Baronjutter posted:

Oregon is FINE

computer parts posted:

They're just looking out for the fish.

Kopijeger posted:

Their old rival Ragusa, these days usually called Dubrovnik:

Trench_Rat posted:

third_world_cellular_infrastructure.jpg Cell coverage of the US





drat appalachian/west virginia

Soviet Commubot posted:

unrelated:

Count Roland posted:

I remember reading about this sort of thing in a Steinbeck novel. How there were good years and bad years, but every few decades there were years so good that people flocked to the West, because the land was so fertile. It got so good people forgot it could be anything else. Then, like clock work, every few decades there'd also be really bad spells, where the land turned to dust and cattle died and people thought the end was nigh.

That man sure could write about country.

majormonotone posted:

Got it in one.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Some old games (and perhaps new ones too) have a simple switch to the other end when you fly off the map. When you fly off the west end, you appear on the east, makes sense.

But in a lot of them, if you fly off the north end, you appear in the far south. Final Fantasy IV certainly did that.

A world in which such a map makes sense is theoretically possible. A world like that would have a torus (donut) shape. I think that if we lived on a world like that, map projection chat would be even worse.

The Sin of Onan posted:

I'm the Pacific island countries that have been cut out of the map due to being so small they apparently count as "unused blank space."

Also, if all the land's been squeezed together like that, is there a giant ocean on the other side of the world? Because if so, a thousand libertarian seasteaders just got a stiffy.

Poil posted:

Wait, does red mean that cruelty is not only allowed but actually required for some cosmetics?

SaltyJesus posted:

colorado and utah are also a really funny pair, isn't it true that utah cops are huge assholes to anybody coming from the direction of colorado or with colorado plates?

Guavanaut posted:

These ones?

Technocrat posted:

An 1885 map of "Beerdom" in the 11th Ward in lower Manhattan was published by the Christian Union newspaper, along with an article lamenting the fact that in this one neighborhood which was surveyed by temperance supporters, there were only 19 churches and synagogues, but over 340 saloons, catering to the mostly German population, who, according to the article, used to drink themselves blind every night.

DrSunshine posted:

What I like most about Europe is that you can be this little country, not even bigger than Texas, and still get to call yourself an empire.

Space Kablooey posted:

the only good thing bolsonaro did was to cancel DST

Cracker King posted:

Is that closer to ‘I’ll skull gently caress you’?

I don’t see how that’s akin to ‘suck my dick’. Is there a visual to go with the Latin word play?

For us non Latin versed

steinrokkan posted:

The only show that treated the zombie scenario with thought and a willingness to explore its implications was Z Nation

FreudianSlippers posted:

Sidenote:
The only indigenous mammal in Iceland is the arctic fox. What little other wildlife there is (reindeer, minks, mice) is all imported.

Platystemon posted:

New California just dropped.



This is going to look like rear end in dark mode.

SurgicalOntologist posted:

People here also love to use speakerphone in public, or is that a thing everywhere now? It boggles the mind.

SlothfulCobra posted:

Do guano wars not count?

Kenning posted:

My favorite thing about Mexican nicknames is that they're almost always like, whatever it is you're the most self conscious about yourself. So many motherfuckers just go their whole lives being called Baldy or Fatty or Clumsy Idiot by everyone, including everyone who loves them. It owns.

Jippa posted:

I want to know what happens in apache junction.

Platystemon posted:

Guavanaut posted:

Lotharius playing the long game.

BonHair posted:

Or, to bring it to something more recent, the idea that the USA more or less single-handedly won WWII, when in fact the Soviets did most of the work and the Americans mostly just prevented a soviet Europe. Or that the American civil war was started by North because they hated state's rights.

So yeah, repeating the common narrative is okay if it's actually correct, but in many cases, the narrative is in fact propaganda. See also: portrayals of Jews in Christian texts after Christianity became the Roman state religion.

ContinuityNewTimes posted:

ZiS and Tula furiously churning out piles of sticks

FreudianSlippers posted:

Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002, dir. Guy Maddin)


A Silent ballet adaptation of Dracula in which Dracula is played by an Asian actor and really leans into the "mysterious Eastern man taking our wimmen!" reading of the story.

Rubix Squid posted:

The wikipedia article actually has a picture where you can see the drift.