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K-9 · 11-12-2023 9:20pm

Canada goes as far South as California.

Seth Brundle · 11-12-2023 9:23pm

^^^ 70% of Canada is below the line or 70% of Canadians live below it?

Victor · 11-12-2023 9:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121484042#Comment_121484042

Note that it is jobs, not population.

magicbastarder · 11-12-2023 9:36pm

there's an egregious error in that graphic. the black line does not follow the 49th parallel.

Seth Brundle · 11-12-2023 9:39pm

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1734103068029985252

A new ocean is forming in Africa along a 35-mile crack that opened up in Ethiopia in 2005. The crack, which has been expanding ever since, is a result of three tectonic plates pulling away from each other.

It’s thought that Africa’s new ocean will take at least 5 million to 10 million years to form, but the Afar region’s fortuitous location at the boundaries of the Nubian, Somali and Arabian plates makes it a unique laboratory to study elaborate tectonic processes.

There are still some big unknowns, including what is causing the continent to rift apart. Some think that a massive plume of superheated rocks rising from the mantle beneath East Africa could be driving the region’s continental rift.

Each plate boundary in the Afar region is spreading at different speeds, but the combined forces of these separating plates is creating what’s known as a mid-ocean ridge system, where eventually a new ocean will form.

The three plates are separating at different speeds. The Arabian plate is moving away from Africa at a rate of about 1 inch per year, while the two African plates are separating even slower, between half an inch to 0.2 inches per year.

Brian? · 11-12-2023 9:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121484507#Comment_121484507

It can’t, they have to sneak in a few places to make it correct

KevRossi · 11-12-2023 9:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121484462#Comment_121484462

Donegal goes as far north as Alaska. (The mainland bit of Alaska).

In fact Ireland is more northerly than Alaska. The most southerly of the Aleutian islands is further south then Mizen Head.

Capt'n Midnight · 12-12-2023 12:49am

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Realt Dearg Sec · 12-12-2023 1:41am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121485249#Comment_121485249

I used to live in South bend, and everyone there used to warn me when I was going to be in Chicago to be careful because it was so dangerous. Chicago is not on the list.

I should say though that South bend near the university of Notre Dame is a very different than South bend once you get away from the university. In fact ND, which is the second richest university in America, has spent the last thirty years or so systematically buying up property in the area around the campus and gentrifying it to create a buffer zone between itself and the city.

Peregrinus · 12-12-2023 2:43am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121480605#Comment_121480605

It was always about money, but for completely different reasons than the ones you suggest. In the southern US geographic conditions meant that plantation farming (give a large, unskilled, cheap or free labour force) could be hugely profitable; the same geographic conditions did not prevail in the northern US and you simply couldn't make the same kind of money out of slaves. Hence the southern US grew extremely rich on a slave economy; that gave them a compelling financial interest in not recognising the moral abhorrence involved. The northern states didn't have the same vested financial interest in slavery.

The north did, in time, because as rich and then richer than the south. They did that through industrialisation, which requires a skilled and motivated workforce, which a slavery system generally can't provide.

So it comes down to this: southern prosperity was dependent on slavery; northern prosperity was not.

zell12 · 12-12-2023 12:47pm

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"I don't have an accent" large version

magicbastarder · 12-12-2023 2:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121486226#Comment_121486226

it's an abuse of language to claim 'blue states are farther north than canada' though. or it's lying by omission; 'the northernmost point in these states are further north than the southernmost point in canada' is not the same as 'they're farther north than canada' no matter how you spin it.

it'd be like saying i was higher up a ladder than you were, because my nose was at the same level as your feet.

Barna77 · 13-12-2023 1:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121486299#Comment_121486299

For the life of me, I can't understand my friend who grew up in Tennessee.

We have longer conversations via whatsapp than face to face :/

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Hoop66 · 13-12-2023 1:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121490449#Comment_121490449

Slightly misleading re: Nigeria. Death penalty only applies in the 12 northern states that have adopted Sharia law and then only to Muslims and those who have voluntarily accepted Sharia. Still pretty shitty though.

josip · 13-12-2023 1:44pm

Conclusion: Countries that have active adults have low numbers of workplace fatalities.

Evade · 13-12-2023 3:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121490535#Comment_121490535

Not really. I know you're joking but Ireland, Denmark, and Poland all have similar workplace fatality rates but different levels of activity and Ireland and France have similar levels of activity but very different levels of workplace fatalities.

KevRossi · 13-12-2023 4:41pm

I could be wrong on this, but I think in France if you are killed in an accident whilst commuting, it's considered in the broader sense as a workplace accident, or a workplace related accident to be more specific.

There's definitely a European country that uses this parameter (and I think it is France at the behest of their unions), the thinking being that if you didn't have a job then you wouldn't be killed travelling to or from it.

I'll have a bit of a Google later.

Charles Babbage · 13-12-2023 4:46pm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GARA7kBXsAAqRVy?format=jpg&name=small

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JupiterKid · 14-12-2023 12:38am

Perspective map of the Hawaiian Islands from the ocean floor of the Pacific.

Mauna Loa, the shield volcano on the largest island, Hawaii, is the tallest mountain on Earth when measured from the ocean floor. The Hawaiian island chain is, in fact, a chain of volcanoes that get progressively older and smaller as you move Northwest from Hawaii.

The chain was formed by the Pacific tectonic plate moving over a volcanic hot spot/mantle plume that created each island from the ocean floor one by one.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-12-2023 12:09am

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JupiterKid · 15-12-2023 2:01am

@Capt'n Midnight - I was actually going to post that one up! Beat me to it. 😁😁

Electric tram network in Sydney, 1949

Sydney's Tram system was at one point one of the most extensive in the world before it was removed in the 1950s.

JupiterKid · 15-12-2023 2:03am

Map of the catchment of the Yangtze River in China.

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