Well, for the context of this map I think it does make sense. They currently do hold substantial territory and have borders which are disputed. Granted, 100% of their territory is disputed, but the fact that they have military control of their territory means its worth listing.

You’re too late.

They hold territory, levy taxes, provide basic civil services, and conduct international commerce. Sounds like a state to me (again, one we should destroy).

He’s missing a good one — Egypt & Sudan’s disputes over the Hala’ib Triangle (claimed by both) and Bir Tawil, which is technically claimed by neither, making it the only unclaimed land (terra nullius) in the world, outside of Antarctica.

Nice to see that all the U.S.’s ones are relatively minor.

Unfortunately, the resolution isn’t high enough to zoom in on the red dot in Southern Ontario where Chad keeps moving his fucking stapler to my side of the cubicle.

Nolan Bushnell (ex-Atari, ex-Chuck E. Cheese) has a great rant on this. He basically says we really want to save lives we should forget about world peace and focus on perfecting self-driving cars. Automobile accidents kill far more people than all the wars and terrorism in the world.

Useless trivia: Bangledesh is the most populous country never to have won a medal at the Olympics.

So mother Russia doesn’t really have that many sons?

The scary thing is the population concentrations around bodies of water combined with the risks posed by poor infrastructure (which the author points out) and climate change. I wonder if we’ll see a rise in casualties caused by natural disasters in the coming decades.

It is crazy to think that Southern California has a higher property value than Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas combined.

free market capitalism is going to be quoted a lot in the news when everything goes to shit because all of the housing in major cities is owned by people who don’t actually live in said buildings, leaving huge ghost buildings void of life, and no where for people who work in the city to actually live. causing a…

you don’t want your maid to have to drive 200 miles before she cleans your house because she can’t afford anything anywhere near you do you ?