The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

[Kepler]

Iceland. How religions are born.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiSh...nnel=Flugblogg

IINM, the stuff on the left is a forest. Was a forest.

[Kepler]

Hong Kong. 1967 and 2017.

[Slap Shot]

Hong Kong. 1967 and 2017.

I imagine Singapore would have similar growth?

[Kepler]

I imagine Singapore would have similar growth?

In a shorter period:

[Kepler]

Shanghai is even more extreme:

[Kepler]

Hong Kong, not photoshopped. The building apparently has a suicide problem.




The shadow is another one facing it.

[Kepler]

Chad: holy sh-t!

Chad's President Idriss Deby has died of his injuries following clashes with rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, the army has said.

The announcement came a day after provisional election results projected he would win a sixth term in office.

The government and parliament have been dissolved. A curfew has also been imposed and the borders have been shut.

Mr Deby, 68, spent more than three decades in power and was one of Africa's longest-serving leaders.

An army officer by training, he came to power in 1990 through an armed uprising. He was a long-time ally of France and other Western powers in the battle against jihadist groups in the Sahel region of Africa.

Mr Deby "breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield", an army general said on state TV on Tuesday.

He had gone to the front line, several hundred kilometres north of the capital N'Djamena, at the weekend to visit troops battling rebels belonging to a group calling itself Fact (the Front for Change and Concord in Chad).

Who was the last European head of state to die on the battlefield? Charles XII of Sweden died at the Siege of Fredriksten in 1718. That might be it.

[French Rage]

Chad: holy sh-t!



Who was the last European head of state to die on the battlefield? Charles XII of Sweden died at the Siege of Fredriksten in 1718. That might be it.

Francisco Solano Lopez, President of Paraguay, 1870: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franci...ano_L%C3%B3pez
Italo Balbo, Governor General of Libya, 1940: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Balbo

[Kepler]

Hong Kong: people have begun using these wearable projectors to confound facial recognition.

[LynahFan]

Hong Kong: people have begun using these wearable projectors to confound facial recognition.

Man. Didn't realize electronics prices had come down so much that this would be cheaper than a ski mask.....

[Kepler]

Man. Didn't realize electronics prices had come down so much that this would be cheaper than a ski mask.....

I think the idea is it only reads at the angle of the cameras...

[Kepler]

Albanian parkour is intense.

[Kepler]

To be fair, Chicago metro is just under 10M, so you could have gone with 6.5 Chicago’s - and still proven the point.

China has 113 cities with population greater than 1 million. The US has 10.

If China ever becomes a progressive, stable, liberal democracy this game of Civ is over.

[Jimjamesak]

If China ever becomes a progressive, stable, liberal democracy this game of Civ is over.

Fun fact: China has qualified for exactly one World Cup (at least on the men’s side).

2002.

And they didn’t score a goal while losing every game.

[Kepler]

France has tards too.

Maybe this will be Reverse 1848. All the reactionaries and RWA nuts and racists and fundies will come out shooting in every country and we'll move forward a century in one afternoon.