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Maps-Maps-Maps! ?
Who knows a decent map service on the Web? Except for Google's and alike, I mean.
For example, I wanted to find some physical maps of the UK's regions. One recent guy gave me errors instead of pages...
In one of other threads I shared some www.justmaps.org.  But its helpfulness seems rather limited to finding towns (within countries or otherwise larger regions; it looks simpler than using Google-like zoomables).
So what do you know? ???

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Reply #351 –
The majority don't, including Estonia... What's your problem? A politician uses hyperbole — stop the presses!  :)
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Reply #352 –
Quote from: OakdaleFTL – on
What's your problem?
The problem is that you cannot stop projecting. You think that someone else has a problem, but the problems are all yours. For example:
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A politician uses hyperbole — stop the presses!  :)
This is not about a politician, but about Trump. He does not use hyperbole. He does not know what the word means and neither do you. He uses ignorance every time he speaks, same as you. Moreover, he issues executive orders based on his utter ignorance, moronicity and disqualifying incompetence.

Trump is overturning the constitution with his executive orders and you think I got a problem? No, you do. Trump is cancelling the constitution of USA. This should concern normal people in USA, but you of course are not normal. You are a Trump voter. For non-Americans, such as myself, there is no difference whether the constitution of USA stands or not.

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Reply #353 –
So, what Estonia does as a country is okay but what the USA does is not, even if it's the same policy?

ersi, how often have you called me a dufus on this forum? That's the way you roll, I understand. You're still in grade school?! But your animus towards Trump (and America itself) is -when I call it out- a projection? :)
If Trump recognizes that unlimited birth-right citizenship is bad, you have to call it good; even though your own country doesn't award it!
But your point is not to argue the merits of policy: It' to sneer at Trump, and at anyone who finds anything he advocates not reprehensible.
The still current way of calling such is "Trump lives rent-free in your head! How pathetic! :)
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Reply #354 –
Quote from: OakdaleFTL – on
So, what Estonia does as a country is okay but what the USA does is not, even if it's the same policy?
Oh, so now it is USA doing it, not just Trump? You are completely out of your mind, absolutely insane.

In every country, incuding USA, there are legal procedures in place when it comes to changing the constitution. Do you understand this? No, of course you don't. You are a Trump supporter, and when it comes to Trump supporters, then whatever Trump does, whether it is spit or piss or vomit on the constitution, it is golden and sacred for Trump supporters.

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ersi, how often have you called me a dufus on this forum?
No, it's doofus, doofus, but this has been too mild and forgiving. You are always wrong about everything. You get nothing right, and often enough you don't get anything whatsoever.

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Reply #355 –
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No, it's doofus, doofus
Of course, you think slang is written in stone, or the NYT's Style Book. Have you ever met any actual people? :)


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In every country, incuding USA, there are legal procedures in place when it comes to changing the constitution. Do you understand this?
Yeah, I do. And they sometimes are changed... But someone like you seems often to mistake their favorite party's interpretation for un-alterable law. (I don't know why, and I'll keep my suspicions to myself! :) )
By your reckoning, Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, Korematsu v. United States and Roe v. Wade were untouchable law?! (Democrats did.)

The body politic does discuss such things; you think they shouldn't? :) President Trump's EO on birth-right citizenship is part of a conversation (something you've never engaged in, I presume!) with a fairly long history here; and it's meant to conclude the matter without requiring another amendment to the constitution — like Dred Scott did. Such remedies should be few and far between...

But let me ask you: Where in the US Constitution is DEI enshrined? Or Affirmative Action? (See some recent cases...) And where does the Constitution preclude revisiting the apportionment clause specifying the Census and its purposes? It's been done before! (Else the 3/5th clause would not be struck out!)

It's not that you speak from ignorance that galls me, ersi! It's that your silly sense of superiority keeps you making the same mistakes, over and over... And when you're challenged, you revert to name-calling.
But I continue to engage, somewhat: I do want to know the European mind! :)
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Reply #356 –
Quote from: OakdaleFTL – on
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No, it's doofus, doofus
Of course, you think slang is written in stone, or the NYT's Style Book. Have you ever met any actual people? :)
The obvious takeaway from this is that you have not met any actual people.

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In every country, incuding USA, there are legal procedures in place when it comes to changing the constitution. Do you understand this?
Yeah, I do. And they sometimes are changed...
Changed by executive order? Cearly you do not understand anything.

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By your reckoning, Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, Korematsu v. United States and Roe v. Wade were untouchable law?! (Democrats did.)
Was any of these enacted or revoked by executive order? Nope, none. So you are just spouting irrelevant blather to make a stupid partisan point, because everything about you is partisan hypocrisy.

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President Trump's EO on birth-right citizenship is part of a conversation
Hah, how very convenient. It is "part of a conversation" when it comes to Trump, instead of unconstitutional overreach, which it has already been judged as. You have really no principles whatsoever. Partisan hypocrisy all the way.

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It's not that you speak from ignorance that galls me, ersi! It's that your silly sense of superiority keeps you making the same mistakes, over and over... And when you're challenged, you revert to name-calling.
Naturally you cannot help but keep projecting. All the ignorance, silly superiority, mistakes and name-calling are on your side. You are capable of only misinformation and irrelevant partisan blather, and your insults are appropriate descriptors for yourself.

I understand: When Trump says, "We are the only country in the world that does this with the birthright, as you know..." then it becomes a golden eternal truth in your eyes and you want to emulate that, so that you would have "successes" the way he does. The reality is that Trump is a miserable failure. He is a liar, a corrupt criminal crook, and he demonstrates daily that he knows nothing about anything. Just like yourself. You don't have to work for it. You are already there. The only thing missing from you is a circle of co-doofuses who would validate and enable your delusions at every step.

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Reply #357 –
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The reality is that Trump is a miserable failure. He is a liar, a corrupt criminal crook, and he demonstrates daily that he knows nothing about anything.
Amazing!
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The reality is that Trump is a miserable failure.
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He is a liar, a corrupt criminal crook, and he demonstrates daily that he knows nothing about anything.

ersi seems a little overwhelmed by reality... :) But he might appeal -in his opinions about Trump- to many other Europeans!?

Since it's too late to start a poll, let's use the "Like Post" function:
If you agree with ersi's comments, like this post; otherwise, go on with your actual life! :)


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Reply #358 –
Americans seem to be getting better at maps.


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Reply #359 –
I'd guess/hope that anything not in the general south of the Caspian Sea area was just pointing completely randomly without even trying, while hitting northeast Iraq for example could be understandable if embarrassing on a map without borders.

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Reply #360 –
Americans, just like Russians, are constantly worried about getting invaded. According to my research, the last time USA was invaded was in 1812.


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Reply #361 –
That depends a bit on how you classify the invasions of The Philippines, Wake, Guam and such I suppose.

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Reply #362 –
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According to my research, the last time USA was invaded was in 1812.

so...Pearl Harbor doesn't count? (Nor, I suppose, 9/11/2001...)

BTW: Nice poll from 2020, showing the geographical ignorance of American voters! I still remember the map of the U.S. published by the New Yorker... :)
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Reply #363 –
Quote from: OakdaleFTL – on
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According to my research, the last time USA was invaded was in 1812.

so...Pearl Harbor doesn't count? (Nor, I suppose, 9/11/2001...)
On 9/11/2001, there was no invasion. And Pearl Harbor was not USA.

Also, if in American mind Trump has at this point still not invaded Iran, then neither was Pearl Harbor invaded.