These folks have found the education level in each state and found a matching country.

The person who put that together is not very educated.

The actual source seems to be here and they are claiming they used this table to figure out the map.

Problem is, that table is an "Education index" and they have compared it to US Census data graduation rates. These are not the same thing and can't be compared.

So yeah, no, Pennsylvanians and Kyrgyzstanis are not of a similar education level at all. In fact the US has an overall "education index" of 0.890 and Kyrgyzstan has an index of 0.656, as wildly different as you'd expect.

I don't know, PA has a lot of dumb motherfuckers. :lol:

What do ya call citizens of Honduras, anyway?

Hondurasians?

Hondurites?

Honduranians?

Hondurans?

Hondurandurans?

Holy pipes, Batman...

Petroleum should include gasoline, eh?

Did you see the note at the top in small grey print?

I'd take that "petroleum" as crude oil, not the refined products.

I was all ready to call bullshit...

...then I found the beer pipeline.

Whew.

Also, I would like to express my displeasure at the lack of a bacon pipeline.

Our next president might want to address that.

Who found what. Only places where nobody was living count, although a couple showed signs people had visited.

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Yup, baseball has been going downhill steadily. ;)

The Dominicans. It's fascinating really

And Cubans.

Does baseball actually lead America's demographic change? My office mate and my fencing buddy are both Dominicans right here in Whitesylvania er just over the border in NYS.

They Voodoo spell customs and walk right in. :yesnod:

The green part in the north of Africa goes too far west. I suspect most Americans would classify that under "empty desert", too, and assume that the wars in those regions are happening further east.

Yeah, Algeria isn't on our radar... empty desert.

Most Americans couldn't find Africa on the map let alone quibble about the placement of the green.

I'm not sure these folks know much about Kentucky...

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They didn't put DC on there. It should be fairly dark green.

Walking man has smelled pot a couple times while walking around here, and then goes home to the pot desert.

Heh, "pot desert".

I think the debate over medical maryjane has started in PA but its likely to be Big Pharma pot rather than Big Pot Farms.

The thing about maps like this is, if you think their view of your state doesn't jibe with your experience and observations, you're skeptical about what they're saying about other states. And vice versa. I suppose people who are clueless, not because they're stupid but because it doesn't enter their lives, will take the map at face value.

KY is kinda hilarious. Aren't you guys #1 or 2 in production?

A friend of mine went to Jamaica, and was walking the beach looking for weed when this fella comes up to him and offers him a bag. Bud looks at it and says that he's wanting some good stuff. The guy takes his bag back, reaches inside his shirt and produces some pretty good smelling stuff, but, it's little popcorn buds. My bud says, quote "Nah...Me from KY. Me want the big bud." Dude calls his buddy, who shows up in literally two minutes with buds the size of his forearm. My buddy said it was straight Hazard County skunkweed. He told the guy so, when he saw him on the beach, and the guy told him he was told the weed came from KY.

25 corporate states who through holding companies and tax havens, hold more power and wealth than most countries.

Preposterous, ridiculous, ladies don't look at porn, they find it repulsive, degenerate, and disgusting.

Doggies, class, how big, how smart, how popular, etc

Benny ftw

Illustrating Chicago's Values Through Charts, Graphs, and Infographics

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While the politicians are fiddly fucking around, at least somebody is doing something about unemployment, overcrowding driving up rents, and trimming the welfare rolls.

Invasion of the right-o-way snatchers.

Buzzfeed has an interesting article about domestic surveillance flights.

It hadn't occurred to me, but sites like flightradar24 that track flights can also be used to track the FBI, DHS, and law enforcement. If you look at flight patterns long enough, you start to see certain planes that fly in circles at a low altitude. And they go up day after day after day and fly the same exact circle over and over. A team of reporters compiled data over months last fall and have posted a map at the buzzfeed link above so you can see what areas in your city are under constant surveillance. It's pretty amazing.

A couple circles are over my house, but centered over spots a mile or so away.
WTF are they looking for in Burke VA? Is a terrorist hanging out in a house there? They have it under very heavy surveillance.
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Go to the link and put your own town in. Zoom out, look at the hot spots around the country. Why the finger lakes?

Are they really constant, though? The slider at the bottom left keeps cycling through the three-month period, but they leave the circles up every time one appears. It looks more like they surveyed each area heavily for a time, then mostly move on to other areas.

Easy for me to say though, since apparently they don't give a damn about Austin. :)

Well, there is a frustrating lack of explanation on what the lines on the map mean. They talk about animated dots, but not much more.

I think we can assume that the more lines, the more flights. And Burke, VA, for example, has had hundreds of flights during that couple month window. And the flights are red, so they are FBI flights.

Yeah, my initial reaction when I saw the post was that people taking flight school training fly in a whole lot of circles, but at the link they claim to know that the flights are definitely FBI or definitely Homeland Security.

Maybe it's a secretly secure location--like not someone they suspect, but the place where they hide visiting diplomats from politically-questionable countries, or keep a bunker ready for the President at all times.

Ice Age
 

Ice Age, Glaciers chasing white men.

Canandaigua, NY? Does Hillary have a house out there?

Distribution of Negros in the 1940 census, would change drastically during the war, as work became available where they weren't.

Nice one, Jim. I didn't realize the Mason Dixon line had a north south component.

Are those sales increase numbers coinciding with the advent of legal pot sales?

It's just comparing sales of various products to legal marijuana sales, not increases.

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Just seemed like those specific products relate to having munchies.... I would imagine that there is a discernible increase in Doritos sales in Colorado since they allowed the w33d in

The first picture I took out of the second, and turned it 90 degrees to make it easier to read. World trade in 1912, who with whom and how much. Remember the numbers have to be multiplied times 1000 British pounds sterling, which in 1912 were pretty valuable.

Money = power. Money = influence. Both of those have shifted at the fastest rate ever.

Colonization

http://cellar.org/2016/colonization.gif

UK Names
 

UK names...

The millennials have taken over as the biggest group.
The Boomers are on their way out.
We Silents have been pushed aside for a long time.
I read somewhere that around 43% of the Millennials are non-white, so some of the politicians should reevaluate the world view.

Cops and robbers...

We'll pay taxes to keep 'em locked up, but not to protect us in the first place. Ass backward, we are