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The only thing I recognize is somehow England has a thin blue line flag.Spaced God posted:this is.... impressively bad. Croatia is dalm. "Saudi Terrorists" is an odd choice for your ideal world. No idea who Kalmar is, but apparently he decided to let Canada have Greenland. The new city-states of Brussels, Baghdad, and I guess...Aragon? I feel like people who are in favor of one big west coast nation are weird in the head.
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Jul 22, 2019 00:59
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Alabama did get a chunk of the western part of the Florida panhandle. You'd have another California.
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Jul 23, 2019 01:44
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Peanut President posted:if a frog had wings... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_frog And yet, the world will never be fair. For some thread content, how about a map that I'm a massive dork for remembering. 
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Jul 24, 2019 19:20
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Killing people in the street is something to be uncomfortable about, but half the shows I watched as a young kid were all about groups of people doing covert strikes against oppressive regimes, so I find it hard to not sympathize. When legitimate avenues of resistance have been eliminated, you do what you can.
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Jul 26, 2019 20:05
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Can't believe this place that never rains is running out of water and constantly on fire.
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Aug 1, 2019 03:22
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Also notable is that much of the territory that was otherwise unconquered by the Ottomans was was taken over by Venice.
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Aug 3, 2019 22:22
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I think a better comparative question might be "Are the Quebecois Canadian?"
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Aug 15, 2019 17:24
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Aug 15, 2019 18:51
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I guess if some kind of disastrous balkanization happened to China, that would have a pretty severe effect on the ability of NK to persist. I get what they're trying to do with Catalonia, but making it a blue bull makes it looks like it's been annexed into France. The balkans seem pretty lazy too, but maybe my eyeballs just aren't picking up what they're supposed to be. I like Russia's second bear claw.
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Aug 25, 2019 03:02
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The entire landscape of flavors was wildly changed by the discovery of America and its various plants, but it was changed even further by modern production and transportation capacity that has led to us living in a relative age of abundance that would make most of our modern food enviable by the people of the past. While there are still issues with food today, a lot of romanticization of the past overlooks how good we've got it. I would sure like to try that herb that Romans ate into extinction though. Cat Mattress posted:Reminder that puritans thought a strict regimen of the blandest food possible was a moral imperative in order to prevent people from getting horny, which was obviously the ultimate evil. Oatmeal for breakfast came from that That was 7th day adventists. Puritans were too busy desperately trying to survive in a strange new land with zero practical skills from being a cult of people without useful skills to be picky.
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Aug 26, 2019 19:06
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Those are some pretty wild and crazy internal borders.
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Aug 26, 2019 20:25
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So the Japanese brought the chile to Mexico, good to know. Nice Mediterranean.
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Aug 27, 2019 03:37
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Sampatrick posted:why are redditors so obsessed with ethnostates Because everybody's been taught that the leading cause for strife in the middle east is the fact that Europeans drew lines without paying attention at all to local populations, so the outsider perspective for a solution is to try to divide by ethnicity of local populations. Which isn't exactly wrong, since it really does cause a lot of problems that there are all these fundamentally disenfranchised populations, but it also ignores things like relative land value and the diffusion of ethnic people throughout eachother's territory over the last ~50-300 years, or the fact that most ethnostate movements are fundamentally fascist.
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Sep 2, 2019 20:48
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Bad news for dongle inhabitants.
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Sep 3, 2019 20:30
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I was under the impression that abacus calculations were more widespread than working it out with latin numbers on paper. They're good for fancy monuments, but in common usage, the medieval French sure as hell didn't seem beholden to latin number structure from their weird base 20 language artifacts.chestnut santabag posted:uuugggghh I just don't understand, out of all the blatant lies and idiotic errors he's said out of his anus, why is this the hill he's willing to die on?
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Sep 4, 2019 22:05
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Tree Goat posted:i keep a paper republican calendar at my desk next to my miniature guillotine When the next revolution needs mass circumcisions, they'll know who to call. Enjoy working 10 days a week.
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Sep 5, 2019 05:20
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You can shrug about 9 days a week now, but you'll be hurting after it's been wednesday for 5 days straight. It was a dumb idea with no concern for the people it affected. Which really describes a lot of the actual french policies of revolutionary France. It's better when romanticized from afar than actually dealing with what it was. Anyways, have a nice Mexican Marigold day, be ready for harvesting basket day tomorrow. You only get 3 basket days a year.
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Sep 5, 2019 06:23
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Tomato and clam are meant to be together, I don't care what purists think. Go argue about malts v. shakes instead. The Falklands are also missing, which is a little odd. And does Japan really feel that strongly about whaling? Rolabi Wizenard posted:I like how Texas seems to be a competition between Whataburger and In-N-Out. Having moved to Texas from California, I thought they were joking when they suggested it was even a comparison. Whataburger is pretty good, but they stopped doing my favorite burger of theirs, so I stopped going out of my way to eat at it. Place I used to live was covered in Whataburgers, but now they're all real distant. I really liked how they made the burger as a whole thinner but wider, so that you can perfectly grab and stick the thing in your mouth instead of those dumb falling apart tall burgers some places do. In-N-Out has various properties, but the primary one is being even further away from where I live than the Whataburgers, so to me it currently lacks the primary desired characteristic of fast food.
