politically-loaded maps: sputtering flemishly

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Letmebefrank: Oct 9, 2012; Entitled

cebrail posted:

They didn't just simplify them, they hosed them up. They could have divided them into Lutheran, Reformed/Calvinist, Baptist and Anglican, or they could have called them all Protestant, but what they did is calling the same denomination Lutheran in America and Protestant in Europe, while also using Protestant in other parts of North America. It doesn't make any sense at all.

European Protestants are just crypto-Papists anyhow. REAL Protestants moved to America. :911:

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# ¿ Oct 22, 2014 21:18

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Fabulous Knight posted:

Finland, proud Western European country represent.

Maps like this tend to over-represent areas with low population - that north Finnish area has total population of a Helsinki suburb.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2014 22:28

Letmebefrank: Oct 9, 2012; Entitled

Exactly what you expect it to be

# ¿ Nov 3, 2014 23:30

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SgmFa0r04

Controversiality depends on viewer though.

Letmebefrank fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Nov 20, 2014

# ¿ Nov 20, 2014 10:57

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Koramei posted:

there was an A/T thread from someone who worked in Antarctica a couple of years ago (edit: wow beaten, i'm very good at reading apparently) and I'm pretty sure he said people, at least in western stations, aren't allowed to stay there year-round for mental health reasons. But I might be misremembering.

My ex-wife tells a story that she talked with an old ATV driver in Novolazarevskaya Station who has been there since the USSR broke down. Summers and winters. Said that he had no family in Russia, and the quality of life seems to be superior. After checking the RUSSIA.JPG thread, he might have had a point there.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2014 20:13

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Deltasquid posted:

EDIT: on the subject of driving left:

Why is Surinam driving on the left side of the road? I thought they would follow the Dutch on this one.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2015 11:36

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# ¿ Feb 16, 2015 20:36

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ErIog posted:

I cheated, but there's still some chance I'm not correct:
Reporters Without Borders 2014 Press Freedom Rankings

Yep.. Perhaps too easy.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2015 08:57

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SaltyJesus posted:

It's cool how you can see some of the major rivers/valleys. The Po Valley is clear as day.

(work rant warning)

Also, Po Valley is a really nice bowl collecting all emissions. Add frequent atmospheric capping inversions, and you have one of the most polluted regions in Europe.
PM2.5 is not so well captured by satellite products, but the results are quite indicative of the overall levels. One of the main differences between US and EU levels is the wind direction in respect to the pollution source regions: In US the pollution corridor is NS (East Coast), which means that the dominating winds are blowing perpendicular to the emission regions - i.e. most incoming air is relatively clean. In EU instead, the cross-border pollution transfer is a major component, and the local particulate emissions are added to the crap accumulated in more West parts of the subcontinent. Aging of pollution makes also more particulate pollution - e.g. organics change from gas phase to particulate when oxidizing.

This has some interesting policy implications, as e.g. Netherlands own emissions mostly affect the Northern Germany downwind, and their air quality problems are mostly caused by UK and France. Thus when the EU requires the communities to control their air quality issues, the solutions need a little more complex negotiations than in some other places.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 10:08

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Political, as all air quality issues in China are political.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2015 20:11

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Mind map is a map?

I tried to make some sense on who is bombing who now.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2015 12:02

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C.M. Kruger posted:

Suggestions:
Terrorism might need to be a both-ways arrow for the Kurds and Turkey.
A "opposed" or "foes" line between Iran and the Saudis.
Connections for the Saudi entanglement in Yemen.
Connections for Jordan, Israel and Lebanon/Hezbollah. Possibly also African connections such as Libya, Egypt and Sudan.

Some additions and changes based on comments:

-Israel would mess up everything by adding those magenta lines everywhere.
-Yemen and palestinians will mess up the picture as well, leaving them out
-Russia has actually bombed ISIS now and then , so no question mark there
-I have no clue of relationship between Iraq and Assad
-Is Turkey bombing ISIS at all?

Done with CMaptools, so I can give the file if someone is interested to edit their views.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2015 09:04

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Undead Hippo posted:

It would be a lot cleaner with a key, rather than labels on all the coloured lines.

Something like this http://i.imgur.com/ggkVIuM.png ?

# ¿ Oct 16, 2015 11:14

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A Buttery Pastry posted:

The politically loaded part is that Turkey is labeled Turks.

To be consistent with the Kurds as their claims overlap?

:can:

# ¿ Oct 16, 2015 15:20

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kalstrams posted:

That map is about happiness, from U.N. World Happiness Report.

They have some awesome chart axes:

# ¿ Feb 7, 2016 12:22

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bagual posted:

don't remember seeing this one here so here it goes

What is the deal with Venezuela and Colombia in the Caribics? They seem to extend way beyond other players in the area. Bigger claims?

# ¿ Jun 9, 2016 08:50

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DarkCrawler posted:

Jesus what is the average San Fransisco salary? Does it literally have no poor people in it?

Last time I visited SF at least the Tenderloin district did not seem to attract the wealthiest. However, many of them most likely did not exactly pay rent as they did seem to live on the street.

(2000+ USD in there? I did not even dare to walk there in daytime)

# ¿ Feb 9, 2017 14:46

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Platystemon posted:

There are embassy guards in almost every country.

Missing Diego Garcia garrison?

# ¿ Feb 25, 2017 10:38

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An old globe at workplace. Soviet Union, etc.

