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Like, comparing it to China or India?

Comparing absolute numbers in a statistic like this is particularly egregious. At least make it per-capita. May as well compare the number of murders per year in the continental US to the number of murders per year in the entire polar regions. Shock, horror, American so violent!

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This is exactly why nobody has announced they’ve cured aging. The scientists are all afraid of being kidnapped.

A thing that keeps me from believing in any conspiracy theory about aging having been cured and only being reserved for the powerful is because of people like Elon, Bezos, Trump, and O’Connell. They’re each powerful in their own way, and none of them are aging gracefully. O’Connell looks like the fucking Pale Man.

Seriously. Nobody’s seen these two in the same room at the same time. Coincidence? I think not.

“You get a scientist, and you get a scientist… everyone gets a scientist!”

With my luck, I’d get a mycologist or something.

+1 for the RBG sticker.

Jesus, though… that looks like where I went to middle school. Clackamas, too.

And especially if they’re a deep-sea isopod.

Look at how cute!

No.

Better than Butterfly? Better than Dymaxion??

Ba-da-ching!

Came here to say this, but you did, so I’ll ask for the Dymaxion projection.

The best restaurants I’ve ever been to have been in London. But, then, they rarely serve “traditional” English food. Dollar for dollar, the food in London is better than the food in Paris.

Outside of London - sorry, I agree with the map. English cuisine has a few of things they do better than anyone else, but the meals have not impressed me. I can’t speak for the rest of the UK; I haven’t visited Scotland or Ireland, and only drove a few miles in Wales by accident.

However. I will fight anyone for a Cornish pasty. I don’t know where they were invented, but like all great foods they’re both delicious and made with, like, 6 ingredients.

My credentials include more than a single trip. I’ve had 4 vacations in France, and 2 years lived for 2 weeks every other month in Paris. I’ve had two vacations in England, and lived for 1-2 weeks every month in London, again for two years running. I have a great amount of experience with restaurants at all price ranges in both cities, and a reasonable exposure to cuisine outside of the capitals.

I’d take it. I’d love to be able to play this with someone, just once.

It’s The One pronoun in the Matrix, and it knows kung fu.

That’s because she defined it as a male sport: Sk8er Boi

Okay. I don’t think it’s a bad map; I think it would have helped to define what counts as “a coast,” is all.

So, the definition is “a body of water from which one can navigate - even if by river or canal - to an ocean”? How big does the traversal have to be - if I can get there by canoe without portage, does that count? What about Lake Eirie? AFAIK, you can’t navigate without portage from Eirie to the Atlantic, but it connects to Lake Ontario via the Niagara River.

“A” coast. This also makes a distinction between the Great Lakes and… every other lake in the US. It’s not salt water, because, well, the Great Lakes. So what determined whether a lake was big enough to qualify as having “a shore”? The Great Salt Lake in Utah is the 7th largest lake in the US (3 down from Lake Ontario, which is represented) and doesn’t appear to be be considered.

Are these “shores as US national borders, except for the shores of rivers?”

Nice. It’s going just about how I expected it to. Privatization of the CA electrical utilities was a similar astounding success story /s

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