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It’s predicted that by 2025 we will reach 175 zettabytes of data created worldwide. For reference, one zettabyte stores as much information as 33 million human brains. Seeing such a figure, it can be hard to wrap around our heads just how much data is available to us, let alone be able to scratch its surface. 

That’s why the creator of the Instagram account “We Have The Data” does their best to find and share data visualizations that present big amounts of information in an easy-to-understand and aesthetically pleasing way. Scroll down to find their best posts and make sure to upvote the ones that you find the most enlightening. 

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matt_gray_ Report

Glix Drap
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I write six word sentences. Unfortunately my maths is poor.

redanteater
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The long sentence is a run-on.

geezeronthehill
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A run-on sentence is not automatically a bad thing.

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Bryan Wright
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unfortunately I don't have the patience to write correctly. I am also not a doctor because I haven't any patience.

EJN
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1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never start a new sentence using the word BUT! Use HOWEVER if you are starting a new sentence. BUT is used only to link clauses in one sentence.

geezeronthehill
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree. I used similar techniques to write work instructions that the factory production folks could retain. The engineers I worked with would write stuff that would put you to sleep.

Lord of the laserprinter.
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a classically trained typesetter I cringe at this offering.

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    wehavethedata Report

    Traveling Lady Railfan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Humans have a lot they could learn from wolves.

    Rabbit Lord
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm pretty sure that at least male human beings are able to p**s on trees. But I don't think this helps in keeping borders up...?

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    Glix Drap
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gang territories in an urban connurbation?

    Zaach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Farley Mowat set up camp to watch wolves in the wild - he pee-ed all around his tent to mark his territory and the wolves respected his markings but he later realized that he had set up his camp on the wolves' trail to water - yet they politely walked around his camp

    James
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah…open borders is a stupid concept.

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    artisanrocky Report

    Traveling Lady Railfan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a dear friend who turned 100 this year and imagine how much the world has changed for her, during her lifetime! (PS...hi Noelene!!)

    Megan Fair
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hi Noelene!! Happy late birthday!!!

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    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Two World Wars vastly accelerated the technological push for flight and then for rocket use. Sadly we seem to innovate best for violent uses..

    Bob Brooce
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And porn. Don't forget how much porn has done for certain tech sectors. Of course they're two sides of the same human coin. War and sex are two of our most favorite and successful interests.

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    Christian Golden
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a time when Orville Wright and Neil Armstrong were both alive. And living an hour's drive apart in Ohio.

    Zaach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My great grandma lived to 102; she arrived in Montana in a covered wagon and cheered when the US landed on the moon

    Son of Philosoraptor
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandmother (of sainted memory) was born in the 1890s where they used horse carts in her town. She took jets to visit us later in life. Lived to be 94!

    Phantom Phoenix
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In only the last 50 years, the global human population has doubled!

    Richienotsorich
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And therein lies the biggest problem for the future of our planet...overpopulation. it could be 8.5b people by the end of the decade.

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    Ludwig Michiel
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These photos are in fact taken 69 years apart instead of 66: the right photo shows John Young during the Apollo 16 mission in April '72.

    Yoshi Pham
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hello Ludwig Michiel You are RIGHT with these 2 photos, however, you are WRONG with these 2 EVENTS. Because, the person who posted these 2 photos wanted to say: The INVENTION of AIR PLANE and the FIRST MAN landed on the MOON are 66 years apart. The first man landed on the Moon was the year 1969, not 1972 as you said.

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    Jane Hower
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandmother was courted by grandpa in a horse and buggy, and she watched the moon landing on TV. Talk about seeing the world change!!!! omg

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    In the last eleven years, the generated volume of data grew by almost 5000% worldwide. And if someone would download all the information from the web today, it would take approximately 181 million years.

    Despite these numbers being quite substantial, only 10% of the data we have today is original. The rest is copied and replicated. In fact, it’s predicted that the unique and copied information ratio will change from 1:9 to 1:10 by the end of 2024.

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    #4

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    historyinmemes Report

    Cyril Sneer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For clarity, this is a warning system that raises an alarm so that extra samples are taken and analysed in a lab (this is in addition to regular samples that are tested frequently, regardless of the sentinel clams). The fate of the Polish water supply is not dictated solely by all powerful clams.

    axle f
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unfortunately. Because that would be awfully cool, honestly. 🤷

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    Robert T
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why is there no water today? The pipes are all clammed up. ;-)

    Irishwoman abroad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they get a bit hot and bothered, I wonder if they get all clammy?

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    Glix Drap
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you ask them any awkward questions about this then they just clam up.

    cerinamroth
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if they might have shed some light on the mass fish die-off that happened on the German-Polish border recently.

    Cathy Carey
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Really? Surely there are other reasons that a clam closes.

    Ece Cenker
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where I live the clams would clam up AND wear hasmat suits!

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    AlecStapp Report

    Janissary35680
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People who romanticize the past should be required to watch the complete series of "Horrible Histories".

    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People who romanticise the past should be forced to live like it for 6 months. Good luck chewing strips of willow bark against that toothache.

    Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I expect the US version to be the opposite, since the folks in charge seem overly concerned about women having babies.

    Regina Holt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here in 'murica, the lack of "permission" to have an abortion when there are major heath issues and dangers to the woman's health and life, this number is going up.

    Kristiina
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What happened in 1940? It went down quite rapidly after that.

    Emma S
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    War forced the UK Government to invest in the health of citizens. The Beveridge Report in 1942 led to the NHS being launched in 1948. Sadly there are people in Government now who would gladly see us go back to a time when only rich people could access healthcare.

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    Tams21
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Careful, the "I did(n't) have X but I turned out fine" crowd are going to be upset.

    ॐBoyGanesh
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always ask them about the viruses they had when they were young. Specifically super virus. I ask about antibiotics, triclosan, how many cars were on the road & guns I’m the schools. How many stalkers were using the internet & social media to find their victims. I ask a lot of questions they’ve been too myopic in their thinking to consider. I have a lot of questions about all of their “X” data.

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    Cathy Carey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All because we started washing our hands (it had something to do with it). The discovery of germ really started impacting us in the mid to late 1900.

    CrazyKnitter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Vintage style, not vintage values

    StarCrossedFriday
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you, Ignaz Semmelweis. On behalf of humanity, I’m so sorry.

    Bryan Wright
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People who romanticize the past should take off their rosy coloured spectacles more often.

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    #6

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    Rainmaker1973 Report

    Diolla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah, that's why my eyes water when they inject anestaetic for my front tooth.

    Laura
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that's why when you suffer from migraines your have toothache too. Delightful!

    Julie S
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to wait 6 months for some dental work and I was in so much pain I started to think I had a brain tumour.

    UKDeek
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why trigeminal neuralgia is a really fun condition to suffer from! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigeminal_neuralgia

    Lauren Carpenter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can literally feel my face swelling up due to a chronic tooth infection... gotta love the American healthcare system and not having an extra $1000 to ya know not be in agony.

    Blue Bunny of Happiness
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m sorry you’re in so much pain. Is there any way you can at least get antibiotics? Dental infections can quickly travel to the brain and heart. I hope you can get some relief soon x

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    Edith
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is very good material for scarry movies .. or nightmares..

    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, it's scarred me for life.

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    pmc Courtney
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have trigeminal neuralgia for 35 years now on both sides of my face. it is deliberating. can't go out of my house if there is wind, or cold. not enough research , since they are not enough people suffering from it.

    Janice Sanz
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And why stabbing pains in the head are so annoying.

    ronniebeaton00
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahhh, so *this* is why my nose itches when I brush my teeth.

