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Saladman posted: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? Singapore has a lot of issues with lack of water, even if their waste treatment is pretty good. NLB/SG posted:Singapore is considered to be one of the most water-stressed countries in the world. It is heavily dependent on rainfall due to the lack of natural water resources, and limited land is available for water storage facilities. Prolonged dry spells cause or threaten to cause water shortages, the most recent being in 1990. e: Also while it is extremely clean and orderly by regional standards, it's not really all that much compared to western europe. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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People think of Luxembourg as a microstate, but it's more of a macro-microstate. Luxembourg City is only a relatively small part of its territory, and most of its population also lives outside of said city.  As to why they're not at 100 regardless, I don't know, but 97.9 is still pretty good
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So, apropos microstates. I just noticed this image again. First day of the week. And what is up with the Maldives?
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Phlegmish posted:People think of Luxembourg as a microstate, but it's more of a macro-microstate. Luxembourg City is only a relatively small part of its territory, and most of its population also lives outside of said city. This is the Luxembourg fan thread. You do not need to expound on Luxembourg’s unusually large small size to us friend
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Luxembourg has no fans, and if it does, it shouldn't
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I thought that was South Korea.
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VictualSquid posted:So, apropos microstates. 98% Muslim, so their weekend is Friday and Saturday, but in their case it's more of a weekstart.
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VictualSquid posted:So, apropos microstates.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Why isnt there a key? What day does Europe start on? I'm so confused. The first day of the week, HTH.
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I recall reading that in some Muslim countries the weekend is Friday and Sunday with a normal work day in between. Most psycho setup possible
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Subjunctive posted:The people claiming Canada has drinkable tap water should spend some time on Native lands. Came here to post this. About 9% of Canadians have "poor" or "very poor" drinking water, and a lot of First Nations areas have had boil water advisories for over a decade. 
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Muscle Tracer posted:Came here to post this. About 9% of Canadians have "poor" or "very poor" drinking water, and a lot of First Nations areas have had boil water advisories for over a decade. That actually seems to fit perfectly with Canada's actual score being about 91/100 Although that's not really how their methodology works - it's based on actual public health outcomes, not raw water quality data. Bad water is one of the top causes of death, especially child mortality, in the world. I forget if it beats mosquitoes or not.
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Muscle Tracer posted:Came here to post this. About 9% of Canadians have "poor" or "very poor" drinking water, and a lot of First Nations areas have had boil water advisories for over a decade.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Why isnt there a key? What day does Europe start on? I'm so confused. I am confused as well. Does the week not start on Monday in the United States? e: it does not. Holy poo poo I never knew that
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Why isnt there a key? What day does Europe start on? I'm so confused. The key is missing, so that all the Wikipedias can add custom keys in their language.
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Private Speech posted:How did they decide where to put which country? Based on travel advisories, a Danish map would definitely narrow down the number of countries with acceptable water quite severely. DTurtle posted:TIL that 730 days are three years.
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Phlegmish posted:I am confused as well. Does the week not start on Monday in the United States? I don't know if there's an official legally defined week start day at all. Most people in the US would say Monday in my experience. For calendars some are printed monday first and some sunday, my work's timecard system has a Monday start but at my last job it was sunday, etc. In kindergarten I definitely sang a days of the week song that started on Monday, and so does my 5 year old at her preschool. Later in school I encountered some sunday-first calendaring and was a little confused at first but it wasn't a big deal.
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This is purely anecdotal, but lol @ Greece supposedly having drinkable tap water. I drank one glass of tapwater there and got the violent shits for an entire week. That was 22 years ago though, so perhaps there has been improvement.
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Yeah I got a bit suspicious about that one too. Might be cooking the books a bit, it's not like Greece doesn't have form for it.
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VictualSquid posted:So, apropos microstates. I'm sorry, is this map saying that the week starts on Sunday in North America, Japan, etc?
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kiminewt posted:I'm sorry, is this map saying that the week starts on Sunday in North America, Japan, etc? Legend is: Orange: Monday Pink: Friday Green: Saturday Blue: Sunday
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Pope Hilarius II posted:This is purely anecdotal, but lol @ Greece supposedly having drinkable tap water. I drank one glass of tapwater there and got the violent shits for an entire week. That was 22 years ago though, so perhaps there has been improvement. kiminewt posted:I'm sorry, is this map saying that the week starts on Sunday in North America, Japan, etc?
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One thing that fucks things up every year (in international business) is that there are different rules for when the first week of the year starts. A lot of systems use week numbers. You can, for instance, encode any date as YYWWD (only one D because a week has seven days) which is fine only if you're operating entirely within one set of rules.
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When you ask for a glass of water in Greece but you get the violent shits instead. 3D Megadoodoo posted:(only one D because a week has seven days)
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DTurtle posted:Yes. Well, the more you know. So American calendars look like this: S M T W T F S?
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kiminewt posted:Well, the more you know.
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kiminewt posted:Well, the more you know. yep. they are mentally deranged
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Just checked and my non-American calendar does too. Again no half measures, either do the weird Evangelical philosemite thing where the world was created on Sunday and ends on Shabbat or go full French revolutionary calendar.
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Guavanaut posted:Just checked and my non-American calendar does too. American checking in. Yes, printed calendars here are all arranged just like that; I'm not sure I've ever seen one that puts Sunday at the end. Electronic ones (Google calendar, your computer's clock, whatever) can be set to whatever you want but it's really unusual to find someone who changes it away from the Sunday default.
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But Sunday is the last day, a day or rest. Because god rested on that day. Why is it the first day?? WHYYYY????
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No wonder it's such a deeply disfunctional country.
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He rested on Shabbat in the original book, and so clearly certain types of Christians carry that back and believe that he made the world on their best day.
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Guavanaut posted:When you ask for a glass of water in Greece but you get the violent shits instead. Is this some sort of a "golden dawn" joke?
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alnilam posted:Although that's not really how their methodology works - it's based on actual public health outcomes, not raw water quality data. Good data on actual public health outcomes is much harder to come by than tests of water quality.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:But Sunday is the last day, a day or rest. Because god rested on that day. Why is it the first day?? WHYYYY???? American Gods were lazy and took a nap during the first workday.
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Same but Connecticut and Long Island edit: Oh and I guess Maryland and Virginias little spit of the peninsula edit2: Ooh and that little bit of Kentucky that is 3/4 surrounded by Missouri (on the other side of the Mississippi) that you can only get to through Tennessee (the other 1/4) because the Mississippi changed course slightly further south at some point. AAAAA! Real Muenster fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Platystemon posted:Good data on actual public health outcomes is much harder to come by than tests of water quality. Take it up with the CDC/Yale, who state that that was their methodology
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Same but Connecticut and Long Island The only reason someone would want Long Island in their state is to keep them from having own Senators.
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