblow to the dream of perpetual fog. From November to May, the lake is going to struggle to put enough moisture in the air, I think. Let’s look at the other approach: tropical cloud forest. There is a reason that gorillas are in the mist. I looked around and found Ambunti, Papua New Guinea.  The humidity is oppressive here.  Temperature is biased high, but it’s consistent.  Cloud cover is overwhelming. Good luck seeing the Sun. Ambunti itself is along a river and not far above sea level. Climb the hills and you’ll drop that temperature and perhaps put your head in the clouds, catching two pigeons with one fava bean.
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Aug 1, 2019 08:17
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Squalid posted:Faroe island sound like they'd be up your alley, the capital of Torshavn averages barely more than 2 hours of sunshine a day. However just about anywhere with a subpolar oceanic climate(Cfc and Cwc on this map) should fit the bill: Hmmm...enhance.  Enhance.  Enhance!  
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Aug 1, 2019 08:24
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In the "NWO" (new weather order) southern/central europe is an uninhabitable desert in the summer and the UK is the new french riviera.
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Aug 1, 2019 08:42
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Wow fishmech really hosed that one up. I'll remember this day forever
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Aug 1, 2019 08:46
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Ras Het posted:Wow fishmech really hosed that one up. I'll remember this day forever Did you know the City of London has ~8000 inhabitants? It’s not even in the top 500 localities in the UK! The most important city in the UK is Birmingham, by a huge margin, having 500,000 more inhabitants than Liverpool.
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Aug 1, 2019 09:03
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Fishmech has basically completed his transformation into the forum's ben shapiro and I refuse to read his posts in any other voice.
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Aug 1, 2019 09:15
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steinrokkan posted:Fishmech has basically completed his transformation into the forum's ben shapiro and I refuse to read his posts in any other voice. Her posts.
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Aug 1, 2019 09:19
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Honj Steak posted:Did you know the City of London has ~8000 inhabitants? It’s not even in the top 500 localities in the UK! The most important city in the UK is Birmingham, by a huge margin, having 500,000 more inhabitants than Liverpool. Speaking of  :
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Aug 1, 2019 09:25
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It doesn't matter, any day now Volkswagen will just tell Merkel to give us a good deal and we'll be on our merry way. Any. Day. Now.
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Aug 1, 2019 09:35
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fishmech posted:Yep they do. You just seem to be salty because some city you like has ugly borders or something? All cities have ugly borders except Baltimore.
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Aug 1, 2019 15:43
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Honj Steak posted:Did you know the City of London has ~8000 inhabitants? It’s not even in the top 500 localities in the UK! The most important city in the UK is Birmingham, by a huge margin, having 500,000 more inhabitants than Liverpool. Yeah "London" is a shambling congeries of low density suburbia with pointlessly divided jurisdiction and a so-called City Hall that they have to rent from a private company, quite sad. The English spirit in a nutshell It's probably why Brexit keeps happening under the leadership of former London leader "Boris Johnson". At least the Birmingham people have a nice accent.
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Aug 1, 2019 16:12
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Byzantine posted:Is there somewhere I can live that is dark, cold and constantly overcast? Not Greece, that's drat sure.
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Aug 1, 2019 16:58
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System Metternich posted:Speaking of Wait really?? Cyprus gets off scott free? I assumed they'd take a big hit because of tourism/old expat retirees dropping out, but they'll barely notice it? lol awesome, they get to have their cake and eat it too (unlike poor Ireland...)
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Aug 1, 2019 17:01
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Lol imagine living somewhere like Inglewood or Downey and being told you don't live in "Los Angeles" by fishmech. "Ya me and my wife went to Vegas for vacation and stayed in the Mandalay Bay, it was great." "Um actually, you stayed in the unincorporated city of Paradise. You must feel so silly." Pook Good Mook fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Aug 1, 2019 17:02
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fishmech posted:At least the Birmingham people have a nice accent. Don't they sound like Ozzy Osbourne? That's definitely on the low end of good English accents (Yorkshire and Liverpool are the actual best, tied).
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Aug 1, 2019 17:04
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Pook Good Mook posted:Lol imagine living somewhere like Inglewood or Downey and being told you don't live in "Los Angeles" by fishmech. You sure seem angry about the fact that you can compare Inglewood to Los Angeles, or indeed Inglewood to Paradise. Really quite amazing.
