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OwlFancier posted:The automated machines will take them but yeah otherwise you're just trying to convince people this weird money they almost never see is not fake.
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This is my chance, I can get Air Skwirl this time [clears throat] that's Andorra e: ChubbyChecker posted:that's andorra gently caress
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Phlegmish posted:This is my chance, I can get Air Skwirl this time 
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ChubbyChecker posted:that's andorra How did I not know this country even existed despite having family in Barcelona and having driven with them across the Pyranees with them?
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Which country does France have the longest border with is a classic pub quiz question, but I have to say Belgium being #2 is a tough one too
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Phlegmish posted:France having a longer border with Belgium than with Spain doesn't seem right, but maybe its northern border is just exceptionally irregular. Don't you run into a sort of 'coastline paradox' when trying to measure the length of a border, anyway? I wonder how much if the NL-BE border is in Baarle-Hertog.
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Pakled posted:That owl looks like the logo of a college sports team 
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i know I say things people don't like sometimes, but do people really want to get me? I don't want to get other people.
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No, it was just a joke referring to the thread regulars' (including and especially myself) penchant for pedantry and going 'well actually'. Nothing to do with you specifically, don't worry about it.
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Phlegmish posted:France having a longer border with Belgium than with Spain doesn't seem right, but maybe its northern border is just exceptionally irregular. Don't you run into a sort of 'coastline paradox' when trying to measure the length of a border, anyway? I thought that too but it checks out  Half joking but if you hammer out all the squiggles and stuff Belgium takes it in Europe. Even just the pokey bit of Ardennes where Givet is does a lot of work. Also, lol Belgium smoll e: special mention to Luxembourg slotting in right where Andorra is and looking big in comparison soviet elsa fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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All of France’s borders are pretty short so it doesn’t take a lot for it to be a big one. The borders just all seem bigger since France and its big neighbors is so central in European and world history. Imagination makes Germany France and Spain seem much larger than they are
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soviet elsa posted:e: special mention to Luxembourg slotting in right where Andorra is and looking big in comparison Luxembourg making sure it's surrounded by countries like Andorra and San Marino when taking pictures for Tinder
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soviet elsa posted:You could go between the US/Mexico/Canada borders without a passport when I was a kid. Thanks for ruining a good thing, Bush. You can do this with a passport card, which is $30. Sure, its more than zero but its hardly out of reach for people traveling across the border, even if only rarely. I use mine for domestic air travel too cuz I cant be bothered to get a Real-ID compliant state ID.
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loling at these scrub dinosaurs as I sip hot leaf juice* from Toyo-Sasaki HARD STRONG glassware, strengthened by ion exchange *Camellia sinensis has not yet evolved. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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Phlegmish posted:Luxembourg making sure it's surrounded by countries like Andorra and San Marino when taking pictures for Tinder Actually I think Luxembourg is relying more on a "I'm rich" strategy
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drk posted:You can do this with a passport card, which is $30. Sure, its more than zero but its hardly out of reach for people traveling across the border, even if only rarely. I use mine for domestic air travel too cuz I cant be bothered to get a Real-ID compliant state ID. Getting a Real-ID compliant state ID is 10x the work of the US Passport Card the first time. They're great for US expats, since US driver's licenses are based on US state residency (explicitly so by law, if they're Real ID Act compliant), and it provides a federally-recognized backup in case you lose your US Passport Book.
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It triggers me that the circular blast radii should be distorted on that projection.
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dublish posted:It triggers me that the circular blast radii should be distorted on that projection. u are not alone in this matter
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Air Skwirl posted:i know I say things people don't like sometimes, but do people really want to get me? I don't want to get other people. DEATH TO FLYING MAILBOXES
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One thing that is bugging me about that impact map, and I'm not sure if I'm just misinformed or what but was Africa really that different 65 MA? I know America was a lot different looking and Europe as well but I like looking at gifs of tectonic drift and I've never seen Africa that different that close to the oresent
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The main thing I remember about the geological history of Africa is that at some point the Sahara was underwater, so it checks out.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The main thing I remember about the geological history of Africa is that at some point the Sahara was underwater, so it checks out.  Extend the above backwards, and it's easy to imagine the north getting flooded.
