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Orange Devil posted:Sounds like a thought tendency that is easy to morph into fascism.  "Let me divide humanity into various sub-species, from angelic descendants of the skies to dirt creatures that burrowed up from where we bury our waste..."*Korean nationalist pops up in the middle of my yard with a shovel and hard hat* e: map 
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MeinPanzer posted:This is partly a cultural and partly a fiscal thing, apparently. In Greece at least, where the same is true, it's apparently common practice for a family to buy a plot of land and basically build up a house over years or decades. From what I understand, the reason so many remain unfinished is that a property only becomes taxable when it's actually habitable, so a lot of families will, say, come into an inheritance, lay the foundation and pour the concrete form of a house, and then leave it until they can afford the next phases. It's not just a Greek thing — it's also like that in most countries where the currency has collapsed or has rampant inflation, or where trust in banks to not steal or freeze their accounts is extremely low. No one trusts to keep their money in the bank, but property is a real thing you can own and put (and keep) value into. Stuff under eternal construction is common all across North Africa too. I stayed in the beach home of a middle class Egyptian friend a couple hours west of Alexandria, and that place had no hot water (not that you need it tbh and it did have piped water at least) nor electricity besides one solar panel for charging phones, but the walls were up so they could already use it as a beach house. No noticeable progress was made in the two times we went there, about 8 months apart. I've heard the tax thing is a common myth, and that you'll get taxed even if you still have your third floor with rebar sticking out, but that might depend on the country/jurisdiction/your personal relation with the real estate appraisal people.
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Deltasquid posted:
Sagrada Familia will be done by then at least. Probably.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I have a Korean friend from university who has got into this stuff and she just comes out with the wildest poo poo.
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Hermsgervørden posted:
We know of the Korean outposts in Europe, and will deal with them when the time comes 
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Guavanaut posted:
Why is Jerusalem on the other side of the planet from paradise on Earth, and what is the cosmological significance of dark wood?
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Jan 12, 2021 18:16
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Dark wood is where the entrance to Hell meets the surface and is presumably somewhere in Italy because that's where Dante was wandering when he enters. When Satan was expelled from Heaven he landed on Jerusalem and made a huge crater underneath it, pushing the earthly paradise out in the form of a huge mountain. Jerusalem was the center of many of the old maps, especially T and O maps, because of the religious significance as well as nicely dividing the hemisphere of land into Europe/Africa/Asia, with the Levant as the hub. Still makes more sense than flat earth.
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Guavanaut posted:Dark wood is where the entrance to Hell meets the surface and is presumably somewhere in Italy because that's where Dante was wandering when he enters. Yeah, I've been there. It's called Ventimiglia.
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Saladman posted:It's not just a Greek thing — it's also like that in most countries where the currency has collapsed or has rampant inflation, or where trust in banks to not steal or freeze their accounts is extremely low. No one trusts to keep their money in the bank, but property is a real thing you can own and put (and keep) value into. Stuff under eternal construction is common all across North Africa too. I stayed in the beach home of a middle class Egyptian friend a couple hours west of Alexandria, and that place had no hot water (not that you need it tbh and it did have piped water at least) nor electricity besides one solar panel for charging phones, but the walls were up so they could already use it as a beach house. No noticeable progress was made in the two times we went there, about 8 months apart. It's just the peoples of the Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent doing what they do best, leaving mysterious ruins around the landscape.
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Darkest Auer posted:Yeah, I've been there. It's called Ventimiglia.
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I know the hyperwar is a dumb joke and all, but at what point will crazy Korean nationalists actually buy into it?
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Hermsgervørden posted:
Had some fun skimming through a blog I stumbled upon that's kind of the Indian equivalent of this. It rules. http://romaisrama.blogspot.com/
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Guavanaut posted:Can you get to Hell from there or have they closed it off? Its Italy im sure if you grease the right palms you can get access.
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Does anyone know if North Korea/Juche is on board the Hwan Empire-style crazy train or not?
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I have a Korean friend from university who has got into this stuff and she just comes out with the wildest poo poo. Believing Koreans are a separate species isn't that uncommon in my experience living there. I had to go to a different doctor once when I was told he'd only studied Korean biology so couldn't help me. Like I don't think it's a majority opinion but I wouldn't find it weird to hear it. Japan also has their weird nihonjinron poo poo which ranges from full insanity hardly anyone buys to stuff that's repeated fairly often, like Japanese people eat different food because their digestive organs are different than foreigners.
