I think you’re overthinking this.

Most cars just drive in the middle. So you get pressure points there, the ground is lowered, if it’s wet, water will collect, so people that know how to drive will put the wheels “off center” to drive where water doesn’t collect as much.

And some make a habit out of it and just drives that way most of the time.

That is of course just one reason. You will also get people that just do it because they’re bored.

Unfortunately, trying to set up this particular “rage bait” is also ignorant and uneducated. The numbers we use are derived from Arabic numerals. But modern Arabic numerals does not look like the ones we use in the Latin Alphabet. They can also change a bit depending on which arabic country you’re in.

If you’re an average “westerner” you probably don’t know what modern arabic numerals look like. And learning them would be required to know which symbol means what.

That being said. Teaching children that different children across the world have different symbols for things is still a good thing to teach them. While also teaching them there are other systems than our base 10 system. Such as the Duodecimal system.

I really don’t care. But as far as i know. The landmass distortion on mercator is “corrected” by having boxes of “different sizes” across the map. Except that each box is actually respresenting the same km²

I don’t know what image on the article is about.

When looking into the eckert IV, this seems to be as accurate it gets

Which i think is quite good. It’s a good compromise between shape and landmass, by NOT projecting it on a rectangle.

Now compare this image, to the one in the article.

It looks so stupid how they’re trying to overlay them while removing the context from both.

This may come as a shock to you. But it’s mathematically impossible to show the full surface of a sphere on a rectangle without distortion.

The mercator projection has these smaller rectangles of “different sizes” across the map. There’s a reason for that. They show the distortion of size, in favour of highlighting shapes and angles of continents

This “new” map will also have distortions. Though they will be far more difficult to show on the eckert IV projection, becase angles and shapes are now distorted, in favour of highlighting relative landmass.

So what evidence or facts is it you’re talking about? Both are projections of a sphere onto a rectangle. There will always be distortion.

Based on your previous reply, I could make some educated guesses at what you were trying to convey, based on context.

I did not know we were in a flame war. Have I attacked you somehow? Or do you always see it as a personal attack when someone has to explain why you’re wrong?

I dunno… I feel like I’ve dealt with enough German machinery and bureaucracy for 3 lifetimes.

Their “obsession” for standards is only for the standard of making everything 10 times more complicated than it needs to be.

And before you ask, of course there’s an easy system for various sizes that all relate to each other.

What did you think? That we hadn’t thought this through?

Interesting, and also hopeful if that’s the case. That’s much a much better situation than if we couldn’t get them out of our body at all.

What is it you think you’re correcting? This is how it works. It’s happening right now. And has been happening for decades.

goods ordered from Europe, to Canada, that only transits the US, is not affected by US tariffs. Because it’s not being imported to the US.

Items can still arrive in a US port, be taken inland for further processing and distribution. And then whatever is supposed to go up to Canada goes up to Canada.

the only time Foreign goods to Canada is subjected to US tariffs, is if a US company has taken ownership, and sell the product to Canada, rather than selling the transportation service

youre channelling through a large country who are shackled to their own country’s stuff. it isnt going to get the acknowledgement you think it will get there.

I have genuinly no idea what you’re trying to say.

Canadian companies are more than welcome to set up their own distribution channels and not route it through the US. Nothing is stopping them.

Buddy. I don’t need you to try and guess how my items arrive. I already know this. It’s literally printed on the package.

It may be more effective to store it in a warehouse somewhere in cologne and use a vendor that sources it from there.

But from what I’ve seen, it’s cheaper to buy it from China directly, and have it “shipped” (flown) over. Which is why I do it.

Takes a few days extra. But you’ll pay less.

There’s something to be said, about people that only come up with problems. Instead of presenting solutions. (Im talking about them, not you)

I’m not going to say i can relate too much. I was very much the opposite of you as a child. But I was also supposed to be perfect, Most things came easy to me. I was smart, I got top grades, I was active in acrobatics, but sometimes when I didn’t know things. Instead of politely explaining it to me. I was often met by “WHAT!? You don’t know this?? They don’t teach you this? We were taught this at a much younger age than you”. Ok. Cool.

