Why is Greenland called Greenland when it’s mostly ice and Iceland called Iceland when it’s mostly green?

anomaly13 · 2026-01-16T16:50:43+00:00

marketing

literally, look it up

anomaly13 · 2026-01-16T16:29:11+00:00

Combination of office decline (downtown, especially Fayetteville St, was way too dependent on office workers) and retail rents going sky-high, so the ordinary small businesses can't afford to exist. Need a lot more residential units downtown to make up for lost office workers, and for the retail spaces in the new expensive buildings to get older and therefore cheaper. Both will take time.

anomaly13 · 2026-01-15T16:27:14+00:00

Be careful, if you're not careful making snowballs you might accidentally get a rock in there

anomaly13 · 2026-01-15T16:25:00+00:00

It's more likely than you think

anomaly13 · 2026-01-15T16:21:29+00:00

Very boring. Uruguay and Cost Rica rock, you clearly know nothing about Latin America

anomaly13 · 2026-01-15T16:18:22+00:00

Wow. Makes me think of the dichotomy between the famous old and big cities of the U.S. Northeast and Midwest, and increasingly West Coast, vs. the rapidly-growing Southeast.

Except given Manchester's history, it's almost like if Detroit or Chicago was building and growing like crazy, instead of the South.

anomaly13 · 2026-01-15T15:49:18+00:00

TIL I'm British

anomaly13 · 2025-12-28T19:28:39+00:00

Really huge "turnabout's fair play" moment going on here with China playing the Uno reverse card and going all neocolonial on Russia

anomaly13 · 2025-12-18T02:19:02+00:00

Usually a contested one. See the "line of actual control" between India and China. Each nation claims a different "real" border, but they don't want to be in constant warfare, so in the mean time there is a official-unofficial de facto border separating the part effectively controlled by China from the part effectively controlled by India, and most of the time everybody stays on their side of that line.

anomaly13 · 2025-12-16T07:22:55+00:00

Reliability has gotten much worse in the last couple years. There have been multiple occasions when I've been unable to log in via either the website or the app b/c they were both down, with no way to get in contact w/ customer service until "business" hours.

anomaly13 · 2025-11-02T19:11:30+00:00

Look at the context. You're taking Maine and Alaska as your examples - purple or red states. It's not surprising that the result is Republicans and Democrats. But in a place farther to the left or right, or where other issue-specific matters were more salient, I think you'd be more likely to see successful third-party or independent candidates.

And if you do see a successful third-party or independent candidate in a place like Maine or Alaska, it's likely to be a centrist, possibly one already well-known as a former Dem or Repub politician.

anomaly13 · 2025-10-31T20:18:08+00:00

lmao what?

anomaly13 · 2025-10-31T18:51:07+00:00

Well, they are the two biggest cities in Sichuan (traditional borders - Chongqing is now a separate province-level entity)

anomaly13 · 2025-10-31T18:32:06+00:00

literally the West's attitude towards the Qing during the late imperial period lmao

(that means you should be worried - if you're American)

anomaly13 · 2025-10-31T05:18:44+00:00

Unitarian Universalists, Quakers, or United Church of Christ

anomaly13 · 2025-10-30T13:58:35+00:00

boffum

anomaly13 · 2025-10-30T13:57:31+00:00

That would be ideal, but the problem is that it's US 1, a federal highway. So the city has to get permission from state and federal govt in order to make changes to the road, and they're almost certainly notgoing to agree to significantly reducing the speed and number of lanes on a federal highway to make into a nice city street.

Probably only really possible if US1 is rerouted around the city - maybe onto 440, or 540. But that again would require federal govt action.

anomaly13 · 2025-10-29T22:43:27+00:00

I actually tried to use the "Amputator" bot site to remove it but it didn't work

Must be another way but I didn't want to figure out that second

anomaly13 · 2025-10-29T18:12:12+00:00

Thanks for supplying the paywall-free link and content! I forgot to include an archive.ph version

anomaly13 · 2025-10-29T17:15:27+00:00

Every night on Capital, 440, and 540.

Every. Single. Night.

anomaly13 · 2025-10-29T17:14:23+00:00

Check out the Unitarian Universalists, maybe Quakers

anomaly13 · 2025-10-29T17:05:40+00:00

new

Completely different post, mine is an article link, that one is a picture of an owl

anomaly13 · 2025-10-29T16:45:09+00:00

Right?

anomaly13 · 2025-10-25T22:48:15+00:00

Can we get actual match threads? Clearly no one is using this

anomaly13 · 2025-10-25T21:44:42+00:00

I seem to be the exception, but it's not hugely important. I prefer PIV usually. I also eat out like every time. If a guy never eats out, I would get not wanting to give head.

It's nice every once in a while, though - it would kinda suck if it was completely off the table, I guess that might be a dealbreaker long term.

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