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Growing up, portable cassette players were always called "freestyles" here. I never knew it was a marketing thing, or that some other countries also objected to the naming.

this is "original research", which means i dicked around on the internet archive for half an hour. it may be wrong.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/rgap1e/what_gasoline_is_called_around_the_world/

also planned expansion in the region:

• trans-Caspian gas pipeline is just proposed
• Nabucco gas pipelines to central europe is planned.

Map:

• https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:3f463773q

Article:

• https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland/

Sleigh’s career as an artist had one sole throughline: fairies. Some of his interest in Fairyland evidently stemmed from medical trauma. In the late 1890s, he developed an abscess in his inner ear. Doctors trepanned him, drilling a hole in his skull, and, ever after, he would see otherworldly things.

That site has lots of maps online:

• https://collections.leventhalmap.org/collections

[Note: You may have to turn off labels from the overlay menu at top right]

I had accidentally come across a map without any labels or borders and made me search a bit about such maps.

It really is cool seeing the earth without any kind of human borders or labels, just a plain satellite view. I find it very calming:)

An other map without labels (apart from two pins that can be turned off from the bottom or left of the screen) is this one: https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/No-label-map/jtlp6Ps5Re

You could try google earth pro and turn off every label/border etc.

We need some state names for these. A few -stans would be appropriate as well.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/24741542

TL;DR: India, China, US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil. Aggregated percent of total: 50.4

Source: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-homes-in-western-states-so/comments?triedRedirect=true

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46809135

The stop killing games campaign is about preventing game publishers from intentionally destroying their games after official support ends.

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