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Greenland is a global model for Indigenous self-governance. Trump’s demands for the island threaten that.
Aqqaluk Lynge was 19 years old when an American B-52 bomber carrying four thermonuclear weapons as well as conventional bombs crashed off the northwest coast of Greenland, the island where Lynge was born and raised. That was January 1968, and the plane was headed to Thule Air Force Base, a U.S. military installation in Greenland, now known as Pituffik Space Base. When the plane hit the Arctic waters, the conventional bombs detonated but the nuclear weapons did not.
Six American military personnel parachuted from the plane before it crashed, shivering on the frozen ground before Inuit dog sled teams found them and saved their lives. One service member trapped on floating ice 6 miles from Thule survived the negative 21-degree Fahrenheit weather by wrapping himself in his parachute.
Now, aged 78, Lynge wonders if the United States remembers that Inuit dogsleds saved American lives. Or the fact that Greenlanders fought for the U.S. in Afghanistan as enlisted members of the Danish military, dying at the second-highest rate of any country besides the U.S. That U.S. Air Force base is still operational and 150 American military personnel are currently stationed there. “Why should a friend for so many years be treated like this?” Lynge said. “We need support from democratic-minded people in the United States.”
An Inuit dog team stands on frozen Baffin Bay near site of crash of a U.S. B52 nuclear bomber on January 21, 1968.
Bettmann via Getty Images
American military survivors of a B52 crash in Greenland smile for a photo in 1968.
Keystone-France / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
President Donald Trump has demanded that the United States acquire Greenland and said that control of the island is necessary for national and international security. He has threatened European allies with tariffs and even hinted at seizing Greenland by force. On Wednesday, Trump backtracked on both threats and said he’d reached a “framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland” without giving any details; however Trump’s behavior over the island has already undermined America’s relationship with Europe by threatening longstanding alliances.
Less publicized is how Trump’s threats have refocused attention on the United States’ relationship and history with Indigenous peoples: Greenland is 90 percent Inuit and has maintained its traditions, language, knowledge, and land despite centuries of colonial rule, and is viewed as a model of Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty.
Lynge, who is Inuit, is part of that history. He co-founded the Inuit Ataqatigiit, a democratic socialist party in Greenland that advocates for independence. He helped lead the Inuit Circumpolar Council, an organization that represents Indigenous peoples in the Arctic. And he’s a former member of the Greenlandic Parliament, as well as the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which helps advise the U.N. Economic and Social Council on issues related to Indigenous peoples.
Greenland is still part of the Kingdom of Denmark, a colonial relationship that’s existed since the 18th century, but thanks to the work of people like Lynge, the island has achieved a level of political independence that many Indigenous peoples aspire to. “The extensive self-governance of Greenland is an inspiring example of the implementation of Indigenous self-determination for many Indigenous Peoples worldwide,” said the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay, in 2023.
Aqqaluk Lynge, left, listens during a 2009 press conference on the Inuit Circumpolar Council on the effects of climate change.
Casper Christoffersen / AFP via Getty Images
Yet despite the still-strong presence of Inuit peoples in Greenland, Stefan Aune, a historian and the author of the book Indian Wars Everywhere, said he’s been struck by how much Trump’s threats have been framed as conflict between the U.S. and Denmark or the U.S. and European countries, ignoring the presence of Indigenous peoples. “This really kind of evokes the way the history of North America often gets narrated, which is a kind of imperial squabble between the British, the French, and the Spanish, and then later the United States, despite the fact that there’s all these different Native nations that play a really equally important role in the war, the politics, the economics, and the diplomacy on the continent,” Aune said. “So there’s definitely a parallel there.”
Aune is among many experts who see Trump’s policies and rhetoric as echoes of historical entitlement to Native land reframed as a defensive struggle against Indigenous nations or other threats. “The iconic image of this is the surrounded wagon train, which you can see in all kinds of art, paintings, and then later movies and television and video games,” Aune said. “Settler colonialism consistently gets reframed as a defensive struggle rather than an invasion.”
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Peter Mancall, a historian and author of the book Contested Continent, said he was struck by how quickly Trump pivoted from the security reasons to capture Venezuela’s president to his plans to sell 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil. “The rapid pivot from the pretext of the invasion to the extraction of resources [in Venezuela] was quicker than anything I had seen in the early American period,” he said. “We’ve seen this before, and it has often had catastrophic consequences for Indigenous peoples as well as deleterious impacts on various environments.”
Jonathan Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio, the dean of Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawaiʻi, sees parallels to the U.S. overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, which he wrote about in his book Dismembering Lāhui. In the late 1800s, the U.S. was motivated to annex Hawai’i in order to cement economic control over the islands’ sugar plantations and to establish military control over Pearl Harbor.
“The fact that the president of the United States no longer feels that it’s necessary to justify imperialism in any other way except that ‘We need it’ is deeply revealing and clarifying,” Osorio said. “When you remove all of the pretext and you realize that all this has ever been about has been the acquisition of opportunities and other peoples and other peoples’ countries … it’s never been any different.”
Greenland is three times the size of Texas and home to about 56,000 people. The island has 39 of the 50 minerals that the U.S. considers to be critical for military technology and the U.S. economy, many of which are used for clean energy technology like electric vehicle batteries. Investors are hoping that melting ice caps due to climate change will make it easier for companies to mine minerals like gallium, which can be used to create computer chips.
