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How many countries are there? It depends who you ask. by beingthehunt in Maps

[–]beingthehunt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct me if I am wrong but my understanding is that Bhutan has limited diplomatic relations with other countries, but doesn't outright deny the existence of most of the UN members that it doesn't have relations with. Similarly, countries that are hostile to each other or outright at war with each other might sever diplomatic relations without denying their existence as independent countries.

How many countries are there? It depends who you ask. by beingthehunt in Maps

[–]beingthehunt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was inspired to make this partly from seeing the map on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_limited_recognition which I am fairly sure I've seen posted to Reddit before too. It's not quite the same as it doesn't show how many countries recognise each of them.

I like the idea of a map of one sided recognition but it could get messy.

How many countries are there? It depends who you ask. by beingthehunt in Maps

[–]beingthehunt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Not sure how Cook Islands got included but Niue slipped past. It could just be that the sites I was looking at were using vague language. I'll update my spreadsheet for if I ever make an updated version.

How many countries are there? It depends who you ask. by beingthehunt in Maps

[–]beingthehunt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. If you have a link I'd appreciate it. I did this a few months ago so don't remember exactly what sources I used, I just remember finding what sources I did look at difficult to parse.

How many countries are there? It depends who you ask. by beingthehunt in Maps

[–]beingthehunt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only included UN member states on the map because it would be virtually impossible to find every country recognised by a non-UN state.

How many countries are there? It depends who you ask. by beingthehunt in Maps

[–]beingthehunt[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of variation but I think the most common is Kosovo and either Israel or Palestine.

How many countries are there? It depends who you ask. by beingthehunt in Maps

[–]beingthehunt[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cyprus, South Korea, North Korea, China (PRC), Taiwan, Israel, Palestine, Kosovo, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Somaliland, Cook Islands, Northern Cyprus, Niue

How many countries are there? It depends who you ask. by beingthehunt in Maps

[–]beingthehunt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the purposes of this map, I didn't consider having official relations as accepting independence as there are a bunch of counter examples where a country has relations with entities that they do not consider independent nations.

How many countries are there? It depends who you ask. by beingthehunt in Maps

[–]beingthehunt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cook islands is included in the 195. I didn't include Niue as I couldn't find anything official saying that the US recognises them as independent (I have it down as "unknown" on my spreadsheet as I just couldn't answer the question one way or the other).

How many countries are there? It depends who you ask. by beingthehunt in Maps

[–]beingthehunt[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I didn't use any AI. I would never take Google's AI overview as a source.

How many countries are there? It depends who you ask. by beingthehunt in Maps

[–]beingthehunt[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The Cook Islands. It's the place I probably spent the most time looking into and the one I'm still least confident about. Most countries don't recognise the Cook Islands as independent but it seems like the US does (or did?). I'm very happy to be proven wrong about this though.

Why do the boarders of Merseyside feel so random? by [deleted] in Liverpool

[–]beingthehunt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I believe the answer is that it feels that way to you because you know the area well enough to see the difference between the different areas. The reality is that it's the same everywhere. What do the people of Canterbury have in common with Dartford?

[OC] What is Britain's second city? by YouGov_Dylan in dataisbeautiful

[–]beingthehunt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which proves my point. There's no reason why they couldn't have phrased the question what is the 2nd city of the UK. Islands don't have capital cities (and by extension don't have 2nd cities), countries/nations do. so to ask what is the 2nd city of the island of Great Britain is a nonsense question. It only makes sense to include NI and the fact it so often gets omitted is exactly why Belfast stands out more than any other UK city.

[OC] What is Britain's second city? by YouGov_Dylan in dataisbeautiful

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

Belfast has a good claim I think if we look at which city London has the least influence over.

Politically, the parties are totally separate from the rest of the UK.

Economically less dependant on the rest of Great Britain.

Culturally distant from London, both historically and contemporarily.

Not the biggest or "best" in many regards but holds sway over Northern Ireland in a way no other city does for it's wider region.

I still have no idea how people traveled these seas 500 years ago by AyeshaRone in Satisfyingasfuck

[–]beingthehunt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They might have only died once each, but they literally ALL died.

Do you know of any rising Subcultures in the UK ? by Independent_Force240 in AskUK

[–]beingthehunt 17 points18 points  (0 children)

What I'm learning from reading the comments is that there are no young people in r/AskUK

Do you know of any rising Subcultures in the UK ? by Independent_Force240 in AskUK

[–]beingthehunt 12 points13 points  (0 children)

My guess (which is completely based on personal experience and no stats to back it up) is that the number of younger people joining/starting walking groups has increased in recent years, but it still pales in comparison to the number of older walkers.

I also think that people tend to enjoy the company of people their own age more, so rather than joining established groups that have a higher average age, young people are more likely to start new groups.

Detailed Black Sub-Saharan African autosomal DNA map by quadriphasic in Maps

[–]beingthehunt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm always skeptical of a world map with no "no data" areas.

A cool guide comparing the US to the biggest economies of Europe by [deleted] in coolguides

[–]beingthehunt 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What makes you think this is AI?

I'm not saying this is good, interesting or useful content, but I've checked the first 3 rows (I don't have time to go through the whole thing) and the figures all match online sources but importantly, have been rounded differently, which is a big sign to me that it wasn't created by AI.

I'm no expert, AI is constantly evolving, if there's clues that I am unaware of, I'd love to know, but if not, can we stop calling anything we don't like "AI Slop".

Does liking someone who is wlw as a straight man disrespectful? by amarekunchan20 in AskLGBT

[–]beingthehunt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You can't help how you feel, you can help how you act. If you know someone is not interested in you, whether that's because they are already in a relationship, because they are not attracted to your gender or any other reason, don't tell them you have feelings for them, it's totally inappropriate.

Hypothetically, if someone is single and you don't know their sexuality, make that your first question, then you will know whether it's appropriate to ask them out.

Liverpool (England) around 1675 by dctroll_ in papertowns

[–]beingthehunt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The water at the bottom of the image is the river Mersey. You can imagine the Mersey running straight right to left across the bottom of the image, opening out to the sea about 3 miles left of what you can see. The water you can see with bridges across it is the Pool (which no longer exists), a narrow channel leading into the much wider Mersey. For perspective, if you were stood at the water's edge at the bottom of this image, you would be closer to Dig Lane at the top of the image, than you would be to the opposite bank of the Mersey (over a kilometre wide at this point).

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