Crowsbeak posted:

Didn't some young turks think that should be the goal after the first world war?

Speaking of the Balkans, here is a great way to piss off Turks abit and Greeks alot.

quote:

10 2. NO GOVERNMENT TREATMENT OR LEGAL STATUS, EFFECT, RIGHT, BENEFIT,
11 PRIVILEGE, PROTECTION OR RESPONSIBILITY RELATING TO MARRIAGE, WHETHER
12 DERIVING FROM STATUTE, ADMINISTRATIVE OR COURT RULE, PUBLIC POLICY,
13 COMMON LAW OR ANY OTHER SOURCE OF LAW, SHALL DIFFER BASED ON THE PARTIES
14 TO THE MARRIAGE BEING OR HAVING BEEN OF THE SAME SEX RATHER THAN A
15 DIFFERENT SEX.

Pakled posted:

kalstrams posted:

Do you find it strange that people there finish their school?

TheImmigrant posted:

I'm not a specialist in Slavic languages, but aren't Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Russian mutually intelligible? I'll grant that they are closer to each other than Bulgarian.

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

Huh, why would North Korea have a HDI higher than .500?

Phlegmish posted:

That map is pretty close to being whiteamericans.jpg.

Reveilled posted:

I'm not sure if it's exaggerated by selective reporting or not, but I seem to notice that whenever some major weather disaster such as a hurricane or tornado or massive forest fire hits the US, most of the houses seem to be made out of wood panelling and drywall with viturally no bricks at all. Now I know that American cities themselves aren't built like that, but is that sort of construction normal for your big suburbs?

Reveilled posted:

I know this will sound snarky, but it's an honest question: do American kids get told the story of the Three Little Pigs?

TheBalor posted:

Kiev used to be THE center of Russian civilization, before the Golden Horde rolled in, murdered everyone, and burned it to a cinder. It eventually came back to Russian control, but never again regained its preeminence. So Russians could semi-reasonably argue that Kiev and the environs has been a Russian place longer than it has any other ethnicity.

TheBalor posted:

Fair enough. Point is, it ties into the whole viewpoint of Russians as the leaders of all slavs, which tickles the nationalist bone.

Tree Goat posted:

from the d&d pics thread:


looks like some carribean islands, lesotho, and andorra of all places have significantly more literate women than men?

also french guyana is just missing data rather than sharing data with france, department or no.

Mu Cow posted:

Good use of color scale...

Phlegmish posted:

All you other language families can suck it.

icantfindaname posted:

I like the Poles. Their national identity seems held together by hatred of their arch-nemesis Russia, and considering Russia is pretty lovely that's fine by me. I guess they're sort of bad on abortion issues? I can't think of much else.

Disco Infiva posted:

Love Saudi Britannia and United Baltic Emirates.

MODS CURE JOKES posted:

Well, nearly every city ever has done that. Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx all used to be independent cities until New York City proper gobbled them up. It's a reason why they retain distinct characteristics, for one.

computer parts posted:

Annexation only works when the neighbors are unincorporated IIRC (at least without state level shenanigans or consent of the other towns), so that's not too far from the truth.

HonorableTB posted:

Good god that would be terrifying for a non-native to try and navigate, and I thought Moscow's was pretty awful when I lived there:

my dad posted:

After a bit of googling, I also found this one:



Notice the year, and check out Ukraine.

Aliquid posted:

But isn't the winner the most mildly agreeable among all the candidates? If a candidate has third- or fourth-most first place votes, but voters of all stripes want him as their second or third choice, isn't that the most agreeable result for the entire electorate?

Nintendo Kid posted:

There is no way the Bay Area is the second densest metro in the US, the entire metro area has a million less people than NYC in it, spread all the way around the bay.

The US Census considers the Bay Area metro to have a density of about 1100 people per square mile, NYC metro to be 1874 per square mile, LA is 2650.

And if you're thinking of the Census' weighted density measurement, then it becomes NYC metro in first place, Bay Area in second place, and LA metro in third place.

Disco Infiva posted:

Helicopter ("helikopter", which is a loanword) was going to be "vrtolet" (spin-o-flight ), it was just bizzare.

JosefStalinator posted:

In the case of the orthodox Bulgarians versus Greeks versus Macedonians, there really was no difference. You could tell if they were Albanian/Turk because they were Muslim. For orthodox christians, the people simply became whatever the state that adopted them wanted them to be, by teaching them the national version of the language and indoctrinating them along those lines in school. Before that, they were just Orthodox peasants who may or may not have spoken some local dialect along a dialect spectrum.

computer parts posted:

This is like that map of distinct US cultures that had New Jersey as a separate one but Appalachia stretched from Pennsylvania to Oklahoma.

Phlegmish posted:

Here's a map showing which countries have a higher GDP per capita than Russia, adjusted for purchasing power parity.



I'm actually surprised it's still ahead of most of the rest of the world, considering the fact that you're constantly hearing about how terrible it is.

3peat posted:

In romanian the word for potato is cartof, which comes from kartoffel, but there are also regionalisms like bandraburca or barabula, both of which come from the word Brandenburg

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В Україні також «бу́льба», «бараболя», рідше «крумплі» (хорв. Krumpir), «ґрул'і», «барабу́рка», «бори́шка», «бу́рка», «гадабу́рка», «мандибу́рка», «рі́па».

kalstrams posted:

I've never heard of destructive tornado in Europe, especially in the Baltics.
White pitch in the U.S. is some desert, right?

ekuNNN posted:

Possibly Ethnic Russians and Jews getting away from Pravy Sektor and other right-wing people?

ekuNNN posted:

What? I'm saying people possibly left Kiev because there were fascist gangs going around attacking non-Ukrainians and vandalising synagogues and stuff after the revolution.

ekuNNN posted:

Oh, I didn't know those attacks weren't real. Maybe lots of people left due to the successful propaganda? Or just because they were worried about the revolution and the violence.

Tedd_Not_Ed posted:

As long as we're posting fantasy divisions of US maps:

Torrannor posted:

More like 200 years ago, but you are still right.