Lord Hydronium posted:

Lord Hydronium posted:

Saladman posted:

That sounds like one of those examples for the quote "the plural of anecdote is not data". Even in Ethiopia it's nowhere even remotely close to 90% penetrance, even for males aged 18-35, and I can't imagine Somalia is going to be higher, and almost no old grandmother is going to have a smartphone unless she's from a particularly wealthy and educated family.

Count Roland posted:

Could you link to that tax info?

And you keep saying Somali Republic, which was the formal name for the state during the 60s. I assume you're talking about Somalia as it exists today.

QuickbreathFinisher posted:

OTGL S O A ML CUTY

PawParole posted:

Somalia is an exonym, the countries official name is the Somali republic. It’s sort of a reverse situation of Czechia/the Czech Republic

Platystemon posted:

Platystemon posted:

steinrokkan posted:

Yeah, a game called imaginatively The Oilman Game, with awful reviews. It seems some of the distortions may be due to the desire to have a certain number of holes in the board on land or offshore, as the are different rules for each.

Also, an older (?) Version:

a pipe smoking dog posted:

Isn't the official name the Federal Republic of Somalia?

PawParole posted:

Nope.

quote:

Decades of civil hostilities have virtually destroyed Somalia’s economy and infrastructure and split the country into areas under the rule of various entities. When Somalia’s tenuous transitional administration handed power to a new government in 2012, the newly declared Federal Republic of Somalia had only limited control over the country. There was, however, hope that the new government would usher in a new era, one in which peace would be achieved and Somalis could focus on rebuilding their country.

PawParole posted:

Nope.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I think it's about as much an exonym as "Italy."

PawParole posted:

Nope.

Negostrike posted:

https://twitter.com/weirdsubway_/status/1604187079432208384

Hostile cartography

SlothfulCobra posted:

And it's still worth noting that the Libertarian Party as a thing seems to be on its way to dying entirely.

https://twitter.com/okcspowell/status/1478129457751859204

They have largely failed to maintain their own distinct identity or philosophy in comparison to the Republican Party, and I think the Republican Party isn't really in good condition either so the politically active people who already lean that way are finding less reason to stay away. Finding true believer libertarians to make fun of is a little like big game hunting for endangered flightless birds.

i say swears online posted:

thailandia starring fred armisen

ChubbyChecker posted:

africa and russia are about the same width east to west, and maps that fail to show this are poo poo

2d world maps should be shaped like opened up d20s

Guavanaut posted:

Long Monaco

BonHair posted:

Why though? A narrow corridor that doesn't lead out of French waters anyway doesn't strike me as particularly worthwhile. An equally sized circular area would make more sense (but gently caress up the French coastal waters I guess).

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

Is this from a game or something? The hexes have me curious.

a pipe smoking dog posted:

Monaco wants it's rich citizens to be able to dump bodies as far off shore as possible for hygiene reasons.

so yeah yacht stuff.

Carbon dioxide posted:

In this case it's because of fishing rights. Fishing rights is probably the only reason why France still holds on to those islands.

Grand Fromage posted:

Reminded me of something I wanted to ask, does the US have fake territory on its map? Was thinking about how everywhere I lived or visited in Asia has territory they don't control on the default, official map--Japan has the Kurils, most maps in South Korea show the entire peninsula with no North Korea, China has Taiwan, the Nine-Dashed Line, all the little bits of India and such that they claim, etc. I know the US has had some minor border disputes but I don't know if there are areas on the map that just straight up are not part of the US like those.

Grand Fromage posted:

Reminded me of something I wanted to ask, does the US have fake territory on its map? Was thinking about how everywhere I lived or visited in Asia has territory they don't control on the default, official map--Japan has the Kurils, most maps in South Korea show the entire peninsula with no North Korea, China has Taiwan, the Nine-Dashed Line, all the little bits of India and such that they claim, etc. I know the US has had some minor border disputes but I don't know if there are areas on the map that just straight up are not part of the US like those.

Saladman posted:

Maybe, but it's almost political suicide to give up territory anymore, even in dictatorships with uninhabited islands, like when Egypt formally ceded control of the disputed Tiran Islands to Saudi Arabia, which had been de facto Egyptian for decades - which I see was just agreed to by Israel this summer, so I guess everything is finally chill in the Gulf of Aqaba. Maybe MBS promised to build a super high tech bridge from Sinai to KSA or some such wild scifi thing, in exchange for Egyptian recognition of the Saudi claim.

Like isn't the US buying the US Virgin Islands from Denmark the last time territory was sold peacefully? Tiran Islands has got to be one of the most recent cases of significant territory given to another country peacefully, discounting land swaps like Bangladesh-India fixing their horrific border, which has happened a fair number of other times as well.