InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months ago[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menacehexbear.netimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up153arrow-down1image[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menacehexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareGuamer [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·edit-22 months agoWorld Wars Episode I: The Eurasian Menace Episode II: Attack of the Drones Episode III: Revenge of the BRICS Episode IV: A New Cope Episode V: The (American) Empire Strikes Back
minus-squarecombat_doomerism [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 months agoEpisode VI: Return of the USSR ?
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoPlot twist: USSR returns but not on Asian ("Eur"asia is Eurocentric nonsense; Europe is a peninsula) continental substrate
minus-squarecombat_doomerism [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoi’ll take it
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agobecause wh*tes decided which way was right side up
minus-squareMurple_27@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoUp is North, because North is at the top of a compass, and is the direction a compass will always point towards.
minus-squareaddieu [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoThe 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.
minus-squarexj9 [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoAntarctica is clearly earth’s hat. The compass has nothing to do with it.
minus-squareMurple_27@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI prefer this explanation, tbh.
minus-squareLemister [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoAsia as a concept was created by the europeans though - it is was the greeks called anatolia or asia minor.
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World Wars Episode I: The Eurasian Menace
Episode II: Attack of the Drones
Episode III: Revenge of the BRICS
Episode IV: A New Cope
Episode V: The (American) Empire Strikes Back
Episode VI: Return of the USSR ?
Plot twist: USSR returns but not on Asian ("Eur"asia is Eurocentric nonsense; Europe is a peninsula) continental substrate
i’ll take it
Why is it upside down?
because wh*tes decided which way was right side up
Up is North, because North is at the top of a compass, and is the direction a compass will always point towards.
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.
Antarctica is clearly earth’s hat. The compass has nothing to do with it.
I prefer this explanation, tbh.
Asia as a concept was created by the europeans though - it is was the greeks called anatolia or asia minor.