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…

Google is doing/will be doing all this anyway, combined with a search, maps, youtube, email, etc monopoly.

“Boy Trump’s sure turning America into a mess, let’s check in on how some of the more civilized countries are doing.”

Oh.

It put Ogdenville and West Haverbrook on the map.

Literally no one ever claimed it had reasoning capabilities

Altman and similar grifters were and are absolutely making those claims but maybe we’re excusing them as obvious liars?

I think the brick that is the point of this parody sailed right over your head.😁

This is a great analogy

Epic bacon must be worth at least 10 billion market cap.

The DOD just paid Elon a bunch of money for his mechahitler chat bot…

Who’s still buying this crap?

Eh what blood got AFCIs in there? Green blood from Siemens and Eaton as far as I can tell

We are melting ice caps and boiling lakes to help high schoolers not learn Spanish.

“hype” is literally media attention

hype
1)
: publicity
especially : promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind
all the hype before the boxing match 

Merriam Webster

This is liberal cope.

I’ve seen tons of Bernie people from 2016 become Trupists. Several have become full-on groypers. The reason is clear: Bernie got curbstomped and these people are still looking for some other solution because they’re still precarious.

Liberals are still clinging to the basket of deplorables. They want to think that not being a liberal is a moral failing, or a sign of weak breeding or something. They can’t admit that all the punching left they’ve been doing over decades while scolding, preening, etc and sucking up to corporate elites they serve has created the terrifying right-wing moment that we’re in. And they’ll going to be smugly declaring themselves to be on the right side of history as they get thrown into the camps with the rest of us.

EDIT: by the way:

Leor completed her PhD as a Gates Scholar at the Department of Psychology

Yes, that is the “Gates” you’re thinking of.

Also she’s probably a criminal:

Leor was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30

They will edit Google Maps to show Canada and Greenland as part of the US, and Ukraine as part of Russia.

Historically Tesla’s security is as bad as DOGE’s. They got hacked a while back because they had an unsecured kubernetes control plane exposed to the internet. Apparently being owned by a [edit: seagull managing] drug addict isn’t good for opsec.

EDIT: I incorrectly used a medical term to describe Elon’s management style. Sorry everyone.

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

Too many villains in our society, not enough heros.

Unironically one of the most surprising thing about the current crop of techbros is how anti-intellectual they are. Back in the day Paul Graham published a smarmy essay about how you shouldn’t have possessions except books. Nowadays, I see so many techbros saying “I hate books” and “I never read.”

It’s weird to have your self identity be both I’m smarter than everyone else and also I don’t read. I really am baffled at how they square that circle.