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joostjakob

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  • ICE agent shooter’s own cellphone video undercuts Trump administration's account of Minneapolis killing

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  • I don't think untrained violent people will respond less violently when the likelihood of violence against them increases. I would say y'all need to build barricades to safeguard neighborhoods, you need masses that can only be mowed down, and need to avoid being easily singled out. Using the car you are sitting in as a barricade is incredibly dangerous because there is a track record of using vehicles as weapons.

  • Rare footage from trial of Chinese general who defied Tiananmen crackdown order leaked online

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  • I was indeed not talking about the history of quality of life of the people, but about the way hard politics are organised. As far as I can tell, this has become even more centralised under Xi. When it comes to freedom of thought and expression of the people, I see as much reason for pessimism about recent evolution in the West (especially in the Anglo-Saxon world), but I don't see much reason for optimism when it comes to China. E.g. look how they are not even allowed to know their own history, or how independent thought in Hong Kong is being stuffed out. Lifting, what, 800 million people out of poverty is an impressive feat, and certainly holds a few lessons for laissez faire capitalists. Then again, large part of that poverty were self inflicted wounds. And that growth shouldn't blind one for the immense cost at which it came, and the large challenges ahead to keep things afloat.

  • Rare footage from trial of Chinese general who defied Tiananmen crackdown order leaked online

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  • Still the same party in control, still the same way folks get selected for power. Not exactly comparable to a country losing a war, getting split in two, one adopting liberal democracy, the other a Soviet style communist system. And then later rejoining into a single country again.

  • Rare footage from trial of Chinese general who defied Tiananmen crackdown order leaked online

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  • Well it's been that long that they went full circle again. I guess my age is showing (I'm a geriatric millennial). Until a decade ago, or maybe two, a successful AfD would have been unthinkable. Just goes to show how far off OPs comparison with Germany is.

  • Rare footage from trial of Chinese general who defied Tiananmen crackdown order leaked online

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  • Interesting comparison to Germany. As you may be aware, there was quite a significant change in government structure right around 1945. While yes - if new evidence from that period were to be released, it would indeed reflect poorly on Germany. But everyone would know it's news from basically another country. Whereas in China nothing has changed when it comes to the structure of the nation. And they sure as hell did not go through a period of national mourning or apology to reflect on past mistakes.

  • ‘Money today or blood tomorrow’: EU leaders race to secure deal for Ukraine

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  • I'm not behind our prime minister at all, but the core of what he's saying is "we'll only do this if we share the risks involved among the whole EU". Given that no-one seems to be willing to do that, it would appear that he has a point that the risks are significant. I also heard him call the idea "theft", which sounds crazy in the context we're in. But then he's talking about the practice of taking money from countries we're not at war with, setting a bad precedent if you want to be a financial center for the world. That one's a little far fetched, even without a formal declaration of war, Russia isn't just a random country at this point we have a few issues with.

  • In Blow to Trump, Indiana Rejects GOP Gerrymander

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  • If only someone could invent a system where huge amounts of freight could be moved on something more durable than pavement. We can only dream of such technology of course.

  • TIL: There's a website called Mapcarta that utilizes information and data from OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open projects, and presents it in an interactive world map

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  • Hmm, sorry that this was so painful for you. You could leave a post on their github with some suggestions to improve the end user docs. I'm surprised address data isn't open in the US, in some aspects y'all have much more open data than we generally have in Europe. On the plus side, if you start from that 60% coverage and get some help completing addresses in OSM the hard way, then it becomes a unique open data source.

  • TIL: There's a website called Mapcarta that utilizes information and data from OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open projects, and presents it in an interactive world map

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  • There's a project that adds official address sources to Osmand map files. So you just download map data from there instead of from the Osmand tool itself. https://github.com/pnoll1/osmand_map_creation Their open credentials aren't great, but the Magic Earth app does the same out of the box (at least in Belgium it does)

  • What open-source Android apps should people know about?

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  • How would you say the OSM editor is better in CoMaps than Osmand?

  • Right on the feels

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  • Similar, but I kind of know she's actually dead, but I then actively suppress the thought to spend more time with her in my dream.

  • Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia

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  • If they really felt desperate, wouldn't they show just a bit more flexibility in their demands?

  • Key voting bloc turns against Trump in massive numbers: ‘He is doing something absolutely wrong’

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  • I would assume they were happy to close the door behind them, when it comes to immigration. I think they did not expect their friends and family would be deported.

  • Music festival in Belgium cancels concert over Israeli conductor

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  • We're talking about an Israeli, not a Jew. One who has a prominent role in the cultural life of that country. As a "liberal", I would not have had an issue with questions being asked if some high profile Saudis were invited to a festival in October 2001.

  • this would break all encrypted messaging

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  • The site failed at the last step... Fortunately all my reps are opposed

  • Look at that plumage, bro.

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  • It would like us going through a book of mammals and getting horny. Who would do that? Oh... well

  • Their Work is Incredibly Valuable

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  • IIRC that works better with MagicEarth. Of course, GoogleMaps still does have better POI and address coverage in many places, and they can train their search on billions of users.

  • Their Work is Incredibly Valuable

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  • They were thinking of EveryDoor. There's also MapComplete, a bit more niche- focused on deep diving in specific themes without having to learn all the specific tagging for that topic.

  • Public transport cost pushes Britons to fly abroad for day trips

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  • It's pretty immoral in the current day and age, but it is something that should be made (near) impossible with better regulation until it can be done with a reasonable carbon cost