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Golbez posted:Austin and Minneapolis, those famously Appalachian cities. Appalachia starts in the pyranees
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Sep 10, 2021 05:27
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Sep 10, 2021 05:50
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MeinPanzer posted:Most road networks within those parts of Europe that were within the Roman Empire remained effectively similar to their Roman foundations until the early Modern period. It's hard to overstate how significant Roman infrastructure was in defining European overland transportation prior to the Renaissance. Well to be fair, in a given topography there is not that much leeway for changing a road layout: you'll often follow the same river valleys, or cross the same mountain passes for example.
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Sep 10, 2021 06:12
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Chikimiki posted:Well to be fair, in a given topography there is not that much leeway for changing a road layout: you'll often follow the same river valleys, or cross the same mountain passes for example. Next you’ll tell me that the width of two Roman horses’ arses didn’t determine the diameter of the Space Shuttle’s solid rocket motors.
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Sep 10, 2021 07:58
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Chikimiki posted:Well to be fair, in a given topography there is not that much leeway for changing a road layout: you'll often follow the same river valleys, or cross the same mountain passes for example. A lot of interstates (outside of the ones going over flat nothing plains) go back to pre-columbian routes.
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Sep 10, 2021 11:43
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Anyone is interested on my plan to reforest USA? The idea is to use Blue Wisteria Chinese trees ( color blue ) and Red Arce ( color red ) (work in progress, I only have planned a few counties)    Once all the trees are planted and grown up. USA will be a giant USA flag easily to see from space or even other planets. Probably the largest USA flag in the galaxy. A 2,800 miles wide USA flag. Edit: forgot about the white parts. 
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Sep 10, 2021 12:37
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If you can plant flowering trees that burst scarlet red across the whole US on May 1st I'm in
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Sep 10, 2021 13:01
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Brawnfire posted:If you can plant flowering trees that burst scarlet red across the whole US on May 1st I'm in It don't looks like imposible, theres already a lot of trees with red or red-ish colors. It would only be a matter of some selection.
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Sep 10, 2021 13:22
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Doesnøt the US have labour day specifically to not acknowledge May 1st?
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Sep 10, 2021 13:37
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Doesnøt the US have labour day specifically to not acknowledge May 1st? That's what I've always figured, that it was a "subtle" way of breaking off US labor from the global labor movement and treating it as its own problem to be crushed underfoot. I used to push back really hard on Fake Labor Day and go in on May 1st but now I'm like two days for Labor isn't enough anyways, labor should have every day, and also every community and all the money
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Sep 10, 2021 13:41
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The funny thing is, May Day was chosen because on that day in 1886 began massive labor protests in the US, with like a lot of people dead in Chicago alone. Actually now that I think about it, it kinda makes sense why the US politicians opted for september instead od may
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Sep 10, 2021 14:02
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Doesnøt the US have labour day specifically to not acknowledge May 1st? that's what Cinco de Mayo (US edition) is for - can't have TWO holidays so close to each other, and people are pretty easily swayed by an excuse to get hammered.
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Sep 10, 2021 16:11
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:Appalachia starts in the pyranees Pee is stored in the Pyrenees
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Pee is stored in the
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Notice also the subtle changing of the focus of labor day. May Day is about fighting for your rights and so on (the Danish name for it is literally "international worker's fighting day", although it sounds a lot better in Danish), and it's usually celebrated (at least in Denmark) with red flags, leftist (in theory) political speeches and more or less sanctioned leaving work. It's getting to be more of a "blow off work and get drunk" day, but that's mostly because liberalism and especially proto fascism has taken hold of the working/lower class demographic. In contrast, American labor day is about celebrating all the good American work done by the workers, and how it helps keep the country together and so on  It's very American and very bad.
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Sep 10, 2021 19:49
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What does this forestry plan remind me of...
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Sep 10, 2021 19:54
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Rebel Blob posted:What does this forestry plan remind me of... The antidote to that: 
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Sep 10, 2021 19:56
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This is confirming all my sterotypes about forestry workers
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Sep 10, 2021 19:59
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Vasukhani posted:This is confirming all my sterotypes about forestry workers Their passion for restoring greater Yugoslavia is indeed legendary
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  To bring things back to maps...  https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/8p5t89/political_map_of_northeast_america_in_1778/
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Sep 10, 2021 22:05
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The Android/iOS app "World Geography - Quiz Game" hasn't been updated in a while. It's missing, for instance, the new Mississippi flag adopted in January. Anyone know if the developer is abandoning it?
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I was about to complain about Israel being disputed, but that is actually a huge wasps nest to talk about. Considering European Jews European makes a lot of sense, but the same people will also claim middle Eastern (Israeli) ancestry. Turkey I get though. It's also interesting to see how Eastern Russia has been populated by Europeans.
