Unicode uses the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two letter county codes to avoid dealing with flags themselves.
Those are designed for nation-states, and controlled by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.

Adding the British regions was a mistake imo.

Having the weight of 10 cars on the footprint of one can be a problem, even if the ferry can normally transport 100.
You should look out for IFVs from an airborne unit.

Are you sure the ferry could take the tank?

This was not a design consideration when usenet was being developed, because the assumption was all the users would have a name, email, and traceable identity so if you acted like a stupid shit, everyone already knew exactly who you were, where you worked/went to school, and could apply actual real-world social pressure to you to stop being a stupid fuck.

The first email spammer got a call from the US Air Force Major in charge of ARPANET and nobody send spam for a while. We should have kept doing that.

Because passive language can be biased to.

Say someone speeds, ignores a red light and runs over a cyclist, which headline is more biased?

Fatal crash at xy intersection, collision between car and bicycle.

Irresponsible driver kills cyclist at xy intersection.

Apart from the alignment problem*, having unchangeable laws can be really bad. The bill of rights shows that for tye US constitution, now what if a ‘new’ need arises for the law shows it self.

* the alignment problem is the still unsolved problem of getting even simple machine learning models/AIs to do what we want.

One of the closest things to a large anarchist society exists in the middle east, yet it doesn’t get bombed by the US. This is because the kurds are fighting with the US against isis.

I generally agree with your opinions otherwise. Also, recommending multiple books/authors before giving general explanations will scare most people of.

More bike lanes in the center, especially for long distances

More rail infrastructure in the outer parts, especially an outer ring by light rail or subway

Better funding for Schools and stuff

“Land of the free”, doesn’t have right to roam…

I don’t know if it has been translated but I would recommend “Die Känguru Chroniken”.

It’s a humourous book about a communist kangaroo moving in with a comedian. Many great jokes have established themselves in left leaning german meme culture as a result.

The book mostly has standalone chapters, but the sequels have more of a narrative throuline.