For example, Britain’s national mapping organisation’s brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It’s called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that’s because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

  • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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    13 hours ago

    We can’t even collectively agree on most topics, yet we put our lives in each others’ hands every day.

    Yeah, someone can do a lot of damage simply by ignoring the double yellow divider on a two-way highway.