A banner says “Decolonize Don’t Recolonize,” seen during a demonstration against the Trump administration in Copenhagen in 2025.
Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images
But Paul Bierman, a geoscientist who has studied ice sheets in Greenland, is skeptical. He said melting permafrost has led to cratering on U.S. Air Force runways and thinks mining infrastructure would face similar challenges. “If you’ve ever stood next to a melting glacier, you’re not putting a mine there. The ice is literally melting below your feet. It’s crumbling, it’s collapsing,” he said. “The idea that we’re going to walk in and in a year, start up mines and have minerals coming out and be rich, it’s a complete and utter fantasy. It doesn’t match the reality of being on the ground.”
That hasn’t stopped wealthy investors from yearning to profit from Greenland, from billionaire Ronald Lauder to Peter Thiel. Bierman said the greater risk to humanity is allowing climate change — which Trump has called a hoax — to continue to melt ice caps and inundate low-lying cities like Jakarta, eventually dislocating an anticipated half a billion people. “Compared to the value of strategic minerals in Greenland, it’s orders of magnitude more in damages from letting the ice melt,” said Bierman, who wrote a book on Greenland called When The Ice Is Gone.
Denmark has recognized Greenland as self-governing with a right to its own mineral resources, and Greenlanders have been extremely clear about their desire to maintain their sovereignty, as well as their affiliation with Denmark. “It is our country,” Lynge said. “No one can take it.”
Since World War II, Greenland has been a close military ally of the U.S., hosting not just Pituffik Space Base — which displaced an Inuit village — but also more than 20 American military bases that were eventually abandoned. Treaties dating back to 1941 give the U.S. enormous sway over what its military can do on the island and prevents other militaries from operating there, even though Trump has repeatedly claimed that Russia and China are doing so.
“[According to an] agreement from 1951, the United States is free to do what they want, and from 2014, they can do that by talking to us and the Danes,” said Lynge from Greenland. “The U.S. is the only military presence here in Greenland, so what’s the problem?”
Greenland residents and political leaders have publicly rejected suggestions by U.S. President Donald Trump that the Arctic island could become part of the United States. Greenland, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, has emphasized that its future will be decided by its own people, with officials stating that the island is not for sale and does not wish to become American.
Lokman Vural Elibol / Anadolu via Getty Images
After two centuries of colonial rule, in the 1960s, Denmark began taking steps to limit Inuit population growth by inserting intrauterine devices in about 4,500 women, including girls as young as 12 years old. The Danish government apologized last year and agreed to compensate the women who sued, arguing the government violated their human rights. The population limitation process was extremely effective, dropping birth rates substantially among Indigenous families and causing permanent infertility among some women. Denmark also has a decades-long history of removing Inuit children from their homes against their parents’ will, with research as recent as 2022 showing that Inuit children are seven times more likely to be removed from their parents’ homes than Danish children. In 2023, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples issued a report on the status of Greenland that said Denmark needs to implement many reforms to fully respect Indigenous rights, including embracing a reconciliation process to address historical trauma.
Despite these traumas, and perhaps motivated by them, Greenland’s independence movement has gained ground in recent decades, securing several major wins. In 1979, more than 70 percent of Greenland’s mostly Inuit residents voted in favor of more independence from Denmark. The referendum made the island a “constituent country” of the Kingdom of Denmark, rather than just a colony, and gave Greenlanders control over domestic policies such as their education, environment, health, and fisheries. The law also established the Greenlandic Parliament.
Protesters wave Greenland flags during a demonstration with the slogans “hands off Greenland” and “Greenland for Greenlanders” at City Hall Square in Copenhagen, Denmark, on January 17, 2026.
Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg / NurPhoto via Getty Images
In 2008, more than three-fourths of Greenlanders again voted in favor of self-governance, expanding their control over the police and courts and giving Greenland more of a say over foreign policy. The law also made Kalaallisut, an Inuit language of Greenland, the official language of the country, and restored Greenland’s control over its mineral and oil revenue, with provisions for remitting some funding to Denmark. It also established a pathway to full independence, without a specific timeline, as the move would require support from both Greenland and Denmark.
Political leaders in Greenland have continued to explore the possibility of full independence, drafting a potential constitution as recently as 2023, and last year, polls showed that most people in Greenland wanted independence from Denmark, although voters differed on how and when it should happen. The vast majority, 85 percent, oppose any type of union with the U.S.
“They serve as a model for how to practice self-governance,” said Gunn-Britt Retter, the head of the Arctic and environmental unit of the Saami Council, which represents Indigenous Saami people in Europe. The council has come out in support of Greenland against Trump’s threats, and has been a longtime ally of theirs in the fight for climate action and Indigenous rights internationally. She added that the idea of the U.S. buying Greenland from Denmark makes no sense. “You can’t buy something that is stolen.”
To Lynge, Trump’s threats are not only misinformed, but also threaten the political autonomy that he has spent his lifetime building. And he doesn’t think Greenlanders are the only people at risk.
“We are in the middle of a situation in the world where small nations like us would be crushed if we don’t do anything,” Lynge said. “If the world allows what is happening right now, it will continue and destroy the world order as we know it.”
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Greenland is a global model for Indigenous self-governance. Trump’s demands for the island threaten that. on Jan 22, 2026.
