@ryankatzrosene May 2026 to today Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian refenieries increased 8-10x than what they were last year. At the same point in time where you Trump arrow is pointed. I wonder if that has anything to do with global diesel prices 🤔
@andromeda_IX@Megatron_ron Ukraine’s attacks on Russia oil refineries coincidentally run their peak where that big spike is around May ‘26 into today. The volume of Ukranian attacks on diesel refineries is 8-10x more today than it was Nov ‘25
What if America eliminated federal income taxes for anyone under 30 on their first $500,000 of annual income?
Make $100K? Pay $0.
Make $250K? Pay $0.
Make $500K? Pay $0.
Make $600K? Only the $100K above the exemption is taxable.
Imagine the incentive to build, create, invest, and start businesses in America before turning 30.
This could in a major way address the affordability issue.
There would be a sense of urgency to not waste time in your 20’s.
People would get married, have kids & buy their first home.
President @realDonaldTrump, if the House and Senate put this bill on your desk, would you entertain it?
It is impossible to project a globe onto a sheet of paper without compromise. Distances, areas, directions and angles cannot all be preserved at once. Something must be sacrificed when three dimensions are forced into two.
Hence, there is nothing improper about preferring one map projection over another.
But the quarrel over the Mercator projection soon becomes identity politics. And so it inherits every vice of that style of argument: it is anachronistic, reductionist, and charged with unspoken insinuations about colonial guilt and the inherited sin of white people.
The Mercator projection of 1569 was a stroke of genius for the purpose it was meant to serve.
Mercator’s map was a navigational instrument. Its decisive property was that it rendered directions and angles truly: a line of constant compass bearing appears as a straight line.
To secure that property, a faithful representation of area had to be given up. But as already said: one cannot have everything when a sphere must be drawn as a plane. One has to choose.
It is therefore almost intolerable to hear the insinuation that Mercator was some kind of racist, intent on striking Africans with an inflated Greenland.
We should honour Gerardus Mercator for what he was: one of the great cartographers in the history of the craft.
The author of a projection whose charts, for centuries, helped generations of seafarers across the open ocean - long before longitude could be determined with any reliability at sea.
@Joe__Bassey Cool video but shitty caption. Africa didn’t have to use Mercator maps, it’s not like they were sailing around the world or conquering anything
“Results in reading, mathematics and science were above the national average and comparable to the average results in Germany and Sweden.”
These are the results of our pilot program, which includes AI tutors and has been running in 171 public schools for just over a year.
It was evaluated by PISA for Schools in June of this year. Since then, it has already expanded to more than 1,000 schools, and within 18 months, it will be in every public school in our country.
In a few years, El Salvador will inspire the world.
Security was just the beginning 🇸🇻