Which obviously made me feel stupid. No matter how good I was. It was never enough. No matter how well i built something, it was never good enough. And no matter how far i could run. It wasn’t far, or fast enough.

If I couldn’t do to it on my own, no one was going to help me either. I was praised for being independant. But the reason I were, was because I learned early on, very early on. That no one is ever going to help me. I need to be able to do everything on my own. Otherwise nothing will get done. And that came back to bite me in the ass many years later.

So my advice to you. Try to see of you can seek professional help, ask your school if they know of any resources for mental health. Because trust me on this one. It would be so much better if you could get help now. Rather than 15-25 years later.

They can’t fix the problems with your family. But they can help you find tools to deal with it. And it also feel pretty nice to talk to someone that can listen and understand.

It’s also about just being familiar with the controllers in general.

Are you sure. I’ve read they keep collecting in various organs, including our brains

It depends on what it is you’re buying and how it’s getting there. If I’m ordering something from China. I’m not gonna get it shipped. Because that will take ages. It’ll go on a transport plane. And every single time I’ve ordered things, they’ve been flown to Germany first.

Items being shipped between Europe and NA is not going on a detour to land in the US. Especially not if it’s imported by a vendor. The vendor will pick the cheapest option. And trucking through Canadian wilderness isn’t it.

It’s really not weird at all. It’s the same in EU. If I order something from another continent. Chances are pretty high it’s going to go through Germany before making its way up here to Sweden.

Canada is 40 million to the US 350. So it makes more sense to have things go through the country where your biggest market is, and have it distributed out from there.

Ofc I’m just speaking very broadly. There’s a difference if you import directly yourself, or if they’re going through a Canadian vendor

I know this is a tough pill for americans to swallow. But lots of countries does not allow trans-athletes to compete in the women’s class.

The international organisation for track and field, and also the IOK have already said that transathletes are not allowed to compete with women (for now).

Though I absolutely agree that US politicians are experts at exaggerating and trying to blow the smallest issue out of proportion for headlines.

And it’s sad the American people are too uneducated to see through the charade.

I would laugh at the US, if it wasnt for the fact that people’s lives are ruined forever on a daily basis.

It’s really easy to not care when it doesn’t involve you in any way shape or form. So, what is it you’re trying to say?

That you dont want to watch football with the rock vs school girls? Ok, good for you i guess?

Maybe he thinks roommates is what poor people call their maids?

Though I’d happily make my potential roommates bed every morning instead of paying rent.

Yes. They use the english name when talking about the object in english. So what? In Sweden our scientists call Luna for “Månen”. Because that’s the name in our language. But the standard of naming things in latin stems from that every scientist will speak the same language.

If you want to gather studies about dogs. You’ll be very limited if you only know their english name. So instead you’ll use the latin name. Canis Familiaris. And all of a sudden you will find studies from all across the world.

Yes, they have been naming species after people and things. Those that discover a species will often get the naming rights. But they still have a latin name.

Platysaurus attenboroughi.

It’s in latin. And because of that. Every single scientist that are familiar with the concept of how we name species will see that the species Platysaurus Attenbiroughi is in the Platysaurus genus, and saurus means that’s it’s a reptile.

Euptychia attenboroughi.

So we know that this is an animal in the Eutychia genus. Named after Attenborough.

Trigonopterus attenboroughi

By now you should know what genus this animal is in. And that’s why we give them latin names.

If we just called then all “attenboroughi” it would be really fucking confusing about which animal it is we’re actually talking about.

Just because you don’t know that you use any latin. Doesn’t mean the useage have decreased.

Latin isn’t going anywhere. Our entire scientific understanding of life on earth is built on the back of latin. It’s the language all scientists speak.

So when a doctor writes in the journal that you have a fracture in your femur. Every other doctor on the planet earth will know which bone it is he was talking about.