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Saladman posted:Are you interpreting this backwards? I think you're the first person I've ever heard of who doesn't like daylight savings time. Even the few psychopaths I know who get up at 5am every day still like having more sun later in the day. For another perspective, what I hate is having to adjust the clock by an hour twice per year. Would rather have the equivalent of DST all year although it doesn't matter that much since I live in Norway. In deep winter it's dark when we go to work or school and it's dark again when the work- or schoolday is over. In high summer it barely gets dark for a bit around midnight and the sun is up hours before anyone with regular hours has to get out of bed.
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# ? Jan 1, 2021 21:34 |
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Tree Goat posted:others have already said that they are hoxhatown but i would like to reiterate that i am also hoxhatown
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# ? Jan 1, 2021 21:55 |
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https://twitter.com/shacayada2/status/1345009037818081281
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# ? Jan 1, 2021 22:22 |
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Tree Goat posted:others have already said that they are hoxhatown but i would like to reiterate that i am also hoxhatown https://twitter.com/ArborErich/status/1344878803064152064?s=20 how would a Marxist disagree...with what?
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# ? Jan 1, 2021 22:38 |
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The source map
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# ? Jan 1, 2021 22:45 |
Vavrek posted:I detest differences between solar noon and 12pm. Authenticity is a lie. Now I just hate the fact that it changes. Pick one and stick with it, I don't care which.
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# ? Jan 1, 2021 23:07 |
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Xelkelvos posted:
That is a, uh... Big Germany a little Groß
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# ? Jan 1, 2021 23:09 |
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Eiba posted:I used to be like this, but then I learned that where I live (eastern Massachusetts), solar noon is never 12pm. It's either 11:30 or 12:30 depending on whether daylight savings is active nor not. Continuous time zones would solve that problem and introduce many others.
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# ? Jan 1, 2021 23:13 |
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Der Waffle Mous posted:That is a, uh... Big Germany If you look at the timeline it seems to be an alternate history diverging with the Communists coming out on top in the German revolution at the end of WW1 E: presumably that world has abolished daylight savings.
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# ? Jan 1, 2021 23:42 |
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Eiba posted:I used to be like this, but then I learned that where I live (eastern Massachusetts), solar noon is never 12pm. It's either 11:30 or 12:30 depending on whether daylight savings is active nor not.
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# ? Jan 1, 2021 23:49 |
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Les just cancel daylight savings time
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 00:11 |
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Xelkelvos posted:
There's a lot to unpack with the map, but I'd like to start with the timeline that has smallpox lasting to 2011. Spain gets sliced up, Northern Ireland remains independent, Norway and Sweden get fused, Crimea is annexed, Palestine still exists on an otherwise united Arabian peninsula and levant, but has to exist alongside some kind of separate jewish state. Also a wildly expanded Jewish Autonomous Oblast.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 00:44 |
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The Warsaw Pact and NATO were a mistake
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 01:20 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Les just cancel daylight savings time The EU was going to do this in 2021 and the proposal was approved by the EU Parliament but then blocked elsewhere and it's not happening for now. I really want DST to go away.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 01:23 |
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the only good thing bolsonaro did was to cancel DST
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 01:53 |
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Space Kablooey posted:the only good thing bolsonaro did was to cancel DST He also got covid and was bit by an emu.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 02:03 |
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Xelkelvos posted:
Some truly hilarious details in this map. Leninderry - lol For some reason they didn't change the name of Monrovia?? There's a city in northwest Argentina named Verdugo de los Ricos ("Executioner of the Rich") and I have no idea why No Basque ASSR They use some of the Indian city renamings (Kolkata) but not all of them (Madras) New Zealand is called the "Aotearoan SSR" but all the city names are still just the ones given by the English - also I'm pretty sure you can't adjective-fy Aotearoa like that They renamed Belo Horizonte ("Beautiful Horizon") to Horizonte Vermelho ("Red Horizon") which seems lazy
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 02:29 |
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Xelkelvos posted:DST is weird and dumb. Use an alarm clock and just deal with it. It's an outdated thing due to the introduction of electric lights. How can it be outdated due to electric lights when it was only implemented after electric lights?