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Aqqaluk Lynge was 19 years old when an American B-52 bomber carrying four thermonuclear weapons as well as conventional bombs crashed off the northwest coast of Greenland, the island where Lynge was born and raised. That was January 1968, and the plane was headed to Thule Air Force Base, a U.S. military installation in Greenland, now known as Pituffik Space Base. When the plane hit the Arctic waters, the conventional bombs detonated but the nuclear weapons did not.Six American military personnel parachuted from the plane before it crashed, shivering on the frozen ground before Inuit dog sled teams found them and saved their lives. One service member trapped on floating ice 6 miles from Thule survived the negative 21-degree Fahrenheit weather by wrapping himself in his parachute.
Now, aged 78, Lynge wonders if the United States remembers that Inuit dogsleds saved American lives. Or the fact that Greenlanders fought for the U.S. in Afghanistan as enlisted members of the Danish military, dying at the second-highest rate of any country besides the U.S. That U.S. Air Force base is still operational and 150 American military personnel are currently stationed there. “Why should a friend for so many years be treated like this?” Lynge said. “We need support from democratic-minded people in the United States.”
An Inuit dog team stands on frozen Baffin Bay near site of crash of a U.S. B52 nuclear bomber on January 21, 1968.
Bettmann via Getty Images
American military survivors of a B52 crash in Greenland smile for a photo in 1968.
Keystone-France / Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has demanded that the United States acquire Greenland and said that control of the island is necessary for national and international security. He has threatened European allies with tariffs and even hinted at seizing Greenland by force. On Wednesday, Trump backtracked on both threats and said he’d reached a “framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland” without giving any details; however Trump’s behavior over the island has already undermined America’s relationship with Europe by threatening longstanding alliances.
Less publicized is how Trump’s threats have refocused attention on the United States’ relationship and history with Indigenous peoples: Greenland is 90 percent Inuit and has maintained its traditions, language, knowledge, and land despite centuries of colonial rule, and is viewed as a model of Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty.
Lynge, who is Inuit, is part of that history. He co-founded the Inuit Ataqatigiit, a democratic socialist party in Greenland that advocates for independence. He helped lead the Inuit Circumpolar Council, an organization that represents Indigenous peoples in the Arctic. And he’s a former member of the Greenlandic Parliament, as well as the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which helps advise the U.N. Economic and Social Council on issues related to Indigenous peoples.
Greenland is still part of the Kingdom of Denmark, a colonial relationship that’s existed since the 18th century, but thanks to the work of people like Lynge, the island has achieved a level of political independence that many Indigenous peoples aspire to. “The extensive self-governance of Greenland is an inspiring example of the implementation of Indigenous self-determination for many Indigenous Peoples worldwide,” said the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay, in 2023.
Aqqaluk Lynge, left, listens during a 2009 press conference on the Inuit Circumpolar Council on the effects of climate change.
Casper Christoffersen / AFP via Getty ImagesYet despite the still-strong presence of Inuit peoples in Greenland, Stefan Aune, a historian and the author of the book Indian Wars Everywhere, said he’s been struck by how much Trump’s threats have been framed as conflict between the U.S. and Denmark or the U.S. and European countries, ignoring the presence of Indigenous peoples. “This really kind of evokes the way the history of North America often gets narrated, which is a kind of imperial squabble between the British, the French, and the Spanish, and then later the United States, despite the fact that there’s all these different Native nations that play a really equally important role in the war, the politics, the economics, and the diplomacy on the continent,” Aune said. “So there’s definitely a parallel there.”
Aune is among many experts who see Trump’s policies and rhetoric as echoes of historical entitlement to Native land reframed as a defensive struggle against Indigenous nations or other threats. “The iconic image of this is the surrounded wagon train, which you can see in all kinds of art, paintings, and then later movies and television and video games,” Aune said. “Settler colonialism consistently gets reframed as a defensive struggle rather than an invasion.”
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Peter Mancall, a historian and author of the book Contested Continent, said he was struck by how quickly Trump pivoted from the security reasons to capture Venezuela’s president to his plans to sell 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil. “The rapid pivot from the pretext of the invasion to the extraction of resources [in Venezuela] was quicker than anything I had seen in the early American period,” he said. “We’ve seen this before, and it has often had catastrophic consequences for Indigenous peoples as well as deleterious impacts on various environments.”
Jonathan Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio, the dean of Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawaiʻi, sees parallels to the U.S. overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, which he wrote about in his book Dismembering Lāhui. In the late 1800s, the U.S. was motivated to annex Hawai’i in order to cement economic control over the islands’ sugar plantations and to establish military control over Pearl Harbor.
“The fact that the president of the United States no longer feels that it’s necessary to justify imperialism in any other way except that ‘We need it’ is deeply revealing and clarifying,” Osorio said. “When you remove all of the pretext and you realize that all this has ever been about has been the acquisition of opportunities and other peoples and other peoples’ countries … it’s never been any different.”
Greenland is three times the size of Texas and home to about 56,000 people. The island has 39 of the 50 minerals that the U.S. considers to be critical for military technology and the U.S. economy, many of which are used for clean energy technology like electric vehicle batteries. Investors are hoping that melting ice caps due to climate change will make it easier for companies to mine minerals like gallium, which can be used to create computer chips.
A banner says “Decolonize Don’t Recolonize,” seen during a demonstration against the Trump administration in Copenhagen in 2025.
Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty ImagesBut Paul Bierman, a geoscientist who has studied ice sheets in Greenland, is skeptical. He said melting permafrost has led to cratering on U.S. Air Force runways and thinks mining infrastructure would face similar challenges. “If you’ve ever stood next to a melting glacier, you’re not putting a mine there. The ice is literally melting below your feet. It’s crumbling, it’s collapsing,” he said. “The idea that we’re going to walk in and in a year, start up mines and have minerals coming out and be rich, it’s a complete and utter fantasy. It doesn’t match the reality of being on the ground.”
That hasn’t stopped wealthy investors from yearning to profit from Greenland, from billionaire Ronald Lauder to Peter Thiel. Bierman said the greater risk to humanity is allowing climate change — which Trump has called a hoax — to continue to melt ice caps and inundate low-lying cities like Jakarta, eventually dislocating an anticipated half a billion people. “Compared to the value of strategic minerals in Greenland, it’s orders of magnitude more in damages from letting the ice melt,” said Bierman, who wrote a book on Greenland called When The Ice Is Gone.
Denmark has recognized Greenland as self-governing with a right to its own mineral resources, and Greenlanders have been extremely clear about their desire to maintain their sovereignty, as well as their affiliation with Denmark. “It is our country,” Lynge said. “No one can take it.”
Since World War II, Greenland has been a close military ally of the U.S., hosting not just Pituffik Space Base — which displaced an Inuit village — but also more than 20 American military bases that were eventually abandoned. Treaties dating back to 1941 give the U.S. enormous sway over what its military can do on the island and prevents other militaries from operating there, even though Trump has repeatedly claimed that Russia and China are doing so.
“[According to an] agreement from 1951, the United States is free to do what they want, and from 2014, they can do that by talking to us and the Danes,” said Lynge from Greenland. “The U.S. is the only military presence here in Greenland, so what’s the problem?”
Greenland residents and political leaders have publicly rejected suggestions by U.S. President Donald Trump that the Arctic island could become part of the United States. Greenland, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, has emphasized that its future will be decided by its own people, with officials stating that the island is not for sale and does not wish to become American.
Lokman Vural Elibol / Anadolu via Getty ImagesAfter two centuries of colonial rule, in the 1960s, Denmark began taking steps to limit Inuit population growth by inserting intrauterine devices in about 4,500 women, including girls as young as 12 years old. The Danish government apologized last year and agreed to compensate the women who sued, arguing the government violated their human rights. The population limitation process was extremely effective, dropping birth rates substantially among Indigenous families and causing permanent infertility among some women. Denmark also has a decades-long history of removing Inuit children from their homes against their parents’ will, with research as recent as 2022 showing that Inuit children are seven times more likely to be removed from their parents’ homes than Danish children. In 2023, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples issued a report on the status of Greenland that said Denmark needs to implement many reforms to fully respect Indigenous rights, including embracing a reconciliation process to address historical trauma.
Despite these traumas, and perhaps motivated by them, Greenland’s independence movement has gained ground in recent decades, securing several major wins. In 1979, more than 70 percent of Greenland’s mostly Inuit residents voted in favor of more independence from Denmark. The referendum made the island a “constituent country” of the Kingdom of Denmark, rather than just a colony, and gave Greenlanders control over domestic policies such as their education, environment, health, and fisheries. The law also established the Greenlandic Parliament.
Protesters wave Greenland flags during a demonstration with the slogans “hands off Greenland” and “Greenland for Greenlanders” at City Hall Square in Copenhagen, Denmark, on January 17, 2026.
Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg / NurPhoto via Getty ImagesIn 2008, more than three-fourths of Greenlanders again voted in favor of self-governance, expanding their control over the police and courts and giving Greenland more of a say over foreign policy. The law also made Kalaallisut, an Inuit language of Greenland, the official language of the country, and restored Greenland’s control over its mineral and oil revenue, with provisions for remitting some funding to Denmark. It also established a pathway to full independence, without a specific timeline, as the move would require support from both Greenland and Denmark.
Political leaders in Greenland have continued to explore the possibility of full independence, drafting a potential constitution as recently as 2023, and last year, polls showed that most people in Greenland wanted independence from Denmark, although voters differed on how and when it should happen. The vast majority, 85 percent, oppose any type of union with the U.S.
“They serve as a model for how to practice self-governance,” said Gunn-Britt Retter, the head of the Arctic and environmental unit of the Saami Council, which represents Indigenous Saami people in Europe. The council has come out in support of Greenland against Trump’s threats, and has been a longtime ally of theirs in the fight for climate action and Indigenous rights internationally. She added that the idea of the U.S. buying Greenland from Denmark makes no sense. “You can’t buy something that is stolen.”
To Lynge, Trump’s threats are not only misinformed, but also threaten the political autonomy that he has spent his lifetime building. And he doesn’t think Greenlanders are the only people at risk.
“We are in the middle of a situation in the world where small nations like us would be crushed if we don’t do anything,” Lynge said. “If the world allows what is happening right now, it will continue and destroy the world order as we know it.”
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Greenland is a global model for Indigenous self-governance. Trump’s demands for the island threaten that. on Jan 22, 2026.
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Greenland is a global model for Indigenous self-governance. Trump’s demands for the island threaten that.
