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zksmk@sopuli.xyzOPMto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Expansion of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in West Africa in first half of 20231·2 years agoAnd here’s a map of the recent/currently ongoing Niger coup:
And the ratio of the forces of the Islamist fighters and the ECOWAS coalition forces (currently committed: Nigeria, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, and Benin):
zksmk@sopuli.xyzOPMto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Global antineutrinos emitted from nuclear power stations8·2 years agoAntineutrinos don’t interact with almost anything. They’re just a bunch of wimps. They’re harmless. Neat for mapping nuclear reactors tho.
zksmk@sopuli.xyzOPMto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Map of Yeísmo in the Spanish speaking world. Blue areas have the same sound for y and ll [IPA:/ʝ/; ENG:"y"], areas in pink maintain a distinction between the two sounds [IPA:/ʝ/+/ʎ/; ENG:"y"+"ly"]1·2 years agoWhat I find interesting about this is that this transition also happened in highly unrelated languages such as Hungarian, Greek and Swedish, not only in related Portuguese and French.
- In Hungarian, /ʎ/ in most dialects turned into /j/, but the spelling ⟨ly⟩ was preserved, hence lyuk [juk].
- In Swedish, /lj/ turned into /j/ in word-initial positions, but the spelling ⟨lj⟩ was preserved, hence ljus [ˈjʉːs].
- In Cypriot Greek, /lj/ is often pronounced as [ʝː], especially by younger speakers. In Standard Modern Greek, it always surfaces as [ʎ].
I guess people find it hard to pronounce /ʎ/ but are too inert to change the spelling.
zksmk@sopuli.xyzOPMto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Map of about 0.001 percent of the observable universe1·2 years agoThe radius of the currently observable universe is about 50 billion light-years and this map depicts a sphere with a radius of about 1 billion light-years, so if my calculamalations are correct, following through with sphere volume V being V=4/3πr³ this map depicts about 0.001 percent of the observable universe.
zksmk@sopuli.xyzMto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•The shrinking of Lake Chad from 1963 to 2021.English1·2 years agoAt least the vegetation seems to have bounced back in the last 10 years.
zksmk@sopuli.xyzOPMto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Neitokainen is a body of water in Finland, which is shaped like Finland1·2 years agoRight here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=neitokainen#map=18/67.55653/24.50085
You’re right, it’s very far north, next to the border with Sweden.
I believe this map is made essentially as an amalgamation of all the years in this gif. It might make more sense to you if you observe it like that.
Ascription of historical and collective guilt, and how to do it, if at all, is a separate topic, but the underlining data is correct.