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    Internet users spent around 2.8 million years online in 2018, generating more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day. This number just keeps growing, as it was found that in 2020, internauts created 1.7 megabytes of information every second, totaling 40 zettabytes that year.

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    wehavethedata Report

    TMTMTMTM
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    O.K., Habsburgs, stop laughing.

    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now take a moment to ask how many of those are different, unique individuals. Depending to a degree on population density there's a mathematical certainty that some of your ancestors appear multiple times on your family tree, so the total number could be very much lower than that. The smaller the population (think historically isolated tribes) the more the chance that e.g. your great uncle is also your grandfather, as well as your second cousin and various other blood relationships.

    Frank
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These numbers are the maximum. The real numbers are lower and in many cases much lower, as people tend to marry in their communities and thus some family members will appear in more than one branch. Also, purely mathematically, add a few generations and you'll have more family members than people lived at that time. After all, "humans" come from a very small initial group (like all animal types) and at some time - after some time of expansion - only a few hundred survived a crisis and started again.

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    2 parents, 2 grandparents, 2 great-grandparents......

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    John L
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Excellent, so I can say screw you to over 4000 of my ancestors, by not having children. Nice!

    Jason Boyd
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, but Cleopatra's doesn't look like this - she only had two great great great grandparents and a sum total of 11 antecedents instead of 32+16+8+4+2 (62). She was seriously inbred and all the talk of her being beautiful was propaganda. Smart lady though...

    Vinnie
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She was brilliant, including with showmanship. Rolled into a carpet and laid at Caesar's feet - that's an entrance!

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    arthbach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The logic behind the maths is incorrect. It is estimated there have 117 billion people have ever lived. Using this logic, in 37 generations, there would have been 137,438,953,472, or 137 billion, ancestors. If 12 generations encompasses 400 years, 37 generations would be 1,234 years, and it would only take us to 790CE. We know human beings existed before 790! The only conclusion is people can appear multiple times in a person's person genealogy.

    Justin Tyme
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But if your family tree doesn't fork you might be a redneck.

    Bryan Wright
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just think of all the missed birthday presents that you never received.

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    MadelnCanada Report

    Traveling Lady Railfan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh. As a Canadian and a railfan....I just shake my head. They've been talking of plans to do something about this longer than Ive been dlive.

    Julie S
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG I am laughing my head off because there is a Chatham-kent in Canada. I live in Kent UK quite near Chatham and it is a shíthole. I hope the place in Canada is nicer.

    Traveling Lady Railfan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chatham Kent is not a bad area to live in it's one of the most southern spots in all of canada, it's fantastic growing land, and a lot of our agriculture comes from there...(when we're not paving over farmland for more homes/shopping malls)

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    Otto Katz
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe because the population is so dense there, there isn't room for a train track to fit through there?

    Traveling Lady Railfan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I understand what you're saying and your point has validity, but that's not really the case here. The corridors that used to have train tracks three, four, five, six tracks wide in many places, is still there, and most of the track has been pulled out. If existing land corridors and right of ways were utilized, that wouldn't be a problem. But to have to redesign entire cities, to accommodate a transit system, yes that would be economically unfeasible. Doesn't matter... It's nothing that any of us can do anything about.

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    Bryan Wright
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You just have to look at the mess the UK has made of railways to see that you got off pretty lightly.

    EJN
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Go ahead Canada and be brave. Put in a high-speed line before the US does.

    Jnausicaa
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Meanwhile a Shinkansen line in Japan is celebrating 60 years this year.

    BrunoVI
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    1 year ago (edited)

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    Trains are 19th-century technology. Except for massively heavy freight, pneumatic tires are better technology. The U.S., constantly criticized for a lack of trains actually has an amazingly extensive freight rail system... but it's too slow to meet people's desires. Rather than a single train, making slow, expensive stops the entire way, an entire fleet of busses can be dispatched along express routes. The only knock is that busses are less comfortable because you have to remain seated. Of course, pneumatic tires are very a century ago, also.... flying kicks a*s.

    WindySwede
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If an electric train, with good electricity production. Then the train is always better than car regarding CO2. Much bevause of really low rolling resistance steel wheels agains smooth tracks. Not my dv.

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    "The journey of an Arctic Fox who walked from Norway to Canada in 2018"

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! That's one far-flung fox.

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    How do we do it? Well, WhatsApp users alone exchange more than 65 billion messages and complete 55 million video calls daily. The app allows more than 1 billion groups to connect and interact with each other, generating large amounts of data. 

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    #10

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    Rainmaker1973 Report

    Brian Droste
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To me thst looks like a field of grass or weeds.

    Dawn Marie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it me, or does that look like a bunch of sp*rm?

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A bunch? The group noun for sperm is a swallow. Trust me 😉

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    Mimi La Souris
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Almost as many brain cells as galaxies in the universe"

    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What an odd thing to compare it with.

    JuniorCJ82
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not what that looks like...

    Ece Cenker
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By these calculations and how my memory functions, I must be carrying something else in my skull.

    JM
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are these axons and dendrites?

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    JamesLucasIT Report

    Lyone Fein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Global trade goes back a long way.

    30ninjazinmybag
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not just trade, also taking control and invading countries.

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    Någon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They even avoided Russia back then😆

    Alex Kennedy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why so many in southern India, but not in the pathway between Rome and India?

    Feral Raccoon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    because of shipping routes through water ?? just guessing

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    Say No to Downvoting
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More concentrated in other places than in actual Rome.

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    amazingmap Report

    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There were other inter-connected networks by that time, going by various names and using various networking protocols, in Europe as well as the USA. That one is thought of as the precursor to the internet just by virtue of the way it set many ground rules for what would become TCP/IP, the backbone of the very much later World Wide Web..

    arthbach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ace, yes. An example being that packet switching was developed in the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. There was an intranet running there, but the first remote login was in 1969 when a login attempt was made from the University of California to a computer at the Stamford Research Institute.

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    Bob Brooce
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This map *is* a very early map of DARPAnet, showing the first 4 locations.

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    According to 2023 statistics, Facebook produces 4,000 terabytes each day and ranks as the most visited site worldwide. Meanwhile, X accumulates 500 million posts daily, totaling 560 gigabytes of information. And the young people’s favorite app, TikTok, averages 7.35 terabytes of data each day. 

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    wehavethedata Report

    Janissary35680
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Example of what's called "environmental determinism".

    Diolla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oooh I want to see more like this. So interesting!

    Tara Zee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fertile soil is a result of cretaceous sediment. The fertile soil was perfect for farming but Africa slave labor was needed. After slavery was abolished, the African descendants stayed in the area and are now in areas that predominantly vote democratic (Blue for Biden in 2020).

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    Cathy Carey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And what do we do with this information?

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    tanayj Report

    JK
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wight is effected by the density of ingredients. For example, a place where I worked had a cafeteria that based the price of a salad on size of the bowl instead of weight. So I would pack in all of the heavy ingredients and then use them over the weekend for other dishes. It was cheaper than going to the grocery store.

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    JK, True, but I think the point here is ordering the same item from a chain restaurant should be a fairly consistent weight since the ingredients would presumably be the same and the packaging (bowl size) would presumably be the same. Small deviations are understandable but roughly 14-27 ounces / low-high is quite a swing.

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    Lauren Carpenter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did he try and give the workers, "the look"?

    Oerff On Tour
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the "suggested" tips are the exact opposite. The less the workers are allowed to put in the bowl by management, the higher the tip demanded. Most likely they also make use of unmanned self-checkout terminals with standard 20% tipping (and you have to work through 5 pages to lower the rate)

    ZuriLovesYou
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where'd they get the money for all that?!

    Jason Boyd
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Typical Wells Fargo graph - lets cut the y-axis in half to make this look impressive!

