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SlothfulCobra posted:It's short for septic tank which is cockney rhyming slang for yank. Every time I’ve explained this to an American they look confused at first, then laugh. It’s not very insulting, just sounds like another silly (to us) British slang term.
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its not really meant to be insulting in of itself the insulting part is calling them americans
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really shoulda been yooessians
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Guavanaut posted:The map:territory understander has logged on! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p34TAzafsEY the woke moralists expect you to believe there is a giant man controlling the weather
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I'm assuming he means the extent of the fires geographically and not that the icons on the map are physical representations of the size of the fires. ...right?
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I think he really means "are the individual fires that size?" or he'd say "are there really that many?" But considering his cognitive decline from someone who claimed to have unearthed the secrets of symbolic meaning to going on about communist man milking machines, who knows at this point.
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Dumb "philosophers" aside, it is kinda a bad map since it's hard to see what area is actually burning with that representation.
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OddObserver posted:Dumb "philosophers" aside, it is kinda a bad map since it's hard to see what area is actually burning with that representation. Yeah it really should be a shaded map using fire perimeter data, or if that data isn't available, at least circles showing estimated size. Having identical little icons at every separate fire is not very helpful. But of course he found entirely the wrong criticism to make and made it super weirdly.
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OwlFancier posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p34TAzafsEY A literal nonce towering over britain in one of the most on the nose metaphors in history.
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Guavanaut posted:The map:territory understander has logged on! The globe is also not uniformly sunlit and cloudless, with broad swaths of stark white terrain between states and countries. Edgar Allen Ho posted:This but unironically You have died of yellow fever.
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Platystemon posted:with broad swaths of stark white terrain between states and countries. new british government policy re: northern ireland, extremely large road painting machine to make border visible from space.
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OwlFancier posted:new british government policy re: northern ireland, extremely large road painting machine to make border visible from space. I think you might want think more along the lines of Hadrian's Megawall
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OwlFancier posted:new british government policy re: northern ireland, extremely large road painting machine to make border visible from space. Morocco did it first
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OddObserver posted:Dumb "philosophers" aside, it is kinda a bad map since it's hard to see what area is actually burning with that representation. At that scale most of the fires are too small to show up with anything but an icon. It isn't a great map but it does its job. Well, not well enough for certain philosophers.
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This looks familiar so maybe it's been posted before. Found here, with blue Maria safety the link https://www.nationhoodlab.org/a-balkanized-federation/ Which I came across from a Politico long-form article that uses the above boundaries to look at life expectancy and other measures. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/01/america-life-expectancy-regions-00113369
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i like the cultural split between juneau and anchorage
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Count Roland posted:This looks familiar so maybe it's been posted before. Hmm where to begin... I'm central texas greater appalachia. e: actually no, I'm the epicenter of Greater Appalachian settlement being marked as Donegal, PA, a miniscule town in the laurel highlands that wasn't founded until 80 years after this image claims it was the epicenter of Greater Appalachia 
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Why are people still pushing that disaster of a map in 2023? It’s so bad that you can find some new comedy every time: I just noticed Naples, FL, in the Spanish Caribbean even though the city itself is like 5% Hispanic and the county is 62% white non-Hispanic.
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King Hong Kong posted:Why are people still pushing that disaster of a map in 2023? It’s so bad that you can find some new comedy every time: I just noticed Naples, FL, in the Spanish Caribbean even though the city itself is like 5% Hispanic and the county is 62% white non-Hispanic. Mind boggling to me that anyone thinks southern Louisiana has anything at all to do with Quebec culturally or any other way. Maine and Vermont are more similar to Quebec than Cajun country.
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I'm all of the arbitrarily drawn canadian lines because the creator knows even less about Canada than the US Lol at putting Kenora and Toronto in the same district, or separating Winnipeg from Regina
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I do believe that whatever regions you break up the entire country into, Texas should end up as an intersection of nearly all of them. Classify Austin and Dallas as enclaves of California and New York to get some of the regions you can't connect contiguously. But by all indicators, there's no significant remnants of dutch culture anywhere in New York unless you get creative. SimonSays posted:Mind boggling to me that anyone thinks southern Louisiana has anything at all to do with Quebec culturally or any other way. Maine and Vermont are more similar to Quebec than Cajun country. It's the kind of thing that you'd do if you had only vaguely heard about Louisiana and really wanted to project the image of the US being culturally split with non-US areas.