Aqqaluk Lynge was 19 years old when an American B-52 bomber carrying four thermonuclear weapons as well as conventional bombs crashed off the northwest coast of Greenland, the island where Lynge was born and raised. That was January 1968, and the plane was headed to Thule Air Force Base, a U.S. military installation in Greenland, now known as Pituffik Space Base. When the plane hit the Arctic waters, the conventional bombs detonated but the nuclear weapons did not.Six American military personnel parachuted from the plane before it crashed, shivering on the frozen ground before Inuit dog sled teams found them and saved their lives. One service member trapped on floating ice 6 miles from Thule survived the negative 21-degree Fahrenheit weather by wrapping himself in his parachute.
Now, aged 78, Lynge wonders if the United States remembers that Inuit dogsleds saved American lives. Or the fact that Greenlanders fought for the U.S. in Afghanistan as enlisted members of the Danish military, dying at the second-highest rate of any country besides the U.S. That U.S. Air Force base is still operational and 150 American military personnel are currently stationed there. “Why should a friend for so many years be treated like this?” Lynge said. “We need support from democratic-minded people in the United States.”
An Inuit dog team stands on frozen Baffin Bay near site of crash of a U.S. B52 nuclear bomber on January 21, 1968.
Bettmann via Getty Images
American military survivors of a B52 crash in Greenland smile for a photo in 1968.
Keystone-France / Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has demanded that the United States acquire Greenland and said that control of the island is necessary for national and international security. He has threatened European allies with tariffs and even hinted at seizing Greenland by force. On Wednesday, Trump backtracked on both threats and said he’d reached a “framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland” without giving any details; however Trump’s behavior over the island has already undermined America’s relationship with Europe by threatening longstanding alliances.
Less publicized is how Trump’s threats have refocused attention on the United States’ relationship and history with Indigenous peoples: Greenland is 90 percent Inuit and has maintained its traditions, language, knowledge, and land despite centuries of colonial rule, and is viewed as a model of Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty.
Lynge, who is Inuit, is part of that history. He co-founded the Inuit Ataqatigiit, a democratic socialist party in Greenland that advocates for independence. He helped lead the Inuit Circumpolar Council, an organization that represents Indigenous peoples in the Arctic. And he’s a former member of the Greenlandic Parliament, as well as the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which helps advise the U.N. Economic and Social Council on issues related to Indigenous peoples.
Greenland is still part of the Kingdom of Denmark, a colonial relationship that’s existed since the 18th century, but thanks to the work of people like Lynge, the island has achieved a level of political independence that many Indigenous peoples aspire to. “The extensive self-governance of Greenland is an inspiring example of the implementation of Indigenous self-determination for many Indigenous Peoples worldwide,” said the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay, in 2023.
Aqqaluk Lynge, left, listens during a 2009 press conference on the Inuit Circumpolar Council on the effects of climate change.
Casper Christoffersen / AFP via Getty ImagesYet despite the still-strong presence of Inuit peoples in Greenland, Stefan Aune, a historian and the author of the book Indian Wars Everywhere, said he’s been struck by how much Trump’s threats have been framed as conflict between the U.S. and Denmark or the U.S. and European countries, ignoring the presence of Indigenous peoples. “This really kind of evokes the way the history of North America often gets narrated, which is a kind of imperial squabble between the British, the French, and the Spanish, and then later the United States, despite the fact that there’s all these different Native nations that play a really equally important role in the war, the politics, the economics, and the diplomacy on the continent,” Aune said. “So there’s definitely a parallel there.”
Aune is among many experts who see Trump’s policies and rhetoric as echoes of historical entitlement to Native land reframed as a defensive struggle against Indigenous nations or other threats. “The iconic image of this is the surrounded wagon train, which you can see in all kinds of art, paintings, and then later movies and television and video games,” Aune said. “Settler colonialism consistently gets reframed as a defensive struggle rather than an invasion.”
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The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land.
Peter Mancall, a historian and author of the book Contested Continent, said he was struck by how quickly Trump pivoted from the security reasons to capture Venezuela’s president to his plans to sell 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil. “The rapid pivot from the pretext of the invasion to the extraction of resources [in Venezuela] was quicker than anything I had seen in the early American period,” he said. “We’ve seen this before, and it has often had catastrophic consequences for Indigenous peoples as well as deleterious impacts on various environments.”
Jonathan Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio, the dean of Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawaiʻi, sees parallels to the U.S. overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, which he wrote about in his book Dismembering Lāhui. In the late 1800s, the U.S. was motivated to annex Hawai’i in order to cement economic control over the islands’ sugar plantations and to establish military control over Pearl Harbor.
“The fact that the president of the United States no longer feels that it’s necessary to justify imperialism in any other way except that ‘We need it’ is deeply revealing and clarifying,” Osorio said. “When you remove all of the pretext and you realize that all this has ever been about has been the acquisition of opportunities and other peoples and other peoples’ countries … it’s never been any different.”
Greenland is three times the size of Texas and home to about 56,000 people. The island has 39 of the 50 minerals that the U.S. considers to be critical for military technology and the U.S. economy, many of which are used for clean energy technology like electric vehicle batteries. Investors are hoping that melting ice caps due to climate change will make it easier for companies to mine minerals like gallium, which can be used to create computer chips.
A banner says “Decolonize Don’t Recolonize,” seen during a demonstration against the Trump administration in Copenhagen in 2025.
Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty ImagesBut Paul Bierman, a geoscientist who has studied ice sheets in Greenland, is skeptical. He said melting permafrost has led to cratering on U.S. Air Force runways and thinks mining infrastructure would face similar challenges. “If you’ve ever stood next to a melting glacier, you’re not putting a mine there. The ice is literally melting below your feet. It’s crumbling, it’s collapsing,” he said. “The idea that we’re going to walk in and in a year, start up mines and have minerals coming out and be rich, it’s a complete and utter fantasy. It doesn’t match the reality of being on the ground.”
That hasn’t stopped wealthy investors from yearning to profit from Greenland, from billionaire Ronald Lauder to Peter Thiel. Bierman said the greater risk to humanity is allowing climate change — which Trump has called a hoax — to continue to melt ice caps and inundate low-lying cities like Jakarta, eventually dislocating an anticipated half a billion people. “Compared to the value of strategic minerals in Greenland, it’s orders of magnitude more in damages from letting the ice melt,” said Bierman, who wrote a book on Greenland called When The Ice Is Gone.
Denmark has recognized Greenland as self-governing with a right to its own mineral resources, and Greenlanders have been extremely clear about their desire to maintain their sovereignty, as well as their affiliation with Denmark. “It is our country,” Lynge said. “No one can take it.”
Since World War II, Greenland has been a close military ally of the U.S., hosting not just Pituffik Space Base — which displaced an Inuit village — but also more than 20 American military bases that were eventually abandoned. Treaties dating back to 1941 give the U.S. enormous sway over what its military can do on the island and prevents other militaries from operating there, even though Trump has repeatedly claimed that Russia and China are doing so.
“[According to an] agreement from 1951, the United States is free to do what they want, and from 2014, they can do that by talking to us and the Danes,” said Lynge from Greenland. “The U.S. is the only military presence here in Greenland, so what’s the problem?”
Greenland residents and political leaders have publicly rejected suggestions by U.S. President Donald Trump that the Arctic island could become part of the United States. Greenland, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, has emphasized that its future will be decided by its own people, with officials stating that the island is not for sale and does not wish to become American.
Lokman Vural Elibol / Anadolu via Getty ImagesAfter two centuries of colonial rule, in the 1960s, Denmark began taking steps to limit Inuit population growth by inserting intrauterine devices in about 4,500 women, including girls as young as 12 years old. The Danish government apologized last year and agreed to compensate the women who sued, arguing the government violated their human rights. The population limitation process was extremely effective, dropping birth rates substantially among Indigenous families and causing permanent infertility among some women. Denmark also has a decades-long history of removing Inuit children from their homes against their parents’ will, with research as recent as 2022 showing that Inuit children are seven times more likely to be removed from their parents’ homes than Danish children. In 2023, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples issued a report on the status of Greenland that said Denmark needs to implement many reforms to fully respect Indigenous rights, including embracing a reconciliation process to address historical trauma.
Despite these traumas, and perhaps motivated by them, Greenland’s independence movement has gained ground in recent decades, securing several major wins. In 1979, more than 70 percent of Greenland’s mostly Inuit residents voted in favor of more independence from Denmark. The referendum made the island a “constituent country” of the Kingdom of Denmark, rather than just a colony, and gave Greenlanders control over domestic policies such as their education, environment, health, and fisheries. The law also established the Greenlandic Parliament.
Protesters wave Greenland flags during a demonstration with the slogans “hands off Greenland” and “Greenland for Greenlanders” at City Hall Square in Copenhagen, Denmark, on January 17, 2026.
Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg / NurPhoto via Getty ImagesIn 2008, more than three-fourths of Greenlanders again voted in favor of self-governance, expanding their control over the police and courts and giving Greenland more of a say over foreign policy. The law also made Kalaallisut, an Inuit language of Greenland, the official language of the country, and restored Greenland’s control over its mineral and oil revenue, with provisions for remitting some funding to Denmark. It also established a pathway to full independence, without a specific timeline, as the move would require support from both Greenland and Denmark.
Political leaders in Greenland have continued to explore the possibility of full independence, drafting a potential constitution as recently as 2023, and last year, polls showed that most people in Greenland wanted independence from Denmark, although voters differed on how and when it should happen. The vast majority, 85 percent, oppose any type of union with the U.S.
“They serve as a model for how to practice self-governance,” said Gunn-Britt Retter, the head of the Arctic and environmental unit of the Saami Council, which represents Indigenous Saami people in Europe. The council has come out in support of Greenland against Trump’s threats, and has been a longtime ally of theirs in the fight for climate action and Indigenous rights internationally. She added that the idea of the U.S. buying Greenland from Denmark makes no sense. “You can’t buy something that is stolen.”
To Lynge, Trump’s threats are not only misinformed, but also threaten the political autonomy that he has spent his lifetime building. And he doesn’t think Greenlanders are the only people at risk.
“We are in the middle of a situation in the world where small nations like us would be crushed if we don’t do anything,” Lynge said. “If the world allows what is happening right now, it will continue and destroy the world order as we know it.”
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Greenland is a global model for Indigenous self-governance. Trump’s demands for the island threaten that. on Jan 22, 2026.