    Geoffrey Scott
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, rather than attempting to reduce fees and interest rates to benefit customers/borrowers, THIS is what passes for productivity.

    Bob Brooce
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So you're saying you don't have the first clue about business and finance?

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    Noahpinion Report

    TribbleThinking
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is the photo taken at an odd angle, or is it really that vertiginous? I ask because it should take an incredible amount of force and reinforcement to anchor those structures into even a rocky hillside, let alone a soft one.

    Bewitched One
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uhmmmm no thank you

    Bewitched One
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m just scared of heights and an introvert. No houses that high or close to other people for me! Thankfully

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    Julia Ford
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What are the homes anchored to?

    Glix Drap
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remove the key one at the bottom and the rest will fall.

    axle f
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...that would be dangerous and unpleasant as hell. But you'd never be bored or disinterested...

    Zaach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was riding on the subway in Buenos Aires when I raised my hands to stretch, the car loaded and it was so crowded that I could not lower my arms for about 4 stops

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The internet tells me this is Petare, Venezuela. On Google maps, I can't find this exact spot, unless maybe if this photographer used angle/lens to make it look steeper than it is. But you can see several places where the general density of shack roofs touching shack roofs is about the same. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Petare,+Caracas

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    Before most of this information is stored away, it’s converted into numbers 1 and 0. When it’s changed into symbols that computers can process quicker, it can be stored away in one of three locations. First are devices that can be linked to the internet, like our personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and other similar technologies

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    #16

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    "The Amazon River and its tributaries"

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    dev mehta
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Amazon-com seems to have similar reach

    Brian Droste
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know if a body remembers this but when Amazon first started out, they had a commercial. They were showing different bulldings or areas saying is this place big enough? No. Is this place or area big enough? No. They did this like 3 to 5 times, finally they settled on Amazon forest. They said yes. That is why I believe it is called Amazon.

    axle f
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yabbut what about the mighty AuSable? Hmm?

    #17

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    WarMonitors Report

    Slapdash1
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I find it crazy that in 2024 around 20% of people in russia have no indoor plumbing

    MaximumKarmaSaint
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or that in 2024 people can see this image and still believe the moon landing was faked.

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    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's true colour. The sky is yellow because the clouds are concentrated sulphuric acid. When it rains on Venus it rains sulphuric acid, but the lower atmosphere is so hot that the acid evaporates miles above the surface so never touches the ground.

    Johnny McFearless
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The landscape looks like a Sylvia Plath poem.

    Diolla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uhm wasn't that pic taken somewhere in 2023? The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. So not the Soviets then.

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, it was the Soviets. That picture was taken by the Soviet Venus probe, Venera 14, in March, 1982. Venera 14 was the last space craft to enter the Venusian atmosphere and take photographs from the surface. Every spacecraft to visit Venus since then have been orbiters, either studying Venus from orbit or using its gravitational pull to 'slingshot' the craft onto a new trajectory to other planets or most recently to the Sun (NASA's Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter). So there hasn't been any opportunities to take photos from the surface since 1982.

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    EJN
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not prime real estate.

    pebs
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And not just images, but sounds too! Amazing.

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    #18

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    scienceisstrat1 Report

    Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why politicians should not be allowed to benefit from their decisions - being a landlord or owning company shares should bar you from public office. In Plato's republic, the lawmakers were the wisest people motivated by wanting to build a great society for all. Their needs were all met by the state, but they owned no private property.

    arthbach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Medium density housing is fantastic. We don't all need, nor want to have a house on a quarter of an acre of land. It is also crazy to segregate residential and business zone. People don't want a steel mill two streets away, but a little bakery within 5 minutes walk, or doctors, dentists, vets, hair dressers, small supermarkets, pharmacies, etc, these are really useful things to have within a short distance from home.

    SlothyK8
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...and it's such an awesome city, too!

    Kerry Fletcher
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Toronto we do nothing about it, add more people and homes are millions of dollars

    Leg less In Minneapolis
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live in MN, it is STIL beyond expensive to rent here. Just not as bad as other states Un

    axle f
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...those damn progressives be all smart and right all over the place again.

    ronniebeaton00
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here in the UK, there's a lot of blather about "affordable housing". And I always wonder, "affordable" to who?

    AR
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh lovely, my city has the highest median rent increase. Ugh.

    Full of Giggles
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We’ve done the same here in Tempe, Arizona but with the opposite effect. The rent rates are so high that some students at the local university are homeless because they can’t afford a place to live.

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    The second is called the edge, which already includes bigger infrastructures like cell towers and servers used in institutions like universities, government offices, factories, and banks. The third location that stores the most amount of data is known as the core, which are traditional data servers and cloud data centers.

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    #19

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    "Uptown, midtown, downtown of Toronto"

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    Traveling Lady Railfan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was astounded to see photos of "the great metropolitan Toronto" from the late 70s/early 80s. Aside from the CN tower (1976) it doesn't even LOOK like Toronto!

    Bryan Wright
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still a lot of greenery on display.

    Elladine DesIsles
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can almost see my house in here... strictly speaking, I can see the condo and office towers near the 3-story Victorian I live in.

    Kerry Fletcher
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Condos and construction. Everything in this picture costs too much. Who has 2m for a home built in 1967 that has not been renovated

    dev mehta
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those are probably Toronto suburbs

    Elladine DesIsles
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing in this photo is suburban. There are actually a lot more trees in the older urban neighbourhoods than there are in the new suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area. This is a city of ravines, with a lot of parks.

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    Mimi La Souris
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    a reason for such a distance between ?

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    Mimi La Souris
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🕯 for people, from all countries, who have lost their homes or worse

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As an amateur astronomer, it's pictures like these that show just how big a problem there is with light pollution.

    geezeronthehill
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess the candles I had lit don't show.

    #21

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    Jason Boyd
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What bothers me is the research that says believers think that you must believe in god to be a moral person. Without being watched by some uber-dad, you would naturally do horrible things to people. That insight into how religious people think explains a lot of the atrocities conducted in the name of god.

    Vivi Pettiss
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not to mention, if a god exists and is behind all the bad things that happen, supporting it just because it's more powerful than you is a cowardly and immoral thing to do.

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    CrunChewy McSandybutt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We were founded by Puritans and never really got over it.

    The Shark
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dang. Even the Vatican is in the yellow.

    Rinso The Red
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let's hear it for New England. I have many reasons to love living here, now I have another.

    Helena
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would really like to move. Do you have any areas youd recommend?

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    Oerff On Tour
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the Netherlands, the percentage of people who are part of ANY religious organization, has officially dropped below 40. That includes ALL religions, not just Christianity.

    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And yet I doubt that rates of murder, rape or assault are much higher in Europe (per capita) than in the USA.

    Carrie Laughs
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    United States has a higher homicide rate than Europe as a whole. The overall homicide rate in Europe dropped from 7.8 per 100,000 people in 2000 to 2.4 per 100,000 people in 2020. The US homicide rate was 10.5-7.9 per 100,000 population. Rapes and assaults are more difficult to compare due to differing views on what constitutes rape (19 out of 31 European countries now have laws that define rape based on the absence of consent). However, US crime rates for the three violent crimes homicide, rape, robbery were several times higher than the averages for reporting European countries.

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    Wang Zhuang
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Interesting that in the so-called Bible belt of the US (the blue part), the top percentage was only 82 percent.

    BarfyCat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm an atheist and I live in the blue part. Maybe I'm not as alone as I thought? 🤷‍♀️

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    Geoffrey Scott
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Odd that Italy, current Capital of Christianity..

    Michael MacKinnon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...Odder that the Vatican City gets the same colour.

