Reacting to More Crazy Maps Of The World

[@queenbutterfly7519]

19:55 so cute. Luka trying to say megalopolis 🤣🤗 aww

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

Mega-Lop-Olis (Me-ga-la-p-o-liss) "a thickly populated region centering in a metropolis or embracing several metropolises." I remember in the early Sim City games, they had "Megalopolis" stuff. Sort of like how in DC comics, Metropolis is considered a megalopolis due to its size.

[@798jeremy]

Mega-Lo-Polis may be an easier way to get it, IMO...

[@jariemonah]

First map, he just referred to China as Japan. 😅 Sorry Lav, but they are entirely different. 🤭

[@razier5299]

I mean... Imperial Japan would like to debate that.

[@jariemonah]

@@razier5299 Yeah maybe if you lived in the late 19th to early 20th century but this map was of the 15th century. I think Japan's warlords were still having civil war at that time. 😅

[@Exitha]

Pretty sure he meant to say China but accidentally said Japan

[@jariemonah]

@@Exitha Yeah I figured. The rest of the video checks out.

[@debs-101]

@@Exitha yea for sure. He’s pretty solid in his map and flag knowledge

[@SherriLyle80s]

I had to look this up: _"Toki Pona was invented by Sonja Lang (née Elen Kisa) and first published online in 2001. It is a simple pidgin-like language based on universal human experience designed to express as much as possible with relatively few sounds and words. The name toki pona means "good language" or "simple language"._ _"Toki Pona has only 14 basic sounds chosen to be easy to pronounce for anybody, regardless of their linguistic background."_

[@Jliske2]

i was hoping someone explained it in the comments. i loved constructing languages and Toki Pona is rather interesting

[@newwaveinfantry8362]

10:10 - For this kind of map you get statistical anomalies. When you have 50 states, some of which have a very small percentage of the population, you need a HUGE data set, and while 200 school shootings is unbareably too many, it is far too small for a statistical data set. If you look at overall homicide rate like in 2:25 you get a much less bizarre result.

[@halicarnassus834]

17:45, Pushkin Square in Moscow is named after the famous Black Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, who is considered widely in Russia as the Father of Russian Literature and poetry.

[@RyanRediger66]

Doesn’t look it but yeah his great grandfather wast black African general

[@newwaveinfantry8362]

3:09 - Tripe soup and salted pig fat are really good. Westerners just don't understand.

[@isaaclemmen6500]

8:49 - Oversimplified description of IQ scale. 100 is average (it is occasional readjusted so that 100 is average for americans) 68% of people are between 85 and 115. (34% on either side of 100) 14% are between 115 and 130 Also 14% between 85 and 70 2% between 130 and 145 2% between 70 and 55 below 55 or above 145 are significantly below 1%. A few other theresholds. 115 is about average for college graduates. 130 is about average for phd students (it can vary by field) It is illegal to induct people into the Canadian military below 83, because the military can't find anything for them to do that isn't counterproductive.

[@aralornwolf3140]

Furthermore... IQ is an outdated method of measurement. One can increase one's IQ by doing more tests and getting a better education. That map showed where the free/best educated places are... not how smart everyone _is._

[@jaykaufman9782]

The Culinary Horrors at 2:45 got the biggest roar of laughter from me: Switzerland ... Nestle! Damn straight!! And if you're not already boycotting all Nestle products, please do even the most minimal amount of research, and prepare to be enraged.

[@HahnJames]

Thurston, when doing map reactions like this one, would you read the map title or subject as it comes into view? Some of us would be very appreciative of that. Cheers, dude!

[@banditbuddies728]

He did though

[@zacheryvorse8130]

The gun laws are kinda strict in the north for handguns, I could buy any long gun(rifles or shotguns) because I'm over 18

[@zeec2093]

Well it depends where you are, California, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey, are more strict but the rest are not so much

[@zacheryvorse8130]

@@zeec2093 i'm in new York, the gun laws are wierd because if you live in the city you can't get any gun without a permit, but outside the city you can get Any long gun 18 and up without a permit

[@jdanon203]

@@zeec2093 Connecticut and Massachusetts I think are also very strict. The stricter the gun laws the lower rate of gun deaths. Pretty simple. The states with the lowest rates of gun death are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Hawaii, and Connecticut.

[@debs-101]

I love map videos but I can’t see a title or description on many of these so I have no idea what they show. But, yay, maps

[@mindofzay2024]

Your map videos are goated man

[@xviper2k]

The largest & busiest McDonald's in the world was in Moscow? Welp, not anymore.

[@thseed7]

The 1815 population map didn't take account of the millions of Native Americans who inhabited the continent of North America

[@landonshowalter-maxson2170]

or south america

[@SkiesTurnedGrey]

The US and UK have a higher population of Hindu-practicing people because those are the two countries many people immigrate to.