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 Libvia A Buttery Pastry posted:not meaningfully different from today, except for parts of it being under water.
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Guavanaut posted:
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It's one of those alternative timelines that argues that Homer's epics were all Scandi. A bit like Anatoly Fomenko's New Chronology that argues that Jesus was born in Crimea and is therefore Russian, but without all the obvious linking to Christian nationalist fascism.
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Temesvár (Thames)
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Brits who voted for Brexit because they were scared of Romanians looking in the mirror and realizing that they have always been the Romanians.
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 The borders of Southern Baptist and Mormon tell a story in themselves. 
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Wow there are no counties where less than two percent but more than one percent of residents are Mormons, or less than six percent but more than five percent, and so on. The Lᴏʀᴅ works in mysterious ways. 🙏🏻
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The West Coast being almost entirely Catholic plurality makes me question their survey methods.
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Air Skwirl posted:The West Coast being almost entirely Catholic plurality makes me question their survey methods. Huge Latino population and each Protestant group being counted separately makes it not that difficult Results all make sense to me at an eye glance. They picked up Louisville and the Kentucky holy land as Catholic plurality areas which I would only expect from someone whose familiar with the area or actually going by data
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Which counties are “none reported”? Loving, Texas and Alpine, California?
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Yeah the first few other maps I found seemed to report similar, so it's either true or a prestigious flawed dataset. Also notably it doesn't really correspond to congressional representation, but it's not like most americans vote by religion anyways. SlothfulCobra posted:Religions of the US House of Representatives. Animated!  And it can also be interesting to see maps where they cut out the top options to show more variety. 
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Air Skwirl posted:The West Coast being almost entirely Catholic plurality makes me question their survey methods. Like in the neat animated map above there's a lot of "X and Y" categories. If you chose to split those two groups up in your data, they'd be much less likely to be a plurality anywhere.
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Not literally this, but maybe a Homer was inspired by a old story with north origin. Obviusly localizing the names and conflicts to the greeksphere. Kinda how the bible themes copy a lot of elements from older stories, the jesus theme is a copy too.
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Tei posted:Not literally this, but maybe a Homer was inspired by a old story with north origin. Sadly no, we have very good historical and archaeological evidence that the mythological/oral-historic Troy is based on an actual polity in western Anatolia, and the two names we're given for it (Troy and Ilium) are closely related to names that appear in Hittite records, Truwisa and Wilusa. What's wild is that the Greeks later resettled the location of Troy and operated it as a tourist site, because that's just what humans do.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Animated! Cool map. The Mormon area is interesting. You can see it contract from 1952 to 1971 for some reason, and then it starts expanding. I wonder what the current trend is like. They probably still have higher birth rates than other denominations, but it's presumably canceled out by all the migration from in and outside of the country.
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Quorum posted:Sadly no, we have very good historical and archaeological evidence that the mythological/oral-historic Troy is based on an actual polity in western Anatolia, and the two names we're given for it (Troy and Ilium) are closely related to names that appear in Hittite records, Truwisa and Wilusa. What's wild is that the Greeks later resettled the location of Troy and operated it as a tourist site, because that's just what humans do. And as our tour nears its end, remember the sage advice uttered by Achilles himself: Try the churros!
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I would think that the aggressive prosyletization would be more important to the expansion of mormon influence rather than raw breeding and reproduction.Tei posted:Not literally this, but maybe a Homer was inspired by a old story with north origin. It seems a lot dumber to get that lost in a much smaller sea when you're hugging the coast for such critical junctures. And then Charybdis isn't at a strait that would be necessary to go through? Also seems like ice would've probably come up at some point if he was wandering around the north sea for years.
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