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    Yoshi Pham
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about the others part of the World, such as Asia, Africa, South America and Australia???

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    The largest data center in the world belongs to China Telecom Data Centre, in Hohhot. It occupies 10.7 million square feet, equivalent to about 180 football fields. When we say that we store information in the cloud, it’s not being stashed away somewhere in the atmosphere. It’s being kept in massive data centers—physical objects that actually take up quite a lot of space on our planet. 

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    #22

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    BrilliantMaps Report

    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did we really need the translation?

    Traveling Lady Railfan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Football" and "pitch" are two words that never are together in most of North America, so we appreciate the translation of "soccer field"

    Ivo H
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Far too many if you ask me. In Czechia, for example, there is football pitch in every little village and it's often the ONLY bit of entertainment in many km radius. I just cannot see any reason why the football pitches should be literally everywhere.

    Diolla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What? Only one per village? We have at least two because you need enemies.

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    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's 'football' Other games are called - Rugby Football and American Football. The game existed for centuries before any associations so it's not 'soccer'

    Julie S
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Germany is a tiny bit obsessed

    Bryan Wright
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't understand why Americans just call football ( as just about everyone else in the world does) rather than soccer. American football is more like rugby, with ridiculous padding, than actual football. Why they need to re-name everything to suit themselves is one of life's great mysteries.

    Ansi
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where I love there's a soccer field at most schools. The kids play it during recess. So this map make sense.

    Crouching hippo hidden panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Since when are the alps coated in football pitches? Or the appenines? I’m gonna take this one with a huge pinch of salt

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do the Alps and Apennines have alpine villages? And do the villages have pitches?

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    #23

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    "Tracking of an eagle over a 20 year period"

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    arthbach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eagle thinks, "You know, I've SEEN Africa. I've HEARD it's an interesting place, but I've never actually been there. I'm gonna go!"

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    Anonymous
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Notice how it avoids flying above water at all costs

    Glix Drap
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Clearly not a fan of turkey. Other meats are available.

    Bryan Wright
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Obviously the track of the lesser known roving eagle.

    Abdullah Abd Rahman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes it likes to take the scenic route along the coast of Iran.

    Hellcaste's Wife
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just checkin' things out

    #24

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    waitbutwhy Report

    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks. I've now got "Once in a lifetime" as my earworm for the day. Could be a lot worse.

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    Oerff On Tour
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You should look at Chad. The center is Lake Chad, the rest is a very very wide beach

    martymcmatrix
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    (Once again) my long-retired parents set off there today to visit their favorite pile of ancient rubble...this time is DEFINITELY their last time, they said, just as they did back in 2023...and 2022...🤷🏽......🧓🏽 ♥️ 👴🏽, watch your steps, and please don't feed sugar cubes to the camels again...🐪 🇪🇬 🐫

    Cathy Carey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So Egypt has the whole Nile then? That's odd.

    geezeronthehill
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As the Sahara dried up, all the people moved to the last source of water.

    Son of Philosoraptor
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It only there was a Muslim country with enough room for the Palestinia...

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    #25

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    "The easternmost point of Brazil is closer to Africa than to its westernmost point"

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    Mimi La Souris
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yes, but I have more confidence in my walking skills than swimming

    Thomas Wolf
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the southernmost point of Spain is closer to Africa than to its northernmost point. And the westernmost point of Russia is closer to Poland than to its esternmost point" OMG, that's freaking amazing!

    martymcmatrix
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can spit that far! (German colloquial)...💦 🦙 📏

    arthbach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The northern most point of Brazil is closer to Miami in the USA than it is to Barra de Chui in the south of Brazil. The northern most point is also closer to the capital cities of many other countries than it is to its own capital city. This area extends from Bolivia northward, but not quite reaching to Mexico nor Cuba.

    Zaach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mexico is twice the size of Texas but you would not know that from our maps

    #26

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    MAstronomers Report

    Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What determines where the solar system ends? Is this the radius of where the furthest things can be that orbit our sun? I'm surprised how populated the outer 'skin' looks, or is that just to help us visualise it?

    Michael MacKinnon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's the point at which the gravitational attraction from the sun stops being the force that determines the movement of objects.

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    Troy Guidry
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From Wiki: The heliosphere is the magnetosphere, astrosphere, and outermost atmospheric layer of the Sun. It takes the shape of a vast, tailed bubble-like region of space. In plasma physics terms, it is the cavity formed by the Sun in the surrounding interstellar medium. The "bubble" of the heliosphere is continuously "inflated" by plasma originating from the Sun, known as the solar wind.

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That isn't the heliosphere in the picture, it's the Oort cloud, the 'left-over' material from the formation of the Solar System which extends for up to 2 light years from the Sun.

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    Cyril Sneer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's about a light year in radius, or more than 60,000 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's possible that it extends halfway to our next nearest star, which would give it a radius of 2 light years.

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    Bryan Wright
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that the furthest most edge of the heliosphere?

    Julia Ford
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought there is no edge of the universe. It’s been determined that it’s round?

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. The visible Universe is a sphere because we can see the same distance in all directions, but the overall shape of the entire Universe is most likely saddle-shaped (as incredible as that sounds). The image is just of the debris left over from the creation of our solar system and shows a sphere with a radius of between 1-2 light years, so only halfway to the next nearest star to the Sun. To put it into perspective, the Milky Way galaxy that we sit in is about 105,000 light years wide, and that is just one of anything from 200 billion to 2 trillion (2,000,000,000,000) galaxies, each separated from it's neighbours by hundreds of millions of light years in a visible Universe that is 93,000,000,000 light years in diameter - and that's only the part we can see. The light from anything beyond that hasn't had time to reach us yet.

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    #27

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    "A cool guide showing you the various patterns of black and white or tuxedo cats"

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    Helena
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My overlord is a tabby calico thing

    howdylee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    where do Bouche and Audi and Shyla fit in this graphic?

    Cathy Carey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Manu is a tuxedo. His markings are a star pattern; he has a black star shape covering his nose and it has a tail that goes under his chin. the white "collar" is also in a star shape meeting at the back of his neck - he's extraordinary.

    Golpandoodle
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mask and Mantle looks like a sitting cat on top of other cat.

    Traveling Lady Railfan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    TIL: My one cat Popo is a true "tuxedo", but "Olive" and "Flynn" are harlequins

    Albert Pike
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did they have to flatten them to get the images?

    Ryan Mercer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's more than one way to skin a cat.

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    TIL that splayed cats look like flying foxes.

    MaximumKarmaSaint
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What do you call the ones that have it everywhere but their: Belly, tuft, and paws?

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    #28

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    erikphoel Report

    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is this correlation or causation? People who are able to dance are definitely feeling better than those who are unable (by dint of a depressive illness I mean) Maybe more research is needed??

    Ryan Mercer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, just get of your butt to some groovy beats. You're over thinking it.

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    Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I totally think dancing is good for the soul, but I also love cycling, which came last out of the exercises. A person could incorporate cycling into their daily routine to get them from A to B, but they still might not enjoy it. On the other hand, there is no such thing as utilitarian dancing - the only reason to dance is to dance, so the people who choose this exercise are more likely to enjoy it. That said, all kids like dancing and it's always a shame when you see an adult who had learned to be too self conscious to enjoy it any more.

    Jason Boyd
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Absolutely! Its hard to dance if you're feeling depressed, you have to be a person that gets joy from dancing anyway - its confounding

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    Elladine DesIsles
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In my Indigenous culture, we don't dance for one year while mourning the death of a close family member. After several passings within a short time, I haven't danced in nearly sixteen months - and I missed two whole pow wow seasons. I have two days left until the first anniversary of my grandmother's death (which was just shy of four months after my mother's). I wonder how it will feel to dance again?

    Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m sorry for your losses but I hope you have an absolutely wonderful experience dancing again 🌸

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    Deborah B
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Notice that "Physical Activity Counselling" has very little effect. *Telling* people to exercise/dance doesn't help them significantly. Depression makes it very hard to actually go and do the exercise, even when you know intellectually that it is likely to help. Loss of executive function is a major problem.

    Son of Philosoraptor
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    SSRI saved my life. I have chronic low serotonin. Feels like constant panic attack. Awful. But SSRI = normal serotonin and I'm fully functioning. Mental health is health, people!

    Vinnie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's okay. More room on the dance floor for the whirlwinds.

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    Justin Tyme
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ask your doctor if getting off your lazy åss is right for you.

    Brian Droste
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How long do you have to dance to get the benefit. Is it the length of one song or is it multiple songs?

    Mimi La Souris
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    free, easy to do, for everybody and every bodies !

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LOL at the bottom of the list. Who knew that being on a waitlist or having someone tell you that you should be physically active wouldn't relieve a lot of depression? /S Serious answer though - I'm a little surprised at the difference between dancing and the aerobic choices. Dancing is usually a form of aerobic so I would have expected them to be closer. And people often do aerobic to music. Like Zoomba classes and such.

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    "The numbers 0-99 sorted alphabetically in different languages"

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shows those languages that use the tens+units format, so each ten has the same shaped cluster, vs those that use the units+tens format. (i.e. twenty-one, twenty-two etc. vs one-and-twenty, two-and-twenty...)

    martymcmatrix
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

    martymcmatrix
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Right, these are 99 red balloons...🙋🏽 🇩🇪

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    Sven Horlemann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Should I be proud or worried I am German?

    Dragons Exist
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Numbers in German ("eins zwei drei" instead of "one two three")

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a little misleading, shows the areas where wolves have been reported but doesn't give any true idea of how few there still are in those areas.

    Jrog
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are about 3500 wolves in Italy, about the same number that is estimated was the average before being hunted almost to extinction. The number is limited mostly by the large territory wolves clans claim as semi-exclusive, and the limitation on wild prey availability.

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    Jrog
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wolves were endemic in Italy until the early 1900. Since the middle ages they started to be mercilessly hunted for eradication because they were considered dangerous, despite the danger was mostly to farm animals than to humans. Until 1950 the Italian state paid a bounty on killed wolves, an heritage from a late 1800s practice that was introduced to favor the growth of agricultural economy in the less developed and poorest regions. In the 1800s it is estimated there were about 4000 wolves in the whole Italy. The wolf has been protected, but not actively reintroduced. Just some bare minimum of protection allowed the populations to stabilize and reclaim the woodlands. Some wolves tribes spread from Italy to France (where they were extinct) and even Germany and Spain.

    Slapdash1
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm told that they needed one she-,wolf

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    SCP 4666
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now I'm craving Soylent Green

    Cristi nah
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Idiocracy is our current reality

    Crouching hippo hidden panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So no one can reproduce anymore and we’ve started eating people

    dev mehta
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The '12 Monkeys' scenario seems most likely in near future

    WindySwede
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apart from the time travelling thing? Or where you at Stephen Hawkins time traveller party? 🙃🤓

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why they chose that starting point I don't know, would have expected 1984 to have been included.

    Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess the film didn't do as well as the book so it didn't get included.

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True this, but the difference is that now all the modern music really is c**p. /jk

    KT
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m sure this is the typical truth but I’m 18 and can’t stand most modern music (there are exceptions). The same goes for most people my age that I know. Potentially, modern music really is just rubbish

    Rinso The Red
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think there's something too that. Look at the enormity of the Taylor Swift fanbase. Maybe a part of that is a lack of decent alternatives?

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    howdylee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was born in the 80's but love music from 50's and 60's, because that's what my dad listened to. To be fair, that was really good rock n roll! Making sure my 2010's kids listen to the good stuff too.

    Rabbit Lord
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still found some cool tracks and albums after I turn 35.

    Oerff On Tour
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You know that you're OLD when shops are finally playing good music

    Agfox
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm an outlier, born in the 40's & music from the 80's is my favourite

    Son of Philosoraptor
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    68 to 80... All the classics come from that time. Then they stopped putting LSD in the drinking water and life turned Madonna and Vanilla Ice

    Carrie Laughs
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love a lot of classical music from around 1600/1700s. I must be positively ANCIENT! 😆 Tbh, I didn't much like the music from when I was around 17. Preferred what was popular around 10-30 years later. Stuff today... is very meh.

    Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Part of the problem is a lot of the newer stuff is written by the same people, meaning it all sounds the same regardless of who is singing. That said, there are a few newer things I like. I give it a chance, I don't assume it's all bad until I hear it.

    Rinso The Red
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can blame Autotune and the program Garage Band.

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    Purple light
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm an outlier too, I'm 50 and I love discovering new music on Spotify. (Melodic) Techno is my favourite genre and the musicians are often half my age.

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    "Ugly Gerry" is a font created by gerrymandered congressional districts

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    Mimi La Souris
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    to small, unreadable (even on insta)

    Jason Peugeot
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Google ugly gerry font and go to the Wikipedia entry about it

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    Helena
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is ridiculous that this in anyway legal

    WindySwede
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can you register in an place where there are lots of non-kamala voters perhaps?

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    Lyone Fein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These are all gerrymandered congressional districts: artificially drawn regions patched together in order to create a political majority to elect someone to the United States Congress.

    Regina Holt
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is awesome. I think mine is closest to "N" in shape.

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    Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess this is why the years seem to go faster as you get older. I turned 50 last month and was thinking best case scenario I'm half way through my life, but now I see even if I live to be 100 I'm already nearly dead!

    Jeremy Klaxon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time speeds up because you forget. You forget almost everything you do on a daily basis.

    David
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am retired. Please send me lots of money so I can go do lots of "cool s**t" to slow down time. /J Maybe I should start a self centered gofundme. lol

    Black Cat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Music was better when ugly people were allowed to sing" I think there's some truth in that. These days it's pornographic music videos instead of just the music.

    Slowdown
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree with your point, but not your example. Music doesn't really rely on traditional music videos anymore.

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    Captain McSmoot
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is should be so much higher on the list. (Currently #37)

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    Weasel Wise
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One summer I was visiting Glacier National Park, looking at a mountain and, you guessed it, a glacier. An older woman, there with her teenage children, piped up asking, "What's all that white stuff on the top of the mountain?" To which one of her kids replied, "It's a glacier, Mom." The mom, no joke, retorted, "I don't think so cuz it's summertime and there isn't snow during the summer. I think it's probably a bunch of sheep grouping together to stay warm." Seriously! A grown woman argued that the glaciers in GLACIER National Park, are actually herds of sheep clumped together. 🤦🏾‍♀️🤣🤦🏾‍♀️🤣

    Linus Bourque
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And 20% of that freshwater is in Canada: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-402-x/2011000/chap/env/env-eng.htm

    Pedantic Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And over a fifth of that lake water is in lake Baikal!

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    Marianne
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Berlin...yeah, we just drag that city with us for some reason...

    Papa
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd be curious what it would look like if the US was included. I expect it would be below Berlin on the chart (the number would be higher).

    Thomas Wolf
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm shocked! Isn't Berlin a beautiful, clean, safe and vibrant city full of friendly, caring and hard-working people?

    Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The data would suggest that Germany is the best at generating its wealth across its country, not that Berlin is somehow a poor place. I'm just surprised how low UK/London is on this list because the rest of our country thrives despite our London-centric politics.

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    FreeDragon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Netherlands is not part of Europe now?

