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Civilized Fishbot posted:You can usually find the nature of the map by reverse-image search, including with this one. It's a map of --------------------------------------------------the "World distribution of turtles"-------------------------------------------------------------- I know I *can* find it, but as this is the maps thread I figure we can just include a description of maps we post to save everyone else the effort.
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the whole point is seeing other people's guesses if you just blurt it out then people won't guess
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If a classically slow creature like that decides it's worth the trip, you know you've got some great clay.
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interesting that tortoises exist in every arid area of the US, but not australia syria, moscow and denmark are also fun outliers
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i say swears online posted:interesting that tortoises exist in every arid area of the US, but not australia their disregard of the western south america is probably because its too chile
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Mar 24, 2024 16:48
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ChubbyChecker posted:the whole point is seeing other people's guesses Guess the map is awful
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Sites that use this image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_200_biology_images_that_should_use_vector_graphics
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Civilized Fishbot posted:You can usually find the nature of the map by reverse-image search, including with this one. It's a map of --------------------------------------------------the "World distribution of turtles"-------------------------------------------------------------- Lots of the species distribution maps are like obviously inaccurate for Africa, or at least at a vastly lower level of accuracy. Bird distributions on eBird are a lot better as they tend to at least account for habitat but they still have ones like this  (Russia and central Asia tend to have the same problem, the distributions are specified almost to the km in Europe then someone just draws a giant highlighter across the eastern extent of their range)
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Mar 24, 2024 17:11
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Should they have given a ruff estimate instead?
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tractor fanatic posted:West Texas surprises me I suppose it it counts unpaved roads it makes a lot of sense. There are huge areas just checkered with them.
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i say swears online posted:interesting that tortoises exist in every arid area of the US, but not australia That's not Moscow, it's the Belarus/Lithuania/Russia border. I don't know anything about its turtles though
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distortion park posted:Lots of the species distribution maps are like obviously inaccurate for Africa, or at least at a vastly lower level of accuracy. Bird distributions on eBird are a lot better as they tend to at least account for habitat but they still have ones like this Do Russians and central Asians at age 65 not suddenly come down with a 25% probability of becoming obsessive compulsive birders, like their Western age cohort? Birding seems like one of those things that should have absurdly specific and updated range maps of everything.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Guess the map is awful your smell is awful
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Ras Het posted:That's not Moscow, it's the Belarus/Lithuania/Russia border. I don't know anything about its turtles though it would be this species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_pond_turtle
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Saladman posted:Do Russians and central Asians at age 65 not suddenly come down with a 25% probability of becoming obsessive compulsive birders, like their Western age cohort? Russian men generally don't live to age 65
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Ras Het posted:Russian men generally don't live to age 65
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i say swears online posted:interesting that tortoises exist in every arid area of the US, but not australia Sahara but not Arabia
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Feel like I need cross reference with population_density.png to see if there is anything interesting on that map. It’s a map of wilderness areas national parks and mountain ranges basically Anything not protected by the government gets roads built through it like nobody’s business unless there’s impassable mountains
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Dang. “I’m pretty sure that EAH was not a lesbian from Russia” would have been a way better punchline.
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 User reported sightings of Great Tits in the wild
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distortion park posted:
this looks like a map in a badly written post apocalyptic cyberpunk book showing the extent of "the incident"
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Europe is tit guys
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:Europe is tit guys But is it great?
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The International Date Line ist just wonderfully hosed-up. Go a bit north from French Polynesia and you enter complete time chaos.
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That's why the ancient seafaring Polynesians weren't able to colonize America
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How did they decide where to put which country? Here is another map based on research by CDC/Yale:  Mostly the same but there are a few differences. Also this breakdown is quite interesting:  Especially the contrast between tap water quality and surface water pollution in the UK. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Mar 25, 2024 13:47
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It really depends which part of the country though. Major cities in Brazil usually have safe-to-drink tap water. Can't say the same for anywhere else.
