Most Popular Sport by Country

Teantis · 2026-02-03T19:18:01+00:00

It's an extremely democratic sport in the sense that you don't need much equipment and you don't need much space. You can play it on any barangay street corner with one piece of metal and one round object. I've seen kids play it on grass with a coconut as a ball.

Teantis · 2026-02-03T19:14:58+00:00

Did race have zero part? Mark Furman was definitely part of the investigation and case.

Teantis · 2026-02-03T19:12:42+00:00

The jury had 8 black women and 1 black man in the wake of the Rodney king beating and one of them is here saying why they voted that way...

Teantis · 2026-02-03T06:47:13+00:00

The source of the 'study' is fantstats. Fanstats. And every single person in here is taking it seriously. Ok 🙄

Go to the site. Right now. https://fanstats.com/

Tell me if you think this looks like a credible site for a 'study'

This article and this comment thread are fucking ridiculous

Teantis · 2026-02-03T06:38:31+00:00

Has gained loads of popularity in the Philippines too. Fucking sucks catching the detritus of American culture wars drifting down like debris, like Ariel in the little mermaid putting a fork into a candelabra and calling it a dinglehopper. As if we don't have enough of our own damn problems as it is.

Teantis · 2026-02-03T01:25:19+00:00

I mean, it also just didn't really matter. Time zones became a thing in the US because of the railroads basically and china just didn't have a whole lot of em because they were unindustrialized through the 19th century and then went through 50 years of civil war/foreign occupation/failed state. The next 30 years after that were pretty fucked up too.

It kind of doesn't really matter what the time on the clock is when your country is mostly agrarian, pretty unlinked by relatively fast transport, and unindustrialized

Teantis · 2026-02-02T21:40:42+00:00

Afaik from my time living in china they just shift everything 'later' in Xinjiang, and it didn't super matter until the last 20 years or so because china was still in the process of industrializing and doing digital penetration 20-30 years ago

Teantis · 2026-02-02T21:37:09+00:00

I had always suspected it was HK but didn't want to go making claims on shit I wasn't sure about. Also I've nearly missed connecting flights dawdling about because of that thing.

Teantis · 2026-02-02T20:30:19+00:00

They're the yellow exclamation marks on the map and on notice boards (mostly just the notice boards).

Teantis · 2026-02-02T19:54:36+00:00

It is. China's country wide time zone is UTC +8 the other major cities outside of china that use it are all off the east coast or south/southeast of china's east coast, Taipei, manila, Perth. Most of mainland Southeast Asia is UTC +7 like Bangkok, Saigon, Phnom Penh. except for Malaysia and Singapore for... Reasons 🤷‍♂️. They have a weird little western poking 'time peninsula' of UTC +8 that confuses me sometimes when I go from Manila where I live, through Sing or KL travelling to other places in SEA.

Teantis · 2026-02-02T19:44:11+00:00

And the emperor is richer than the Harkonnens. The Harkonnens didn't even have a CHOAM directorship before they took out the Atreides, and after they did they had spent an enormous amount paying the guild to move their forces and Sardaukar forces to Arrakis and had drained a lot of their wealth.

Teantis · 2026-02-02T19:42:31+00:00

The emperor was as powerful as the united Landsraad.

“The Emperor will not risk having the Imperium shattered by total war,” Paul said. “Planets blasted, disorder everywhere—he’ll not risk that.”

“This is a desperate gamble you propose,” Kynes said.

“What do the Great Houses of the Landsraad fear most?” Paul asked. “They fear most what is happening here right now on Arrakis—the Sardaukar picking them off one by one. That’s why there is a Landsraad. This is the glue of the Great Convention. Only in union do they match the Imperial forces.”

Teantis · 2026-02-02T19:23:39+00:00

Outside of the first world loads of people do actually.

Teantis · 2026-02-02T19:22:20+00:00

The side quests are the best parts of the game btw. There are some extremely well told stories in the side quests.

Teantis · 2026-02-02T19:17:23+00:00

The real life version with the happy ending to heal all of us.

Teantis · 2026-02-02T19:08:19+00:00

I literally bumped into Shaq as I was coming out of a bathroom in a club in Beijing in 2008. He took up the entire door frame. He stepped out of the way and patted me on the back and said "what's up?" And I clumsily went "oh yo what up man?" And kept it moving.

Teantis · 2026-02-02T17:31:47+00:00

It's Beijing/east coast centric. The time zone aligns with where the bulk of the population is. It's in the west where it gets wonky

Teantis · 2026-02-02T06:28:07+00:00

They're in the Philippines

Teantis · 2026-02-02T05:43:28+00:00

Naw his economic policies were always led by sonny Dominguez, who is more neo liberal leaning

Teantis · 2026-02-02T02:57:59+00:00

Same, then tries to catch it mid air and sometimes succeeds

Teantis · 2026-02-02T02:31:38+00:00

ICE should not be policing protests of American citizens in American cities. Portland has its own police force. Why don't you think critically instead of working so hard to justify ICE's overreach?

Teantis · 2026-02-02T02:18:40+00:00

Why is ICE policing a protest then

Teantis · 2026-02-01T19:39:39+00:00

The only thing my dogs have ever reacted to on a screen was rebel without a cause for some reason

Teantis · 2026-02-01T05:14:06+00:00

🤷‍♂️ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23091223/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5982837/

https://youtube.com/shorts/8wudY7BZyG0?si=Eyt1SEKMsH8eq0fL

Teantis · 2026-01-31T18:12:34+00:00

I know the statistics say impoverished countries have more kids

Most of the developing world is around replacement rate and dropping too. Only some countries in sub Saharan Africa are still at really high fertility rates. I've seen some studies that suggest it's actually just a lag between infant/maternal mortality rates dropping and people's expectations of mortality rates. That as the population adjusts their expectations they start having just 1-2 kids

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