    Weasel Wise
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🤦🏾‍♀️ Obviously not all European countries are accounted for. 🤦🏾‍♀️

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    JoNo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn't think there's many, if any, old growth trees in the lighter green middle-of-Australia sections on this map! This makes it look like the arid, desert regions are vastly wooded lol.

    Atom Bohr
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it's still old growth native flora, it still counts, even if the wording is a bit odd

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    Oerff On Tour
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hasn't anyone told the Americans, Trump is NOT recyclable? It should be disposed of as TRASH

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    howdylee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When accounting for VP, yes, and that's pretty scary.

    MoBeLa
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just want one without a tRump on the ticket.

    Weasel Wise
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Clever! I see what you did there and I'm stealing it!

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    Kris Tyler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aha! but when will we have one that isn't a war criminal?

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    Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you want a better look at who lived where, go here--> https://native-land.ca/ . It shows where the native peoples lived. It's mostly North America, but there are some in Africa as well. Edit: They've added the tribes in Australia!!! Those weren't there last time I looked.

    David Paterson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope. There were no "borders". Everything was fluid and varied on a timescale of just a few years.

    Dar Mal
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yep...and then Colonialism, capitalism, and religion destroyed the whole continent!

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    Lyone Fein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the "European" scramble for Africa began when a Greek woman ruled Egypt.

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank god I went to school in the 1900s. I recall having to fill in one of those outline maps where you have to remember the names of the countries. It didn't seem too useful then but doing this version would have been a nightmare. Also, it hasn't been too useful. I've been to Africa twice - Egypt and Kenya. Meanwhile the names of several of the other countries have changed and if I need to know I google

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    Jrog
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Motorcyclists have a chance of accident 30 TIMES higher than car drivers. Chance of injury is on average 4 times higher and chance of death is 28 times higher. A biker is 120 TIMES more likely to get hurt in an accident than a car driver or passenger. Statistically, the biker is overwhelmingly more likely to be at fault, and the most common cause is the aggregated "Driver error" category, that includes distracted and aggressive driving, lane splitting or overtaking where not allowed. 34% of fatalities are from speeding on the biker's part, and 28-40% of accidents depend on the biker being under influence of alcohol. Even in most accidents where the car driver is at fault, there is often a concurrent cause of the biker erratically driving (crossing lanes, zigzagging through traffic) or lack of visibility conditions (no high-viz -and often black- clothing, moving too close to vans and truck blindspots)

    Captain McSmoot
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They call them "donor-cycles" for a reason.

    Rinso The Red
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Learned that from my EMT wife. Enough to keep me away from them

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    Ever
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My cousin had a type of cancer that kept coming back. He beat it for 25 years and lost his son and wife to cancer on the way. Then he decided he was invincible and got a Harley. A truck got him the first summer. RIP.

    Perendinator
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nobody going to comment on the OP's serious lack of basic math skills??? ;)

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    Alex Kennedy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ew, you have to have people within a square kilometre of you, getting all their germs and ideas on you!

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    arthbach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    90% of the population of Canada lives within 100 miles of the Canada/USA border. About 90% of the population lives further south than 90% of the population of the UK. (The latter fact always blows my mind.)

    Elladine DesIsles
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've survived 45 winters in the "red zone." Even in Toronto, that can mean ice storms, snowbanks taller than me, months without clear skies. Now, I love exploring my country - in the spring, summer, and autumn. (Especially heading north in the summer, because the heat and humidity here in the city can be just as bad as the cold.) But I have no desire to spend January anywhere darker, colder or drearier than it can be here, certainly not for more than a week at a time.

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    Tucker Cahooter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry, I'm not driving 2,645km just to have a day at the beach

    arthbach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! The furthest I have lived from the sea was during my childhood, and that was 12.5km. Currently, I live less than 1km away from the sea.

    Dragons Exist
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bouvet Island is the furthest island from any other land

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel like I've been at whatever you call the opposite of that in the ocean. Possibly not literally farthest but I remember one abandon ship drill where they announced the nearest land was 400+ miles in (compass direction). If I'm bobbing around in a navy life raft it might as well be 4 gazillion miles because I can't steer it anyway. Would just be at the mercy of the currents / wind.

    Julie S
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's got to be people living there who have never seen the ocean.

    Oerff On Tour
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chad is the opposite. In the middle, there's Lake Chad. The rest of the country IS the beach

    Liz Reid
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nick and Richard Crane cycled there many years ago.

    Elchinero
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't go to the beach, much

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    ॐBoyGanesh
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was born in blue with one parent born in red but living in & with citizenship in blue, whilst the other parent born in red living in & with citizenship in red. Which is why I have jus soli citizenship/ passport & jus sanguinis citizenship & passport, having lived back & forth between both.

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least for the US it goes a bit farther than that as well. Yes to if born in the US. But also, your parents are married and US citizens and mom gives birth to you in a red country, you are still a US citizen. As long at least one parent is US citizen / lived in US prior to the birth.

    BarfyCat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *crying in American born in Germany* 😭

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    JoNo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eight months: Convict ships from England to Australia when colonisation happened. They really must have thought they were going to the end of the world.

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    JoNo, Oh my. My first navy cruise was 9 months before we got back to the US and that seemed really long. And that was on a modern aircraft carrier and we stopped at several countries along the way. Doing it as a convict on a much smaller sailing ship must have been hell.

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    Strahd Ivarius
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    but you could go around the world in 79 days...

    Regina Holt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But when did Phileas Fogg go around the world in 80 days?

    Oerff On Tour
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing really changed, if you have to rely on public transport and ferries

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    Locati0ns Report

    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is based on where people are resident when they die, not where they lived. The Florida cluster demonstrates how skewed this one is, due to the fact that many people don't move there until their old age.

    Geoffrey Scott
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am from Michigan, tip of the mitt, Traverse Bay and much of the UP. Except for the UP, all "80+" areas have health systems headquarters.

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    Michael MacKinnon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Quite the solid belt of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Must be a bunch of aging country stars in Nashville.

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    Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Harrison Tyler must have a hell of a lot of paternal mutations in his DNA.

    readingthequibbler
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you don't mind me asking, how come? Is it because of the aged his father and grandfather were? Or another reason? *just saw the other post. It's further down, so sorry*

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    Otto Katz
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As of July 3, 2024 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29842/president-john-tylers-grandsons-are-still-aliveall And as of October 1, still alive.

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Strongly implies his forefathers date much younger women.

    Julia Ford
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You don’t hear much about Tyler.

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    Err, yes, and?

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    Jrog
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a compound of the technology maturing far faster than expected with scientific breakthroughs, production cost dropping far quicker than expected from technological improvements and scale economy, and panels outperforming even the best life expectancy estimates by a factor of 5. Countries who invested in solar and wind production have seen the price of energy visibly drop as a result, and being far more stable than any other countries, including those that focused on nuclear energy.

    Otto Katz
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love this chart. We were the first in our town of 60k to put solar on the roof. So new, the newspaper did an article on it!

    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always wondered why people are talking about 'fusion' when all we need to do is 'collect' energy from the fusion of the sun..

    WindySwede
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The worst parts are nights, clouds, and seasonal variations. But with some cheap storage there are potential year around.

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    Ali H M Salehuddin
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As of now, it outpaces the prediction. Most technology adoption trends follow an S curve shape. It will maintain this steep uptrend stage for some foresable future before tapering off soon thereafter.

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    arthbach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let me share the older Welsh way of saying it. 47 is "dau ar pymtheg ar deugain". The word for word translation, left to right is "two on fifteen on two twenties". In modern Welsh, it's a boring "pum deg saith" or "five tens seven". The old way isn't shown above, but the new way is a lovely green.

    cerinamroth
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you! I wish I could speak Welsh. Maybe I should add it to my linguistic arsenal.

