Youtube comments of solomon4 (@solomon4554).

  1. Russia didn't conquer the Georgian principalities through a military campaign in 1810. They were gradually absorbed into Russia peacefully through treaties from 1803-1810
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  2. There is a video about this on this channel. It's called "why Iraq in dying"
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  3. Osowiec, then and again
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  4. ​ @casualearth-dandavis best of luck to you!
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  5. ​ @xpusostomos you have to take cost of living into consideration.
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  6.  @lynth  doesn't the Colorado flow for like 3 km in Mexico before entering the Pacific?
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  7. Killing someone who committed murder is NOT a human right violation
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  8. Falklands War being an example
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  9. Babe wake up, casual earth posted.
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  10. I would also recommend Geodiode.
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  11. Does the fact that the Indian ocean is landlocked also cause aridity in Arabia? As there's no northern high-pressure area and therefore no warm currents or onshore winds that would bring rain to the Arabian peninsula and North Africa as is the case in the southern United States or southern China, hence no Humid Subtropical climates in these parts as is the case in similar latitudes elsewhere.
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  12. Mombasa has a Savanna climate as opposed to an arid one.
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  13. And the Station Nightclub fire back in 2001-2003 I forgot when exactly
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  14. That's the art of war!
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  15. You had the chance to use ''hold my tea"
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  16. 😂😂
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  17. Does this also apply to islands in SE Indonesia that are affected by the cold West Australian Current?
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  18. The return of the king!
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  19. It's impossible to make a sphere into a flat map without some form of distortion, so no. Keep in mind that certain map projections have more distortion than others.
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  20. That's so cool to think about
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  21. This aged well
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  22. My takeaway from this: Arabia north of the Tropic of Cancer is within the normal latitude of atmospheric subsidence within the Hadley Cell, but southern Arabia, at a latitude of 12° north, is within the normal latitude of Tropical Savanna climates and is a desert for entirely different reasons, and would have had a monsoon were it not for India.
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  23. Can't wait for the video on east African deserts
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  24.  @esaking1509  2022
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  25. ​ @fiancatto if you expect that much literacy from the average Saudi you're in for a disappointment
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  26.  @serenissimarespublicavenet3945  Yes, I was referring to Liguria in my question. My bad.
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  27.  @skp8748  Mount Kilimanjaro, Somali Plateau..
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  28. الأدهى والأمر ان أذربيجان دولة علمانية وأغلب الشعب ما يهتم بالدين وما يصلي أصلا
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  29. Not all pitbulls but somehow always a pitbull
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  30. That's noble
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  31. ​ @ForageGardener the eastern US too certainly is rain-shadowed too.
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  32. Same!
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  33.  @casualearth-dandavis  Oh my, I'm truly looking forward for most of those
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  34.  @JosephSeabourne  Oceania is not a continent, it's a geographical region. By definition, continents are single, large masses of land separated by expanses of water. Oceania is a group of tiny, scattered islands.
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  35. The station nightclub fire too
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  36. Palestine will be free!
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  37. ​ @anjanikumar404 because the Palestinian already have their own land pajeet
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  38. This is what they call self-destruction
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  39. ​ @medislamaissani6199 فال الله ولا فالك
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  40. Like that's any consolation
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  41. ​ @dexterity_1st Geography Geek, Geography by Geoff, Real Life Lore (some videos), and as the comment below me stated, Atlas Pro.
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  42.  @casualearth-dandavis  but wouldn't that mean they'd have to pass over Tanzania first? Northern Tanzania is very dry during boreal summer.
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  43. No
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  44. I wonder why the French didn't have that in mind when they conquered Africa.
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  45. It literally put 4-5 warnings for me
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  46.  @casualearth-dandavis  If I may ask, does the northern coast of Yucatán peninsula experience upwelling similar to the Guajira Peninsula and ABC islands? It has a strip of semi-arid climate with savanna further inland.
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  47. أحسنت القول
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  48. The Poles have taken over the comments
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  49. ناهيك عن أن أذربيجان دولة علمانية ولا يهمها الإسلام أصلا
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  50.  @JL-ti3us  it's called Geodiode, his climate videos are the creme de la creme.
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  51. El Niño does occasionally bring heavy rain to Somalia
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  52. ​ @casualearth-dandavis if I may ask, is east and SE Australia more affected by tropical easterlies/northerlies or temperate westerlies? Or does it depend on the season? And what's the source of winter rainfall in the Cfa zones of eastern Australia?
