map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts What about climate justice?
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    I believe this map is made essentially as an amalgamation of all the years in this gif. It might make more sense to you if you observe it like that.

    Ascription of historical and collective guilt, and how to do it, if at all, is a separate topic, but the underlining data is correct.

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  • map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Global antineutrinos emitted from nuclear power stations
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    That's a good question, but no. It was just a bit of word play.

    Antineutrinos are not WIMPs. WIMPs are weakly interacting massive particles. Antineutrinos are anything but massive, they're almost massless, so massless that they were, for the longest time, thought to be massless. They can be a product of dark matter, as speculated, but they aren't it tho.

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  • map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Expansion of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in West Africa in first half of 2023
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    And here's a map of the recent/currently ongoing Niger coup:

    And the ratio of the forces of the Islamist fighters and the ECOWAS coalition forces (currently committed: Nigeria, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Benin):

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  • map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Global antineutrinos emitted from nuclear power stations
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 98%

    Antineutrinos don't interact with almost anything. They're just a bunch of wimps. They're harmless. Neat for mapping nuclear reactors tho.

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  • map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts European Parliament election seat projections by EuropeElects [conducted July 2023]
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    Context:

    • light blue: center-right
    • red: center-left
    • yellow: liberal
    • black: far-right
    • green: green/regionalist
    • dark blue: conservative
    • dark red: left
    • gray: not in any group
    • white: not in parliament currently
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    European Parliament election seat projections by EuropeElects [conducted July 2023]

    Keep in mind these are pretty much just copy pasted national level polls, as polls conducted specifically for the EU elections have not yet been conducted. EU election results can sometimes vary quite a bit from national elections.

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    map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Map of Yeísmo in the Spanish speaking world. Blue areas have the same sound for y and ll [IPA:/ʝ/; ENG:"y"], areas in pink maintain a distinction between the two sounds [IPA:/ʝ/+/ʎ/; ENG:"y"+"ly"]
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    map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Map of Yeísmo in the Spanish speaking world. Blue areas have the same sound for y and ll [IPA:/ʝ/; ENG:"y"], areas in pink maintain a distinction between the two sounds [IPA:/ʝ/+/ʎ/; ENG:"y"+"ly"]
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    Listen to /ʝ/

    Listen to /ʎ/

    What I find interesting about this is that this transition also happened in highly unrelated languages such as Hungarian, Greek and Swedish, not only in related Portuguese and French.

    • In Hungarian, /ʎ/ in most dialects turned into /j/, but the spelling ⟨ly⟩ was preserved, hence lyuk [juk].
    • In Swedish, /lj/ turned into /j/ in word-initial positions, but the spelling ⟨lj⟩ was preserved, hence ljus [ˈjʉːs].
    • In Cypriot Greek, /lj/ is often pronounced as [ʝː], especially by younger speakers. In Standard Modern Greek, it always surfaces as [ʎ].

    I guess people find it hard to pronounce /ʎ/ but are too inert to change the spelling.

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  • map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Map of about 0.001 percent of the observable universe
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    The radius of the currently observable universe is about 50 billion light-years and this map depicts a sphere with a radius of about 1 billion light-years, so if my calculamalations are correct, following through with sphere volume V being V=4/3πr³ this map depicts about 0.001 percent of the observable universe.

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    Map Enthusiasts zksmk 1 year ago 98%
    /c/map_enthusiasts has rapidly grown! Looking to add more mods, apply in this thread.

    Hi folks! There hasn't been any misbehavior in this community, nor to be frank do I expect any, but it's good to have redundancy, cover **more time zones**, etc... in case of spambots and the like. I'm looking to add a couple more mods! I don't have many metrics by which to choose fellow mods (such as the age of the account) so **all you need to apply and get picked is to be active in this community** (which means contribute posts and/or comments... **the more quality contributions you've made the more likely you're to get picked**). I'm **CET**, btw. If you want to guard this community and help it stay a cozy place, apply here in the comments to become a mod. Feel free to add any additional reason why you think you should be picked! Are you a geographer? ~~Are you power hungry?~~ Are you ~~glued to your computer~~ an internet enthusiast? Apply now! Applications will be open for a while until I pick a couple of peeps.