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SlothfulCobra posted:But by all indicators, there's no significant remnants of dutch culture anywhere in New York unless you get creative. The stereotypical new yorker accent is actually very dutch-influenced.
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Count Roland posted:This looks familiar so maybe it's been posted before. Yes that’s because that article was written by Colin Woodard who created that map in 2011 and has found a way to work into every single loving thing he’s done since
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SlothfulCobra posted:
Stock market crashes are a Dutch invention and part of their cultural heritage though.
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I learned everything I need to know about the Dutch from Austin Powers 3
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Having been a dweller of both, forever lmaoing at any and all maps that think Québec and Louisiane are similar culturally I’d at least think it’s from one of those Did You Know Cajun Comes From Acadien Eh Ya Dumb Ol Yank style dumb canadians and not a thinkpiece from the US tho Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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Sep 1, 2023 22:45
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Texas is the center of the world and the wellspring from whence all culture springs and thus naturally a intersection of all cultural regions. A modern day Constantinople: the gate between east, west, north, and south. Slightly larger than the previous Constantinople.
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Solution for climate change: Cover Greenland in wind turbines.
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EasilyConfused posted:Solution for climate change: Cover Greenland in wind turbines. It was more fun when I thought you said Grover Cleveland in wind turbines
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SlothfulCobra posted:I do believe that whatever regions you break up the entire country into, Texas should end up as an intersection of nearly all of them. Classify Austin and Dallas as enclaves of California and New York to get some of the regions you can't connect contiguously. Some great names tho, my favorite nyc bridge crosses the Hell Gate and is cleverly named the Hell Gate Bridge
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RoastBeef posted:Some great names tho, my favorite nyc bridge crosses the Hell Gate and is cleverly named the Hell Gate Bridge You’ll never guess how the Golden Gate Bridge got its name.
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RoastBeef posted:Some great names tho, my favorite nyc bridge crosses the Hell Gate and is cleverly named the Hell Gate Bridge Aren't most bridges named after what they cross/where they go?
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EasilyConfused posted:Aren't most bridges named after what they cross/where they go? In New York, the George Washington bridge crosses the Hudson/North River, likewise the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. The Tapanzee crosses it upstate and the Verazanno at the mouth of the harbor. The Brooklyn, Manhattan, and whitestone bridges cross the east river. The tribourough bridge crosses ... Something. The north and east river tunnels do go under the north and east rivers, but no one ever accused the Pennsylvania Railroad of creativity
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The East River is itself cunningly named.
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RoastBeef posted:Some great names tho, my favorite nyc bridge crosses the Hell Gate and is cleverly named the Hell Gate Bridge When you have a chance to name anything Hell Gate, take it. Also it’s a cool bridge
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RoastBeef posted:In New York, the George Washington bridge crosses the Hudson/North River, likewise the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. The Tapanzee crosses it upstate and the Verazanno at the mouth of the harbor. The Brooklyn, Manhattan, and whitestone bridges cross the east river. The tribourough bridge crosses ... Something. The north and east river tunnels do go under the north and east rivers, but no one ever accused the Pennsylvania Railroad of creativity Most of those bridges are named after what they cross/where they go? The Tapanzee Bridge crosses the Tapanzee, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge crosses the Narrows, the Brooklyn Bridge leads to Brooklyn, the Manhattan bridge leads to Manhattan, the Whitestone Bridge leads to Whitestone, the Triborough Bridge leads to three different boroughs. It's certainly not a hard rule, but it's extremely common. EasilyConfused fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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It's common but there are also a ton of other sorts of names, especially in places where a lot of bridges cross the same named gap. I'm from Pittsburgh and almost all of the bridges have names either related to where they originate on one side or the other (bloomfield bridge (e: i guess you covered this case)), what street becomes them (16th st bridge), or someone's name (rachel carson bridge), because calling it e.g. the "Allegheny bridge" would be incredibly non specific.
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 Worth noting that at least for the US, the only one I know about, this is already kinda inaccurate because the US has 4 categories instead of 3, and the map was creative about interpreting those. The actual "please just do not go there" advisory countries are mainly active warzones, failed states, and nations just generally hostile to Americans.  You can just check the actual specific advisories explained on the government's website. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/
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Why does China think that Brazil is safe? Why does Germany think that Sweden is unsafe?
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