[@jariemonah]

It's because of British imperialism

[@SkiesTurnedGrey]

"Muslims in the US: 1,000,001 - 500,000,000" Uhh, that's a really substantial gap in the range, and there aren't even 500 million people in the US. 😆Obviously an error missed by whoever made that map. I think that was supposed to be 5,000,000, as evidenced by the range above it.

[@jaykaufman9782]

For the Korean War sides at 7:50, most of the Communist Bloc took no active part: only North Korea and Communist China had troops, while the Soviets sent scores of their top fighter pilots who only flew over Communist-held territory. The Communists lost aircraft at a 17-1 ratio, thus Stalin's decision to send pilots, but he didn't want anyone to know Russians were flying "Chinese" aircraft. What's interesting is the worldwide effort versus the North Korean invasion: substantial numbers of ground troops from across the UK and the Commonwealth, Colombia, Ethiopia (an entire brigade, thanks to Emperor Haile Selassie), Turkey and Greece fighting on the same side, the Netherlands and Belgium, France, the Philippines, Thailand. Plus hospitals, etc. from Sweden et al. A snapshot of what the United Nations might have become if the world's democracies had stayed united, and if only democracies were welcomed into the UN.

[@bigdog91paper]

For the electoral map, you don't have to put those things, but there are exit polls where pollsters will collect data on who people voted for and there they do ask for that sort of demographic stuff.

[@bob_._.]

Toki Pona is a language someone made up about 20 years ago; it has less than 140 words. The breakdown of American elections are determined by exit polling; asking people how they voted after they voted.

[@Youdontunderstandmoney]

Not even two minutes in and he's already called China Japan. This is going to be an interesting video lol.

[@brianmoore6724]

Lav has to come over and clean my computer screen and keyboard of my Diet Pepsi that I spit all over listening to him trying to pronounce megalopolis

[@yugioht42]

Le Mans is a 24 hour endurance race for cars. Every car company sends a fleet of a single new car that they worked on for the last year. Each car is run through the gambit for a straight 24 hours, they switch drivers every 8 hours but it’s the same car the entire way through. The point is to see how a car preforms under constant stress for a full day. Ferrari lost a number of cars over the years due to pure out overheating of the engine. Ford beat the others once only because it outlasted everyone else because of the revolutionary air cooled engine at the time. The point is not the race itself that is important as anything learned is immediately moved over to the general assembly lines to improve cars like the engine was liquid cooled before now it’s all air cooled. Oil companies try making better motor oils after learning from le man as their stuff literally boiled after four hours at Le man until completely reworking the formula to better do the job much longer. The point being winning the race is one thing but doing better than that year is the goal every year. Le man is the perfect learning experience under the most stressful of conditions as you can’t predict what cars do as they very likely will break but you try and get better.

[@Fridge56Vet]

Drivers usually change every 2nd-4th pit stop. Not sure I've heard of more than a quadrouple stint. Would love to go someday, tho have been to 12 hr. Of Sebring & Daytona 24, as well a sPerit Le Mans. Lots of fun.

[@JorgeCat78]

Boswash megalopolis - or was we Northeastern Americans call it: The Northeast Corridor or the Interstate 95 (I-95) Corridor

[@sammack1890]

You should react to Hochelaga they have some really good videos

[@sailorchibiluna]

What's with Europe's obsession with blood? lol

[@greendragonpublishing]

Because the UK used to own India. And the US has lots of immigrants from the UK and India.

[@EeroMyrsky]

India --> UK/USA. There are economic opportunities in these countries AND they already speak English. Same reason there are a ton of French-speaking Africans in France.

[@xRakanishu]

Norway be wilin

[@stumccabe]

Blood pudding IS black pudding - obviously.

[@darleneshriver3270]

That was very interesting thanks 😊

[@jerrodsix545]

Great video reaction.

[@SherriLyle80s]

Le Mans (pronounced le mons) is a car race. Very prestigious!

[@darleneshriver3270]

McDonald's isn't in Russia anymore they close down their shops because of the Ukraine Russia situation! So now Russia is selling their stored McDonald foods elsewhere!

[@jariemonah]

I was hoping his google search would inform him that lol

[@RyanRediger66]

China and Russia basically have the same political system. The leader only steps down when they see fit. The people don’t have much say in it.

[@halicarnassus834]

8:25, How is it possible there so few Catholic Churches in Ireland? Am I reading that wrong?

[@HermanVonPetri]

The key for that map is misleading. It's showing the number of _people_ that belong to the Catholic Church in each country. I was confused too and had to look it up. Ireland only has a population of about five-million people in the whole country, about 3.7 million of which identify as Catholic. Which corresponds to the shade indicating 2,000,000+.

