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The Danes (or actual Greenlanders maybe) bringing the Greenland flag to the USA v Denmark game is peak.

What can I say. Second best hockey nation in the world :D

Fell apart in the third but over all our team has shown that we can keep up with full NHL rosters. We can keep up with the best ... ok, maybe not Canada, but everyone else, yes. I am hopeful for the rest of the tournament. We can definitely be contending for a medal if we keep it up.

That's because you just weren't "liberal" enough and, therefore, you were clearly supporting the other side.

Depends. You'll see people mention other interpretations only as strawman, or attack them for their shortcomings without mentioning the same with the first interpretation (every interpretations has some shortcomings). Even with all that though, it is still impossible to be completely apolitical.

I think this happens either when people are unfamiliar with the history that is being communicated (which is fair). Or, when for some reason (unknown to us) the person is trying to hide their (e.g.) right wing political leaning by purposely changing their history communication to be more leftist.

This Slovak v Sweden game is going to age me 5 years ... 😳

Lol, again, I don't know much about figure skating, but I was on to slmething.

I see sometimes comments that are surprised when a history YouTuber makes a very left or right wing political statement, and I am always like "You are surprised?", it was fairly clear that they lean that way from their history communication. But I guess you need to know the history to notice that.

If you know the history that a history communicator is talking about you can tell fairly accurately what their political leanings are based on how they present it. It's pretty much impossible to be apolitical when communicating history.

This Olympic hockey tournament is so far some of the worst reffing I have ever seen.

Honesty, if anyone other than Canada or USA win the Olympics hockey tournament I'll be content. Even if Finland win a back to back I'll prefer that.

I don't know much about figure skating but personally I don't like the judging in these Olympics. Japan should have won the team competition and the American couple should have won mixed figure skating. But I guess this is the problem with judged sports. It's far more subjective than other sports.

I have not seen such good hockey from Slovakia in a while. This was an amazing game to watch and it is a great start for us. I am so happy.

J. H. Klaebo is not human. Dude looks like he's going on a stroll in cross country skis while everyone else is dying from exhaustion.

YouTube has not only demonetized my Rome and Sex video but also age restricted it. Because allegedly the video 'sexualizes minors'. Clearly, who ever made this decision has not actually watched the video or understands what 'educational' content means.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Also figure skating commentators are brutal. I watch something thinking "wow that was some amazing skating" only for the commentators to come in saying "see they messed up this routine, there was clear shakiness here, and wow this rotation was clearly miss executed".

Honestly rhythm figure skating is fun to watch. You just jam out to music while watching people preform some amazing feat of skating.

The winter Olympics are starting, so I apologies ahead of time for how much I may tweet about ice hockey (and maybe other sports) for the next two weeks.

Someone showed how they used LLMs to parse through over 10k pages of digitised government documents so it is definitely possible but I have no idea how to set that up.

I still get these comments at least once a week without fail and they always make me laugh. Never in my life have I cared what year notation people use, so I always find it funny when people care so much that they feel the need to tell me they stopped watching because of it.

I had to go to the White House website to read the 'RESTORING TRUTH & SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY' for my public history research & that entire website is just sooooo 'we are an evil dictatorship' coated. All it needs is a renaming to something like 'Free Democratic National People's White House'.

I pointed out (elsewhere) that the Vice President was lying when he said in a speech that archaeologists used mass infant remains to identify ancient brothels (they don't) so now I have right-wing chuds emailing my university email to 'gotcha' me about the sites I mentioned by name already.

With that said, I love these little free libraries. The fact that people can share with each other books, for free, they no longer want, is amazing.

The Little Free Library on my street was absolutely full of books in early January and I am convinced this was because of all the books people received for Christmas that they did not want. After all, that was the reason why I was there. Getting rid of 'Spare' which I couldn't care less about.

To the average Roman Empire truther, remember that most of its inhabitants lived in villages or farms, many regularly on the verge of starvation, the Roman Army was not nicer than the „barbarians“ if they visited your neighborhood and those great sanitary amenities were full of lead and bacteria.

Being deep in writing my PhD, one thing I miss is researching into random historical topics. It's all just public & digital history with no time to read about Aztec sacrifices or sexuality in Rome. I don't know how I feel about this academic idea of only doing and specialising in one or two things.

Managed to again do some skating on the Fens this year.