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    BarfyCat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So do Georgia and Bhutan produce more mathematicians than the rest of us?

    Julie S
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not sure I would be able to count in some of these countries if I have to do maths just to say a number.

    BarfyCat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can muddle along fairly well in French, but the numbers always stump me, because it requires too much math!

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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The green one is really the same as, or a large overlap with, the orange one, when you consider that in many language that have a word for 'fifty' that word is itself just a small derivation from 'five-tens'.

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    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    COVID and the 'Cost Of Living Crisis' to thank..

    Strahd Ivarius
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    is it because fat people run slower than thin people when there is a mass shooting? /s

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am trying to do my part but sadly I'm failing. :)

    Heras buddy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1400 dollars a month to lose weight. Think I'd rather eat healthier. That's what it would cost me for diabetes.

    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wishful thinking? One year of a slight downward shift does not a trend make.

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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to know how big a drink is. Is it the same as the standard(-ish) 'unit of alcohol' commonly used by governments telling us how much we should (or should not) drink?

    JB
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think any way you slice it, ten drinks a day is too many! (Also it's usually one ounce)

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    howdylee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This should give some clarity for the post from a week ago that I called for some ground rules regarding UK vs USA drinking challenge. Please do this stat for the UK!

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    Mimi La Souris
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    when you have good food and good company, you take your time :)

    Ellinor
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    2 hours in France does not take account the family meals or the meals at the restaurant, that's for sure !

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How man of those are part of a venn diagram? When I am eating I am usually also watching a show or playing a game. I enjoy a good "let's all sit down at the table and eat together" but I rarely experience it these days. It got me wondering about other countries and whether it is common to multitask in daily food intake or 'just eat'

    Regina Holt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes! David. I am either watching TV or reading while I'm eating. So that lengthens the time it takes me to finish a meal.

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    Weasel Wise
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From Nevada, lived all over the west coast, and I use y'all all the time.

    readingthequibbler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was born in Michigan, moved to Georgia at 11. I find myself going between 'You Guys' and 'Y'all' based on who I'm talking to. Especially notice it when I'm at work (retail) and am talking to customers.

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    Papa
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was once asked by someone "What's the plural of y'all?" I replied "All of y'all."

    Phobrek
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm in Massachusetts but use y'all. Gender non-specific FTW!

    Regina Holt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do the same thing. Sometimes you can't tell the gender just by looking at someone, so y'all is the safest way to go.

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    SlothyK8
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've picked up y'all because I like that it's not gendered. :)

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    Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why we're doomed - We're not going to tackle climate change because rich countries will not reduce their energy use. They tickle the problem by talking about sustainable energy sources, but you'll never win an election by saying we're using too much. A rake is cheap, will last a lifetime and is powered by your breakfast, but it doesn't generate wealth like a leaf-blower does!

    Carrie Laughs
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My neighbours use a flipping leaf blower - they can't use a rake because they also have a plastic lawn.

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    Jrog
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Norway is the country with the highest rate of renewable use, 99% of total energy production is from renewable sources. They have oil, which they sell for money since they don't really use that much of it. Norway would be an AMAZING model of a high-(green) energy rich country.

    Diolla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just returned from Benin, can confirm :-(. In my experience, in poor countries, maintenance of the electricity network is poor. AND the power plants are too weak, broken, or just too few to keep up with demand. Anyway most ppl there don't have 3 tvs, a microwave and an AC.

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    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, do we consume more energy to become rich OR do we consume more energy BECAUSE we are rich??

    Vidas Zlioba
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Both. And although people don't like to hear it, rich countries do a better job with conservation than poor ones.

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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Right. The more energy we consume, the richer we get?

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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remarkably little variation actually. I wonder how it would compare with figures from thirty of forty years ago.

    howdylee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd love to see that as well, but I bet the statistics are harder to get accurate, since not every father is identified or known (or heck, he may not even know!)

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    cerinamroth
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Big up the geriatric mamas! (Had my first at 35 and second at 39 so that's what I was referred to as.)

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    Marianne
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you want to know: Spain eats so late, because they share Middle European Time (the same time zone as Poland), so the sun rises and sets a lot later on he clock than in most other countries.

    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    CET is most of Europe. eg France which borders it. The thing that affects evening meal times most is latitude. The further north you go the cooler it is. In southern (Mediterranean) areas it is still common (particularly in Spain) to have a 'Siesta' as a long break, rest and meal. This is why evening meals are delayed.

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    Kelly Scott
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dinner is dictated by acid reflux: have to eat before 5 and nothing after that.

    arthbach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's the normal working hours of businesses in Norway? I wouldn't be able to have dinner between 4 and 5pm as I don't finish work until 5.30. Then it's about 20 minutes to get home, and dinner can be eaten any time from 6-7.30pm, depending on what is being made.

    Jrog
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Typical Norwegian working hours are 8-16, including with a 30 minutes break and a second 30 minutes break if you do more than 2 hours of overtime. Work schedule can be flexible, so some days can be longer and other shorter but the maximum is 40 hr/wk and no less than 11 hours between one shift and the other, plus a minimum of 35 continuous hours off every 7 days.

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    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder which definition of 'dinner'. It means the largest meal of the day (which for some is lunch) but a lot of folks treat it as meaning the same as 'supper' since for many, supper is the largest meal. As a farm boy, our dinner was at lunch time and for supper we had a lighter meal.

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    Jrog
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chai is a different process, where the leaves are processed with the "Crush, Tear & Curl" process (CTC), while Tea uses fermented full leaves (the so-called "Orthodox" method). In China the first type is called "Cha", while the second is called "Tê". Both come from the same word (茶), that is pronounced differently in the north (where the CTC process was born and trading mostly via land transport, thus Chai) and in the south (where full leaves were common and trade was mostly via sea, so "Tea"). It's a mistake to conflate the two processes since they are different per culture and tradition, the fact they spread in different ways is just a consequence.

    BarfyCat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Armenia should be green, though due to Russian influence they use chay and te interchangeably.

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the UK it was often called 'char', a variation on Chai brought back by British soldiers returning from postings in the colonies.

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    Marianne
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    150.000 USD is crazy affordably compared to Germany. The average price for a house here is 345.000 USD (320.000€). (And before people explain it to me, this is because we build our houses of brick, not wood.)

    Weasel Wise
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    $150k IS cheap but you have to sacrifice your happiness and live in the Midwest. Or surrounded by a bunch of racist people in the south. It's a trade off.

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    Geoffrey Scott
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That tier from Lake Michigan across. Can confirm, live in Osceola. Bought our house with 10 acres in '87 for $28,900. Up around $125k now

    Kelly Scott
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this is also a map of "Who would want to live here?"

    Heras buddy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Avg home in Florida is 400,000. And it's built of wood. Poor quality wood at that.

    SummerVeE
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This can't be right...?! $150k wouldn't even get you a bachelor apartment in Canada

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    Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like how this one shows the curvature of the Earth. No flat earth here!

    Regina Holt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a great map. I love seeing the topography.

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    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And yet women don't start saying that men are "peak child fathering age" at 18 and that this was our excuse to go after barely legal boys. Compare with sexist men and their Lolita complex...

    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I checked - this means that the older the dad is, the higher the chance of psychiatric and developmental disorders..

    Jihana
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems weird at first glance, you would think that the age of the mother has a higher influence than the age of the father. But I guess since the mother is the one growing the child inside of her, pregnancies in older women with more and more serious mutations just are not viable.