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  53. أي تمرد وهذه أراضيهم التي يعيشون عليها منذ مئات السنين؟
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  54. Siberia and China are dry in winter because of the high pressure system known as the Siberia High, not because of the absence of lakes
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  55. Mogadishu
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  56. And you give yourself the right to insult EVERY other religion
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  57. Because winds are westerly at Patagonia's latitudes
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  58. ​ @هانيبالاشوريان اي مسلمين 😂 أذربيجان دولة علمانية وأغلب الشعب ما يهتم بالدين وما يصلي أصلا
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  59.  @kottiakottia8948  وحضرتك من فين عرفت دولتي اصلا
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  60. The timelapse is too funny for some reason
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  61. Laughs in blitzkrieg
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  62. In your dreams
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  63. American justice is a joke
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  64. Nothing they didn't deserve
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  65. It's not really a desert, it's semi arid
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  66. @casualearth9076 is the next video about the climate of the south Atlantic and northeastern Brazil?
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  67. I've always wondered where the excess summer rainfall of the Po Valley comes from. Certainly not the west, since lands at the same latitude in western Italy have a Mediterranean climate, not to mention the rain shadow of the Appenines. Do you happen to know by any chance?
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  68. There's a video about that on this channel. It's called "why is there a desert in the Caribbean".
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  69. الله لا يبلانا
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  70. I was always confused by the strip of Semi-arid climate in the northern black sea while looking at climate maps. Thanks for clearing up my confusion.
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  71.  @casualearth-dandavis  yes I've seen that video of yours, amazing work as always.
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  72.  @casualearth-dandavis  quick question though, how far north does this 'anti-monsoon reach? As in where do summer northerlies end and summer westerlies begin?
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  73.  @casualearth-dandavis  you misreading my comment just provided me with more information that I didn't know about so there's no complaining about that lol.
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  74. At long last
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  75. ​ @taron420 this aged like milk
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  76. Tierzoo
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  77. 😂😂😂😂
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  78. And we hate it
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  79.  @أدرار_ؤمعروف  كيف عرفت انه يعرف عربي 😂
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  80. Yup
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  81. من متى صار أصلها عربي؟
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  82. ​ @صبريالشنواني-س1ل والله صدقت
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  83.  Mike Rommel Roselo  trying to rehabilitate certain people is a waste of time
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  84.  @pttn6  Mr Davis has already made a video on why the Arabian peninsula is a desert. It's titled "why is there a desert in Somalia"
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  85. I actually watched requiem for a dream thrice, and planning to watch some from this list.
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  86. Exactly, I couldn't even bring myself to press the like button on this heap of misinformation in the shape of a video
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  87. ​ @casualearth-dandavis is the video on east African deserts still coming up?
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  88. It's usually because of a rain shadow. The summer monsoon rains are prevented from reaching southeast India because of the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats mountains. When the monsoon winds reverse direction in the winter, they pick up moisture from the Bay of Bengal and dump it over southeast India and northeast Sri Lanka, hence the winter precipitation maximum.
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  89. Some deserts get their rainfall in the summer
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  90. Lions don't eat carrion actually
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  91.  @shawnp6744  why would I be recommending it to somebody if I didn't already watch it lol don't worry about me
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  92. ​@@MirkomixIsrael is literally bombing churches
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  93. ​ @لتفكرتخمطحسابي اليهود مش فلسطينيين
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  94. ​ @thomasgrabkowski8283 what matters is they don't touch the coast
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  95. I completely agree
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  96. ​ @Snigdhorup  no
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  97. 😂😂😂
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  98. The Caatinga is dry due to the way in which the ITCZ is positioned over the region, though local geography is also a factor. The ITCZ is positioned north of the region for most of the year, so the northeast trade winds don't really make landfall in that part of Brazil. At the same time, the southeast trade winds lie in the rain shadow of Brazil's coastal escarpment, meaning relatively little rain falls on the leeward side. By contrast, Salvador on the coast has a very wet tropical rainforest climate on the other side of the escarpment. The Caatinga does have a short wet season in spring when the ITCZ moves over the region, though it's not enough to push it out of the semi-arid zone. I hope this was helpful.
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  99. ​ @andrewchin5583 As someone who lives in Mecca, let me tell there's absolutely no reason you'd want to visit other than hajj lol.
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  100. اكتب زين
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  101. ​ @jeckjeck3119 how so?
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  102.  @bruces4515  of authoritarian governments getting into wars to distract their population from dire economic conditions.
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  103. 9:46 just a bit of extra info, the highest mountain in Mecca is 975 meters above sea level, but the mountains in Mecca are too steep and generally unsuitable for human habitation.
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  104. ادعي لهم بالهداية
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  105. I'm not sure if you're going to respond as this is an old video, but if I may ask, why do the Great Plains have dry winters while areas further south and east have no dry season as your map at 5:46 shows, if both of these areas are equally affected by the continental polar air mass from Canada?
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  106. So in a way, Egypt losing a war to Israel in 1967 somehow contributed to the contamination of the blood of penguins living in Antarctica, tall about a butterfly effect.