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Having a country level scale seems not super helpful, although I guess it depends if the target audience is policy makers or travellers. Like the tap water in most big cities across the world is fine and totally safe to drink, say in Cairo or Marrakech or Istanbul or whatever, unless you’re in some ancient colonial-era dwelling that still uses lead pipes. The biggest problem I’m aware of is for big cities that have frequent water cuts - here wealthier people will install water tanks on their houses, but the inside won’t be cleaned very often so the water stored in them can get kinda gross.
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Negostrike posted:It really depends which part of the country though. Major cities in Brazil usually have safe-to-drink tap water. Can't say the same for anywhere else. If you look at the individual ratings the score of 45.2 is actually not too bad for Brazil as a whole, it's on the higher/top end for latin america. Saladman posted:Having a country level scale seems not super helpful, although I guess it depends if the target audience is policy makers or travellers. Like the tap water in most big cities across the world is fine and totally safe to drink, say in Cairo or Marrakech or Istanbul or whatever, unless you’re in some ancient colonial-era dwelling that still uses lead pipes. The methodology seems pretty sound: 
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Private Speech posted:How did they decide where to put which country? The real missed opportunity here is not supplying any data on how much tap water is supplied per capita. Even if your tap water isn't particularly potable, you can still flush a toilet with it, which may be a bigger public health boon than drinkable tap water in developing areas.
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Pretty sure the water in Flint still isnt ok to drink... ir East Palistine, OH... or or or
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The people claiming Canada has drinkable tap water should spend some time on Native lands.
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South Africa used to boast that they were one of only a dozen counties in the world with perfectly potable tap water. I imagine that some US states may use a very similar one weird trick to decide that certain areas don't count to that number.
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Shoutout to Niger with a score of 1.7, which is incredibly low even by African standards. That must be like drinking diluted industrial waste or something.
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Private Speech posted:Shoutout to Niger with a score of 1.7, which is incredibly low even by African standards. What would you have to dilute it with?
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Alomo Bitters
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Private Speech posted:If you look at the individual ratings the score of 45.2 is actually not too bad for Brazil as a whole, it's on the higher/top end for latin america. I’m not doubting the methods, just saying it’s not very useful for travelers, even if it is useful for policy makers. A score of like 30 in Egypt will make someone not drink the tap water anywhere in Egypt, whereas in reality it’s fine to drink in Cairo, Luxor, Sharm el Sheikh, Hurghada. I wouldn’t recommend drinking the tap water in some farming village in the delta, but no foreigner goes to those places either. It’s a nifty overall metric but information like that will lead to an explosion in plastic trash and waste, of people drinking bottled water in Tunisia or Egypt, rather than drinking the tap water which is perfectly safe anywhere that 99.9% of the places that tourists actually go, like negrostrike said for Brazil. Like this type of information causes serious issues, plastic water bottles are an apocalyptic bane on society and the vast majority of the time people are drinking it, it’s unnecessary. Most people are either somewhere that has good tap water, and bottled water is a disgusting trash producing habit, or they are someone so poor in a place with horrific or lacking municipal water that they can’t afford bottled water anyway. E: and even when you are somewhere with bad water quality, you can almost always UV treat it and/or boil it to avoid plastic trash. gently caress plastic water bottles, absolutely evil stuff.
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:Pretty sure the water in Flint still isnt ok to drink... ir East Palistine, OH... or or or Probably why USA gets a sub 90 score on the teardrop above (along with NZ, wtf?)
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distortion park posted:Probably why USA gets a sub 90 score on the teardrop above (along with NZ, wtf?) I'm not surprised by countries with significant and EXTREMELY rural areas, like Canada, the US, and NZ, but... Singapore? Luxembourg? How do either of those not get 100%? They're not exactly rural or poor. Maybe Luxembourg has some old pipes in some farmhouses in the Ardennes or something, but Singapore? Switzerland is also the only places I've ever gotten sick from drinking the water... but I was drinking it out of a pipe in the mountain, and it was marked "kein Trinkwasser" so I guess that one was on me.
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