Yes, but blue (Mercator) preserves direction and shape, which were all that really mattered for navigation by sea, so Mercator was a fantastic projection for centuries.

And we still use it today for smaller scale areas, since it does a remarkably good job at preserving all 4 features (shape, area, distance, and direction) close to the map origin line. Universal Transverse Mercator is a system that has 60 zones of Mercator turned sideways.

The reason it’s Transverse is because, unlike lattitude depending on a defined equator, longitude has an arbitrary meridian, so by turning the map sideways we can move the distortion point, and any map area that doesn’t stray too far East or West will be very accurate.

Think of trying to map something like Chile or Florida, where the area of interest is pretty far North to South, but not East to West.

My GIS rig is different than any of those.

Vertical monitor on the left, ultrawide lifted a bit high on the right, and open laptop screen beneath the ultrawide.

Verticals for email, teams, etc. Big ultrawide is mostly for main GIS window and spreadsheets, and laptop screen is kinda general purpose.

I actually have a 4th monitor technically, but it’s a big TV on the wall of my office that’s usually turned off, but that I can use for presentations or screen-sharing when I’m meeting with people in my office.

While the National Guard is prohibited from performing law enforcement on behalf of the President under the Posse Comitatus Act, the governor of the state they’re operating in can deputies them.for law enforcement.

He doesn’t need to wage war on ICE. He just needs them to be chaparroned by armed Nation Guard troops anywhere they go, and have them arrest ICE goons when they violate the law. If ICE gets proper judicial warrants and executes them lawfully, then there shouldn’t be any problems.

An important distinction on warrants is that an immigration judge cannot issue a judicial warrant because even though the word “judge” is in their title, they aren’t part of the judicial branch. They’re employees of the executive branch, so any warrants they hand out are administrative in nature and cannot legally be used to enter private property without consent.

That’s jury nullification. The sandwich guy is a perfect example.

By the letter of the law, he did commit assault. Nobody denies what he did, but the jury decided it was unreasonable.

This is exactly why juries exist. Jury nullification isn’t a loophole or a trick. It’s a built-in defense against unjust laws and corrupted executive and judicial officials.

If they’re kicking down my door, I’m fucked either way. Might as well try to take a few with me and make them more hesitant with the next house.

Honestly, I think boycotting the World Cup is something people should do no matter where it’s held.

My idea:

1. Have restaurants offer free meals to ICE for a few days
2. Get pictures of the ICE agents while they eat
3. Publish the pictures so businesses can refuse to serve them even when they’re in civilian clothes

I’m a third-party non-employee lecturer at my local university. I teach scuba, underwater photography, and scientific diving. The courses are taught off-campus at a dive shop using the shop’s its classrooms, pool, and equipment. The liability insurance is paid by me.

There’s a lake on campus we dive at, and the university charges students to enter it.

The students have to pay $3000+ in tuition for some of my classes.

…and the university doesn’t give me or the shop a dime. The students have to pay a 200 dollar lab fee, and that’s split between me and the shop for the semester. The only thing the university provides is the course numbers and taking the money, and they get 30 times as much money as I do.

I have multiple individual cameras I use to teach the class that cost more than I make in 5 years of teaching the photography class.

And they want to charge me $800/year for parking for the rare occasions when I need to go on campus.

Fuck that - I just let them ticket me. The parking services department isn’t a law enforcement agency. The biggest threat they really have is withholding grades for students who owe parking tickets.

We should do something big instead of spending 20 minutes haphazardly throwing together an afternoon with posters and calling it a general strike.

We need to plan a real, actual shutdown a few weeks out so we can make sure individuals can prepare to survive the strike while we wreck the economy.

They also tried to organize it with like 12 minutes of notice.

I get that it’s urgent, but if you don’t give people time to even get groceries ahead of time, you can’t really have a large-scale strike lasting longer than an afternoon.

Yeah. They published the minimum specs to get the OS to run at all with zero consideration for running actual software.

The thing with Vista was it was it was th3 first really major rebuild of Windows in a long time. Going to 98, ME, XP, etc you had increased minimum specs, but things like drivers and shit generally worked fine, so as long as you had the necessary RAM and processor to run the OS, you could just install the new version and shit would probably work.

So when Vista came along, the manufacturers selling existing models just shipped with the new OS expecting everything to work without testing.

Ring, also owned by Amazon, shares their video surveillance with Flock, which contracts with local LE agencies who share it with the feds.

0 warrants required, and ICE is actively using the data against people.

Windows Vista launch was a fucking mess. My office bought a laptop for a coworker in early 2007 that shipped with Vista but didn’t have Vista-compatible drivers for the on-board audio. They had to buy an external USB sound card.

The third game also had that horrid “menuless” interface.

And in a series where magic was so OP it made other combat options useless in comparison, it had by far the most OP magic.

A maxed-out melee or ranged character would take twice as long to kill a single enemy as a low-level mage would take to kill a group of 10 enemies.

Prescription pill bottles are a perfect balance.

You can put the cap on one way to lock them in place to keep kids out, requiring the lid to be pressed down and twisted to open, or you can flip the lid over over to make the pills easily accessible by simply unscrewing it. I’d be 100% okay with a step on phone setup (that can also be run at any other time) that allows the phone to be set up similarly.

You probably shouldn’t have the plane approach the runway at a 50-degree angle.

I expect that within a few months you’ll find NICS checks returning “DENY” for anyone who has ties to terrorism. The evidence of terrorism will be membership in things ike the ACLU, being a registered Democrat, having a reading level of 8th-grade or higher, etc.

Some of the Mass Effect games also let you issue squad commands through Kinect. It was handy.