Yes, and? How many students in your class room are navigating a ship somewhere? The whole point is that a cylindrical representation map has no place in teaching people about the world beyond how to navigate via ship.
Small-area accuracy and correct directions are more important than the large-area distortions for most practical use.
The most practical use for global scale maps has zero to do with small area accuracy. There's no reason to defend this map, no one is questioning it's purpose for navigation. And no one doing navigation is going to toss this for the UN's proposal.
The question is: why is Mercator the only map most people have seen? They aren't all ship navigators.
How much of that is due to the map projection? And how of that is due to the fact that most Americans are very poorly educated
Wait, what makes you say these things independently? The map projection is quite possibly the reason Americans are poorly educated about the world. That's literally what they are exposed to in school.
Somehow retarded people like you think Iran won the war.
Define: "win". What is the USA's objective, and how did they achieve it, and was it worth the global cost?
How is map accuracy suddenly political?
The answer is it isn't suddenly political. It was always political. Some people just conveniently ignored that.
OK that's sarcastic, but is this really the top agenda item at the UN?
Are you under the impression that UN meetings only ever have one agenda item? What has TV done to you.
Everyone, stop everything. We can't do anything anymore because 0xG says we need to end all wars first, and literally no one is allowed to consider or work on anything else at any point until that is done. No YOU PUT YOUR DAMN TOOLS DOWN. There's a war on.
Due to incidents like the Floyd murder, some earlier ones that lead to Seattle Police Department's consent decree and others, the public demanded increased surveillance.
Huh? I recall the public demanded an end to police brutality, but sure whatever. Is Superman a good guy on your Earth? I'm curious which dimension you're from.
or the weirdo with the camera sitting in his car?
Oh I really hope he goes home and masturbates to a video of me in private. That is greatly preferable to selling video into a large scale surveillance database which can be used to track people's individual movement.
Oh and by the way if you see that weirdo more than once we have laws against that as well, look up "stalking".
It's that we seem to be counting on "restoration" as though replacing a damaged transformer is roughly equivalent to replacing a server. It isn't.
The reason we're counting on restoration is because the design of these systems protect critical equipment like transformers. We calculate fault levels, speed of rise levels and design systems to interrupt and protect critical infrastructure (at the expense of the customer's connected). You're not going to be replacing large transformers. You're going to be replacing small scale control electronics in the substation. You're going to be replacing countless single action fuses. You'll be dealing with a few switchboard fires, hopefully isolated to a single feeders at a time so that a spare one at the end of the switchboard could be put back in operation. Then the big issue will be a black start.
The majority of the damage from the Carrington event was for telegraph equipment precisely because we already do a significant amount of electrical infrastructure protection, and we've gotten significantly better at this over the decades.
So they acknowledge ad tracking is dangerous. So how about disabling it everywhere?
So you want the government to come into your electronics and decide how it operates?
For those people who say AI datacentres water use is just a pittance of water use used to keep golf greens green, I'd like to remind you it's far more pleasant being struck by a golf ball than watching even 5 minutes of this shit.
I thought that in general, alcohol consumption was down.
Alcohol consumption being down is both a factor of a generation (older people didn't stop drinking) and *recent*. This won't have an impact on the cancer statistics for a good 10-20 years.
This has nothing to do with realestate developers. The entire West (and significant parts of the East) have built fundamental economic systems around a principle of of the young funding the old, paying for a generation not by investment over time, but by current earnings from the previous generation.
When the current young tax paying generation covers social security benefits for the old generation it will be felt by EVERYONE, most probably the poor first because of the cultural "fuck-them-poors" that goes on.
And if you think this isn't a realistic scenario I remind you of the current average age of politicians, the ones who basically set this policy.
Who knew people could be born aged 65 and over. Last time I checked, people 65 and over were alive 65 years ago.
Not really firing on all neurons today are we. Have a think about how demographics works and try again tomorrow.
For household storage, the planet is already shifting to Sodium.
There has been zero meaningful shift to Sodium anywhere on the planet. That includes households where Lithium ion is still about the only functioning product on the retail market and Sodium is relegated to a few test products by a couple of start-ups.
Calm your enthusiasm.
And all short range personal cars are already shifting to Sodium, too.
You really are living in an alternate reality aren't you. No, there are zero short range vehicles running on sodium batteries. Changan announced one model may get sodium cells, but right now ships with LPF cells.
Tell us, is Superman a good guy on your earth?
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