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zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in What about climate justice?

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.

zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in Global antineutrinos emitted from nuclear power stations

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.

zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in Expansion of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in West Africa in first half of 2023

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

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/8634809f-ad81-481d-a236-1b37da5bd164.png

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

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/9b177392-e3c3-4dc4-afee-f78617d0c46f.png

zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in Global antineutrinos emitted from nuclear power stations

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

zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in European Parliament election seat projections by EuropeElects [conducted July 2023]

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
zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in 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"]
zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in 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"]

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.

zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in Map of about 0.001 percent of the observable universe

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.

zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in The shrinking of Lake Chad from 1963 to 2021.

At least the vegetation seems to have bounced back in the last 10 years.

zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in Neitokainen is a body of water in Finland, which is shaped like Finland

Right here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=neitokainen#map=18/67.55653/24.50085

You're right, it's very far north, next to the border with Sweden.

zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in Geographical origin of various agricultural crops.

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

zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in History of languages on the British Isles

I wasn't expecting that much Old Norse tbh.

zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in The 30 largest countries (and territories) by total area, roughly to scale (thanks to the Dymaxion map projection).
zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in Africa's third longest river takes a crazy long route to get to the sea from its source in southern Guinea.

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.

zksmk, to map_enthusiasts in Navigable waterways (canals, rivers, locks, lockless dams, shiplifts) of inland Europe

The Orient Express - The Water Edition.

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