Understanding that the right wing extremist government in the United States is attempting to squash free speech but it makes less sense that the Labour government of the UK would do its bidding. Have they tried putting a Human Rights lawyer in charge?

Someone with more time than me could easily do an entertaining mashup of Kirk and Mussolini quotes

I always thought i was left, but seeing how a lot of people on the left gleefully react to someone’s assasination makes me wonder if i’m actually left.

I don’t mourn Benito Mussolini’s passing, i never liked him. But i certainly don’t celebrate his murder either. Anyone who does should be put in a mental asylum as far as i’m concerned. They certainly have mental health problem

Mercator is a good projection for navigation for a variety of reasons. It should never have been used for geology classes in schools, but I think what originally happened is schools would just buy a nautical chart and put it on the wall.

Even when I was at school long before that episode of West Wing, my classroom had a Robinson Projection map, so the whole controversy seems like something that was ginned up possibly decades after Mercator was no longer in use except where it’s needed.

That being said Google used a broken version of mercator on their maps for many years…

Google is doing/will be doing all this anyway, combined with a search, maps, youtube, email, etc monopoly.

“Boy Trump’s sure turning America into a mess, let’s check in on how some of the more civilized countries are doing.”

Oh.

It put Ogdenville and West Haverbrook on the map.

Literally no one ever claimed it had reasoning capabilities

Altman and similar grifters were and are absolutely making those claims but maybe we’re excusing them as obvious liars?

I think the brick that is the point of this parody sailed right over your head.😁

This is a great analogy

Eh what blood got AFCIs in there? Green blood from Siemens and Eaton as far as I can tell

I think the goal with the Javelins was to try to fool the sensor making it think that the vehicle was taller than it is, causing the missile to fly too high, in top-down attack mode.

Not even this dirtbag likes Elon.

I dunno how much I buy that. America’s been going fasc for most of my adult life. Under Bush we had the patriot act, “enhanced interrogation,” “extraordinary rendition,” etc. Sure we didn’t have masked brownshirts pulling people off the streets (of America) yet but everyone could see where it was all going and people were incredibly upset.

The Putin and Xi-loving tankie seems to be an artifact of the internet. It’s the meme-internet trajectory of “haha” to “ha ha only serious” to “seriously.” It’s a way to revel in the base pleasures of the malevolent thug without having to be Pro-trump, Pro-America or Zionist.

That’s the funniest thing. Like, if you were an original Hungary-era tankie, at least you could say “the Soviet Union is the leader of the worldwide Communist movement, I believe what the SU says about itself.” But Putin’s Russia is explicitly not Communist or Socialist in any way. Putin’s ideology is inconsistent but his public statements are all basically imperial or “blood and soil” nationalism. How do they twist this guy into being a “comrade?”

Hexbear tankies really are something incredible. I’ve been around left-wing politics most of my life and in the real world I’ve met like one or two people actually like them. Difficult to understand where they all came from. I’m thinking maybe it’s a r/Pyongyang where it started as a joke and then they started taking it seriously.

“hype” is literally media attention

hype
1)
: publicity
especially : promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind
all the hype before the boxing match 

Merriam Webster

Mozilla executives are once again carrying water for Google.

If there is any doubt who they work for, watching them testify in defense of Google’s monopoly should be all you need.

I think this is a good sign at least that Ukraine has successfully stabilized the front and Putin sees no opportunities for advance. This was not something that was on the table this winter.