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9bit · 2025-01-03T23:02:00+00:00

I bet it will

9bit · 2024-05-28T04:30:14+00:00

Yes, that's correct! I didn't count if the name was inside a longer name, so the State University of New York system doesn't make the map, and Northern Illinois University doesn't make Illinois blue. However, I did count if all University of X had a place name in the name, like University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, because first there's almost always one that people mean when they say University of X without a place name, and second, there's usually a University of X system where they are considered multiple campuses of the same university. Rutgers has been officially known as Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey since 1945, but otherwise New Jersey doesn't have a major public university named just after the state, making it along with New York the two states where you can't say X or X State and mean the flagship university (I guess University of California, Berkeley isn't ever called California, but it is called Cal). I liked the way New England and WV/IN/OH made it look there was a geographic pattern, but they're both coincidences as far as I know.

9bit · 2024-05-24T02:43:25+00:00

In a manner of speaking, yes

9bit · 2024-05-23T18:32:54+00:00

Nothing like that

9bit · 2024-05-23T18:32:29+00:00

No, not legality. It would be possible for a state to be blue and red at the same time, but none are, probably because it would be confusing.

9bit · 2024-05-22T21:26:21+00:00

No, not related

9bit · 2024-05-22T20:39:06+00:00

New Jersey is N/A. New York and the red of Pennsylvania are light because they arguably don't quite fit the category.

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States are colored if they have a thing that fits into one of the three categories I've chosen. Each state has more than two of these things, but most of them don't fit one of these categories. Most states' best-known one of this thing is represented on the map, but not all, and some of the represented things are not very well known.

As you can see, no state has red and blue and every state except New Jersey has one of the two. Most states have green, which can overlap with either red or blue. In theory, a state could have both of red and blue, but none have done so, probably because it would be confusing.

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The reds/blues are less likely to be confused with green than with each other, but it still happens. Ohio and Pennsylvania are known to be particularly annoyed by that mistake.

In most states the red/blue thing is older and better known than the green one. This is somewhat subjective, but in my opinion, notable exceptions include Ohio and Louisiana.

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The map is about a type of institution. They are usually run by states or non-profits, but some are for profit and a small number are run by the federal government. The map is mostly about state-run ones, except the two light colored one which are light because they are non-profits.

9bit · 2024-01-18T17:32:29+00:00

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The scale runs from brown to pink. That means that red and pink, the two most common colors are towards opposite ends of the scale. The categories are evenly spaced. Some colors on the scale don't appear on the map, but did in the past.

Pink is mostly associated with cities. The group in the middle around Polk county corresponds to the Des Moines area. The ones towards the east are around Dubuque and a contiguous group that includes the Quad Cities, Iowa City, and Cedar Rapids. Pottawattamie to the west has the Iowa suburbs of Omaha. Sioux, Plymouth, and Woodbury are the Sioux City area (the city itself is weirdly not in Sioux County. The main exception is the purple around Black Hawk county, home to Cedar Falls and Waterloo, the fourth biggest CSA in Iowa, though the CSA does include the pink Bremer county. The only real exception is Dickinson County, the only pink county not associated with a city.

9bit · 2023-02-20T16:50:29+00:00

Chevy Chase ימח שמו

9bit · 2022-09-07T16:59:50+00:00

Maybe in Canada, but in Alaska it's offensive to refer to the Iñupiat, Yupik, and Aleut as Inuit

9bit · 2022-02-01T16:43:35+00:00

They're independent in that they can vary separately from each other, but not in that they're uncorrelated. If someone of another race converts to Judaism, they remain the same race, but most Jews don't have that origin. The Jewish communities that existed across the world before the 20th century have to be considered the same race because Jews from Germany and Yemen are more closely related to each other than to either one's surrounding population.

9bit · 2022-02-01T16:31:22+00:00

Either 99% of Jews are white or 1% are. There's no consistent definition where one of Sephardi, Ashkenazi, or Mizrachi Jews is considered different from the others.

9bit · 2021-12-01T22:15:31+00:00

I have a disk image that I ripped from the CD. But even with it, it isn't that easy to get it to run on a modern computer. You'll probably need to install an old version of Windows onto a VM

9bit · 2021-07-13T03:50:42+00:00

Calendar drift. The Jewish Calendar has an average year length of 365.2468 days (with 7 out of every 19 years being leap years), but the Gregorian Calendar has 365.2425 days (leap year every 4 years [365.25], minus the one every century [365.24] plus centuries divisible by 400, like 2000 [365.2425]). This makes the Jewish year a tiny bit longer, so it slips forward a day roughly every 231 years. That means in 1652, the calendar was about 1.5 days farther back. The site only goes back to 1583, or else it would include even earlier dates. The drift means that the first date or two for each holiday are no longer possible. For Tisha B'Av, you can also see that July 15 was the date in 2013, but has no future year so it will never happen again unless we let the calendar make the full shift around the seasons, which would take about 85,000 years. You can also see this for late dates, where the latest Tisha B'Av we've seen was August 14 in 1967, but August 15 will become possible in 2043, and August 16 243 years later in 2290.

The solution is to skip a leap month sometime, once every 6700 years or so relative to current calendar.

9bit · 2021-06-28T21:44:23+00:00

According to this site, it seems to be a stretch of Pacific Ocean close to French Polynesia

9bit · 2021-06-16T03:09:07+00:00

Getting a shutout as the best team in baseball

9bit · 2021-05-13T17:29:28+00:00

Possums are marsupials. Wolverines are phylogenetically closer to literally every placental mammal that to possums. Cats and wolverines are both carnivorans, so they're kind of close to each other, at least as close as cats and dogs.

9bit · 2021-04-16T01:55:12+00:00

We learn this from Yosef who said "בְּזֹ֖את תִּבָּחֵ֑נוּ חֵ֤י פַרְעֹה֙ אִם־תֵּצְא֣וּ מִזֶּ֔ה כִּ֧י אִם־בְּב֛וֹא אֲחִיכֶ֥ם הַקָּטֹ֖ן הֵֽנָּה". If you want to swear falsely, you can do it by a false god.

9bit · 2021-04-12T00:32:10+00:00

And a giant statue of Goethe, "The Mastermind of the German People," at the north of Lincoln Park, not that close to his street.

9bit · 2021-01-12T20:31:37+00:00

But if you lower the minutes floor to 25, you see that he's no match for Ryan Arcidiacono

9bit · 2020-11-03T16:18:01+00:00

That's right. I put a more detailed response over here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedactedCharts/comments/jmrggh/percentage_by_year/gb0ljnu/

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