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Platystemon posted:The Panama Canal is ready for Ever Given. Meanwhile the Red Sea got closed.
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I'm the Great Persian Lake
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I'm the arisen black sea Atlantis
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Platystemon posted:The Panama Canal is ready for Ever Given. I believe you mean the Panama Channel
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I'm Bots and Ana
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Apr 14, 2021 01:29
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BonHair posted:Somalia being excluded because it's barely a country thank you poster bonhair, because of you I’ve realized that I am floating in the air.
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Badger of Basra posted:Why does Papua New Guinea get to be Western? They got the good, European Protestant missionary colonialism instead of the bad Muslim colonialism
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Tree Goat posted:
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Bodyholes posted:#mapswithoutnewzealand #mapswithoutindonesia
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Apr 14, 2021 03:10
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The Caspian Sea is cut out, like the ocean, but the Black Sea is not.
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I’m Ivory Coast’s annexation of half of Mali E: nvm, I’m toothpick Italy
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Not Hindu. But its actually the opposite for the most part. Historically the sects did consider themselves different religions entirely depending on whether they centered vishnu or shiva etc. By historically I mean before when the roman empire fell in the west. Around 700 or so a guy named Adi Shankara came around who said that actually all hindu gods are just reflections of brahman so really its the same religion. He did however draw very big distinctions between hinduism and buddhism in part because his opponents kept accusing him of being a secret buddhist due to a lot of his ideas resembling mahayana buddhist concepts. There's a semi-meme argument to be made that buddhism is a hindu reform movement (though beyond the glib similarities, the two are structurally and doctrinally quite concretely diverged at this point). That said, it works a lot better as a joke than as a factual, earnest statement. Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 04:25
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Finally, someone willing to show the world how to identify Thaikhmerlao characters Tree Goat posted:
We all knew global warming was going to be bad, and that it’d hit the global south the hardest, but nobody expected Africa to just melt into an unidentifiable blob.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:There's a semi-meme argument to be made that buddhism is a hindu reform movement (though beyond the glib similarities, the two are structurally and doctrinally quite concretely diverged at this point). That said, it works a lot better as a joke than as a factual, earnest statement. this is a "meme" argument that among others gandhi made
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:this is a "meme" argument that among others gandhi made Yeah it's been kicking around for a long time among buddhists, too and a somewhat earnest case can be made for it and is somewhat accurate insofar as historical buddha was absolutely seeking to reform and improve on extant hindu religion and practices. It just becomes pretty reductive and not taken seriously once you include the full historical context and separation of the last two and a half millennia alnilam posted:When americans call Afghanistan part of the middle east I can never tell if they just have no idea where it is (probably), or are racistly lumping it in with the other muslim countries we bomb (probably), or if they just have a more expansive definition of "middle east" than I do. The real head scratcher is when someone calls pakistan the middle east.
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muslim and pretty borders. what else do you need
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Pakistan is pretty clearly in the Middle East on the basis that it is west of the Far East and east of the Near East.
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Tree Goat posted:
I've seen plenty of maps without New Zealand, but no Korea, Japan, or British Isles? Especially given mapmakers often bend over backward to fit in the latter two.
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Mr. Belpit posted:I've seen plenty of maps without New Zealand, but no Korea, Japan, or British Isles? Especially given mapmakers often bend over backward to fit in the latter two. I thought maybe they were just omitting small-ish islands since it's on a wireframe, but then I noticed that they closed the Torres Strait to show PNG ... but not the entire island of New Guinea. I really can't imagine how someone spent so much effort to make such a catastrophically bad map. It also looks like the Black Sea became an actual country and is not cut out like the Caspian.
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I think the thing that's really bizarre is that in some places they've made an effort to get borders right within the limits of the piece and then in other places they've just invented countries or erased others. Like missing islands/seas sort of makes sense from a sense of structural practicality, but did they just not have access to a map of Africa and decided to paint it from memory? I'm also very curious as to where it is from as I can't see any one country that is obviously correct.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I think the thing that's really bizarre is that in some places they've made an effort to get borders right within the limits of the piece and then in other places they've just invented countries or erased others. Well, you know what they say. "We know more about the surface of the moon than the interior of Africa."
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I'm Free Sapmi
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The Baltic ..Unsea?
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Imagine going to the trouble of making sure Greenland is identified as a sub-state of Denmark, but then leaving Denmark off altogether. Edit: Also, is that two Switzerlands or what? Unrelatedly, that is definitely a hard "R" Nigeria. Geshtal fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 21:09
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Also no Koreas at all
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Geshtal posted:Edit: Also, is that two Switzerlands or what? Might be the Kingdom of Burgundy
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Tree Goat posted:
Hey thindia, I'm... thintaly
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Apr 14, 2021 23:18
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Things got weird after most of Finland was nuked out of existence, and the Baltic Seawall was erected.
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This is pretty cool: The University of Göttingen has put a new map tool online showing trade routes in late medieval and early modern northern central Europe, i.e. the routes used by the Hanseatic League to transport its goods. It's still a work in progress so expect a bunch of new stuff/features to be added in. The project is also documented pretty well if you're interested in that sort of thing.
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Tree Goat posted:
This map of yours that you posted is really making an appearance around the forums, besides this one I've seen it in three other threads already.
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Land bridge between UAE and Iran checking in. Also lol at the Panama strait.
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gently caress off Batman posted:This map of yours that you posted is really making an appearance around the forums, besides this one I've seen it in three other threads already. It's an amazing map.
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Do we know where it's from? The first thing I looked for were the usual signs of cultural biases but it's hosed from a lot of angles. God, just saw "Qatar Saud Arabia"
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Randallteal posted:Do we know where it's from? The first thing I looked for were the usual signs of cultural biases but it's hosed from a lot of angles. The closest thing I can get to a political agenda is gently caress even somewhat isolated land masses below a certain size.
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Randallteal posted:Do we know where it's from? The first thing I looked for were the usual signs of cultural biases but it's hosed from a lot of angles. My cartographer coworker shared this tweet: https://twitter.com/manenbu/status/1381044216105553922?s=21 which is as far as I got with sourcing
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Randallteal posted:Do we know where it's from? The first thing I looked for were the usual signs of cultural biases but it's hosed from a lot of angles. Probably Chinese.  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/20000001347136.html From the same series: 
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Apr 15, 2021 23:26
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Kennel posted:Probably Chinese. Good god, it's giant. Also, lol imagine having such a fancy-rear end house, and then having a massive and godawful map above your sofa. "After careful production by designers", lmao. E: Also the second map, of China, does not have the nine-dashed line shown as part of China. IMHO execute these designers for their disloyalty and offending China's feelings. Is the map precise enough to make it clear whether they show the Chinese-claimed parts of Pakistan and India as part of China? I can't really tell, although based on their world map I imagine "precision" is not their forte. Saladman fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Saladman posted:Good god, it's giant 1,22m isn't giant. The photo with the sofa clearly isn't to scale. They always fake them so you'll buy a 50mm*50mm "wall" decnal because in the photo it looked as big as a big thing.
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