@0scar_alho@memoriadiary that would mean it has officially released in Mexico too, which ot hasn't. The meme is post refers to the US as America, which is colloquially correct for most Asia, large parts of Europe, and the rest of the anglosphere.
@fliosfire@memoriadiary Nah, saying America is colloquially correct. Otherwise it would be "the Americas" or NA and SA. You know, since North and South America are two seperate continents and such.
@PinchALoaf96 @Fat_Electrician Finland by far wasnt a buffer zone but that didnt stop the Soviets from invading them and taking their land during the Winter War
@BrianaRoseLee First, there is a plethora of conflicts that have proven otherwise. Second, it's a pretty bold idea to think the military would be complicit to such an order, let alone a government giving such an order would be considered legitimate still.
@DJSnM@pfoeller Wasn't that because the aviation industry uses a number of imperial measurements for navigation, even to this day and in a number of countries outside the US?
@PaulKirvan @RangerONE_SC@DJSnM@pfoeller It worked for the Apollo program. guidance computer calculated in metric, and it was converted to imperial for the crew's benefit. Astronauts largely came from a background in aviation which used largely used Imperial as the international standard at the time
@grogyan@DJSnM@pfoeller It was converted to imperial because at the time nearly all aviation still used imperial for navigation, and so the pilots were already trained for it. It wasn't to "dumb it down".
@IceyJones1974@pfoeller@DJSnM Considering astronauts piloting spacecrafts were trained when aviation primarily used Imperial ,which was the standard at the time, it was hardly backwards
@snapdragonhouse@NoManTariiiq@spectatorindex While they are separate things for sure they are still quite deeply rooted and intertwined. There is also the bit of Hamas being the controlling political party and governing body in Palestine, and in many cases voted into power. The whole conflict is a big mess.