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Aug 1, 2019 17:10
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Platystemon posted:Two approaches come to mind. Huh guess I was wrong about how common super low temperature variation is. Although tbf we are talking averages, so irl you’ll see things leave that range occasionally
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Aug 1, 2019 17:11
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Wikipedia posted:The concept of Urbanized Areas as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau is often used as a more accurate gauge of the size of a city, since in different cities and states the lines between city borders and the urbanized area of that city are often not the same. For example, the city of Greenville, South Carolina has a city population just over 64,000 and an urbanized area population of over 800,000, while Greensboro, North Carolina has a city population just over 285,000 and an urbanized area population of around 400,000 — meaning that Greenville is actually "larger" for some intents and purposes, but not for others, such as taxation, local elections, etc. It seems to me that being absolutist about which definition best fits the notion of 'city' as used casually (emphasis for people who care more about arguing about definitions than about being misleading) is unwise. Choosing between urban area population and metropolitan area population for the purpose of 'city size' does not seem like a no-brainer in general. However, being a stickler about formal city limits over urban area seems obtuse. As mentioned, formal city limits are relevant for studying some aspects, but when someone wants to talk about 'city size' in a more general sense the formal limits are just a legal construct rather than something inherently meaningful. e: Going by city limits, Memphis, TN (2017 est population 652,236) is considerably larger than Miami (2018 est population 470,914). FreeKillB fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Aug 2, 2019 01:30
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FreeKillB posted:It seems to me that being absolutist about which definition best fits the notion of 'city' as used casually (emphasis for people who care more about arguing about definitions than about being misleading) is unwise. Choosing between urban area population and metropolitan area population for the purpose of 'city size' does not seem like a no-brainer in general. However, being a stickler about formal city limits over urban area seems obtuse. As mentioned, formal city limits are relevant for studying some aspects, but when someone wants to talk about 'city size' in a more general sense the formal limits are just a legal construct rather than something inherently meaningful.
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Aug 2, 2019 06:29
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > politically-loaded fonts (which are also maps)
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Aug 2, 2019 10:56
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Honj Steak posted:Did you know the City of London has ~8000 inhabitants? The question of how the City went from being like 150k people in the 19th century to being like 5k at the turn of the 21st is very interesting to me. Was it just people leaving the squalor of the center city as public and other transportation improved until it was completely hollowed out and could be turned into the financial district we know today? And for the 8k residents present now, are they all mega rich finance people living in cavernous townhouses and duplex sky palace apartments or is it something else?
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Aug 2, 2019 11:00
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frankenfreak posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > politically-loaded fonts (which are also maps)
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Aug 2, 2019 11:17
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Grape posted:Don't they sound like Ozzy Osbourne? That's definitely on the low end of good English accents (Yorkshire and Liverpool are the actual best, tied). Ozzy Osbourne, minus the 40 years of drinking and drugs. Not that I claim my Brummie accent is any good. The rest of Britain hate it.
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Aug 2, 2019 11:50
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ellspurs posted:Ozzy Osbourne, minus the 40 years of drinking and drugs.
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Aug 2, 2019 11:59
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Bloodnose posted:The question of how the City went from being like 150k people in the 19th century to being like 5k at the turn of the 21st is very interesting to me. Was it just people leaving the squalor of the center city as public and other transportation improved until it was completely hollowed out and could be turned into the financial district we know today? Half the modern population lives in the postwar Barbican Estate project. In the 19th and 20th centuries, vast amounts of old housing was demolished in favor of office and industrial buildings, greatly reducing the resident population. But there's half a million people who commute in for work these days. The Barbican Estate is, iirc, designed so that its residential portion is significantly composed of apartments to be made available for low and middle income families - leaving the resident population of the district much lower income than you might expect for a CBD. fishmech fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Aug 2, 2019 13:06
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Bloodnose posted:The question of how the City went from being like 150k people in the 19th century to being like 5k at the turn of the 21st is very interesting to me. Was it just people leaving the squalor of the center city as public and other transportation improved until it was completely hollowed out and could be turned into the financial district we know today? yeah, industrial era cities in industrialized nations hung onto their early modern/medieval core areas with pedestrian oriented urban fabric, except with like 10x people as the hinterlands depopulated and people came hunting for jobs. this lead to overcrowding to the point that new innovations in sanitation and transportation were necessary just to mitigate mass sickness and death. the invention of railroads allowed suburbs to proliferate, railroads became miniaturized for local urban use first as horse drawn streetcars, then eventually to small steam trains and eventually electric trains. sometimes you could put the trains underground. this allowed everyone, first the wealthy and then the masses, to spread out such that you didn't have to stack people to the rafters except in the very largest cities (american cities, especially in the northeast, stayed crowded for much longer because of unceasing waves of immigration) this is the historic circumstance which leads the City of London to be much smaller than the city of London Bloodnose posted:And for the 8k residents present now, are they all mega rich finance people living in cavernous townhouses and duplex sky palace apartments or is it something else? mostly, but in historic/financial districts where some people still life like the ile de la cite or south of wall street, you're likely to find wealthy people that live very locally to their jobs because they can but also folks who have inherited an extremely prestigious living situation and also the odd assortment of relatively affordable rentals, except with a "you live where?" tier address Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Aug 2, 2019 13:18
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Tei posted:I don't think terrorism is a solution to fascism. The normal guy is a para-fascist and should be shot.
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Aug 2, 2019 23:00
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Isn't the City of London a totally separate entity from the city of London? Like it's administered by guilds and corporations because of some bullshit medieval legal poo poo and not at all connected to the actual city of London where millions of people live.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Isn't the City of London a totally separate entity from the city of London? The vast majority of its special rights and privileges have been reduced to parades and dinners where bankers can show off while hanging out with the queen or minor royalty. It forms a district of the entity known as "Greater London" these days with slightly more independence than the other 32 districts (which are called boroughs currently). It is a separate county from the one that Greater London also is, but counties now mean very little and wildly varying things between each other these days.
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