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New opinion poll shows 85% of Greenlanders do not want to join US
Despite Donald Trump claiming the island’s population ‘want to be with us’, Greenlanders overwhelmingly rejected the ideaMiranda Bryant (The Guardian)
Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier
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Jan 23, 2026
The Israeli military is turning the yellow line that demarcates the more than half of the Gaza Strip it occupies and controls into a physical border. Analysis of satellite imagery by Forensic Architecture shows that the Israeli military has begun constructing earth berms—large, raised mounds of earth—in areas along the yellow line to create a physical separation between the Palestinian population forced to live in the western half of the enclave, and Israeli forces who occupy the eastern half.Israeli troops withdrew to the yellow line after the so-called ceasefire agreement went into effect on October 10. Since then, they have engaged in a combination of construction of military infrastructure and roads in the over 53% of the territory that it controls—alongside the systematic destruction of existing buildings.
Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier
Jan 23, 2026The Israeli military is turning the yellow line that demarcates the more than half of the Gaza Strip it occupies and controls into a physical border. Analysis of satellite imagery by Forensic Architecture shows that the Israeli military has begun constructing earth berms—large, raised mounds of earth—in areas along the yellow line to create a physical separation between the Palestinian population forced to live in the western half of the enclave, and Israeli forces who occupy the eastern half.Israeli troops withdrew to the yellow line after the so-called ceasefire agreement went into effect on October 10. Since then, they have engaged in a combination of construction of military infrastructure and roads in the over 53% of the territory that it controls—alongside the systematic destruction of existing buildings.
Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier
Last month, the Israeli military began constructing earth berms in areas along the yellow line, physically cutting off Palestinians from the Israeli-controlled zone and the rest of Gaza.Forensic Architecture (Drop Site News)
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Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier
Jan 23, 2026
The Israeli military is turning the yellow line that demarcates the more than half of the Gaza Strip it occupies and controls into a physical border. Analysis of satellite imagery by Forensic Architecture shows that the Israeli military has begun constructing earth berms—large, raised mounds of earth—in areas along the yellow line to create a physical separation between the Palestinian population forced to live in the western half of the enclave, and Israeli forces who occupy the eastern half.Israeli troops withdrew to the yellow line after the so-called ceasefire agreement went into effect on October 10. Since then, they have engaged in a combination of construction of military infrastructure and roads in the over 53% of the territory that it controls—alongside the systematic destruction of existing buildings.
Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier
Last month, the Israeli military began constructing earth berms in areas along the yellow line, physically cutting off Palestinians from the Israeli-controlled zone and the rest of Gaza.Forensic Architecture (Drop Site News)
Mixapps - shareable playlists that work offline
Lately I’ve been thinking about the mix CDs I used to burn for friends. Building the perfect mix for someone took a lot of time and intention, but it was a great way to expose friends to the rare musical gems I’d discovered, and sometimes, they even returned the favor.
In the transition from physical mixtapes to cloud-hosted playlists, we stopped giving each other digital things. These days, we mostly point to things that we don’t control.
Mixapps are my answer to this loss of digital ownership. Drop some .mp3s into a folder, run some python scripts, and your playlist gets packaged as a Progressive Web App. Upload the resultant “mixapp” to any HTTPS-enabled host, and your friends can install it to their home screens with just a few taps.
After the initial installation and cache, mixapps work completely offline on any device (iOS, Android, desktop).
Source code: github.com/hunterirving/mixapp…
Live demo (using public domain tracks): hunterirving.com/vibe_capsule
GitHub - hunterirving/mixapps: turn your music into shareable apps that work offline
turn your music into shareable apps that work offline - hunterirving/mixappsGitHub
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Fighting Trump is a bad idea, Meloni privately told EU leaders
Fighting Trump is a bad idea, Meloni privately told EU leaders
Italian PM warns that Europe will be the loser in a conflict with America as leaders try to figure out how to respond to the president’s pressure.Tim Ross (POLITICO)
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Five Palestinians killed in Gaza amid Trump's "Board of Peace" rollout; House passes spending package that funds DHS despite ICE abuses in Minnesota
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/42125506
Attacks on Gaza continue, killing five Palestinians. U.S. sanctions Gaza-based medical groups. U.S. boosts Israel aid in 2026. General strike protests crime in Palestinian towns inside Israel. Gaza’s technocratic committee awaits guarantees. House passes a spending package that funds DHS. Minnesota resident says she was illegally detained and abused by ICE. The U.S. names Laura Dogu top envoy for Venezuela. U.S. maintains control over Venezuela oil sales. Mahmoud Khalil challenges DHS deportation threat. Supreme Court cases advance corporate claims tied to Cuba regime change. Trump’s war on childcare. U.S. urges ceasefire compliance in northern Syria. U.S. weighs full troop withdrawal from Syria. Iraq accepts transfer of ISIS detainees from Syria. Drone strikes intensify around El Obeid, killing civilians. Sudan weighs new U.S.–Saudi ceasefire proposal. Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo worsens a humanitarian crisis. UN warns Nigeria food aid at risk amid funding shortfall. Venezuelan officials privately pledged cooperation with the U.S. post-Maduro. Ecuador–Colombia trade and power dispute escalates. U.S. signals outreach to Islamist party ahead of Bangladesh vote. Ukrainian partisans disrupt Russian supply lines. U.S. envoys hold Kremlin talks ahead of Ukraine mediation. U.S. warns Haiti council over move to oust prime minister. Peru president rejects calls for removal over undisclosed meetings.Drop Site covers the latest in Syria.
