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i poo poo trains posted:I actually have a politically loaded map hanging right behind me! (Warning: big) I knew this looked familiar.  e: vvv we...know each other. vvv computer parts fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Feb 2, 2013 |
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Feb 2, 2013 23:35
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Mr. Pumroy posted:Unrelated, but those Virginia maps on the last page reminded me that I would have liked to see West Virginia just be called plain old Virginia since it had the only state government in VA recognized by the federal government during the Civil War when it split off from the rest of the state. Doesn't work since they ceased being the government of Virginia when they voted themselves to secede from Virginia and become West Virginia.
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Feb 5, 2013 18:56
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i poo poo trains posted:lol that 'Ecotopia' is a strip of mostly densely settled once-forested coast while most of the actual natural areas are the "Empty Quarter". What a bunch of chauvinist horseshit. Also the racial connotations of "Mexamerica" when Hispanic breakdowns are like so:  It just screams "I have never been to this part of the country so hurf durf".
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Feb 7, 2013 00:05
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Ammat The Ankh posted:
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Feb 9, 2013 04:14
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eSports Chaebol posted:It was given the name by an abolitionist, though. I mean, Rhode Island is the only of the colonies with a genuinely benevolent origin. Was Maryland the one that was all "Catholics and Jews can come here!" (I'm guessing so due to the name)
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Feb 9, 2013 21:47
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a pipe smoking dog posted:These maps really freak me out because of how obviously "ghetto-ised" American cities are. Do similar ones exist for European cities? You may be surprised at how they are.
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Feb 11, 2013 16:14
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I guess now you know why a lot of western states don't want more government influence in their lives. 
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Feb 16, 2013 20:13
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The Monkey Man posted:Why isn't there a Star of David in Florida? The Spanish converted a lot of people in the West; not everyone came in with Manifest Destiny from the US. One of those blue splotches looks like Boise which I know for a fact is full of Catholics and/or Hispanics. e: well probably more German Catholic but that's fairly common as well 
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Feb 18, 2013 16:03
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prefect posted:Stops at 93%? I'm guessing China can't deny the Uyghur are religious, although I found a chart that seems to disagree with that (the first map) : 
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Feb 18, 2013 16:25
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All Of The Dicks posted:The disunity of the British Isles vexes me. Tiny islands should not have separate nations in them. At least it's better then Hispaniola.
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Feb 21, 2013 22:25
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Cygni posted:
Or, Walmart.png.
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Feb 22, 2013 19:07
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Not a map persay, but this is the flag of Detroit the lettering translates as "We hope for better things" and "It will rise from the ashes", after the city was literally burned to the ground in the early 1800s. A little ironic/appropriate these days.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:11
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All Of The Dicks posted:The source of the name "California" is interesting in that it is not a real word or even derived from a real word in any language. Rather, it seems to have come from the name for a mythical island in a popular novel of the time. Like, if it were discovered today and named 'Narnia' or 'Arrakis' or something like that. Or Westeros! 
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Mar 9, 2013 16:17
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Hey Salt Lake City. What up? Urban centers are generally more liberal no matter where you go. There were a *lot* of LGBT flags the last time I was in Boise, for example. LP97S posted:Also I need to question the use solely of e-harmnoy, eschewing other sites like match, chemistry, christian mingle, j-date, and apps like grindr. It's their own users as far as I can tell, which is useful in that the other sites are behind a pay wall and so skew to those specific interests (christian mingle for example is probably full of crazies).
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Mar 23, 2013 15:07
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a pipe smoking dog posted:The second one posted was the Human Development Index which includes relative income. And was used as a "lol Mississippi" joke. If you understand that race is correlated with poverty, this map is why there's so much poverty/obesity/etc in that state.  (Mississippi has the highest black percentage population, at 37%)
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Mar 24, 2013 15:17
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Lawman 0 posted:Yeah Japan should basically be crimson red or whatever if those stories about the insane amount of racism there hold any water. They probably mean tourists instead of immigrants.
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Mar 24, 2013 15:32
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Apparently having no zoning laws helps in your freedom ranking, which explains why Texas is so high.
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Mar 29, 2013 15:49
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dilbertschalter posted:Given that one of the most common reasons zoning laws are enacted is to make land too expensive for lower income people to move in and that another major one is to protect vested interests (e.g. I own a store and I don't want someone else opening a store and reducing my profits), that doesn't seem to be a particularly objectionable claim. The joke is that Houston lets you open a beer cannery next to residential housing (I literally saw this driving through once).
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Mar 29, 2013 16:35
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Senor Gato posted:If Houston's bad it's because half of it is a parking lot, not because it arbitrarily separates residential and business areas There are many valid reasons someone would want to separate residential and business areas.
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Mar 30, 2013 01:14
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Amused to Death posted:Aw we're exactly tied with Colorado. My failure to finish college is dragging us down to a tie That statistic is a little misleading because there are plenty of jobs in West Virginia that don't require a bachelor's degree (coal mining mostly, but still).
