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: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 [...]
: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.
:carmenibanez: Karen Buddhists are the most numerous of the Karens and account for around 65 percent of the total Karen population.
: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.
: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
@mrsaturday

> Cicadas caught by Wa people in order to crush them with chilies in a mixture similar to the Thai Nam phrik
@p "Go home and eat a big bowl of phrik" - Insults from an 11 Year Old with Braces, Vol. 3
Sir Rob G 🇨🇦 :verified:

@p @mrsaturday @Economic_Hitman no, they can eat the bugs there and quit trying to buy the meat and grain from us, since those bugs are “to delicious to believe”