Guess you're only here to provide the cynical take, if you're at first saying people doing nothing is a problem and then switch to saying people doing something is a problem. You must have a very hard life if you look at everything this way.
but that was just Mercator playing a trick upon me
Nearly every projection that show the entire globe on a 2d canvas will show you a map where the horizontal distance is almost double the vertical distance, so it is very correct that a journey from the top to the bottom is much shorter than from the most left to the most right.
Can someone explain me why this has so many downvotes? Is it bad experiences with medication? Is it something based in science? Something not related to the content of the article?
Crossing the globe north to south is the same distance as east to west, but since it is folded open on 2d maps it looks as if the earth is wider then it is higher. In this projection that means the map is stretched more horizontally than vertically, if i understand correctly.
A) Alive, because i fledB) Alive, because i fought backC) Alive, because i kept my head downD) Alive, because i agree with the regimes opinionsE) None of the above
There was a neighborhood in the Netherlands near the beach that was being flooded by tourists looking to park their car, they complained about it but the local government didn't listen to their concerns. So then they decided to take matters into their own hands and came up with a plan to continuously report road construction to Google. The result was that Google Maps no longer directed tourists into the neighbourhood, but this led to parking problems at the beach entrances but instead of building more parking spaces the municipality created signs telling drivers to turn their gps off.
I think i should have been less judging and more understanding of the small amount of power the good guys have left. I know how it is right now is very far away from how it should be and i understand the weapon you have is a lot better than the weapon you wish you had. I'm looking in from the outside and seeing all these standards being overturned is very depressing. I want to shout 'DON'T DO IT, IT WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU!', but at the same time who am i to judge, especially when it will be used against you no matter what you do. I think rooting for a fair system might not be as important right now as rooting for the people who are fighting an uphill battle against powerful villains. I never expected my first comment would get so much backlash, so it definitely was insightful to hear so many people disagree with me.
My employer can dock my pay or fire me for being a racist.
Your employer can and should if you did something racist while doing your work. Your employer should not be able to fire you or lower your salary you for stuff you post online in your free time. Not even is that is as vile as this guys stuff. I'm not arguing he isn't a racist. Aside that, politicians aren't the employer of individual officers, teachers, social workers, etc.
as someone who’s taxes pay this douchebag’s salary, I am fine lowering it to 1. Or fine firing him for conduct unbecoming.
Do you realise you're taxes also pay for a teachers salary, and politicians having something to say about this salary also means they have something to say about that teachers salary? I would be fine with ICE lowering his salary, i'd be fine with ICE firing, i'd be fine with him being taken to jail after a fair trial. But politicians having this power is very very dangerous in the current political climate, even if this single time the power is used for doing good.
Politicians aren't the employer, ICE is. ICE should be abolished. According to your thinking, politicians can also lower a teachers salary because he has posted something woke online. I know no judge is involved, maybe i didn't word it clearly, but i do think this has to do with rule of law because it is about who has something to say about the actions of an individual outside of his job, which is a very relevant factor imo.
Since ICE doesn't want to fire the guy, this is one of the few official acts thay can be taken to "encourage" him to leave on his own.
Which in this case is great, since Rodden is a bad person doing bad things. But a politician shouldn't be able to say something about someones salary or employment imo. Bad people still deserve to be treated fairly, that's how rule of law works.
You can do something intentionally and still have someone consider that stupid. I get a lot of downvotes because people like him punished. I'm fine with him being punished, i am not fine with politicians acting as employers. A politician should also not be able to vote on the salary of a teacher, policeman or someone who cleans the government buildings. That is what i called stupid, the fact that he can punish someone for something wrong.
I'm not defending him, that's the result of me arguing the system should be fair. If his employer would fire him, i would be silent. Politicians are not employers. Let's look at it from another perspective; imagine a colleague of this racist have an x account where he tells people to come to protests about climate change, do you think a politician should have something to say about his salary too?
If you don't break a law you shouldn't be punished by the office that is about whether laws were followed or not. I know that sounds crazy. He could be punished by his employer, fine. He could be punished by an angry mob, fine. But if this guy gets punished while not breaking the law, you can bet some other people who didn't break the law will still get punished. For me considering something legally fair has nothing to do with what he deserves. I don't think we'll come to agree on that.
Your comment has 5 times the amount of upvotes the previous comment has, so i'm stating the obvious by saying you're right; this is the way. I'm rooting for you guys and support you when you take the next step. Fuck ICE.
Guess you're only here to provide the cynical take, if you're at first saying people doing nothing is a problem and then switch to saying people doing something is a problem. You must have a very hard life if you look at everything this way.