Soviet Commubot posted:

As Brittany is the larger one it would, naturally, eat the smaller one.

oxford_town posted:

Sure. It accords with my general feeling about the UK super-wealthy. The 'old blood' aristocrats who inherited a stately home and a title will be 'mere' millionaires, ironically with a lot of wealth tied up in illiquid assets that they can't easily access. (A lot of those stately homes are opened to the public to fund the upkeep - how ghastly.)

Platystemon posted:

....

Note: the horizon at the summit is defined as a flat plane that passes through the summit, and is perpendicular to the direction of gravity at the summit. Above the horizon means on the side of this plane opposite the direction of gravity at the summit.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01600

Platystemon posted:

How would you define it?

That seems like a normal definition to me.

Saladman posted:

I just randomly came across that exact map, using 2020 data:




Here's the 2013 version from the same survey group, which has such a massive India/Pakistan difference compared to the more recent survey that I wonder if their methodology or questionnaire just sucked back then:



E: The question appears to be:

Survey question: On this list are various groups of people. Could you please mention any that you would not like to have as neighbors?:
-Drug addicts
-People of a different race
-People who have AIDS
-Immigrants/foreign workers
-Homosexuals
-People of a different religion
-Heavy drinkers
-Unmarried couples living together
-People who speak a different language

SlothfulCobra posted:

Barbie movie banned in Vietnam for showing a map with China's 9-dash line claim over the South China Sea.

SimonChris posted:

mobby_6kl posted:

"Pediatric firearm mortality rate by state and year from 2018 to 2021. States with absolute mortalities <20 are grayed out because of unreliable crude death rates (these include Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and District of Columbia)."

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/gun-deaths-among-us-children-reached-new-record-high-in-2021-study-finds

Tei posted:

The minimum salary spain is 1050 €, so that makes Madrid one of these unlivable cities where you technically it would be imposible for people to live. And actually, people don't really live in Mardrid. They live in a nearby city and waste many hours travelling back and forth. And/or 4 young or middle aged adults share a home.

My solution is to destroy the city, send people there to other cities, make the place a national park, maybe give people the opportunity to nuke buildings with rocket launchers for fun. Bomb that lovely city down to ruins.

Wipfmetz posted:

What's that little red blurb between France and Spain, and why does it fail so much at English?

Carbon dioxide posted:

"rug" means "back" in Dutch, did you leave the language on auto-detect?

Platystemon posted:

Platystemon posted:

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

FreudianSlippers posted:

In Northern Europe a lot of non-chain pizza places are also kebab places where they probably originally thought "hmmm these Europeans don't know what the heck a Kebab is but they love pizza so I better have that on the menu as well"

Count Roland posted:

That's the good poo poo.


Re: boars: are there predators that can help with the numbers? Bears, wolves?

quote:

The wolf (Canis lupus) is the main predator of wild boar throughout most of its range. A single wolf can kill around 50 to 80 boars of differing ages in one year.[4] In Italy[75] and Belarus' Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, boars are the wolf's primary prey, despite an abundance of alternative, less powerful ungulates.[75] Wolves are particularly threatening during the winter, when deep snow impedes the boars' movements. In the Baltic regions, heavy snowfall can allow wolves to eliminate boars from an area almost completely. Wolves primarily target piglets and subadults and only rarely attack adult sows. Adult males are usually avoided entirely.

SimonSays posted:

Laughing myself silly at the thought of reintroducing wolves to the exurbs. North America will be overrun with feral hogs for all time.

SlothfulCobra posted:

SlothfulCobra posted:

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/USCounterterrorismOperations

PittTheElder posted:

Doesn't rice grow basically everywhere if you want it to? I seem to recall reading that paddy based production isn't a requirement, but places wet enough for paddy production are too wet to be good at growing any other cereal (which are typically more rewarding to produce if you can).

There are definitely places on the southern/eastern coasts of Spain, and the south coast of France that do sizeable rice production today.

steinrokkan posted:

I'm surprised the US doesn't produce more rice. You partially solved the labor intensity by seeding rice paddies from a plane, which is rad and should alone be enough to encourage a rice growing culture.

Platystemon posted:

Saladman posted:

Does that mean like, people wear their outdoor shoes still, or they’re supposed to switch into house slippers? Wtf Latin America and France, Italy, and Spain. Also that’s weird that Portugal is green, despite it being part of Eastern Europe where everyone else is red.

Also that’s an unusual map where green is bad and red is correct.

Although I do know a lot of Alpine French and like Swiss they do not wear their shoes in the house, so that map might just be wrong. I don’t know any Parisians.