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double nine posted:pretty sure
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Banana Canada posted:I'm the electoral math that proves -1 = 4900 Weird things happen when imaginary numbers get involved.
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double nine posted:pretty sure Belgium went chud when its political landscape was reduced to just a duel between the Racist Party (NVA) and the Very Racist Party (VB).
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Cat Mattress posted:Belgium went chud when its political landscape was reduced to just a duel between the Racist Party (NVA) and the Very Racist Party (VB). hey now, there are not one but several parties who are Very Concerned about the racists they vote in lockstep with. Don't count those out.
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Bongo Bill posted:I'm Iowa. Delete your account.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Goddamn Belgium has the population of Ohio but only gets 3 electoral votes?? The Electoral College is worse than I thought it was. This is actually weirdly correct! New states typically get one Rep and two Senators upon admission, regardless of their population. They don't get the rest of their Reps until the next census and apportionment. So any newly admitted states, such as Belgium, would have three Electoral College votes until 2021! 
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Quorum posted:This is actually weirdly correct! New states typically get one Rep and two Senators upon admission, regardless of their population. They don't get the rest of their Reps until the next census and apportionment. So any newly admitted states, such as Belgium, would have three Electoral College votes until 2021!
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I'm the state name switcheroo in the South
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Quorum posted:This is actually weirdly correct! New states typically get one Rep and two Senators upon admission, regardless of their population. They don't get the rest of their Reps until the next census and apportionment. So any newly admitted states, such as Belgium, would have three Electoral College votes until 2021! Oklahoma got five representatives in the House at the time it was admitted to the union in 1907. Texas and California got two each in 1845 and 1850, respectively. Those were somewhat special cases, being admitted as states with significant population, rather than growing into statehood as territories, but I don’t think they’re exceptions to apportionment. I think it’s normal to give large new states a delegation proportional to their estimated population. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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This feels like a xkcd comic
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Sign languages of the world. Quite a few are based on American Sign Language. The "no data" countries reflect how poorly-documented some local sign languages are -- even if they're not using something formal and documented, deaf Iranians are definitely communicating somehow. 
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Awww... for a moment I thought that all yellow countries were (for some bizarre reason) using the same language.
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Kennel posted:Awww... for a moment I thought that all yellow countries were (for some bizarre reason) using the same language.
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If I had to guess, American sign language is probably being spread places by charity organizations providing support to deaf communities that the national government won't. I have no idea how well sign languages work in places with entirely separate spoken/written languages than the place that originated the sign language. There's also places that deliberately intend to keep their deaf community marginalized by not acknowledging their communication or worse. Or maybe not deliberately, and just the arbitrary carelessness of oppressive autocracy continually failing to meet human needs, who knows. https://iranhumanrights.org/2018/10/irans-deaf-community-launches-campaign-urging-government-to-end-discrimination/
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Dutch Sign Language as used in the Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sign_Language Flemish Sign Language as used in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. This is apparently quite different from Dutch Sign Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_Sign_Language French-Belgian Sign Language as used in the French speaking part of Belgium, this one is apparently very close to Flemish Sign Language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Belgian_Sign_Language All these have formal rules and there are schools where you can learn them. Why did the mapmakers slap "no data" there while this information is just publicly available? Interestingly, there seems to be a separate thing from Dutch Sign Language called "Signed Dutch". This is a sign language that uses the grammar of spoken Dutch and is probably easier to learn for people who learned spoken Dutch first. Dutch Sign Language uses its own grammar entirely, I guess they have a grammar that makes more sense for signing quickly. Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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There's a similar thing called Signed Exact English that's ASL signs with English grammar. I can imagine these being useful with people who need to learn a sign language later in life and/or people who have trouble learning languages in general.
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I'm surprised that Austria is not using the German sign language but Poland is
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German Sign Language family includes Poland and is coloured in brown 
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Fully extending your arm, facing forward, with the palm down and fingers touching means heil Hitler.
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At least within Germany there are also multiple sign language dialects, a good friend of mine works as a translator in Berlin and told me that Bavarian sign language can be nigh incomprehensible to her
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System Metternich posted:At least within Germany there are also multiple sign language dialects, a good friend of mine works as a translator in Berlin and told me that Bavarian sign language can be nigh incomprehensible to her So just like non-sign language then.
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Theres an isolated community of bedouins in the Negev that have a very large percentage of deaf people thats started spontaneously developing its own sign language among deaf children because its so isolated from population centers that israeli and palestinian sign language never spread there. Like half the towns linguists and anthropologists studying them because its the only way to observe the development of language that doesnt involve human rights abuses.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Like half the towns linguists and anthropologists studying them because its the only way to observe the development of language that doesnt involve human rights abuses. Before that I think Nicaraguan Sign Language was the prior study since in the 80s the government set up a school for the deaf and a bunch of deaf children were together for the first time.
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Various deaf communities making up their own language is actually surprisingly common. Or at least it used to be, I don't know how globalization interacts with that. Also, I want to add that most sign language are completely unrelated to spoken languages. As I remember it, American sign language is completely different from British sign language for instance, since they developed independently with an ocean between them. Of course, modern words still get loaned, like how "computer" is basically the same in every language (I know Icelandic and Finnish made their own cool words, as did others).
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Samosa supremacy imo.
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  Samoas supremacy IMO
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Little Brownie wins 2/3.
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Wherever the bones of Henry Hudson lie, they just got up and danced.
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double nine posted:pretty sure ???????????????????????? 
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Platystemon posted:
oh poo poo I live in ABC territory and just thought that all girl scout cookies got changed to be worse some years ago whatever i'll just keep getting the generic ones that were clearly named by a lawyer 
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ChubbyChecker posted:A Paradox gamer's worst nightmare:
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this thread is escaping https://twitter.com/dylanmatt/status/1233086720498950147
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So the only explanation I can think of is that they had some kind of complex dynamic program to place the state abbreviations onto the map, and something went wrong and jostled the array. It's like the map equivalent of pronunciation guide.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:this thread is escaping What a weird map. Is not "red states.txt"
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