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Ras Het posted:the easternmost points of international federations
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Private Speech posted:So what happens if you step over the border? It must be a temptation for the tourists, right? The border patrols will attempt to arrest you (even if you jump over the border and immediately come back). About 10 cases every year apparently. Getting caught by the Finns results a hefty fine (or possible up to one year in prison, but I don't imagine they'll give that to a random tourist), getting caught by the Russians is probably a big hassle, but I imagine they'll return you mostly unharmed eventually.
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Apr 26, 2024 18:58
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Ras Het posted:I went to the easternmost point in the EU once, a lake in the middle of nowhere in Ilomantsi, and there was a German camper van guy doing a vlog there Doesn't France or the Netherlands or someone have a not-colony that's further east?
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Apr 26, 2024 19:19
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A Buttery Pastry already answered this, it's Réunion. I figured it might be New Caledonia, but it turns out that they're not part of the EU. It gets kind of confusing with the statuses of all these leftover colonies. 
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Apr 26, 2024 19:27
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God drat, I thought it was a place in European France and the joke was that Eastern Europe doesn't count. It's still not as far east as I'd imagined though. Greenland, despite being a Danish not-colony is also not part of the EU. And while it is not exactly eastern, it is further east, west, north and south than Iceland, which is impressive.
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Apr 26, 2024 19:39
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    Guavanaut posted:What's the easternmost point of the Commonwealth of Nations? It loops around forever so I guess Greenwich.
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Apr 26, 2024 19:40
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The correct answer is Valinor.
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Aside from the whole "who is Egyptian" nonsense, that map isn't what Egypt as an entity looked like for most of its history, isn't it? Much narrower and longer would be the average, I'd say.
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Apr 27, 2024 08:31
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some people prefer a girthier egypt
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kiminewt posted:Aside from the whole "who is Egyptian" nonsense, that map isn't what Egypt as an entity looked like for most of its history, isn't it? Much narrower and longer would be the average, I'd say. If anything, it should be wider :cryingramesses:
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Apr 27, 2024 10:27
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I'm assuming the dessert was just considered useless no man's land for most of history, up until Europeans began drawing geographically accurate maps with lines on them.
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Apr 27, 2024 12:38
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Listen I'm usually too full to eat dessert as well, but calling it useless is going too far.
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Apr 27, 2024 12:44
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The general concept of a geographical projection map that could be accurate to a direct view from far above is relatively recent, as is the concept of borders needing to be a large, continuous shape that could extend over tracts of nothing, rather than the assorted allegiances of various settlements and tribes. Egypt has extended as far west as Siwa for roughly 2,500 years, even though the southwesterly corner of modern Egyptian territory is incredibly empty and the various nomadic groups that would've passed through occasionally would be very hard to keep track of. Although it's really not so much a map as a map-shaped graph.
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Apr 27, 2024 15:46
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kiminewt posted:Aside from the whole "who is Egyptian" nonsense, that map isn't what Egypt as an entity looked like for most of its history, isn't it? Much narrower and longer would be the average, I'd say. It’s pretty accurate as an historical average, actually, as long as you accept that most Egyptians didn’t think much of the western desert outside of the oases. (The eastern desert was different, because of the importance of connections with the Red Sea coast.) The most “flexible” part of the map is probably Sinai.
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kiminewt posted:Aside from the whole "who is Egyptian” nonsense The creator clearly meant “ruled by ethnically Indigenous Egyptian rulers,” and by that metric it’s actually surprisingly accurate.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:As far as I know there are only two Finns here.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I would say Iceland just because the populations so small and I know there's quite a few of them on here. There's are least three (3) Icelanders here which is only like 12% of the entire population.
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FreudianSlippers posted:There's are least three (3) Icelanders here which is only like 12% of the entire population. Does Iceland media report on something awful threads as a substitute for journalism like American media does with twitter?
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Finally the perfect name change
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BonHair posted:God drat, I thought it was a place in European France and the joke was that Eastern Europe doesn't count. Trump trying to buy Greenland is the only policy he suggested that I did kinda want to happen. Well that and the COVID checks/getting a COVID vaccine made.
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Apr 28, 2024 03:40
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Air Skwirl posted:Trump trying to buy Greenland is the only policy he suggested that I did kinda want to happen.
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Apr 28, 2024 06:04
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A Buttery Pastry posted:That's what America needs, more territory and people to colonize. It'd be the one time we colonized white people, so it's got a novelty factor at least.
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Apr 28, 2024 06:11
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Air Skwirl posted:It'd be the one time we colonized white people, so it's got a novelty factor at least. Greenland is majority Inuit. Not what would traditionally be considered „white“.
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Air Skwirl posted:It'd be the one time we colonized white people, so it's got a novelty factor at least. I'm pretty sure Greenlanders don't count as white in any meaningful sense though? I know I'm biased from living in Denmark, but we manage to be quite racist against Greenlanders. It's helped by the Danish introducing alcohol to Greenland and then shrugging about the way it wrecked society. So a very disproportionate amount of homeless people in Denmark are Greenlanders.
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Air Skwirl posted:It'd be the one time we colonized white people, so it's got a novelty factor at least.
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's not the parallel most people would draw, but maybe there is something to it, including the native Dorset culture being replaced by the Thule (modern Inuit), who now dominate Greenland.  e: his statement arguably wouldn't be true regardless, Puerto Rico in 1898 had plenty of 'white people', as it had seen successive waves of Spanish immigration throughout the 19th century, being one of the last remnants of the Spanish Empire. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Phlegmish posted:'s not the parallel most people would draw, but maybe there is something to it, including the native Dorset culture being replaced by the Thule (modern Inuit), who now dominate Greenland. Not sure exactly what your point is with this, but the same is largely true of South Africa, as the majority of black South Africans are Bantu-speakers, whose ancestors progressively drove out or assimilated the native Khoisan peoples from much of the country between roughly the 5th and 10th c. AD.
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No, that was my point. Although in South Africa's case, as you say, Bantu tribes had at least been present in the eastern parts of the modern country for quite some time before the Europeans arrived*, whereas in Greenland the Inuit showed up out of nowhere around 1100, well after the Norse settlements were established. * I believe the Xhosa language's characteristic click sounds are thought to have been adopted from the native inhabitants. 
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Air Skwirl posted:Well that and the COVID checks/getting a COVID vaccine made. Just because he delayed sending checks out until he could get his name on them doesn't mean they were his idea.
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He fought against pandemic response at every step of the way starting in 2018 when he dismantled the federal government's pandemic response team, but even earlier than that he was backing antivaxxers. It was a faint solace that for some of the worst of the pandemic, he was merely neglecting federal responsibility in general, and in the void of federal responsibility, the states were free to take it upon themselves to form regional alliances to manage their own respnses. Remember this? Biden ended up taking more charge of the pandemic in his home office before officially entering the Whitehouse than Trump ever did.
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How does something like this even happen I mean removing Germany, sure, but what kind of programmed functionality would compensate like this and why
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People make joke maps for fun, but enough about Sykes–Picot.
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My only problem is that the Netherlands and Belgium are still there
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Oh yeah? Well, my only problem is that - wait a minute, Czechia's not on there
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Yeah, it's greater Germany that's gone, not just current Germany. Also Bavaria.
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The coast lines are insanely hosed-up and I don't know any program that would cause such a thing.
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BonHair posted:Yeah, it's greater Germany that's gone, not just current Germany. Also Bavaria. *in roman voice* It depicts an idyllic world
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