Quorum posted:

The southeast Asian nations may partially come down to geopolitics; all of them have reason to oppose the regional dominance of China, which tends to ally them with the United States, even in votes like this where there really isn't any relation to geopolitical objectives at all. Genuinely quite surprised by Turkey as well.

khwarezm posted:

I've literally never heard anyone think Korea is in Southeast Asia.

AgentF posted:

Rio de Janeiro looking like a swastika there

Grape posted:

I'm finally starting to want to get into trying lots of beers, and the whole craft extravaganza thing is awesome in theory, but as mentioned a large amount are IPA's and similar types.
And what I want to start exploring is dark beers. Any recs for me?

sbaldrick posted:

My favourite fact is Robert E Lee was for sure a direct ancestor of Pocahontas

SlothfulCobra posted:

The pope is from Argentina, so clearly the church seems to approve of Latin American Catholicism.

Anyway, maps for the map thread.

luxury handset posted:

iirc like the bottom hundred miles of the mississippi watershed are just one massive loving port complex anywhere they can stick a barge landing. like 2/3 of all the midwest grain passes through one of the numerous port complexes in louisiana

i mean culturally though i dont know how much people consider new orleans "coastal" considering there's not a lot of beachy or shoreline activities you can do there, but it is the best place in america to get falling down drunk in a swamp. like when i think coastal i think miami, or los angeles, new york to a degree, or even boston as you gaze out to a flinty sea - not so much new orleans

Vasukhani posted:

The idea of "going out to eat" is really a post french rev thing. Public houses were explicitly for travelers and meeting rather than "going to the bar." It is very modern to buy pre-made ready to eat meals, I would even say the modern idea of a "restaurant" wasn't a thing until the v late victorian period.

Vasukhani posted:

They had food stalls and common kitchens, but that isn't where modern restaurants evolved from. Dining outside the home was a product of urban squaller and poverty, rather than convenience or taste. It was a matter of literally not having cooking facilities. Restaurants as an institution, something that existed for making food that was seen as desirable, and something that you could go to as an event is a 18th-19th century invention. Notice that this map doesn't consider fruit stalls and the like as restaurants. Sitting down in a public restaurant specifically for a meal, with a waiter and a fixed menu is a relatively recent concept in culinary history.

Vasukhani posted:

It has benches where you can eat food. So I think it would be safe to call it a restaurant. Thermopolia were for food distribution to the lower classes, they were something you had to eat at, or something you never set foot in during your life. Restaurants, as classified by the map, are sit down institutions, and "going out to eat" is a french rev thing that poor people didn't do well into the second industrial revolution.

Platystemon posted:

DarkCrawler posted:

Luther isn't even a particularly high or incredibly meaningful authority in most strains of Lutheranism. I grew up in a literal Evangelical Lutheran Church and I didn't read a single writing of the guy until I was close to being an adult. And that was in history class.

Platystemon posted:

The Internet amplifies it.

Back in the day, if a person had a mistaken belief, they would eventually admit they were wrong or blame it on a good memory of a bad source. Sure, the Fruit of the Loom logo doesn’t have a cornucopia now, but can you prove it didn’t have one for a short time two decades ago?

With the Internet, you can prove that it never looked like that. What’s more is that there are a bunch of idiots just like you out there that either already share your false belief or can be encouraged to do so by the power of suggestion. They never had a particularly clear memory of the logo on their underwear. Why shouldn’t the fruits be in a cornucopia, an item that exists to hold fruits?

As you get to talking, you agree that it is odd that they’re called the “Berenstain Bears”. Who ever heard of a name ending in “–ain”?

Carthag Tuek posted:

presumably it would be possible to find these misprints then, no?

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Excluding major events, the average electricity customer in the US experiences a little under 2 hours of disruption per year. This is roughly on-par with Czechia, Bulgaria and Latvia (also excluding exceptional events), and thus we can conclude that the US is an Eastern European country.

Count Roland posted:

What sort of ice storms are we talking about here? When I think of an ice storm I think freezing rain that creates a buildup of ice on... things. This tends to bring down powerlines and trees. All the bad ice storms I've been in resulted in at least some loss of power. There's the famous Quebec Ice Storm of 2008 which did incredible damage.



E typo

Tuxedo Gin posted:

A lot of people don't have any or much say in the design of the house they buy. They're buying a pre-built house or a cookie-cutter plan. I'm a cave dweller, so I'd love a house with most of the rooms being windowless.

SlothfulCobra posted:

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I went and looked having never been to Seattle and there must be a story there. It’s a huge number of standard compass rose US grids. But the major streets are all over the place and sometimes two askew grids just slam into each other. drat hippies.

Saladman posted:

Well, then the US only has 10 cities period, because the city vs metro area distinction is dumb. Like Memphis and San Francisco would not count as "proper cities" because neither clears 1 million, technically. The only 10 cities in the US formally clearing 1m people are:

New York City, NY (Population: 8,622,357)
Los Angeles, CA (Population: 4,085,014)
Chicago, IL (Population: 2,670,406)
Houston, TX (Population: 2,378,146)
Phoenix, AZ (Population: 1,743,469)
Philadelphia, PA (Population: 1,590,402)
San Antonio, TX (Population: 1,579,504)
San Diego, CA (Population: 1,469,490)
Dallas, TX (Population: 1,400,337)
San Jose, CA (Population: 1,036,242)


100k seems like a reasonable cutoff though for those types of statistics, or if you wanted to really do a better job then I guess 1m people within a 10 mile radius of "downtown" would sound fairly reasonable too and work the vast majority of the time better than municipal boundaries.

It’s an issue in a lot of places of course, like the city of Brussels is exaggeratedly tiny (188k people) in statistics as compared to its actual in reality size (2 million), since it is subdivided into a bunch of fake "different" cities like Schaerbeek and Ixelles.

E: I looked around and can’t think of a city I consider a real city that has under 100k people in the municipal population. Brussels so far has the worst discrepancy between actual population and the "official" population. It’s probably hard to come up with a country that does a worse job on municipal boundaries than Belgium, though.

Kennel posted:

What % of the population lives inside that area?