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"most desirable by the consumer" and "good" are the same thing in a capitalistic system.

That argument is only valid when it benefits us.

The countries in power didn't change much in size, but the countries they controlled did. I stand by my point, if this was the other way around and a useful projections shrank everything near the poles (and Africa looked much bigger on the map than it already is), those people would likely dislike that projection. They would ask themselves why it was so skewed, while now it was no issue. It is a coincidence that Mercator works that way, but it is no coincidence they liked this one so much.

Saying it was just handy is downplaying the strong sides of other projections. Take a look at maps from that period and see how many inaccuracies there are, because they had no satalite to check how right they were. Navigators weren't stupid and they would easily understand how to navigate another projection if Mercator was disregarded for some reason.

Take a look at historic uniforms, the amount of jewelry etc; people have been vain since the beginning of time and have always cared about the looks of it. I honestly can't imagine they would have been fine with a map were they seemed smaller than they actually were, i can easily imagine they would be glad to use a map that showed them bigger then they are.

Imagine living with someone who's able to spend $900 on a silly joke, and then ask them to move out because one or the jokes wasn't good enough. Rich people have such weird solutions to their problems.

if the truck didn't back all the way in, the smaller cars would have a problem getting out

Then they shouldn't be parked there from the start.

If there's no parking for full-size vehicles

Then, again, they shouldn't be parked there from the start. It's not a difficult concept.

Aside from the lack of care for others I think there might be two problems:

1. the local government is so carbrained this isn't illegal
2. the local government is so carbrained the fines are too low or the enforcement sucks in another way.

This car should get towed in my opinion. Sure i can walk behind it, but how about that single mom with a stroller or a veteran in a wheelchair? Sure those are stereotypes but we can't have those people deal with this shit by themselves everytime. I think you are right, just because we can pass doesn't mean we should let this be none of our business. Especially if we have a loved one who wouldn't be able to pass this car we should do something about it. Even if we don't, we shouldn't sit idly by if we can do something about it (not saying we should slash their tires though, that will probably only extend the time the problem is there).

He understood the market and knew what products to put there, I'd say he is a genius at that - but imo a marketing genius would be someone who can sell anything no matter how shitty the product is, so i'd say that term would be better fitting for his competitors at Microsoft for example.

He is talking about when he was young though

The person who put three screenshot together would have gained so much respect to me if they just took 5 extra seconds to paste it in reading order.

Hostile take-overs are a bitch

Too bad this is faux noise

You might be on to something, two kinds of enemies: one is an enemy because they are scary (democracies) and the other not necessarily an enemy just not a friend, but at least they're not scary.

And definitely not Jorkin De Coaoch