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garfaagel

@ garfaagel @sh.itjust.works

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  • Local bus

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  • Still some solid work. Thanks for saving us all from the unreasonably harrowing ignorance of not knowing exactly where a random picture on the internet was taken.

  • Territorial control of Mexican cartels

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  • Según Wikipedia ya no existe, debido a conflictos internos y la captura de varios líderes.

  • Local bus

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  • First I assumed you lived close by, but then I saw in your username that you are Czech. So now I assume that you are some geoguessr wiz that can recognize any shopping center in the world from a reflection in a bus window.

  • Pope Francis has died

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  • I don't expect a conservative backlash, on the contrary Francis's Pontificate has weakened the conservative wing considerably. Given that 80% of the voting cardinals were appointed by Pope Francis, I would expect them to elect a successor that continues in the same direction, perhaps even a more radical one.

    During his pontificate Francis also made a lot of efforts to bring in new groups into the corridors of power. Not only by his appointment of cardinals, but also e.g. by reforming the Curia with Praedicate evangelium.

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    Mother Tounges in East Prussia 1905

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    Largest party by electoral district in the German federal election

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    Largest party by electoral district in the German federal election

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    Australian rules football vs. rugby league clubs in Australia, divided by the so called Barassi line

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    Handedness of rail traffic: left hand and right hand operation world wide.

  • The algorithm

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  • All fun and games until it happens with nazism instead of slime.

  • [Image] An embroidery of the Wikipedia page for embroidery.

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  • See also Magna Carta (An Embroidery). It's an 1.5 m × 13 m embroidery of the entire Wikipedia article on Magna Carta.

    When I first heard about it, it seemed like an absurd waste of time, but it turned out to be quite neat. The documentary video explains the project pretty well (07:39 long).

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    The Teutonic Order from 1260 to 1410

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    How the North American grey squirrel has displaced the native red squirrel in the UK.

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    Map of the Chagos Archipelago, constituting the British Indian Ocean Territory. UK has just announced that it will hand over sovereignty to the islands to Mauritius.

  • TIL to keep track of units

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  • cal≠kcal

    1 gallon gasoline contains 31 million small calories, while the human caloric requirements are given in large calories. 1000 small calories = 1 large calorie. So the calculations are off by a factor of 1000. The confusion stems from the fact that both are commonly referred to as "calories", for some stupid reason.

    So in reality you would have to drink another gallon in just 2-3 weeks.

  • Nature and economics: Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 and still managed an impressive economic growth

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  • The figure 80% needs to be nuanced a bit. The reason for such a drastic decrease is that there is a lot of forest land in Sweden. In 1990, the emissions were 71,6 Mt CO2eq, while the absorption was 51,39 Mt CO2eq. In 2023, the emissions were 44,22 Mt CO2eq and the absorption 41,22 Mt CO2eq. The net emissions did indeed decrease >80%, but that was because forests made them low in the first place. If we look the emissions only, they only decreased 40%, which is still a good achievement, especially since the population has grown, but far from 80%. Source, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

    So to a large extent the amazing figure is due to geographic luck. It's not very easy for other countries to copy this solution unless they also are lucky enough to have lots of forests.

    It might also be worth noting that if you look at Sweden's consumption based-emissions instead, they are about twice as high as the emissions withing Swedish borders. Ourworldindata publishes consumption-based emissions for all countries, and by that measure Swedish emissions are low by European standards, but many countries have lower emissions and Sweden is by no means an outlier. (Note, numbers don't agree with those from Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, probably due to different methodology.)

  • Hide your couch!

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    Same-sex marriage in 2003, 2013 and 2023

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    Planned Phase-outs of Gasoline/Diesel Cars

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    Soil quality in Europe

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    Result of yesterday's general election in UK

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    Unemployment rate in Belgium (2020)

  • Europe @feddit.de
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    First projections of EU Parliament election results

  • All official vote results, exit polls and projections from across the EU

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  • TL;DR Far-right on the rise more or less everywhere based on the estimates, green parties on the decline. Let's just hope it will not get too dire consequences in the five years to come.

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    TIL that science does still not fully understand how cycling works

    www.cbc.ca /news/science/science-of-cycling-still-mysterious-1.3699012

  • Habitat suitability of European forest categories

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  • I found this map of dominant tree species in Germany while investigating it:

    https://atlas.thuenen.de/layers/geonode:Dominant_Species_Class

    Indeed, there is are significant difference between the maps. Perhaps most notably in Baden-Würtemberg where there seems to be a lot of fir. But I also think there is a a clear correlation between the maps. I also find it interesting to see the correlation between the suitable habitat for oakwood and the absence of forests.

  • Dead Beat [Ferd'nand, 1949]

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    Habitat suitability of European forest categories

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    Map of largest party in the recent election in South Africa

  • Skrillex

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  • The graphical abstract is even better than the title:

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    The decline and recovery of the European wolf population from 1800 to 2018 (no data for Russia and Belarus).

  • EFF "cover your tracks" browser privacy test

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  • I use an addon called Chameleon that creates a random user agent that changes periodically.

  • Lemmy tell you something.

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  • Cervantes did it first:

  • The average rider doesn't have enough calcium

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  • Legal status of cannabis possession for recreational use

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  • Who the fuck made this inforgraphic?

    It's from Wikipedia. Admittedly, I didn't do much fact-checking and just trusted it. But of course you can always contribute by improving the map.

  • Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, 1602 Chinese World Map

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  • Cool map! I spent quite some time looking at the many details. Also interesting to see that the Chinese were so aware of world geography at the time, even if it was thanks to exchanges with Europeans.

  • TIL about Tetrachromacy, a condition which lets you see more colors. Normal people can see about 1 million colors, while tetrachromats may see up to 100 million. Up to 12% of women may have it.

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  • Cool! I had never heard about this theory for explaining color blindness.

  • Vegetable consumption per capita in Europe (North America inside post)

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  • You think so? My impression of the Netherlands is that the staple food is fries with mayonnaise, maybe with some broodje kroket in between. In general the diet consists of a lot of butter, white bread and sugar. To me it does not seemt surprising at all that they eat least vegetables in Europe.