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Mar 30, 2013 20:05
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twoday posted:
That looks too much like China to be a coincidence.
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Apr 1, 2013 21:07
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Soviet Commubot posted:Many people in France, both left and right wing, see any official recognition of minority cultures in France as the first step on the road to the destruction of France. And suddenly a lot of stuff about Europe begins to make sense.
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Apr 2, 2013 13:52
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3peat posted:On the other hand It's weird that America is "safe" since almost every week I see some news about policemen there killing people because their black or "look muslim", they have a lot of guns around and way more crime than us. Here nobody got guns and I love it that way, I'd be scared shitless to go to america cause I'd spend all my time worrying that some psycho gonna pull out a gun and shoot me cause I look brown or whatever. If you're Native American you probably have about as much of a chance of that happening in Canada.
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Apr 6, 2013 21:59
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reignonyourparade posted:I've actually read claims, I don't know how legitimate they are, that global warming picked up when anti smog laws started getting passed, and that before that global warming was in part being countered by 'global darkening.' My dad's a climatologist and he says that that is a major reason why our temperatures have been going up so fast recently. Granted, it's still a terrible way to combat climate change because we don't know how it will work, but it is a countering force.
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Apr 12, 2013 15:41
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Amarkov posted:I love how both "Abrahamic" and "Jewish" are there. Was he going to put Christianity and Islam but then changed his mind? Both are in there (under Mediterranean and Persian (  ) respectively).
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May 15, 2013 23:33
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reagan posted:Aren't mainland Chinese kind of prejudiced against people from HK as well? Talking to my professors, the guys from HK say that they catch guff from their mainland colleagues. Hell, one guy even said one of the Indian professors derides him for being Westernized. Maybe in southern China but I think overall it's just "that place that's Chinese but we need a passport to go to".
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May 16, 2013 19:22
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vickser posted:I believe T. Boone Pickens has been on the "natural gas in cars" bandwagon for about a decade as well. He's since moved to wind I believe.
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May 29, 2013 03:28
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TinTower posted:Given Middle-Earth is analogous to Europe, you never know. I'm guessing it's a joke on Belarus, since that's "White Russia".
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Jun 2, 2013 16:24
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 My dad was born in Oregon but raised in Louisiana and a lot of the south (and his dad's from Missouri) so we say both crawfish and crawdads. e: a better soft drink map: 
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Jun 6, 2013 03:48
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Just saw this from my friend on Facebook:
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Jun 7, 2013 13:21
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GaussianCopula posted:How are the risks weight? The danger of a drought is probably not as bad for the normal, non-farmer, then say a major earthquake. Probably yearly fatalities/property damage or else Boise and the cities in Nevada wouldn't be quite as safe.
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Jun 7, 2013 14:06
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withak posted:I think in most places it just can't be opened if it is in the passenger compartment. You can keep newly-bought bottles of anything up front, but if you are bringing a half-finished bottle home from a party then it has to go in the trunk. That's the law in Texas, and Oklahoma apparently meets some standard of open beverage law called the TEA-21. e: It looks like you're thinking of Tennessee.
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Jun 9, 2013 21:23
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Soviet Commubot posted:What exactly can yellow mean here? I grew up in a yellow county (Gratiot, Michigan) and the only restrictions I remember are no sales between 2AM and maybe 8AM and no sales before noon on Sunday. Is it just stuff like that? Yellow means everything that's not "buy whatever whenever" and "you can't have a liquor store in the county".
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Jun 9, 2013 21:26
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Crowsbeak posted:
Reservations are unique in that they're technically separate entities (like states are) so they don't get any revenue from the state they happen to be in. And the feds don't really care that much about them.
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Jun 11, 2013 13:30
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I knew life on Reservations was bad, but those numbers are like what I would expect of the worst parts of Zimbabwe. Seriously what the hell is wrong with this country? Although I'll gladly use these stats when ever some libertarian racist shitheel says they don't deserve what little the Feds give them.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:At least that has the excuse of being the same word, just in two languages that have diverged. Danish/Dutch just has the D, and I suppose a bit of a libertine reputation? They're also pretty close to each other (more than Estonia and the Balkans anyway).
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Jun 17, 2013 17:16
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why is Sweden grey? It's had a few female monarchs. I'm assuming monarchs don't count or else the UK would be purple.
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Jun 18, 2013 03:13
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ErichZahn posted:America needs to be pink to honor the legacy of Nancy Reagan, our worst female president. She's no Edith Wilson to be sure.
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Jun 18, 2013 04:46
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The US should be Red because it doesn't have a parliament.
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Jun 18, 2013 13:13
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Phlegmish posted:That's not really true. America doesn't have a parliamentary system since the executive branch is not entirely dependent on the legislature, but the United States Congress is still a (bicameral) parliament in the general sense of the word. I was being cheeky but specifically the Congress is a reaction to the idea of a Parliament. It's a legislative body but strictly is not a parliament.
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