joostjakob

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[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Exactly. That's what I heard from people who lived abroad a long time. While you're away, the country of origin changes and after a while you're homesick for a place that only exists as a memory.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.
[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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...

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Never ever? Have you heard about Black Lives Matter?

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Djeez, little quick on the gun, aren't we?

Yeah, an unsourced screenshot is a little light on detail for me. And I'd like to share the story further, but for that I want more context. Also, I'm interested to learn more about this, just because I find it an interesting story..

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I could easily find articles on his being in custody, but I didn't find any references for his Trump support. Where should I look?

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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

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