Understanding that the right wing extremist government in the United States is attempting to squash free speech but it makes less sense that the Labour government of the UK would do its bidding. Have they tried putting a Human Rights lawyer in charge?

Mercator is a good projection for navigation for a variety of reasons. It should never have been used for geology classes in schools, but I think what originally happened is schools would just buy a nautical chart and put it on the wall.

Even when I was at school long before that episode of West Wing, my classroom had a Robinson Projection map, so the whole controversy seems like something that was ginned up possibly decades after Mercator was no longer in use except where it’s needed.

That being said Google used a broken version of mercator on their maps for many years…

Don’t worry Tesla diamond hands: Trump will announce a “Strategic TSLA reserve buying scheme.”

Well I’m not the ADL but yeah I’d say if, for instance, the NAACP decided that anti-black racism was equal to criticism of, say, Zimbabwe. And as long as a billionaire supported Zimbabwe’s government it’d be fine if he threw the white power sign at the presidential inauguration. That’s basically what you have with the ADL.

I wrote in “Palestine” for the president. It was the only option that wasn’t pro-genocide.

It’s a shame the ADL refused to call him what he is when it mattered: a nazi.

Musk doesn’t fit the ADL’s definition of anti-semite, which is anyone who opposes the State of Israel.

• Octopus: Antisemitic
• “Ok” hand gesture: Antisemitic
• Not buying a SodaStream: Antisemetic
• Nazi salute: Hey let’s not misinterpret this one!

Just going to leave this right here:

During the Cuban missile crisis Kennedy asked about using a tactical nuke against Cuba.

Kennedy’s generals explained that the only possible options would be enormous first strike against the USSR, or nothing. Because if the US used a tactical nuke Khrushchev would be forced to respond. Then you’d have a nuclear exchange between superpowers anyway, but would also be giving the enemy time to react.

SS United States was an ocean liner, not a cruise ship. It was built for getting people between US and Europe when that still mostly happened by ship, not to give people norovirus.

If they said they didn’t find any, then everyone would know it was a whitewash. So they decided to “find” a small amount and then pat themselves on the back.

Russia’s nuclear sabre rattling isn’t credible because their nuclear arsenal is not dispersed. Dispersal is the key to a nuclear exchange and it’s why both sides spend so many billions on submarines and stratobombers. Since the cold war Russia’s nuclear assets have been sitting grouped at bases around the country. If Putin wants to be credible he has to first order the planes in the air and the submarines to sea. But the submarine he sent to Cuba was accompanied by a tug “just in case.”

baby murdering killers

As opposed to Israel?

This is daft though considering that he needs Michigan and the Muslim voters in were one of the Democratic pillars in that state, and he has completely and possibly irrevocably alienated them.

Yep Americans have a choice between the party that aggressively cheerleads and gloats while doing everything in their power to enable Israeli war crimes, and the party that “expresses concerns” and “calls for moderation” while doing everything in their power to enable Israeli war crimes.

How’s the head of lettuce doing?

https://slate.com/technology/2022/10/liz-truss-iceberg-lettuce-contest.html

I always keep a vat of acid around just in case something were to go wrong – which it won’t – but just in case.

And yet we’ll see which story gets more traction in the US press: this one about some random Hamas “bigwig” rejecting two state, or the one from yesterday about Netanyahu himself rejecting two-state.

So many “unacceptable” things Israel does always just seem to get accepted.

Even the standard “sternly written letter” gets vetoed.