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    map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts The shrinking of Lake Chad from 1963 to 2021.
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    map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Geographical origin of various agricultural crops.
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    The borders between the areas in Europe are indeed a bit weird. Other continents seem mostly fine tho.

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  • map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Religious map of the Middle East
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    TIL there are still some (tiny) Zoroastrian majority pockets in Iran, or anywhere for that matter.

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  • map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Map of what different Europeans identify with most.
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    I should've specified the map has data only for countries in the EU. This is the price you pay for Brexit, alas.

    It would be interesting to see the results for some Balkan countries too.

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  • map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Population density of Africa (2022), credit to @milos_agathon on Twitter
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    map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Africa's third longest river takes a crazy long route to get to the sea from its source in southern Guinea.
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    Kind of, yes. Surprisingly not that much. But enough to divert all the local water northward apparently.

    What's interesting is that all the other surrounding water flows southward. Burkina Faso even used to be called Upper Volta, because of the largest river there.

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  • map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Navigable waterways (canals, rivers, locks, lockless dams, shiplifts) of inland Europe
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    map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Navigable waterways (canals, rivers, locks, lockless dams, shiplifts) of inland Europe
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    Fun fact: a journey by boat from London to Istanbul is possible through the continent, not just around it.

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  • firefox Firefox [@firefox](https://lemmy.ml/c/firefox) part 3 Similarly ecosia as the default browser of firefox with a clear message on startup that ecosia plants trees when you use its search engine and giving a op
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    zksmk
    1 year ago 100%

    They’re not saving the environment, they’re running a monoculture tree farm

    Nope.

    https://blog.ecosia.org/everyone-getting-tree-planting-wrong/

    https://www.ecosia.org/#our_tree_planting_approach

    https://blog.ecosia.org/where-why-how-does-ecosia-plant-trees/

    https://ecosia.co/finreportsen

    Instead of monocultures, we grow over 500 different native species where they are needed most. Always shoulder-to-shoulder with local communities.

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  • memes Memes This dog is simultaneously sitting, standing and lying.
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    Small dogs zksmk 1 year ago 100%
    Hoi!
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    Map Enthusiasts zksmk 1 year ago 100%
    Global annual coconut consumption in whole coconuts per capita

    Okay, not coconuts, but kilograms per capita, but one coconut is about 1.4 kg. Close enough

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    Map Enthusiasts zksmk 1 year ago 100%
    A detailed shaded relief map of London rendered from Lidar data [work by u/visualgeomatics on reddit]

    Source: England National Lidar Program Tools: Blender, QGIS, Global Mapper, Photoshop They mosaiced a lidar tile dataset into a surface model and cast light on it to create a highly detailed image that looks 3d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar

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    Bike Repair Tips and Tricks zksmk 1 year ago 100%
    If your crankset is very close to the bike frame like in this picture, you either need a longer bottom bracket or to replace your middle chainring with a smaller one.

    The bike's body bends during use and it will scratch itself on the ring teeth and the chain. Sometimes older bikes have a bigger number of teeth on the middle chainring like this (s:m:l ring teeth ratio is about 32/48/52 teeth). [numbered bike anatomy graph](https://i.ibb.co/7ynxRxQ/bicycle-anatomy-v1-0a.jpg) chainring = 31; bottom bracket spindle = 26; bottom bracket shell = the hole where 27 is marked to go in [~source~](https://old.reddit.com/r/bikewrench/comments/1372lcg/crankset_very_close_to_bike_frame/)

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    Physics Gifs zksmk 1 year ago 100%
    Coalescence cascade

    https://v.redd.it/7clgktkka0xa1/DASH_360.mp4

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