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[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago

One might think that's a misspelling of intellectual, but it's actually an old English loan of a Swedish compound word consisting of the word inte meaning not, and lektuell meaning literate. As such it means illiterate, which is the correct word to use when describing someone who just misspelled intellectual.

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The map's old. We've got them in Korea, too.

[–] mrmule@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

And removed from Russia

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] exu@feditown.com 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's a very bad map. A better version would show McDonald's locations per 1000 people

[–] 8uurg@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Either that, or by area, in which case it represents a density. Though, this map works fine for a present / absent comparison with the IKEA map, so I can't question it too much.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I kind of want a map like this with different multi nationals but with added arrows and symbols so it looks like a ww2 battle map.