It is indeed bad and inaccurate.
I bet they only chose it because it looked similar enough to Mercator, unlike Dymaxion or other options.
People really hate change, friction, and doing something in a new way, even as small as using a different map.
So they settled for Equal Earth map as a compromise, because it’s a slight incremental improvement over Mercator, rather than a fully new thing.
Isn’t Dymaxion map projection even more accurate than Waterman-butterfly?
IMO marking Crimea as neutral makes zero sense in what otherwise would be a great map suggestion, and it really pisses me off.
Either show the actual control status on the ground: which would mean 80% of Ukraine marked as Ukrainian, 20% of Ukraine as Russian.
Or show 100% of it all as Ukrainian, as it’s agreed upon internationally.
Showing entire Ukraine as Ukrainian except for “neutral” Crimea doesn’t match reality neither legally nor militarily.
Yeah, animals are fucked. We, humans, can simply turn on the AC in our houses, our cars, offices… Nevermind humans are already extemely good at thermoregulation.
But mammals with fur and whatnot? I genuinely wonder how Europeans and other Global North people plan to have dogs as pets, for instance, at +50 degrees Celsius.
Of course, house pets will still have it better than 99% of other animals on Earth, but that’s probably the only animal a human cares for. That’s if a human cares about anything at all except for themselves.
It’s immoral to leech off other people’s children tax money, sure.
But also no one wants to be a sucker doing 20+ years of unpaid labor raising kids, so someone else 's S&P 500 keeps growing and sustains a very comfortable retirement plan, and no one will even help you with raising kids anymore.
It’s really the system’s fault, not individuals. It makes it lucrative for every individual human to give as little back, and take as much from everyone else.
BTW Lemmy supports spoiler tag for cases like this. You can write using this template:
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I think reason why ultrarich can be called dumb is their lack of introspection.
They don’t waste time thinking “How does this affect other people?” or “Why do I want to be rich?” or else they wouldn’t have spent decades relentlessly grinding in a rat race.
You also have to be very delusional and take massive gambles to get rich. It worked out for Gates or Musk, yes, but its a survivorship bias. Lots of other psychotic people have lost all by chasing the next big thing like AI-powered startups or NFTs.
Although I would surely not claim all ultrarich people are dumb, because I haven’t seen any, nor have research to back this up.
It’s not racist to say voting for evil AND against your own self-interest is pretty dumb.
He works out in jeans and won’t show his legs (my guess is steroid marks in his legs)
You are right, he is on juice, I think he even admitted himself that he is on TRT, which isn’t uncommon for wealthy men his age but yeah.
Still very ironic and inconsistent of him to promote “wellness farms” instead of SSRI’s and Adderall, while being on TRT which has way more side effects.
OBVIOUSLY we should care because it’s the internet and loud minorities dominate here, skewing our perception of reality and what political opinions are worth debating today, despite being fringe and unfeasible IRL /s
I have been experimenting recently with turning airplane mode on when I am outdoors. Although I still use a notes app and an offline .mp3 player.
I can definitely recommend, it feels much calmer, slower, and my situational awareness improved too.
They literally said in the opening sentence: “the best thing about early internet wasn’t AIM or MySpace”
The post isn’t about individual technology at all, but how relationship with technology changed.
Source: straight out of poster’s ass.
This is a Lemmy repost of a TikTok repost of a Twitter nobody paraphrasing an unknown news story, with a weird font that looks edited.
They genuinely make policy based on whatever is going to “own the libs”
I managed to squeeze 5 years out of a $200 budget phone. 7 years on mid-range or flagship is trivial.
Especially as new Pixels have lots of features to improve battery longevity:
charging only up to 80%,
OLED display that turns off pitch black pixels. Many apps nowadays have pitch black themes, and you can set wallpapers to pitch black,
limit display smoothness to 60 Hz,
battery saving mode,
dark mode,
turn off background usage for individual or all apps
40% is an extremely low approval rating in a two-party electoral college system like the US.
In the US, each election is only really decided by 10% of non-partisan Americans, who live in the swing states.
90% of other votes don’t matter, because those are permanently blue or permanently red states, and they cancel each other out.
So for Trump to lose 10% of Americans would mean to lose 100% of people who decide election outcomes.
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Even if Russia attacks NATO, umm…what will Putin get out of it?
Return on investment. Russia hasn’t switched to war economy for nothing. War economy is unsustainable unless you invade and pillage rich countries, and Ukraine isn’t one
I don’t know about that. The frontline has barely moved in the last 2-3 years or so.
Especially if we zoom out and look at the world map, small towns changing hands wouldn’t be visible on a map of that scale