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 04:19 |
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Eiba posted:I used to be like this, but then I learned that where I live (eastern Massachusetts), solar noon is never 12pm. It's either 11:30 or 12:30 depending on whether daylight savings is active nor not. Not to mention that due mainly to eccentricities in the Earth’s orbit, noons aren’t a consistent number of seconds apart, but clocks run at a uniform rate, so true noon comes up to fourteen minutes late or sixteen minutes early even if you have a clock set perfectly for your longitude and don’t use DST.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 04:28 |
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Xelkelvos posted:
Ooof, the "Brenton" ASSR still doesn't include Loire Atlantique.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 04:34 |
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Virtually all the communist city renamings took place in North America. Could've at least renamed Berlin to Liebknechtstadt or something smh
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 10:58 |
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The city formerly known as “Tokyo”, lit. “eastern capital” becomes “Akakyo”, lit. “red capital”. Another I noticed in that hemisphere is that Port Moresby becomes “Red Victory”.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 11:23 |
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Xelkelvos posted:
1959 Mao eradicates famine edit: I know it's an alternate history but that seems particularly optimistic to say the least
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 16:36 |
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1960: Mao re-invents famine by eradicating natural predators of pests.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 16:56 |
Xelkelvos posted:
Current world president - Kim Jung Un
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 16:57 |
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Even the tankie wetdream map still has the Holodomor and doesn't cure polio until 2011.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 17:43 |
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PittTheElder posted:The guy who isolated it (in 1875) was French. That's pretty much it.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 18:06 |
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I choose to believe that Estacion Posadas in Antarctica is named after the UFO guy and not the town in Spain.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 18:10 |
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Soviet Commubot posted:I choose to believe that Estacion Posadas in Antarctica is named after the UFO guy and not the town in Spain. considering the rest of the map i think that's a yes
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 19:14 |
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Stalinbad. That's my opinion in Uzbekistan.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 19:30 |
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Sadly Vladimir Pinches-García and Lenmar [I hope this is a combination of Lenin/Marx] Wilders do not appear to be real people.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 19:35 |
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Xelkelvos posted:
Cyprus is part of Turkey Transylvania is part of Hungary There’s a Hutu country ( what happened to all of the tutsis? Was there a successful Rwandan genocide) Jigiga isn’t part of the Somali SSR. So many lunacies
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 21:06 |
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I tried google searching to find the source and there's another map that is the evil version (notice the mentions of purges and Beria succeeding Stalin): Also the names are much funnier.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 21:27 |
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im looking at the "qebecois" SSR and remembering how there's some weirdos who insist that labrador rightfully belongs to quebec
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 21:34 |
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Minenfeld! posted:Even the tankie wetdream map still has the Holodomor and doesn't cure polio until 2011. Anyone who gives Hoxha a job before any other communist leader or politician of that era is crazy. I also don't see any communist leader during the Beria getting out alive if it's a more oppressive era than the Stalin period. Maybe Hoxha was one of the few left standing.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 21:36 |
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I want to know how WW3 and 4 went as they were fought after nuclear weapons were invented.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 21:51 |
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Beria might've made Stalin look like a soft liberal had he actually taken power.
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 22:06 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:Beria might've made Stalin look like a soft liberal had he actually taken power. Wasn't one of the reasons Beria was killed (besides all the rape, murder and pedophilia) was that he was planning on closer economic ties with the Capitalist West?
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 22:33 |
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galagazombie posted:Wasn't one of the reasons Beria was killed (besides all the rape, murder and pedophilia) was that he was planning on closer economic ties with the Capitalist West? That is correct up to a point, he was killed mostly because he was a threat to the ascendant Krrushchev faction. Also, the head of the secret police was a very risky position with only one possible exit
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# ? Jan 2, 2021 22:44 |
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galagazombie posted:Wasn't one of the reasons Beria was killed (besides all the rape, murder and pedophilia) was that he was planning on closer economic ties with the Capitalist West? It's an open question as to whether he was actually going to do it or if Khrushchev just overstated the point to get more approval for killing him, but the accusation was that he intended to allow Germany to reunify and sell them back East Prussia in exchange for access to Marshall plan money. And also just generally give more freedom to the countries of eastern Europe. With that extra money and the backing of the west he'd then murder everyone (this part is almost certainly true). All in all Beria wasn't a land of contrasts and was clearly an irredeemable oval office and serial killer.
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