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Maps about the political thing for the political maps thread. https://twitter.com/PeterCBlack/status/1348859919445807106  https://gizmodo.com/parler-users-breached-deep-inside-u-s-capitol-building-1846042905 Grand Fromage posted:Japan also has their weird nihonjinron poo poo which ranges from full insanity hardly anyone buys to stuff that's repeated fairly often, like Japanese people eat different food because their digestive organs are different than foreigners. There is some evidence that some populations have tendencies to process nutrients differently, but there are companies out there that wildly overstep any informational basis by tailoring diet plans to DNA results. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/personalized-nutrition-companies-claims-overhyped--scientists-66321
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SlothfulCobra posted:There is some evidence that some populations have tendencies to process nutrients differently, but there are companies out there that wildly overstep any informational basis by tailoring diet plans to DNA results. This is also quite different than actual claims like saying Japanese people have longer colons so they can eat seaweed, unlike foreigners.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Maps about the political thing for the political maps thread. If we discount DC (which probably only appears in this list due to the large number of videos taken on January 6), almost all of those are super rural counties with a population of <10,000, half of them even <5,000. That’s not too surprising because in those low-population areas one or two prolific users are already enough to distort the result, and of course also because rural regions like this tend to be highly conservative too. The only real exceptions to that are Clark and Crittenden with ~140,000 and ~48,000 people respectively. Does anybody know if this is coincidence, or are there deeper-lying reasons for those two to have unusually many videos on Parler? Did Trump do any rallies there for example? e: oh wait, I totally fat-fingered my phone while I looked up population numbers and ended up looking at Clark county in Ohio and not Idaho, lol. The latter has a population of about 850 people which makes Crittenden even more of an outlier, especially considering that it appears to be a fairly solidly Democratic area System Metternich fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Jan 13, 2021 |
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System Metternich posted:If we discount DC (which probably only appears in this list due to the large number of videos taken on January 6), almost all of those are super rural counties with a population of <10,000, half of them even <5,000. That’s not too surprising because in those low-population areas one or two prolific users are already enough to distort the result, and of course also because rural regions like this tend to be highly conservative too. The only real exceptions to that are Clark and Crittenden with ~140,000 and ~48,000 people respectively. Does anybody know if this is coincidence, or are there deeper-lying reasons for those two to have unusually many videos on Parler? Did Trump do any rallies there for example? Florida (and New Hampshire lol) are considerably redder than most eastern states as well.
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Grand Fromage posted:Believing Koreans are a separate species isn't that uncommon in my experience living there. I had to go to a different doctor once when I was told he'd only studied Korean biology so couldn't help me. Did you blow his mind by telling him that your species is immune to fan death?
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The sample size of Parler users is too small to infer much. Here's another dam map: 
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Land of the Dammed
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Guavanaut posted:Can you get to Hell from there or have they closed it off? It's more like Hell has sort of spilled over there
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Bodyholes posted:The sample size of Parler users is too small to infer much. Are the hazard levels saying how bad it would be if a particular drat broke like "this one is right upstream from a town and would kill tens of thousands if it broke" or "this one would ruin billions of dollars of farmland if it broke", or are they saying how bad a state of disrepair a particular dam is in? Cause if it's the latter it looks like Appalachia is about to become a giant lake.
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I guess that there were a lot of dams constructed in the Appalachians during the 1930s as part of the New Deal which probably didn't see any real maintenance since then
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Grand Fromage posted:This is also quite different than actual claims like saying Japanese people have longer colons so they can eat seaweed, unlike foreigners. Do they think that people in other countries don't eat seaweed? *Laughs in Welsh*
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Do they think that people in other countries don't eat seaweed? *Laughs in Welsh* Well, that just proves that Wales is actually an ancient Japanese colony.
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Dommolus Magnus posted:Well, that just proves that Wales is actually an ancient Japanese colony. Well this is obviously wrong because Welsh has far too many consonants to be a Japonic language.
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galagazombie posted:Are the hazard levels saying how bad it would be if a particular drat broke like "this one is right upstream from a town and would kill tens of thousands if it broke" or "this one would ruin billions of dollars of farmland if it broke", or are they saying how bad a state of disrepair a particular dam is in? Cause if it's the latter it looks like Appalachia is about to become a giant lake. In this case the red indicates dams with large populations downstream that would get flattened if they failed. I don't think it refers to the soundness of the dam. Many of the red dots are in good shape, but if they failed it would be catastrophic. However, many of them are also deficient.  I can't find one as detailed for deficient dams. Based on this map and the one above, I think PA's got a big dam problem. Truly shocking from a state with such nice roads... Bodyholes fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Jan 14, 2021 |
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Hence why the worst areas are either places with big populations like California or Appalachia where the population is all concentrated in small areas that are also the lowest-lying parts
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Do they think that people in other countries don't eat seaweed? *Laughs in Welsh* People believe dumb poo poo. I cannot count how many times Koreans told me that garlic and chili peppers are exclusively eaten in Korea.
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BBC - The intriguing maps that reveal alternate histories
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Grand Fromage posted:People believe dumb poo poo. I cannot count how many times Koreans told me that garlic and chili peppers are exclusively eaten in Korea. My Korean friends insist that Korean sweat does not stink because they lack the gene for that. I have not verified this one way or the other.
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That one actually is true. Only like 5% of Koreans have it or something like that.
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Buttchocks posted:My Korean friends insist that Korean sweat does not stink because they lack the gene for that. I have not verified this one way or the other. Having been on many Korean buses in summer, I can verify your friends are full of poo poo.
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I mean sweat not stinking doesn’t mean you can’t stink in other ways, but Koreans genuinely have that gene a lot less than most people. Apparently it’s the ABCC11 gene, it’s a real thing.
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Then at the very least it must not be anywhere near as prevalent as Koreans think it is, because as a result of that belief nobody uses deodorant and BO stink is everywhere. Malaysia is the king of BO though. I dunno what's going on in the food or whatever but it is quite an experience.
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ABCC11:body odour::firearm suppressor:gunshot noise
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