Alert: The Maps Thread

All I know about Cordoba is that it was furnished with rich Corinthian leather.

 

I never understood why Khan would drive a Chrysler.

 

How else was he going to drive around Fantasy Island?

 

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/15/moving-states-2025-map

 

It looks everyone in Louisiana is moving to Arkansas.

 

I’m unfamiliar with this data set, but it appears just to be data from just one company, Atlas Van Lines? And 107k services rendered in a country of 300M?

Seems suspect.

 

Part of that low number is the overall drop in people moving because they're locked into really low mortgage rates where they are and can't justify leaving that for something at a much higher rate right now.

 

I’m not even aware of Atlas Van Lines.
Do they have greater presence in certain parts of the country?
Are there other moving companies eating their lunch in certain regions?
Are there other moving companies where this data could be aggregated?

Maybe this is a legit metric, I’m just not seeing how it could be?

 

They had a prominent hydroplane racing presence in Seafair and the Columbia Cup back in my childhood!

 

Atlas World Group owns a handful of subsidiaries and has big contracts like global moving for the US DOD. They're probably more known for international relocation moves, but they've got their hands in quite a few things.

 

It's not. IMHO. I've seen these reports from from various moving companies or websites that share their own, specific perspective on national trends. I assume it's done to drive traffic and, hopefully, sales to those companies.

I'm not saying that firms like Atlas don't care deeply about trends such as this, as they affect their bottom line and business strategies. I just won't accept that they're a particularly useful data source if one wants to understand what's really happening across the country.

 

I'm utterly unsure what to make of this.

 

Day(light)'s looking up!

 

One of my favorite Colbert jokes was in his first year. Before his show started, the days were getting shorter, but now (at time of show) the days are getting longer!!!

Thanks Colbert!

 

Unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere!

 

Cool Sci-Fi premise: instead of N/S hemisphere day length being a SIN curve (-ish), it's a COS curve. Both hemispheres wax and wane together.

And no, it's not because the axis doesn't tilt, it's because the planet is in a multi-star system and the aggregate light equals out for both hemispheres all year.

...somebody hire me ffs...

 

I'll read this book or watch this movie if it at least attempts to explain how a planet in a multi-star system managed to have a stable orbit long enough to develop intelligent life.

Eh, I'll probably read/watch it anyway, but I reserve the right to annoy the people around me by pointing this out. A lot.

 

Now I want to watch the movie and the YouTube video tearing it down.