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by bentley 4d ago
Its reach exceeds its grasp, but what a concept to reach for. Truly distilling seven years of a life into a single couple‐hour documentary is obviously impossible, let alone seven years of fourteen lives, yet in trying it gets partway there
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by bentley 4d ago
No, they came from a range of schools. In fact, the premise of the first documentary, before it became a series, was that where children end up in life can be predicted from the social class they started in. But the series outgrew that simp
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by bentley 6d ago
> I mean it also accurately depicts relative land mass sizes? At the cost of distorting shapes and distances. > compared to Mercator The UN resolution compared Equal Earth to Mercator, a comparison Equal Earth easily wins in many circ
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by bentley 6d ago
> The word "equal" has been used in maths since centuries without any baggage at all. … > I think it is actually you now that tries to impose this load onto the term, not the original name givers of the projection. Certainly
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by bentley 6d ago
> I don't get why people say this / focus on Africa in this conversation. Because the resolution specifically talks about the supposed injustice Mercator has perpetrated upon Africa over the centuries, and loudly trumpets that
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by bentley 6d ago
What was the UN’s default before?
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by bentley 6d ago
Do you think the UN was using Mercator before this vote?
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by bentley 6d ago
It’s silly that the UN chose to prioritize equal area over all other aspects of a map projection, but if we must use an equal‐area projection, I’m glad they chose this one. Gall–Peters is just hideous and it’s awful that it’s as widely adop
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by bentley 6d ago
GS50 would be a better choice.
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by bentley 9d ago
> This is a very US-centric (and maybe Canada) thing though? If what you say about “the rest of the world” using other messaging apps is true, then yeah, it probably is North America–centric. So what? Are you agreeing with the OP who d
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by bentley 10d ago
I find, as a user primarily of free and open source software, it’s really the opposite: native FOSS apps have minimal tracking and analytics that defaults to off or is easily disabled, while most free and open source webapps are behind Clou
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by bentley 18d ago
It is indeed illegal to insult someone in Germany ( Beleidigung ). Actually, it’s illegal in quite a number of countries. Such a concept feels very archaic in the Anglosphere, like a remnant of honor culture, duels, etc. which we lost our t
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by bentley 19d ago
People have had their homes raided in Germany and electronics seized for calling politicians dicks on Twitter or Facebook.
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by bentley 24d ago
To repurpose an old epigram: “the man who pushes the old lady into the way of an oncoming bus, and the man who pushes the old lady out of the way of an oncoming bus, are both people who push old ladies around.”
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by bentley 25d ago
“Berlin Wall”? You mean the Antifaschistischer Schutzwall .
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by bentley 25d ago
Can you provide some examples?
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by bentley 26d ago
Lack of evidence.
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by bentley 27d ago
> You are conflating the work week with the week. The weekend has always been innately tied to the work week specifically, both historically and in current usage. > Dictionary.com Has as the third listed definition: “any two-day per
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by bentley 27d ago
If you’re referring to Slavic languages, they’re counted from Sunday. • Sunday: “no work” • Monday: “[first] after Sunday” • Tuesday: “second [after Sunday]” • Wednesday: “middle” • Thursday: “fourth [after Sunday]” • Friday: “fifth [after
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by bentley 27d ago
> The end of the end of the week cannot be the beginning of the week. Of course it can. The word “weekend” just refers to the block of free time starting at the end of the working week. It doesn’t have any direct relation to the way week
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by bentley 1mo ago
The reasoning behind that change was religious, and those who made the decision were Christians. That most Christians accept that change doesn’t imply they would accept a contradictory change made for secular reasons.
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by bentley 1mo ago
It is very common for Christians to religously rest on Sunday (e.g., Puritan Sabbatarians) and even, for some, on the Jewish Sabbath (seventh‐day Sabbatarians). There’s been plenty of theological debate on the subject. It’s absolutely not t
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by bentley 1mo ago
That’s a late 20th century invention, and not universally followed. Consider Unix time functions, which predate the ISO standard and follow what’s common practice in America even today, that Sunday is the first day of the week. Of course, S
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by bentley 1mo ago
That would defy the point. To Jews and Christians, the cadence is literally inscribed in stone. To quote the Ten Commandments: “Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. … For in
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by bentley 1mo ago
“One of the five days was randomly assigned to each worker as their day of rest; the purpose of this system was to allow factories to operate every day, always having most of its workers present to maintain production.” I can see why that d
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by bentley 1mo ago
You’d have to convince a lot of religious people to give up the day of rest they’ve considered a religious obligation for thousands of years.
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by bentley 1mo ago
After reading Allan Asherman’s The Making of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan a few years ago, I embarked on a Wrath of Khan –themed read of books that either influenced the filmmakers or were referenced in the movie: The Prisoner of Zen
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by bentley 1mo ago
> More than zero. I’m not convinced it is more than zero. Do you know of a single case in the 21st century of a 12‐year‐old marrying an adult in the United States? After all, you rhetorically mentioned America in the same breath as Afgha
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by bentley 1mo ago
> children are often married off to old men in the US How often are children married off to old men in the US?
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by bentley 2mo ago
To be honest, I use Organic Maps over CoMaps simply because Organic Maps is available in Accrescent (which is in turn provided by the GrapheneOS App Store), and CoMaps is not. Both Google Play and F‐Droid are just enough of a hassle (and I

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