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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 11:02:04 JST pistolero

:woman: Karen insurgent groups, led primarily by the Karen National Union (KNU), have waged war against the Burmese government since early 1949. The original aim of the KNU was to create an independent Karen homeland [...]

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- pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 11:57:50 JST pistolero
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  :fran: The Karen New Year is one of the major holidays that the Karen people celebrate. The date of the Karen New Year on the Gregorian calendar varies as the Karen people use the lunar calendar. The Karen New Year usually falls on a date in December or January on the Gregorian calendar.
  
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- pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 11:57:50 JST pistolero
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  :woman: Probably the funniest Wikipedia page to take out of context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_people . :bigred:
  
  At any rate, I keep getting annoyed when I have to look up a country code on Wikipedia, one of the simplest datasets and conspicuously missing from the awk/grep/sed/whatever-friendly files I keep around in ~/data and also missing from /lib on Plan 9, which still ships with a list of all US area codes, positions of the stars, Unicode tables, all kinds of useful references.
  
  Did you know that ISO wants 300 Swiss francs for their file full of "India is abbreviated 'IN' or 'IND', Ukraine is UKR or UA"? ISO-3166: https://www.iso.org/publication/PUB500001.html . So then you go get it from :glowinthedark: La Cia :cia: at https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/country-data-codes/ and it's an Excel-style CSV and you have to strip the \r and the stupid BOM because the CIA fuckin' loves Windows.
  
  So, here's a public service, here's this file, it is tab-separated, no header, columns are two-letter ISO-3166 abbreviation, three-letter ISO, ISO country code, ccTLD, Stanag, GENC (US gov), official name, and CIA-supplied comment.
  country-codes.tsv
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  2. Karen people
    
    The Karen ( kə-REN), also known as the Kayin, Kariang or Kawthoolese, are an ethnolinguistic group of Tibeto-Burman language-speaking people. The group as a whole is heterogeneous and disparate as many Karen ethnic groups do not associate or identify with each other culturally or linguistically. These Karen groups reside primarily in Kayin State, southern and southeastern Myanmar. The Karen account for around 6.69% of the Burmese population. Many Karen have migrated to Thailand, having settled mostly on the Myanmar–Thailand border. A few Karen have settled in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, and other Southeast Asian and East Asian countries. The Karen consist of two subgroups, the White Karen and the Red Karen. The Karen groups as a whole are often confused with the Padaung tribe, best known for the neck rings worn by their women, but they are just one sub-group of Red Karens (Karenni), one of the tribes of Kayah in Kayah State, Myanmar. Karen insurgent groups, led primarily by the Karen National Union (KNU),...
  3. Country Codes Collection
    
    Whether you're in banking or a business using country codes, look no further than this collection to keep you up-to-date. It allows you to download the most recent, official lists of country codes and/or subdivisions not to mention formerly used codes in one convenient location. The collection contains …
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    Country Data Codes - The World Factbook
- pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 11:57:51 JST pistolero
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  :carmenibanez: Karen Buddhists are the most numerous of the Karens and account for around 65 percent of the total Karen population.
  
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- pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 11:57:52 JST pistolero
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  :bigred: Karen legends refer to a "river of running sand" which their ancestors reputedly crossed.
  
  :joanna: Research indicates that the Karen exhibit signs of genetic isolation, suggesting a distinct genetic lineage separate from neighboring populations.
  
  :joanna: Some Karen have left the refugee camps in Thailand to resettle elsewhere, including in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia. In 2011, the Karen diaspora population was estimated to be approximately 67,000.
  
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- King Zog I of Albania (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 11:58:14 JST King Zog I of Albania
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  @p Their archnemeses, the Wa People, of Wario and Waluigi fame
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_people
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    The Wa people (Wa: Vāx; Burmese: ဝလူမျိုး, [wa̰ lùmjóʊ]; Chinese: 佤族; pinyin: Wǎzú; Thai: ว้า) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in Northern Myanmar, in the northern part of Shan State and the eastern part of Kachin State, near and along Myanmar's border with China, as well as in China's Yunnan Province. Historically, the Wa have inhabited the Wa States, a territory that they have claimed as their ancestral land since time immemorial. It is a rugged, mountainous area located between the Mekong and the Salween River, with the Nam Hka flowing across it. The Wa traditionally practiced subsistence agriculture by cultivating rice, peas, beans, poppies and walnuts. They bred water buffaloes, which they used mainly for sacrificial purposes. Generally, the traditional customs of the Wa, as well as their lifestyle, are very similar to those of the Naga people further to the Northwest. The Wa people speak the Wa language which is part of the Mon-Khmer group of languages. Many of the Wa are animists and...

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