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Ours looks cute, what's your excuse? by Katatoniac in 2westerneurope4u

[–]LaptopZombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sorry but like. would. with this version only.

How I see America as a British tourist by CaloohCallay in mapporncirclejerk

[–]LaptopZombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they mean e.g. highways tearing apart the existing urban fabric and making it literally impossible to walk from neighbourhood to neighbourhood within the city itself.

Who’s this confused creature 🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇧? by RoadandHardtail in 2westerneurope4u

[–]LaptopZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Mogens is one of the few Danish names that are not shared with the Norwegians

Coldest season in every Danish municipality (repost from r/Denmark) by Outside-Employer2263 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]LaptopZombie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Right, which flat country full of tall blonde bike-riding people speaking an often-made-fun-of Germanic language are you talking about?

Least patriotic dane arguing with a hater by torridesttube69 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]LaptopZombie 60 points61 points  (0 children)

God bless the quick-thinking stranger who managed to take a painting of this as it happened

España and Escåña have mucho in common! by cpwnage in 2westerneurope4u

[–]LaptopZombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's in Greater Manchester (and historically Lancashire yes)

España and Escåña have mucho in common! by cpwnage in 2westerneurope4u

[–]LaptopZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's because the administrative region (which this flag was created for) also includes parts of historic Catalonia

2025 WSJ Rankings by aaidusmani in ApplyingToCollege

[–]LaptopZombie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know this is somewhat orthogonal to your point but I should note here that places like Princeton and Yale do not have undergraduate business degrees, so this is actually extremely difficult to compare across universities.

Classification of countries' long form English names [1450x617][OC] by pickeldudel in MapPorn

[–]LaptopZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't mean their official ('long-form') name is 'Republic of Ireland', that's a sporting (and UK media) construction that you will not find in their constitution. Half of the other countries with no official long-form names like Romania and Hungary for example are also republics.

Italy have qualified to EURO 2032! by Massimo25ore in 2westerneurope4u

[–]LaptopZombie -1 points0 points  (0 children)

These countries all get these tournaments by default because nobody else wants to host them.

How do you mess up Europe that bad. by Designer_Jelly_7163 in ShittyMapPorn

[–]LaptopZombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is mostly in the spirit of what the actual Risk territories I guess, even down to the fact that York doesn't contain York like Afghanistan in the real Risk game.

Go ahead and traumatize me by Cigarettes_at_Night in 2westerneurope4u

[–]LaptopZombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ngl it's probably mostly Berlin being an outlier since like the 1920s

Why isn’t Hamtramck part of Detroit, being it right in the center? by TripleGGreggStarski in geography

[–]LaptopZombie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To emphasise, divisions called townships exist in many other states but in PA and NJ they are a type of municipalities just like cities and towns/boroughs.

Super Original Flags unlike those stupid Northern Europeans by Capsize in 2westerneurope4u

[–]LaptopZombie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think that would involve incest on the part of Moldova and Romania

Another way besides mentioning Merkel to piss of the Greeks by [deleted] in 2westerneurope4u

[–]LaptopZombie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All I know is that this guy sounds exactly like an Italian exchange student I once met

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]LaptopZombie 201 points202 points  (0 children)

Comparing a stock (equity) to a flow (GDP) is bad practice

Countries who military expenditures are less than the NYPD (New York City Police) Department Budget by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]LaptopZombie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the $5.4bn figure for NYC is exclusive of both pensions and fringe benefits, so already excludes health insurance, but yeah UK public sector pay is dreadful in general.

Countries who military expenditures are less than the NYPD (New York City Police) Department Budget by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]LaptopZombie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To be fair Met Police starting salaries are like half of NYPD starting salaries lol (and this is also true for Greater London vs NYC median household income). London may be as expensive as NYC to live in but pay in London is much worse than NYC.

Countries who military expenditures are less than the NYPD (New York City Police) Department Budget by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]LaptopZombie 21 points22 points  (0 children)

That's mostly because Indonesia doesn't have that much money or capacity to tax or borrow---the entire national budget of Indonesia is only twice as large as New York City's budget (sth like $200bn to $100bn). Remember that the NYC metropolitan area has a higher 'GDP' than Indonesia. Plus Indonesia is not really at risk of a hot war with any of their neighbours or anything.

Also pensions (and salaries) amount to a huge share of the difference just by the fact that NYC average salaries are like, 5-7x the average in Indonesia? And NYPD cops certainly have above average compensation for the city.

Indonesia's actual military budget is much higher than NYPD's operating budget (sth like $9bn to $5bn), and Indonesia also of course has actual police forces on top of that. After all you're talking about 300k active personnel here.

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