All Of The Dicks posted:

How about "the coal industry in this region does not provide the people involved with it a sufficient income on which to eat, and instead must be subsidised by the state, making it a net loss, and therefore should be reformed or replaced rather than protected in its current form"

Mans posted:

I'm sure a lot of people working at Macdonalds are on foodstamps too. Does this mean Macdonald is unprofitable?

Phlegmish posted:

I've always wondered about that, for all the talk about right-wing xenophobia in the US, the reaction to mass immigration from Mexico and the rest of Latin America has been surprisingly tame. Perhaps it is linked to my first observation, with Americans being so self-confident that they don't really feel threatened.

Soviet Commubot posted:

And second most popular sports in the US. I imagine they're working off of different polls because of some discrepancies like Kansas.

Kainser posted:

I live in Skåne and this is really not a thing unless you with 'some support' mean an incredibly small amount of people. I guess autonomy is a thing but that's still a very minor issue currently.

Anyway, alternate history greater Sweden:



I like the subdivisions and the usage of the Vasa coat of arms

withak posted:

As far as other CA county generalizations go, San Mateo and Santa Clara are pretty solidly soulless tech industry suburbanite NIMBYs, specifically opposed to any kind of public transit.

Tommah posted:

Missouri has a lot of weird cities. Here's a list of some:
...
Versailles

BerkerkLurk posted:

Colorado has been the least obese US state for years (just looked it up: since 1990).

In my opinion it's because if you're inclined to be outdoorsy, there's a ton to do here. Denver gets 300 days of sunshine a year and if it isn't sunny then it snowed so hit the slopes.

rscott posted:

What do the colors on the map mean?

e: Red areas are poor and blue areas are wealthy?

PittTheElder posted:

Because tectonic movement works on geologic time scales. Even if we could safely lower the stuff into the ocean floor, by the time it actually got to the "melt into the mantle" part, it wound't be dangerous any more. Plus you'd have to worry about the container rupturing under the water pressure and potentially spreading throughout the ocean, which would be A Bad Thing.

Radioactive waste really isn't dangerous enough to be pulling risky gambits like that, we just need to find a hole where it can sit for 10,000 years and then leave it there. Or find ways to reprocess it into even less dangerous forms, which people are looking at all the time.

Metrication posted:

Patter Song posted:

If you fast-forwarded to 500 BCE you'd see an explosion of expansion of blue on that map, especially in the Mediterranean/North Africa, parts of India, and China.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

According to the text under the image for that article the tip of the peninsula is technically the "headland"

Reveilled posted:

Reposting from last year when the map showed up here before:

JosefStalinator posted:

BART owns, and is easily the most decipherable map posted yet.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Does it really matter? Unless we assume some cultures are far more prone to lying/exaggeration, the overall trend should still hold.

PittTheElder posted:

That is not how a cat's ears go when eating.

DrSunshine posted:

Good! We rightfully belong with the other nations of the Pacific Rim, not these filthy Americans!

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

I'd have thought that a lot of those Taiwanese joints are actually just boba joints.

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

Another map of American regions/cultures/whatever, this time from some professor

Nintendo Kid posted:

Uh, New York really is the way it is because of the Dutch though? There's all sorts of weirdness in New York law and culture both in the City and upstate, that is directly traceable to the Dutch, and it's present to a lesser extent in North Jersey. And it's no coincidence that descendants of the big Dutch settlement families have been major forces in New York politics to this day. Hel there was an even a US President from New York whose native languague was Dutch and only learned English later in school (Martin Van Buren).

SaltyJesus posted:

lmao that's a pretty poor selection

e: content
I don't remember seeing a bi-axial color scheme like this before:


It's kinda hard to read. It'd be interesting to see a map like this for Spain.

Rumda posted:

To move it away from racism and on to other things you Americans should be ashamed about

FINGERBLASTER69 posted:

What does this even mean

D.N. Nation posted:

kalstrams posted:

How are these accurate?

King Hong Kong posted:

The Russian version:

XMNN posted:

Guess that map.

(Google reverse image search recognises it for some reason, but that's cheating).

XMNN posted:

It's Bigfoot.

Soviet Commubot posted:

I was looking around for a map of general fruit production and I found this. I think the mapmaker is trolling the poo poo out of me with that Upper Peninsula situation.