A small number (under 100) of bank accounts were temporarily frozen. No assets were confiscated/

Completely, 100%, absolutely false.

The bank accounts of some of the criminal convoy leaders were frozen. The bank accounts of individuals who donated to the criminal convoy were not touched whatsoever. The money in the frozen donation accounts was eventually returned to those who donated.

Yeah, I was waiting for someone to bring up the convoy criminals.

Believe me, the USA has far harsher sanctions for anyone who commits a crime. Look up "Civil Forfeiture", which is not nearly as easy to do in Canada.

Canada guarantees Freedom of Expression in our Constitution. While on paper, the USA has stronger guarantees, in practice, Canada has much more freedom (as measured, for example, by Freedom House.)

We don't have the equivalent of the FCC threatening broadcasters for which politicians they interview on TV, for example. We don't have governments dictating to librarians which books they are or are not allowed to stock. And we don't have governments banning universities from teaching certain subjects. You know... basic freedoms that you Americans used to take for granted?

Well, there's a clash of jurisdictions there. The UK is within its rights to punish Apple in the UK if it discloses information from the UK without permission. The US is also within its rights to punish Apple if it doesn't disclose the information, I suppose, but the US government can't really do anything directly against the UK and vice-versa.

I'm sure if the situation were reversed---if there was something the US government wanted kept secret that a foreign government wanted to know---the US would be quite comfortable ignoring the demands of the foreign government.

Correct: I do not grasp. I think you simply don't notice where the equator was, because it's so common for it to be below the centerline that nobody notices or pays attention.

I gave links to six examples of the common ordinary maps you see all the time; I could have given a hundred. Did not even one look famililar?

Here's a clue. If on a Mercator projection Antarctica isn't larger than all the other continents combined... the equator isn't centered.

You already explained where, and why. This is why they put the equator below the center:

The UK can certainly regulate US company operations within the UK. It obviously can't regulate them outside the UK.

If the UK does decide to regulate US company operations within the UK, it doesn't have to agree to anything asked by US lawmakers because it's not their jurisdiction.

Or even a nation state that gets hold of a copy of Claude, I can think of many that would happily use it for this -- and worse.

"As an investment banker, let me just say AI is great! Sure, it might displace some workers, but it has enormous profit potential and you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.... what's that...? HEY! WAIT A MINUTE NOW!!!!"

You need to change the last line of your anthem.

"O'er the land of the serfs / And the home of the cowards."

Because nobody is meaningfully challenging the developing fascist autocracy.

"Dark" just means "we can't see it". Anything that isn't either emitting light or other electromagnetic radiation, or reflecting light from something it's close to that's emitting light or other electromagnetic radiation, is "dark".

The data is, if you look at the motion of the stuff we see, and calculate the motion based on the masses of stuff we see, the trajectories deviate. The obvious thing to guess is that it's the gravity of something (or things) we don't see. This has worked before-- for example, this is how Neptune was discovered; it's how close binary stars were discovered.

An alternate hypothesis is that there's some other force pulling or pushing on them, or else gravity doesn't work the way we think it works. Either way, you're hypothesizing something unknown.

Every large galaxy is believed to have a black hole. Dwarf galaxies (like the Magellanic Clouds) may or may not.
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  https://astronex.net/why-is-th...
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Exactly. That's what happens when you move the center of the map up above the equator; the bottom part of the map goes off the page. If you kept the bottom part on the page, the equator would be in the centered. By definition.

Did you not actually read what I posted that you're responding to?

A Mercator projection which actually showed the entire world would be infinite in size, because the north and south poles project to + and - infinity. Every Mercator projection leaves out parts of the world near the poles. However, the standard Mercator projections leave out more of the southern polar regions than they do of the northern polar regions. Which means the equator is below the center of the map.

Pete Hegseth is doing a better job of undermining the US military than any outside power possibly could.

If things ever got to the point where a president ordered military action against Canada, there would be a civil war in the United States first that would likely destroy the USA. Canada is united while the USA is dangerously divided.

Yes, it's prudent to fear the USA. But let's be realistic. It's going to use economic and diplomatic coercion against Canada. It's not going to invade; that would be a complete disaster for both countries.

Mod parent up.