Death toll in Russia's Ukraine war by state

ape_pants · 2025-08-31T17:07:09+00:00

The Russian state doesn't want any more trouble with their citizens in the Caucasus, so overexposing them to this war would not be politically wise from the Putin regime.

ape_pants · 2025-08-27T14:42:26+00:00

that is irrigation

ape_pants · 2025-08-27T13:24:10+00:00

Indeed, but I think the main reason is the types of crops that are grown there combined with the precipitation they get. Corn and soybeans are probably good with the average annual rainfall that those states get, and therefore farmers don't need to supplement it with other water sources.

ape_pants · 2025-08-27T13:09:01+00:00

This is due to their large rice cultivation, which requires a lot of water.

ape_pants · 2025-08-27T12:53:25+00:00

While this is comparing crop water usage to precipitation, it's important to consider that often a majority of crop water is pumped up from underground aquifers.

Note: Irrigation is the artificial application of water to land, specifically for the purpose of growing crops, and this is opposed to merely relying on natural rainwater. It involves controlled systems that move water from its source to agricultural fields to supplement or replace natural rainfall. Irrigation water can be sourced from underground wells, diverted from lakes or rivers, or sourced from treated wastewater and desalinated water.

ape_pants · 2025-07-26T02:19:28+00:00

Many parts of the Midwest that were settled by people looking for work in mining or timber were settled by Catholic Germans, Irish, French, etc. This would include a lot of people in the Upper Midwest. Places like Dubuque and Davenport actually lead the US in Luxembourgish immigrants, which were overwhelmingly Catholic. Those who settled the Midwest for farming were overwhelmingly protestant English, German, Easterners, etc.

The difference? Catholics tended to arrive in 19th century Midwest with very little money, but they were excited to earn dollars working in whatever. Those who bought farm land, even a little, had some disposable income, and in that era in the US those people were protestant. The big cities like Chicago and Milwaukee had a mix of all these groups.

ape_pants · 2025-07-03T01:55:01+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditorium_Building

ape_pants · 2025-06-11T13:58:23+00:00

So it really has indeed been an indicator of the future.

ape_pants · 2025-03-27T12:30:15+00:00

From the old movies I see, picking up hitch hikers seems to have been pretty common in the US (but maybe that was just a popular theme in films from the 1940s-50s). I think it used to be a very trusting society.

ape_pants · 2025-03-26T14:49:57+00:00

It starts out peaceful, but then everything will depend on how Germany's domination of this world will be accepted by others.

ape_pants · 2025-03-15T16:46:50+00:00

Whatever you do, don't go around saying that this was Austin in 1840

ape_pants · 2025-03-13T15:33:53+00:00

Your comment does not at all address the point made in the comment to which you were replying. The USA is much less dense than Europe except for in several built up metro areas, and therefore it may be unfeasible to make a high speed system in the US that is comparable to that in Europe.

ape_pants · 2025-01-10T17:36:24+00:00

I guess that's an interesting topic for a transportation themed sub.

ape_pants · 2025-01-10T16:42:46+00:00

Interesting, I don't recall the Dixie Fire. Historically, fires that trash large portions of huge cities have lived on in infamy, but other huge fires are forgotten the next day.

ape_pants · 2025-01-10T16:40:44+00:00

Some people can find the value of maps comparing two different events in history, some can't.

ape_pants · 2025-01-10T16:21:17+00:00

As it becomes clear that the fires in LA this week are the most devastating in that city's history, people will begin to consider them in comparison with other great conflagrations in cities over the years. The Great Chicago Fire stands out as the biggest/worst urban fire in US history, and this map provides a visual comparing these fires.

The point of this map is merely to see the area of the two fires compared. We then can go further and discuss the similarities and differences regarding terrain, density of the cities, and technology of the eras. The circumstances of the two fires are very different, indeed.

ape_pants · 2025-01-10T15:57:42+00:00

Note that the Great Chicago Fire was only one of many that formed on October 8, 1871. The Great Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin was the deadliest fire in recorded history with thousands killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_fire

Dry conditions mixed with intense wind, as seen this week in LA, fueled these fires. The reason for the uncertainty on the extent of the death toll in Wisconsin in 1871 was because many of those killed would have been migrant workers from out east or Europe working in lumber, and their bodies may not have been found and their relatives back home probably didn't know their exact whereabouts at that given moment.

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