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https://williamblum.org/intervention-map

It doesn't cut a large populated land in half.

Why would that matter? This data has nothing to do with population.

It's also the one everybody already know where to find anything.

That's quite a subjective and eurocentric perspective.

But anyway, how the fuck the projection isn't symmetrical for the North and South hemispheres? How does one achieve that?

This appears to be a Mercator projection, or something close to it. The land in the southern hemisphere is generally close to the equator so it appears smaller as part of that distortion. Also it looks a bit weird because Antarctica usually balances that out visually, but is excluded for this map.

There's a lot of different options for displaying different kinds of information. For what this map is trying to convey, it makes sense for it to be centered on the US. The distortion doesn't really matter because distance is not important. Keeping large populated is not important because the map isn't conveying any information related to population. Is this the absolute best projection available? Probably not. But the Mercator projection is still far and away the most common today (and I see this is copy written 2010, so it would be been even more ubiquitous then).

While that's all true, it's also true that Wyoming today has the highest CO2 per capita production in the US at 96.4 tons.

The re-writing of the tax code you mentioned created the "Cowboy Cocktail", making Wyoming a tax haven for billionaires and enabling money laundering.

They are taking some small, slow steps towards mitigating the damage they have been doing for decades and are continuing for the foreseeable future.

The Murdoch empire transcends borders

What would the argument be for using a Euro-centric map for displaying data about US military interventions across the world???

To be clear I'm not giving them a pass. They are choosing to damage the environment and accelerate climate change in order to be a tax haven for the ultra-wealthy. They could absolutely find another more sustainable way to find the government if they wanted, and deserve to be criticized for the choices they've made.

As a guy with long hair I did this once.

First breakup. We were both young and toxic to each other, and let the other be toxic.

After some reflection I cut my hair for a variety of reasons.

I've seen the studies and speculation that it's a control thing, related to exercising bodily autonomy. Personally I don't feel like this was part of my decision. This might be more of a gendered thing- I felt like growing my hair as a cis male in the first place was already exercising my bodily autonomy and defying society's expectations around me. I was somewhat hesitant to cut it because it felt like giving up, conforming to what others wanted me to be.

One was just that I was in college for business degrees- I always kind of knew my career would be better off with short hair anyways. Once I graduated, got a job, and got established at my company I grew my hair long again. It's still long now, probably longer than it was originally.

Another was that I wanted to be a different person. I looked back on who I was in that relationship and thought hard about who I wanted to become. While on a vacuum I preferred the long hair, and I objectively knew my hair could stay the same while my personality changed, on a subjective level I think yhe change helped. It was a visual boundary in time- when I go back and look at pictures of myself it's very easy and obvious to see that change. It helped me to think about my long-haired self as the "old me"- younger, less experienced, more raw and flawed.

Another was the emotional connection between her and my hair. While I liked the long hair and grew it before we had started dating, she really liked my long hair too. It hurt to have the same hair she used to run her fingers through swinging in front of my face. So in a sense, cutting my hair felt like cutting my connection to her.

Finally, I also started growing my beard. I had always wanted facial hair, but she didn't like it so I shaved. This seemed like a good opportunity to see what I could grow, but having long hair AND a beard seemed like a lot at the time. Now I have both of course.

The story of Mulan seems to take place during the Wei dynasty, and was probably written during it as well. So that would place it between the late 300's and early 500's CE.

I immediately thought of Samson from the old Testament. It's estimated that story takes place around 1,000 BCE. Not sure if anyone knows of anything older.

This example is for a 640 acre property leased at $12,160, which the oil company claims was an artificially inflated price because a conservation group was bidding.

That seems like a ludicrously small dollar figure. My guess that that the state is leasing the land cheaply, then making up for that with severance taxes on the extracted fossil fuels and minerals. Conservation groups would not generate those severance taxes.

I played this during last Halloween. It's great for having really cool Halloween-themed art and sound.

Everything else- the level design, story, physics, abilities, combat, bosses... They're all perfectly acceptable for a 3D platformer. Nothing particularly bad, but nothing particularly great or noteworthy. Still I'd say it was worth at least $10, maybe $15.

You got a source for that $6 billion? I've tried searching around and can't find that anywhere.

Every study I've ever seen has shown that funding the IRS is a net benefit to tax revenue. So my instinct is that the $6 billion you saw included more than just this particular campaign.

For my library of 390 games, only 2 are "Borked".

One is Magic: Duels, which was discontinued by WOTC back in 2019. It's still playable on Windows, but seeing as it was kind of a weird experiment they did that ultimately got replaced by Arena I can understand the lack of support there. Also it was free, and I got clean a few years ago, so I'm not salty.

The other of Flatout 3 (the car racing/destruction game, not to be confused with the similarly named Fallout 3). I remembered seeing ads and reviews for Flatout back in PSM when I was a kid. Never got to play it back then, but I grabbed the series bundle on sale at some point. Still haven't played any of them yet, but it appears the issue with Flatout 3 in particular is... It's a bad game. Just learned this now, but apparently it was made by a different developer than the first games and is, by review score, one of the worst games of all time. So there's probably not a whole lot of demand for it on Linux.

Fun stuff. Always neat to find a new way to look at the library.