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Sep 11, 2021 07:19
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BonHair posted:Notice also the subtle changing of the focus of labor day. May Day is about fighting for your rights and so on (the Danish name for it is literally "international worker's fighting day", although it sounds a lot better in Danish), and it's usually celebrated (at least in Denmark) with red flags, leftist (in theory) political speeches and more or less sanctioned leaving work. It's getting to be more of a "blow off work and get drunk" day, but that's mostly because liberalism and especially proto fascism has taken hold of the working/lower class demographic. please, instead of saying "Danish" or "in Denmark" you can just say "outside the US". theyre the ones who hosed up
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a large fraction of Jews in Israel (like 40%) are of Mizrahi descent, plus there's a powerful undercurrent in Israeli Sephardic society that seeks to shirk any notion of a European identity for Israel. not to mention all the, y'know, Arabs that happen to live there.
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Sep 11, 2021 07:46
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Carthag Tuek posted:please, instead of saying "Danish" or "in Denmark" you can just say "outside the US". theyre the ones who hosed up Yeah, that's my feeling, but I don't want to make blanket statements when I actually only know my own local traditions. I'm guessing Russia and China have some different takes maybe?
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Sep 11, 2021 07:51
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Labour Day is not celebrated in the Netherlands and it's one of the few countries that doesn't. Well, members of the Labour Party tend to do a small personal celebration but that's it. The reason it's not celebrated here is supposedly historical. From what I read the reason is, in NL labour rights were won slowly, over time, by negotiating with employers instead of by loud protests. And since there wasn't a specific day when workers got rights, there's supposedly nothing to celebrate.
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Sep 11, 2021 08:00
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Western Sahara should have "no data", but otherwise perfect map
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:The Android/iOS app "World Geography - Quiz Game" hasn't been updated in a while. It's missing, for instance, the new Mississippi flag adopted in January. Anyone know if the developer is abandoning it? Some Heads of State have been updated recently but yeah the Mississippi flag has been wrong for a long time now. There was an update promised at the start of this month by the Facebook group mods which would add more sub-national regions but it hasn't been implemented yet. The developer himself hasn't posted in the FB group for over a year now though mods continue to run weekly bonus events for the game. I've recently retaken the all-time single-day points records in this game 
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Sep 11, 2021 10:14
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Can we just go ahead and abolish Europe? Fake continent imo
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Sep 11, 2021 11:04
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Can we just go ahead and abolish Europe? Fake continent imo Maybe consider it a subcontinent, like India. Though even that is a bit of a stretch.
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BonHair posted:I was about to complain about Israel being disputed, but that is actually a huge wasps nest to talk about. Considering European Jews European makes a lot of sense, but the same people will also claim middle Eastern (Israeli) ancestry. Well, a slim majority of Israeli Jews descend from Middle Eastern and North African Jews.
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Sep 11, 2021 12:21
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Randarkman posted:Well, a slim majority of Israeli Jews descend from Middle Eastern and North African Jews. Mizrahim. Flashbacks to that twitter main character who was pissed at ashkenazim for having "nazi" in the name.
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Sep 11, 2021 12:24
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Mizrahim. Flashbacks to that twitter main character who was pissed at ashkenazim for having "nazi" in the name. Well, Sephardi is just as commonly used as an identifyer, because several centuries back a large part of the Jewish population of North Africa, Greece and Asia Minor came out of Spain and Italy.
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I always heard there were tensions between the different groups of Jews in Israel, but I assume that's subsided over the decades, as they've blended together more. I really don't like Israeli policies, but it's been a really interesting experiment in nation-building.
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Sep 11, 2021 12:35
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Count Roland posted:Maybe consider it a subcontinent, like India. Though even that is a bit of a stretch. I have preferred "European subcontinent" for years.
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Phlegmish posted:I always heard there were tensions between the different groups of Jews in Israel, but I assume that's subsided over the decades, as they've blended together more. That's still more or less there, it's just that you don't have as extreme circumstances underpinning as in hte early years after 1948 where a very large portion of the newly arrived Mizrahi, Sephardi and Beta Israel populations were living in refugee/transit camsp for years on end and essentially provided a large pool (their arrival basically doubled Israel's population overnight so to speak) of cheap and unskilled (well not really, many of them were highly skilled, but that's the usual fate of immigrants and refugees...) labor for the newly created country. Still though there are distinctions, and in the case of Beta Israel and others who are black or darker skinned, outright racism and discrimination that's often gone unadressed. Outside of that more extreme case there are still political and religious movements that for instance specifically cater to Sephardim, and there's something of a split in the ultra orthodox community between the Ashkenazi-descended groups and the Sephardi ones, one of the issues they've differed on is the issue of conscription and attitude to the Israeli state, with the Sephardi groups tending to be more open to compromise (i.e. accept conscription and more positive towards towards the state).
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