[@TrojansOwl1]

Bro you’ve been at 165K forever 😩

[@halicarnassus834]

11:20, Why would you have thought it wouldn't be that high? The United States has no Official State Religion or Church. Separation of Church and state sometimes makes more people Religious. Also the United States is where many Christians/Catholics from Europe fled from the tyranny of the State Church to worship freely.

[@leitakcoc]

10:14 I’d say for one, the population. California, Texas, Florida and Illinois have quite the huge populations (especially when compared to the states west of Illinois).For reference Illinois (red) has a population of 12.6 million while Montana (blue) has a population of 1 million. I have no source to prove it, but I can imagine about 50% come from those 4 states alone. Another 30% probably come from Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee because the people there are insane. Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama and Michigan probably take care of another 15%. That leaves 2% for the rest of the red states.

[@aralornwolf3140]

It's more complicated than that... New York City is huge... and it's Blue.

[@leitakcoc]

@@aralornwolf3140 New York as a whole is smaller than any of the four. But yeah, I’m sure there’s other factors like average age, gun ownership, crime, etc.

[@marshalljarnagin9370]

9:35 Pretty sure the USA should be red. The last word is America...

[@annajohnson8124]

The electoral maps by demographics, you don't have to put in your race or religion or whatever when you vote. However polls do show how people of those demographics vote in that area. Blue is democratic and red is republican. So the first was if only people of color voted, all states would be blue states, meaning democratic win. Next map, if only women voted democrat would still win by a lot, but it wouldn't be a close out. Next if only men, republican win, but more evenly split than the first two maps. That's all it's saying. Who would win if only these people were allowed to vote, going by poll data.

[@kassiad8527]

School shooting map is because gun laws are lax or really don't exist in the States in red. The Muslim and Hindu map also makes sense for country of origin for a lot of doctors in the UK and US.

[@Exitha]

10:00 majority of the population lives in the red

[@jariemonah]

The Northeast would like a word

[@alohatigers1199]

That’s due to lower wages and lower cost of living. But because lower wages, even lower wages and low cost of living, it’s the same as high wages and high cost of living. Let’s also acknowledge that majority of the poverty is in red states. Did they not tell you that majority of the federal funds red states receive comes from California’s taxes? Basically, California tax dollars are funding POOR RED STATES.

[@Utoober729]

Rotten sharks, lol

[@lynxgaming6538]

React to "Mankind Rising - Where do humans come from" it's interesting please react to it i love your reactions

[@jessedaniel6330]

You should react to Tom McDonald - IN GOD WE TRUST

[@Alex.Kaleipahula]

0:51 that's CHINA BRO , Not JAPAN

[@darleneshriver3270]

Homeless people have no where to use restrooms!

[@katherinetepper-marsden38]

Middle Eastern countries according to IQ... like thats going to be accurate 🙄

[@yugioht42]

What is going on you are a bit dark. Lights?

[@tyunpeters3170]

You could just scroll down a subreddit about maps or data And no, China does not hold elections since 2018

[@license2kilttheplaidlad640]

Unfortunately I'm trying to watch this on a phone and even with my glasses I can't read the titles. So unless he mentioned them I have no idea what I'm seeing plus when his window blocks the info. Not helpful either 🤔

[@Blue_Star_Child]

When you ask people if they believe in God and scriptures they are likely going to lie and say yes even if they don't or they are not practicing. It's all about perception. If you asked people "Do you actively go to church/mosque/synagogue/ect.?" It would be much lower. Lots of people still believe but attended services has fallen a great deal, especially in the younger crowd. I am athiest and raised my kids that way.

[@SilvanaDil]

ME-GA-*LO*-PO-LIS (Judaism was left out. Of course, about 45% would be in Israel and about another 45% would be in the U.S.)

[@halicarnassus834]

18:15, Romania 🇷🇴 ❤ , which I adore, is the highest of Religious Christians/Catholics in Europe on this map, however Ukraine its neighbor is excluded and would also rank high. An ex-Soviet Nation like Romania whose people were forced to be Atheists under the Soviet Union rebelled greatly and rebuilt their Churches and Cathedrals back after the fall of the Soviet Union.

[@Allaiya.]

Eh, I'd say football more so than baseball is America's unofficial sport.

[@froggo1122]

phroge

[@whoishim2998]

The maps at 14:03 are terrible honestly

[@HermanVonPetri]

The electoral college is terrible, honestly. We should not be choosing who runs the country the same way we choose who wins a sports tournament. Winner-takes-all allocations by state are inherently unrepresentative.

[@darleneshriver3270]

Vietnam from what I understand was like a French colony and then they started fighting and doing so well so the US went in to help!

[@tophers3756]

We went in when Communist guerilla fighters backed by the USSR went to war