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[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menace (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by InevitableSwing@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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It's a WaPo article that's a 12 minute read - https://archive.ph/C6mna

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[-] combat_doomerism@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

Episode VI: Return of the USSR ?

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

Plot twist: USSR returns but not on Asian ("Eur"asia is Eurocentric nonsense; Europe is a peninsula) continental substrate

[-] combat_doomerism@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

i'll take it

[-] Murple_27@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Why is it upside down?

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

because wh*tes decided which way was right side up

[-] Murple_27@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Up is North, because North is at the top of a compass, and is the direction a compass will always point towards.

[-] addieu@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

The earliest known compasses humans used were called "zhi nan zhen," meaning "south pointing needle." It pointed south. European navigators using the technology inverted this so it would point north.

[-] Murple_27@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I guess, but those were really more of a divination tool, rather than a navigational one. They didn't start using them as a traditional compass until the 1100's.