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joostjakob

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  • Ex-Labor Secretary Robert Reich urges global boycott of travel to U.S. to protest Trump

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  • They weren't trying to convince you to come, they were trying to gently explain that it's a little mean to judge 100% of the people for what is happening

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  • As I said in the other place this article was posted: the source seems to be an online reader survey from t-online.be. That means the scientific value of this is pretty low. For decent surveys, you need a random sample. In this case, you need to be a visitor of t-online, and you decide for yourself that you want to participate. That's already enough to skew results. Add to that that there's a lot of online activism against Tesla (for obvious reasons), so the poll could have been partly hijacked. Such a low number of people who don't care or haven't heard about Tesla going rogue is not realistic anyway. There's a lot of people who are weird, contrarian or simply avoid all news.

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  • There's two positives for her resigning:

    • she can live on without hating herself
    • she signals to the world that the Washington Post is not reputable anymore I'm not sure how she could have a more positive impact by staying, which you appear to imply she should have.

  • The US is ending support for Ukrainian F-16s, but there is a way out — online.ua

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  • There's a lot of outstanding orders for F35s from EU countries. No idea if it is possible to weasel out of them, and if the sunk cost wouldn't be too high to make it politically viable...

  • The US is ending support for Ukrainian F-16s, but there is a way out — online.ua

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  • Bush junior's first term was a blip. His second one should have been enough to look for other partners.

  • Help break the US hold on map data

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  • They have a team of employees working on the app and the hosting of servers to package the data in downloadable files also costs money. So consider donating if you don't want to use the Play version.

  • The US is now the enemy of the west

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  • What's your point?

  • The US is now the enemy of the west

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  • Because if ya ain't white, you can't be free!

  • In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico

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  • So now that is in the hands of the folks who use the OSM data. It's in a somewhat exotic tag, so by default any map that uses OSM will still show Gulf of Mexico, unless they actively intervene to show Gulf of America. So if you see an OSM based map showing the latter, you know they made that choice consciously.

  • Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

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  • OpenStreetMap also needs to deal with this kind of thing. In this case, several people already tried to add it to the map in some form of other, but generally not as something to actually be shown. There is a looong discussion about it here https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571 . General opinion is that it is (or will be) "the official name that the US says it has". In OSM you can invent tags for anything, so an object can have many names. Done like this, anyone using the data can still choose to give precedence to any "official US names that are not in common use yet". Later it may be upgraded ased on if it becomes a common alternative name, just in the US, or maybe beyond. All those options can have their own special tag. And only very motivated data users will ever show it to map users. But if you do a search for Gulf of America, you will be able to find it.

  • Trump imposes harsh sanctions on Colombia for not accepting "repatriation" flights

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  • Colombian

  • 'Beta male': Internet amused as Newsom puts Trump 'instantly in his place'

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  • It's generous to call that an article. Just a bunch of "some folks said on X" quotes. Doesn't really belong in this community IMHO

  • Richard Dawkins quits atheism foundation for backing transgender ‘religion’

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  • Literally c/THE_PACK

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  • If you want to really dig into the theme, you could use Know Your Meme

  • Literally c/THE_PACK

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  • For this kind of query, consult the Urban Dictionary.

  • Everyone follow me! [Azul Crescent's silly scribbles]

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  • If I had a cafe or bar, I'd put a sign out "If you're the first customer, then it's always happy hour"

  • A little closer...

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  • It's a problem of the commons. It's not in the interest of an individual company to take on their responsibility (apart from some do-gooding greenwashing). The only answer is collective action, and that's really hard.

  • Moldova votes "Yes".

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  • One of the things I read about that, is that people tend to take an "average position" between all the opinions they hear. It used to be that the opinions you'd hear would be based on serious media, and your close circles. But much of the media has gone to shit, and social media amplify crazy people because it's good for engagement. So you end up hearing about the crazy position of lore as much as about the rational one. And that does influence a lot of people.

  • YSK: At the current rate of consumption there's only 50 years worth of oil left in the world

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  • Glad you already learned this is probably nonsense. The wrong reasoning is very similar to much thought about overpopulation. The amount of people that makes for a place to be overpopulated is a function of how societies work and the technologies they have at hand. One extra issue there is that improvements in technology usually lead to population growth, so much progress gets cancelled out.