    Becky Samuel
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A woman's eggs are already present in her body when she is born, they are grown and matured when she has her cycle, but the genetic material is already laid down and relatively well protected by chemical treatment of the DNA. A man produces sperm constantly from puberty to death, and there are multiple levels of cell division required to produce each sperm. This means that the DNA is much more exposed to risk of degradation.

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    Jrog
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is very similar to some algebra tests you do routinely in 3rd and 4th year of high school (i think it's equivalent to 10th/11th Grade in the US). Current admission tests to our public universities are way harder, including derivatives, integrals and analytical functions that require graph plotting (sorry not sure how it translates in technical terms), and that's for the math module alone.

    readingthequibbler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I trade your comment wrong at first, probably because I'm still waking up, and thought you said just 3rd and 4th grade. I was like, I'm so glad I'm out of school. Makes more sense now I reread it.

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    Eastendbird
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, my problem with Maths like this was always "Oh who cares just tell me."

    Grenelda Thurber
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is this the entire examination, or just the algebra section?

    Bartlet for World Domination
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I failed math miserably but if this was still the entry level for MIT, I'd get in.

    martymcmatrix
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then you didn't fail math miserably......my math teacher once said...listen little idiot, 1 + 1 = 2, okay? I replied...okay, but what do you mean by »1«? 🤷🏽

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    Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe in the past (certainly in Europe) an understanding of maths was a prerequisite of attending university. I think the reasoning was that if you didn't understand the logic of maths, how could you contribute meaningfully to any other field?

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    Captain McSmoot
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beer and cheese is a lovely combination.

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    Hey Kat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Finally Iowa (Iowa City - University of Iowa) has made it on/into something. Geez :(

    TheOneWhoKnows(Nothing)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You do know where there's most people with Finnish heritage, right? This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who knows anything about Finns and our drinking habits...

    Clarf
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a Wisconsinite, but also a non-drinker, I can confirm this to be true. We make too much beer here.

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LOL at the county lines in Texas. Kind of looks like Bob started drawing them in and Bob was meticulous, making a nice square grid. Then Bob went to lunch and Jerry took over and Jerry didn't give AF /J

    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The effect of accepting as normal the situation we grew up in? As in: if you see lots of alcohol consumption around as a child, you drink automatically more as well? I'm no expert, just guessing.

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    Mimi La Souris
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    cultural tragedy ? why ? looks like a "best before" comment

    Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the option is increasingly limited--before you had multiple ways to meet someone and find out if they're compatible. Now it's all online, and you run the risk of being scammed. On the plus side though, you can meet people from further away, other side of the world even, so that part is less limited.

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    Dragons Exist
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh no, people can meet much more people in many more places, such a tragedy "on par with the loss of a language"

    Slowdown
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree "tragedy" is a ridiculous word to use, but some of us have a really hard time dating online. Real life is easier for me. You now immediately is someone is into you or not, people's body language is a gage of their feelings. That's hard to tell via text/messaging.

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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder why they think it's a tragedy?

    Becky Samuel
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the rise in online dating has led to "gamification". Instead of meeting someone face-to-face and deciding on compatibility, people are developing a check-list of must-have features and choosing based on that. This leads to a type of FOMO response that there might be someone a bit better if you just keep looking.

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    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    First of all, define "couple". Marriage / long term partner or does it include "DTF" / casual dating? Now show a related graph of how large the pool of choices was over time. The internet and relative cheaper / easier travel makes it a lot easier for people to meet others outside of their little 50s town and somebody your Aunt Bessy knows. Last thought ... source of data? Because if this was an online poll that might skew the answers in favor of the online activity.

    Atom Bohr
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These are the important questions right here

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    Jennifer Smith
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Met my husband online in 2001 when it was around 10%

    BarfyCat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same here! 20th anniversary is coming up! Hardly a "cultural tragedy" for us!!!

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    Ali H M Salehuddin
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you extend the curve far back before 1950, the curves look very different too. I suspect "through family" probably dominated the chart. So, the cultural tragedy is just transient phenomena. Nothing is truly lost here.

    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, it's a null-sum situation. If I look for a partner online (with way more chances to meet a match) and find one there, then my friends can't get me another one. Okay, unless in polyamorous cases. So, it makes sense that the graph with the biggest chances 'overpowers' all others.

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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if / how much this has changed over time. I live in Washington. I see windows so dark that are apparently allowed but I THINK (not sure) would have been illegal when I was younger.

    readingthequibbler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, I know, at least in certain states, with an optometrist you can get a darker tint. I have a darker tint on my car due to how sensitive my eyes are due to my astigmatism.

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    Forrest McCanless
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The numbers are "transmitted percentage"

    Geoffrey Scott
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, moved from Fla to Mich. Had to get an optometrist docs note for our tinted windows in '88. My wife demanded I remove it, as we were pulled over frequently. Not sure why the black and zero.

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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We bought an ice machine. I can't tell my mother, she will not understand, but it's a game changer around here.

    Deborah B
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Memory foam mattress. Get a pet cat or dog.

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stop carrying a bottle around all the time. You are no longer a baby and you will not die of dehydration while walking down the street.

    Regina Holt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I DO need to carry water with me. Doctor's orders. I was not drinking enough, so I carry some with me at all times.

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    Get a life?

    Captain McSmoot
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Get a life?"? Really?! His clothes fit him, his neck no longer hurts leading to better sleep, his spine is better, he's more hydrated, he can see perfectly, and he's no longer wasting time waiting in line. How the hell did you come to the conclusion that this man doesn't have a life or is somehow a loser for doing all of this, but missing out on life? The man has been bettering his life with each year. It would be mighty difficult to better something he doesn't have.

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    Oerff On Tour
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is NOT the map of New York, but the map of New Amsterdam on the island of Manahata. Later traded with the British for a small island in Maluku. The only place on earth (back then) where nutmeg grew

    Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I can't say, maybe they liked it better that way--? ;)

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What was the wall built there for anyway?

    Tiggy Darling
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because they felt Wall Street was a silly name without a wall along it.

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    #68

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    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I googled and it comes up with 'Most Valuable Player' but not sure if it's specific to a certain US sport or not..

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The NBA logo at top left gives a clue 🤔

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    JB
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But you da real MVP!

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    #69

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why doesn't the map show us which bit is Indiana?

    Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The red line extending just south of Chicago, across to just north of where the interstate 80 symbols are is the state boundary for Indiana. Gary and South Bend are towns. Guessing there are no major towns along Lake Michigan because everyone goes across the state line to Illinois where Chicago is.

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    Annabet
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because most of it is a protected State Park. The rest of it is steel production.

    Michelle-Randy Carlson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gary used to be but then the steel industry went south.

    Brian Droste
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Indianapolis is Indiana state Capitol is in the middle of the stste. So my guess this why. Plus Indiana doesn't boeder as much of Lake Michigan as does Michigan and Wisconsin.

    Rob D
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Best guess, Indiana is on the leeward side of the lake. There are times of year frozen spray makes living on that coast difficult. Any port city on the east would get the brunt. The west and south coast are better shielded and have better access to other transportation; river and rail. This is 100% hypothesis.

    Heras buddy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Starts around Gary and goes to the left of South Bend on the straight line.

    Carl Roberts
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It used to. Gary was that city. Until virtually all industry left, and the city has been declining ever since. From a peak population of 178,000 in 1960, to a 2023 population of 67,000. Gary's population currently declines at a rate of between 10k and 15k per decade, and is expect to drop below 60,000 before 2030.

    Geoffrey Scott
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know, but Gary and Chicago are pretty melded together.

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    #70

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    Diolla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What do the blue and red colours mean?

    Brian Droste
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I belive the blue represents the regular season and the red represent the playoff area of the sports.

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    Kurt Hartman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Blue indicates when my favorite teams win. Red indicates when they lose.