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quote:This Map of the World Just Won Japan’s Prestigious Design Award
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Winners of this map projection: Japan, Canada, Russian Far East, Mongolia, Antarctica Losers: New Zealand, Europe, Africa, Brazil 
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Oct 31, 2016 08:08
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The world’s largest sea is a pretty good place to split the map and a pretty bad place to centre it, IMO.
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Oct 31, 2016 08:21
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Kennel posted:That's just one way to use that projection. And they’re all lovely.
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Oct 31, 2016 09:29
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Robinson > Kavrayskiy VII > Winkel Tripel National Geographic is dead to me.
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Oct 31, 2016 21:30
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PittTheElder posted:I guess I could live with Robinson. Kavrayskiy is a much cleaner formulation of an almost identical projection through. Kavrayskiy VII makes Africa and South America too long. “It’s not mathematically elegant” is everyone argument against Robinson.
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Oct 31, 2016 22:29
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:Equal area maps are useful for showing certain data. Like which countries are the most important.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:03
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Congress could modify the districts after the crime and see what SCOTUS has to say about it. Historically SCOTUS has had a pretty narrow interpretation of the ex post facto clause. e: Kalt’s 2005 paper does cover this starting on page 10. I remain unconvinced. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Nov 6, 2016 |
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Nov 6, 2016 10:52
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Nov 7, 2016 09:00
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mobby_6kl posted:Good thing we're getting rid of the UK, then! Finland might also change their tune once Trump disbands NATO and Russian start crawling over the border for holidays. Also lol at Austria, are they still traumatized by WWII? Hitler was Austrian. 
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Nov 11, 2016 03:57
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Djibouti’s is the best. Spain uses a hashtag. 
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Nov 18, 2016 02:20
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North Korea: Please give us hard currency.
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Nov 18, 2016 04:12
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“I feel like Tunisia” makes Tunisia sound like some terrible gastrointestinal distress.
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Nov 18, 2016 04:22
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El Salvador is number four in murders per capita. All those murderers within forty‐five minutes of you at all times. 
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Nov 18, 2016 06:24
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o7 Gunpo: We salute you.
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Nov 18, 2016 07:02
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Anseong’s Public Enemy Number One:
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Nov 18, 2016 07:07
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Most people have never heard of magical realism, and of those that have, not all have a favourable opinion of it. It’s a dumb slogan.
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Nov 18, 2016 14:50
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Y’all sure have a high opinion of the average tourist. In my experience, they aren’t the most well‐read sort. Jerry Cotton posted:It's not written by Ayn Rand, Hitler, or George Martin, so goons don't recognize it. You forgot J. K. Rowling.
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Nov 18, 2016 15:05
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Nov 19, 2016 01:48
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Belarus looks like a good neighbour, but it cheats by being part of other belligerents or Lithuania itself for long periods of history.
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Nov 19, 2016 09:42
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Yeah, it only seems like a negative because we've gotten trapped in the illusion that our current climate is optimal. Source your quotes.
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Nov 20, 2016 00:07
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40 million people have more votes than 0.6 million.
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Nov 20, 2016 03:43
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Mongolia is almost as lonely as South Africa. Great job tarnishing the Western Hemisphere’s record, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and the non‐French Guianas. Western Sahara should be coloured the same as Morocco. It’s not like the SADR has a seat in the UN, or controls anywhere close to that much territory.
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Nov 21, 2016 21:24
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Pictured 8:15 A.M. on 6 August 1945. But seriously, I can’t tell if Japan is missing, or just obscured by the glare of the flash.
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Nov 28, 2016 08:56
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Kennel posted:And Russia is gigantic compared to the globe. That’s Crimea we’re just seeing the edge of on the right, isn’t it?  I thought it was Alaska (which Russia is still bitter about selling  ).
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Nov 28, 2016 18:08
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Vietnam takes the cake.
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Nov 28, 2016 22:37
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Kassad posted:Where did India go? It’s America’s new hat. 
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Nov 28, 2016 23:53
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What the gently caress, Belgium. How do you manage to be worse than both the Netherlands and France?
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Nov 30, 2016 20:28
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Nov 30, 2016 22:45
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Dec 1, 2016 03:16
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Baron Corbyn posted:I'm not sure it isn't. "d" and "dd" are two separate letters in Welsh and if they're counting all the "dd"s as two instances of the letter "d" that's going to stack up. Japan gets its dumb emoji in Unicode, but Welsh can’t have a “dd” codepoint. fakeedit: It doesn’t even have its own SA smiley. 
Platystemon fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Dec 1, 2016 07:31
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Dec 3, 2016 03:48
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paperwind posted:I'd like to know how '2nd' or '3rd' could be more popular than '1st'. Re‐development is my theory. 1st is right on the edge of downtown and might be bulldozed for a stadium or whatever. Streets further into the grid are less likely to be messed with. After all, why would you name a street “1st Street” if you weren’t also naming a 2nd street at the same time?
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Dec 3, 2016 04:22
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Dec 3, 2016 05:00
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Powered Descent posted:
Green = spoilage kind of makes sense. I would have made it a gradient of a single hue, though.
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Dec 3, 2016 05:27
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on the color scheme.
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Kurtofan posted:do we have the best whiskey drinkers or the most whiskey drinkers? I need to now! Highest per‐capita consumption.
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Dec 3, 2016 07:18
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If your town doesn’t have a Gropecunt Lane, it isn’t even trying.
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Dec 3, 2016 10:30
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Blut posted:The best solution is alphabetized-in-order street names. You have all the benefits of the easy navigation of a logical progression of1st/2nd/3rd etc street, but can actually have interesting/memorable street names. Pacific Beach in San Diego does this and everyone I know whos been has found it surprisingly convenient. BRB, founding a town where the grid is Polish monarchs in one direction and Russian monarchs in the other.
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Dec 3, 2016 22:06
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BRB, founding a town where the streets spell “BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE” and “BURMA‐SHAVE” Yes, a street in the middle of town will start with a hyphen.
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Dec 3, 2016 22:14
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm sorry to be so harsh, but that clip is loving horrible and the Peters projection is moronic. This from somebody who does believe Mercator has had a real and lasting negative effect on the perception of the world's geography by the general public and that part of its popularity has at times come from nationalism/racism. It's a right that should be wronged, but not with complete bullshit. The whole argument assumes that people think little of third‐world countries because they underestimate their land area. If only we used equal‐area maps, the problem would be solved. Except that land area isn’t actually a good basis for “how much people should care about a place”. Bangladesh has a sixtieth of the Sahara’s land area. Is it sixty times less notable? I think not. Maybe we should replace all Mercator maps with cartograms scaled by population, or GDP, or military spending, or production of mangoes.
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Dec 3, 2016 23:09
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