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  107. ​ @fandroid6491 I read your comment in the exact second he said that word, what are the odds lmao
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  108. The last time I was this early the Panama canal didn't exist
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  109. To think RLL still made 12-minute videos as recently as a year ago
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  110. ​ @JawadJawad-sg4zm وما دخل كل ما ذكرته بأرمينيا؟
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  111. ​ @داعساوغادداعس عمر رضي الله عنه عندما دخل القدس لم يتعرض لكنائس المسيحيين.. الإسلام بريء منكومن أمثالك الإرهابيين
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  112. Gplates and maptoglobe. The only climate simulation software I've heard of so far is ClimaSim, which only simulates temperature but not precipitation.
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  113. ​ @The_DC_Kid or the station nightclub fire
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  114.  @FuckVirginMary  stop being superstitious
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  115. ​ @s.s.a.a.368 hello chatgpt
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  116. How did you know 😭
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  117. Oceanic wall, like in pacific rim (It'd probably cost trillions, but better safe than sorry)
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  118. I don't know if this is correct or not, bud I'd also argue that we have deserts at such high latitudes in the southern hemisphere is because that hemisphere is mostly water, allowing for greater maritime moderation which prevents temperatures from dropping as low as they do at similar latitudes in the northern hemisphere, and accordingly evapotranspiration doesn't drop as low. Some subarctic areas in the north receive precipitation well below many desert areas but they are not classified as deserts because the cold temperatures always keep evapotranspiration equal to or less than precipitation.
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  119. Add to that the rain shadow effect of the Satpura and Vindhya ranges in India to the east and the Sulaiman Mountains of Pakistan in the west.
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  120. Continentality
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  121. ​ @davidz3879 Somalia is located at the crossroads of two monsoon systems: the South Asian monsoon and the West African monsoon. During the summer, the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) shifts far to the north over Asia, leaving behind east Africa and causing the trade winds to blow parallel to its shore as they get deflected to the northeast towards India due to the coriolos force. As they do, they cause upwelling, bringing deep, cold water to the surface, which further reduces precipitation. At the same time, rain-bearing trade winds off the Gulf of Guinea that bring rain to much of West Africa and the Sahel are prevented from reaching east Africa thanks to the rain-shadow effect of the Ethiopian Highlands and the African Rift Mountains. Lastly, the northeast monsoon flow during winter is largely over land, meaning there's little moisture for the winds to pick up. Hope this helps.
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  122. New Zealand is in the middle latitudes. This video I specifically about subtropical deserts.
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  123. ​​ @casualearth-dandavis At 4:27 you show easterly winds curving into westwrlies over the Congo rainforest. I do know that westwrlies do come off the Gulf of Guineas, but do the westerlies over the Congo originate from the Mascarene or South Atlantic anticyclone? It wouldn't make sense for them to go over the cold Benguela current so far eastward.
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  124. You could say it's already over
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  125. This feels longer than one minute...
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  126. ikr
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  127. ​ @casualearth-dandavis does moisture from the Indian Ocean also reach the Congo Basin from easterly low-level jets that cross through gaps in the Rift Mountains and slow down over Central Africa during Northern Hemisphere summer, similar to the Turkana jet?
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  128. In addition to what Mr Davis has mentioned, I'd like to add that in January (Southern Hemisphere summer) the cold Benguela current is at its southernmost extent around the Namib Desert, allowing easterly winds to blow from the Atlantic Ocean into the Congo Basin at this time of year. This is evident in the climate graphs of cities like Libreville, which can receive upwards of 250 mm of rain in January. Hope this clears up some confusion.
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  129. There's a mini black hole in its stomach
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  130. Your pfp matches with the comment
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  131. I came here hoping to find Sabaton listeners
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  132. Classical Latin is as good as language gets.
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  133. Climatologically they're both deserts. But they have different environment and biomes.
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  134.  @mohamedhussein4124  parts of it are semi-arid but the majority is desert, climate-wise at least. Again, climate ≠ biome.
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  135.  @mohamedhussein4124  plus arid is just another word for desert, you're contradicting yourself.
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  136.  @SAMORAY1000  ليش زعلان من الحقيقة؟
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  137. Oh come to Mecca, I'll make you reconsider these first two lines.
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  138. I'd take dry heat over humid heat any day
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  139. Looks like RLL is running out of ideas
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  140. Rain shadows probably, not to mention the whole region is dry in summer as is.
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  141. اللهم زد وبارك
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  142. 😂😂😂
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  143. إرهابيين
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  144. 5:03 France: Am I a joke to you?
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  145. ​ @arashahad8733 as someone who lives here, I wouldn't
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  146. Please do what if Kurdistan was its own country
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