Can’t be bothered to get to the bottom of this but i was reading Axel Springers Wikipedia page (history section) and it seems they removed themselves from the stock exchange and sold off a large chunk of their business to their two largest investors in order to become fully privately owned. Not sure if they still holds a stake in that split-off part, but that seems to be the part Idealo belongs to.

In July 2024, reports emerged that Axel Springer and private equity group KKR were in talks to potentially split the media conglomerate. The proposed deal would separate the group’s media assets, including Politico, Business Insider, Bild, and Die Welt, from its digital classifieds operations such as StepStone and Aviv. The split was confirmed in September 2024 and Axel Springer became a fully privately owned and operated media company.

Or on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringier_Axel_Springer_Media_AG (for all outlets in Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Hungary) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_SE (English and German language outlets)

Great example of how a straight line on our round marble is not a straight line on our marcator projection maps and vice versa.

I agree with you in reality, but in theory mainland China is as much a part of Larger Taiwan as Taiwan is part of Larger China. There are still two China’s in theory. I think it’d be better if there was 1 independent Taiwan and 1 independent China though.

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Can someone get grok to build a guillotine for Elmo? That’d be great.

Do you do requests?

I believe we are in dire need of more oblique cylindrical and polyhedral projections. Too many maps are for when you want to go somewhere by plane/ship/car, but I don’t have any of those so I couldn’t care less how useful they are for navigation.

I’d like a bit of rotacrem please

He’s right on one thing: they have to unlearn their habits. Lives depend on it.

his yummified body*

Now

You misspelled yesterday

How are we even defining democracy anymore?

There are multiple organisations invested in rating democracies worldwide, the main one is from The Economist EIU ,(https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2025/, there are numerous places where the raw data is published more accessible such as here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu).

I personally prefer the index made by Freedom House (https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world) because it includes what a regular citizen experiences:

For each country and territory, Freedom in the World analyzes the electoral process, political pluralism and participation, the functioning of the government, freedom of expression and of belief, associational and organizational rights, the rule of law, and personal autonomy and individual rights.

Their assessment of the US democracy:

EIU (2024): 7.85/10, “flawed democracy” Freedom in the world score (2025): 81/100

These scores obviously are not about other things that matter, like economic stability or access to healthcare.

And yet it means nothing.

It really doesn’t mean much outside of the present atmosphere.

I think you mean to say it doesn’t affect you.

I’ve seen something similar, they did a race between one person trying to go as fast as possible and another person sticking to a single lane. The weaving person was like 2% faster but was totally exhausted.

You’ve never seen a brand since childhood?

The tldr;

• someone face-planted on a gravel driveway.
• someone else tripped on a pavement and cut her arm
• someone else fell, broke her wrist and cut her face.
• someone else broke her phone and grazed her knee
• someone else’s hem got caught in the teeth of an escalator and it pulled the trousers down to her thighs.

These are only examples, there are many more videos on social media of people tripping and been left battered and bruised.

Do you prefer to not get injured? Do not buy the Zara death pants.

Do you enjoy seeing people get hurt, search your favourite video platform for ‘zara death pants’.

Back in the day they did though, when it was fashionable

“There’s still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted.”

Obviously never going to happen, but i bet if the Dems did shut their mouth the bloodshed will continue as planned.

The interior decorater made space for trophies but they didn’t any prize so they put this instead.

That tracks, he also does fascism harder.