The existence of German (?) Lutto republic from Bavaria to Sk�ne was unknown history to me.
Capital: K��pberliini

# ¿ Oct 3, 2017 14:02

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# ¿ Feb 6, 2018 17:33

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vyelkin posted:

Nope. Stockholm, Kiev, Sofia, Baku are all yellow capitals. Probably others as well. Meanwhile Barcelona and Frankfurt are red non-capitals. Probably others as well.

It is from Egyptair inflight magazine, so probably has something to do with theirs/partners destinations or seasonal/allyear routes?

# ¿ Feb 6, 2018 18:33

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Kanine posted:

(but with more autonomous regions for colonized and oppressed groups)

Federal Safe Zone for Middle Aged Republicans?

# ¿ Feb 9, 2018 18:30

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System Metternich posted:

I couldn't find any sign that the project was founded by anyone else besides the EU, but I wouldn't exclude it either

Usually this is even more complicated, as due to some political machinations EU can not fund Swiss research, at least via thei main science programme H2020. Instead Swiss apply EU money as an EU institution, but are actually paid by Swiss goverment with equal funds. Complicated system to keep up appearances.

# ¿ May 11, 2018 22:57

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Place names (inc. lakes, ponds, etc) with the word "paska" (="poo poo") in Finland.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2019 20:20

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Cracker King posted:

I’m curious to see this overlaid with cannibus consumption data.

Is this cultural preference Or is this more - drug enforcement is more strict in other countries?

This is probably waste water derived statistic, so at least methodologically independent of drug laws. Unless you mean cultural effect from said laws?

# ¿ Apr 11, 2021 16:51

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TinTower posted:

It's one of those "acceptable cheats" that I love about religious rulings, like every city large enough having an eruv.

I always wondered why they don't just make a mini 1m2 Eruv and claim inside it "outside" - making the whole rest of the planet "home". Would fit some stories from Jewish religious law interpretations.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2021 16:55

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Jasper Tin Neck posted:

Another map in which Portugal is an honorary East European country.

Unsurprising that Walloon Belgium is "unavailable". It is too bad that there were no dash cams when I lived in Aachen, because the red-plated visitors would have been enough for a whole YouTube channel.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2021 11:28

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Edgar Allen Ho posted:

my slavic experience is everyone chain smokes and slams vodka shots at dinner, but somehow have iron livers and steel lungs.

Well, there IS a clear evolutionary pressure to withstand those poisons.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2021 17:00

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https://twitter.com/IlyaYashin/status/1439883299283951619?s=20

Somehow the vote tallying took ages, and the results seem to have slightly changed in Russian election results in Moscow when the completely trustworthy electronic votes were finally included.

Blue is Putin gang.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2021 15:36

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AD2300 used that "projection" in all their worldmaps..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2300_AD

# ¿ Sep 27, 2021 20:10

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Kamrat posted:

I was reading about mutual intelligibility and found this map here:

As I understand it the regional dialects of Switzerland is harder for speakers of regular German to understand even though they learn standard German in school, so I feel the map should maybe account for that as well as Austrian German being different, I'm not sure how different it is but I feel it's different enough to be accounted for, especially since Norwegian is counted as two languages even though Nynorsk and Bokm�l are just two different writing standards, not different languages. I'm pretty sure there's more errors in this map but those are just the ones that stand out for me.

Also �land, Gotland and Bornholm are gone in this map for some reason.

Fake edit: I just realized Stockholm is missing in this map as well, seems like the Baltic sea have completely submerged it, to be honest I feel it's an improvement but still.

I refuse to believe that Danish is intelligible to anyone outside of Denmark. Perhaps Sk�ne. (insert kamel�sa video here).

Losing �land would be a problem, as we get our potato chips from there.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2021 09:19

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Antigravitas posted:

The anti-fascist protection wall was first confusing, but then I realized it was intended to keep the saxons IN.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2021 20:15

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Debate & Discussion > politically-loaded maps: Outside New York, which is basically Minsk

# ¿ Dec 10, 2021 20:17

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Guavanaut posted:

Long live French Tannu Tuva!

# ¿ Feb 28, 2022 15:18

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Tei posted:

The label say "or Spanish" but Spanish appears multiple times.

At least Chilean Spanish is to my understanding accurate. Bit like relationship of rural Irish English

https://youtu.be/pit0OkNp7s8

to Received Pronunciation

https://youtu.be/Z8uW15pmF68

But that info is from an argentine friend of mine..

# ¿ Jun 26, 2022 14:33

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Jasper Tin Neck posted:

I guess this passes for a map.

This is just a matter of marketing, I am sure. Who would not love these culinary delights?

Chopped vegatables boiled in milk

Sweetened potatoes in unrecognisable form

Mystery meat boiled (with carrots and potatoes)

Peas every Thursday

and for dessert

Leftovers from beer making, served with cream and sugar

:shrug:

# ¿ Jul 1, 2022 08:56

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Platystemon posted:

We had head of police drug squad of the capital city as a literal organised crime boss, importing drugs and framing others for it. Also, perhaps murder. And Finland is on the bottom (real countries) of that list? What is happening in other places?

# ¿ Jul 19, 2022 08:19

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Edgar Allen Ho posted:

If you're used to the US then you should be exercising extra caution in places like Paris cuz you're way more likely to encounter scammers, pickpockets, maybe even get mugged as a tourist. Than as a US american walking around the US.

American? Walking? In US?

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# ¿ Sep 22, 2022 19:07

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