#populations

[thatpollguy]

Do you know the population of your country to the nearest million?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJan 11

[kalicofox]

Okay, I’m not saying you’re wrong, BUT, hear me out- I’ve been to/lived in several small towns in Texas that have several local newspapers, malls, penitentiaries, and have a skyline, but are still very much small towns. Abilene or Huntsville are good examples! So while I do like your thoughts!!! I do have to say it’s plausible for Amity Park to still be a small town.

Okay Anon, I'll give you that Amity Park COULD still be a small town. However, if you're going to use Abilene, Texas as an example, you're defeating your own point.

With a population of over 100k people, and a footprint of over 112 square miles, Abilene is not a small town. In fact, going by the US Census definition of mid-sized city (which goes based on population, rather than footprint) it's actually a large city! (And, as an aside, was offered offered the state significant financial incentive to host a jail. 1)

Huntsville, Texas, on the other hand, has a population (as of the 2020 census) of almost 46k people and a footprint of about 43 square miles. Once again, going off of the definitions used by the US Census, at just under 50k people, Huntsville would be registered as a mid sized city or town. So, again, not something you want to use to prove that Amity Park should be considered a small town.

The US Census definition of a 'Small Town or City' (according to US Census.gov) is anything with a population of under 5k people.

So. Unless you can convince me that a single small town with less than five thousand people in it needs five newspapers, then I think I'm going to stick to my guns.

(edited because I misread the thing about the jail)

[auroraluciferi]

Russia’s ethnic minorities lament the war in Ukraine

Ethnic minority troops are said to be dying in greater numbers than their Slav compatriots in the so-called ‘special military operation'

According to open source researchers, soldiers with roots in poorer regions such as Buryatia and Dagestan are disproportionately represented among Russian casualties in Ukraine.

“Most of the soldiers and officers of the ground forces and the airborne forces come from poor Russian towns and villages,” military specialist Pavel Luzin told Al Jazeera.

“This social-economic stratification has a long-term tradition in the Russian armed forces because young men from the cities with relatively good education serve in other military branches … but the infantry consists of badly-educated soldiers from poor families and regions.”

Buryatia, in Siberia, was once a part of Mongolia that was conquered by Cossacks in the 17th century.

“We can’t determine our own politics – if we had a real federation, the head of our republic could say no, Buryats won’t fight in this criminal war. But he keeps providing cannon fodder for Putin,” Victoria Maladaeva, of the Free Buryatia Foundation, told Al Jazeera.

“Buryatia, like the other ethnic republics, is governed by the colonial policies of Moscow,” Maladaeva continued.

“Our languages and history are disappearing off the face of the Earth, while Moscow sucks all the money and resources out of the provinces. Moscow is a beautiful city but it’s such a facade of all of Russia, because if you go just a little further, the houses are falling apart, there are no roads, there’s no work.”

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

IF STATE MOST RED WHY REPUBLICAN NO WIN??

Vaush explains how population density/distribution relates to voting trends, gerrymandering, "tyranny of the majority" lies, and how conservatives are desperately trying to retain control over their electorates.

Lots of cool data visualization was shown, some of which you can see here:

Here are some that weren't shown that tell the same story:

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[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

OKAY SO so much about Hogwarts makes no sense but yk what really doesn’t? Why tf is there ONE magic school for the whole of UK and Ireland. Why would historically Irish wizards be okay w their kids being taught magic by their colonizers. Why are there so few wizard kids across four countries with a collective population of like, around 72 million people, that one school, however large, can fit all of them?

*Stretches out arms* right so first we need to decide on how large the wizarding population is as a whole. It needs to be a decently sized number so we can buy that, despite multiple wars on large scales, there’s still an actual wizarding society, while also being small enough Muggles who cannot make shit disappear with a stick are a threat. Lets see what canon says...

3000. I’m sorry what. That’s... not even 0.001% of the population. What the fuck? How is there an actual global society if this is the scale for all wizard to muggle populations? What? What? No.

Okay, fine. Let’s say around 1 wizard to 100 muggles. Still quite small, but still large enough that we can have an actual wizarding society and not a wizarding club. That’s 720,000 wizards in UK and Ireland. Globally like, 79 million, because around 7.9 billion people worldwide. Yeah it’s a lot to hide, but it makes more sense to me than as tiny a number as 3000.

Okay, so in the UK, children 0-16 are around 20% of the population. Let’s say 10% are 11-17, then, given low infant mortality rates. This would mean 72,000 wizards around the Hogwarts age, and the average boarding school, at most, hosts around 1200 students. If we assume Hogwarts, as a magical school, can take more of that, then that’s lets say 1500 students in Hogwarts, so we need... 48 magical schools. Across just the UK and Ireland. And that’s not even to get started on how there’s two schools for the entirety of Europe - population 746.4 million people - one for the whole of fucking Asia, population of 4.56 billion and with just around half of the world’s population, one for all of Africa with similar numbers issues, one for the whole of North America (are all the classes the sizes of football fields or something?), and one for all of South America. For that one on top of population issues, the school is in Brazil, which speaks Portuguese, while a lot of South America speaks Spanish.

THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH WIZARDING SCHOOLS WTF THIS MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE OH MY GOD-

Not only would there realistically just be too many kids, but in most of these places there would be huge language and political barriers. Like, how would a Chinese student feel about being forced to go to school in Japan, when they speak totally different languages as well as the colonization of China under Japan that still causes tensions? How could someone who speaks Spanish from Peru learn magic in Brazil? How could someone in like, Portugal, understand French or whatever language Dumstrang speaks? Do they have to learn it all beforehand?

And how are, say, Indian students okay with being taught British magic? What about other, non-European types of magic, that probably don’t use wands or chant in Latin? Are people just okay with not learning that because there’s only schools in certain places? Are people willing to overlook all these tensions? The magic schools as they are make no sense for so many reasons istg.

There’s also around 214 students in a year at Hogwarts, between four houses, so around 53 students per house per year. So why there were five boys and three girls in Gryffindor in Harry’s year I’ll never understand.

[walkingstackofbooks]

That "world's most populous city poll" started me wondering how many countries* those cities have a bigger population than...

Tokyo's population (37,435,191) is bigger than that of 170 countries, including Saudi Arabia's (36,952,585) and Ukraine's (36,758,716). In comparison, Canada has a population of 38,784,727.

Delhi's population (29,399,141) is bigger than that of 159 countries, including Cote D'Ivoire's (28,880,603) and Venezuela's (28,844,390)

Shanghai's population (26,317,104) is bigger than that of 154 countries, including North Korea's (26,161,743) and Taiwan's (23,923,572). In comparison, Australia has a population of 26,441,853.

São Paulo's and Mexico City's populations (21,846,507 and 21,671,908) are bigger than those of 148 countries, including Malawi (20,937,323) and Zambia (20,575,606)

And the populations of Cairo (20,484,965), Mumbai (20,185,064), Beijing (20,035,455), and Dhaka (20,283,552) are bigger than those of 146 countries, including Romania (19,889,414) and Chile (19,629,887)

*A place listed as a country on worldpopulationreview.com/countries, of which there are 210.