Greg Egan on Nostr: Hmm, this is what Google Earth Pro for MacOS displays in Australia. It’s as if ...
Hmm, this is what Google Earth Pro for MacOS displays in Australia.
It’s as if Google read the Australian government’s mind:
“We are very independent and refuse to be pushed around! But also … the Orange Gibbon might put Big Tariffs on us if we don’t suck up to him sufficiently.”
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