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Sep 9, 2019 00:37
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Louisianna's coast is disappearing. Rising sea levels and all that, land is going underwater. Except...uh, this little spur isn't getting with the program.  It's all part of the whole system of shifting coastline that created most of the area in the first place. Sediment being carried by the river along the way and being deposited at the coastline.  Except this has also been accidentally caused by human attempts at stopping flooding, thereby shooting sediment along the tube of levies out to sea much faster and stronger. It's all a mess, environmental engineering is hard, maybe we can do better in the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFiNmEWXPPM https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/WaxLake Saladman posted:Do you eat pineapple on your pizza too, you god drat monster? It's fun to poo poo talk people about food and act all intensely aggressive about things that don't matter, but every so often I sit back and notice that food purism is basically a microcosm of conservatism.
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Sep 9, 2019 18:04
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Just do the system where people in the territories, possessions, and DC still get representation and voting/citizenship rights.
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Sep 10, 2019 03:42
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Soviet Commubot posted:
Texas is just keeping Iceland's seat warm while it's on its turkish vacation. Scandinavia's gone a little wrong and Germany seems a bit empty.
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Sep 11, 2019 03:57
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System Metternich posted:I see that Luxembourg has finally ceased to exist It's the state of Franklin.
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Sep 12, 2019 17:09
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steinrokkan posted:lol Because other casual ways of rating places off of broad generalizations tend to get insulting or racist.
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Sep 12, 2019 20:40
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I am kinda proud of America's counterfeit cheeses and such, since protected national food copyrights always seemed kinda dumb to me. I mean I complain about Disney's copyright ip law, 'course I'm gonna grumble about the others.
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Sep 13, 2019 03:41
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Grape posted:I do respect the intent, of trying to protect certain smaller operations from competition. But like I said, there's something kinda off about it. And narrowing down the region cuts out other areas where small operations have been making Thing for ages. That does sound a little like how Switzerland wound up culling many of its cheese varieties between tight regulation and a corrupt cheese cartel. Although I'm not sure how much the Swiss participate in EU standards, they normally try to stay apart from the rest of Europe. https://thinkgrowth.org/the-swiss-cheese-mafia-1dd096425f0d And they even put out advertisements accusing people of cheese-piracy. 
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Sep 13, 2019 04:31
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I guess it really is Greece's fault for damaging the EU.
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Sep 16, 2019 17:20
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I was poking around, and found this cool website that had a gif that I think belongs here. https://bigthink.com/robby-berman/dominant-religions-in-the-us-county-by-county 
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Sep 19, 2019 22:16
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I'm Damned Yankee Land. Or more informatively, how 'bout a map of territory that most maps of the period ignore.  Mexico allowed a bunch of American immigration because they thought that they'd provide a buffer, but then most Americans just kinda settled in that empty area to the east and didn't divert any raiding.
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Sep 21, 2019 16:44
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I like how NYC has been entirely annexed and Massachusetts is smaller than ever, but this expansion of Rhode Island cannot stand.
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Sep 22, 2019 23:07
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Missouri lost the last of its coast and Colorado has a weird exclave.
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Sep 22, 2019 23:21
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Why are weapons a category if they show up nowhere on the map?
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Sep 23, 2019 19:49
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The Caspian and the Great Lakes should count as seas. RIP Aral.
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Sep 24, 2019 22:44
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Happy to announce that Utah has its own sea.
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Sep 25, 2019 14:52
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Oct 1, 2019 16:17
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I thought the cool thing in the thread was to drop a map with an obtuse hint. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-predicted-population-density-of-wild-pigs-for-habitat-occurring-across-the-world_fig3_314394782
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Oct 2, 2019 03:59
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I don't think I've seen them since the 90s. In blockbuster. Got some Nick-L-Nips once, didn't care for them. The Texas one seems weirdest to me. Not because of my opinions on licorice, but because I just don't think I've ever seen just generic black licorice in a movie theater.
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Oct 3, 2019 07:09
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 I assume. I mean if it's not, then like what are even the parameters for defining movie candy and where would you pull that from. Are you going to start taking data from movie theaters that serve food and say pizza's a top movie candy.
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Oct 3, 2019 15:04
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I think the US could come out against it, but the concept of human rights or that genocide is wrong is beyond the current administration. You can even see it in how despite having started a trade war against them, the pissfuck still acts weirdly reverential about their lifelong dictator or the authority their police wield without fear of public opinion. He envies their crimes against humanity and only resents their economic position in the world. And yes, the current administration is directly engaged in its own soft-ish genocide program that it's trying to keep quiet. It's a smaller scale and has a lot more pushback and publicity, but there are obvious parallels. Anyhow, here's another map.  Or rather a map-shaped infographic.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:How does Argentina have the same number as Brazil? How does Colombia have the same number as both? They get about the same amount of tourists I guess? After a little poking around, I found a few more maps. Here's one about raw numbers of tourists which is a little different.  https://www.movehub.com/blog/popular-countries-map/ But I think the more interesting story is probably tourism as a percentage of GDP, which tells a very different story. Wealthier countries have more infrastructure to get more money from its tourists in raw numbers, but poorer countries still need what they get.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/...d-Maldives.html And since that link is to the Daily Mail, I'll just balance this out with a link to CNBC that's probably more reliable and tracks even more variables, but also chose to do its maps in a way which is less clear and visually grabbing, and did top 10 lists for everything. https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/29/tourism-how-much-do-countries-spend-to-attract-tourists.html
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