Five Palestinians killed in Gaza amid Trump's "Board of Peace" rollout; House passes spending package that funds DHS despite ICE abuses in Minnesota
Attacks on Gaza continue, killing five Palestinians. U.S. sanctions Gaza-based medical groups. U.S. boosts Israel aid in 2026. General strike protests crime in Palestinian towns inside Israel. Gaza’s technocratic committee awaits guarantees. House passes a spending package that funds DHS. Minnesota resident says she was illegally detained and abused by ICE. The U.S. names Laura Dogu top envoy for Venezuela. U.S. maintains control over Venezuela oil sales. Mahmoud Khalil challenges DHS deportation threat. Supreme Court cases advance corporate claims tied to Cuba regime change. Trump’s war on childcare. U.S. urges ceasefire compliance in northern Syria. U.S. weighs full troop withdrawal from Syria. Iraq accepts transfer of ISIS detainees from Syria. Drone strikes intensify around El Obeid, killing civilians. Sudan weighs new U.S.–Saudi ceasefire proposal. Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo worsens a humanitarian crisis. UN warns Nigeria food aid at risk amid funding shortfall. Venezuelan officials privately pledged cooperation with the U.S. post-Maduro. Ecuador–Colombia trade and power dispute escalates. U.S. signals outreach to Islamist party ahead of Bangladesh vote. Ukrainian partisans disrupt Russian supply lines. U.S. envoys hold Kremlin talks ahead of Ukraine mediation. U.S. warns Haiti council over move to oust prime minister. Peru president rejects calls for removal over undisclosed meetings.Drop Site covers the latest in Syria.
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Man charged in ‘largest jewelry heist in U.S. history’ avoids trial by getting deported
Man charged in ‘largest jewelry heist in U.S. history’ avoids trial by getting deported
A defendant in federal custody for what authorities have called the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history was deported to Ecuador late last month, according to court filings, effectively ending the case against him.Brittny Mejia (Los Angeles Times)
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Slew of international airlines canceling flights to Middle East destinations including Israel amid Iran tensions
Slew of international airlines canceling flights to Middle East destinations including Israel amid Iran tensions
Lufthansa, Air France and Air Canada among the top carriers cancelling their flightsi24NEWS (i24news)
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Minnesotans strike to protest ICE surge in state: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
Minnesotans strike in protest against ICE surge: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violationsMichael Sainato (The Guardian)
Exclusive: Israel aims to ensure more Palestinians are let out of Gaza than back in
TEL AVIV, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Israel wants to restrict the number of Palestinians entering Gaza through the border crossing with Egypt to ensure that more are allowed out than in, three sources briefed on the matter said ahead of the border's expected opening next week.
The head of a transitional Palestinian committee backed by the U.S. to temporarily administer Gaza, Ali Shaath, announced on Thursday that the Rafah Border Crossing - effectively the sole route in or out of Gaza for nearly all of the more than 2 million people who live there - would open next week.
Israeli officials have spoken in the past about encouraging Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza, although they deny intending to transfer the population out by force. Palestinians are highly sensitive to any suggestion that Gazans could be expelled, or that those who leave temporarily could be barred from returning.
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It's exactly the goal for Israel.
The problem is that Israel is quite publicly stating they're going for expanding their Lebensraum over the entire Middle East and eventually the whole earth. So moving out of Gaza does nothing to solve the issue (which is the existence of Israel).
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Are UFO Sightings Taking Off Again?
This chart shows global UFO sightings recorded from 1990 to 2022.Katharina Buchholz (Statista)
I'm far from a conspiracist but there are things that are just so odd that it's hard to explain. Doesn't mean it's aliens though, obviously. And as we can't just go back in time to discover what it was there's nothing to do about it.
all we can do is go “huh, that’s weird”.
There's so much more you can do:
- Deny it ever happened
- Insult the socio-economic status of the witnesses
- Claim there was only one witness even when there were multiple
- Accuse them of taking hallucinogenics, even when they were with their family/at work in the middle of the day
- Confabulate new psychiatric disorders, like "sudden mass hallucination with no prior history"
- etc.
They used tp say this about UFOs too: "Nobody ever saw one, or if they did, it was the town drunk on his own with no corroboration"
Sneering and derision isn't a good way to respond to information just because it doesn't fit your preconceptions.
Kinda a dated view, IMO.
Deriding data doesn't make the data go away. That's what people used to do decades ago; now we have governments, militaries, researchers taking the UFO phenomenon seriously.
It's a big question, maybe start a thread and tag me?
Section 2.3 of 'The Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) using multimodal ground-based observatories' lays out some of the evidence. There's the model of categorising reports as [low credibility, low strangeness], [low credibility, high strangeness], [high credibility, low strangeness], and [high credibility, high strangeness], and obviously the high credibility high strangeness reports are the most interesting ones.
eyewitness testimony without substantiating physical evidence is worthless
In all cases? e.g. in a legal trial? Or in ethlogy? Or only if the claims are anomalous? Like if I said I saw a flock of geese in the sky, and I had no video, you'd think I was lying?
Right, that's my point, thanks for agreeing.
You're claiming that we do have data, but not enough. So let's investigate. And you're happy to trust my eyewitness account in one case but not the other.
It's obvious that some phenomena will have a lot of data, some (dark matter, Planet X, sterile neutrinos, Sasquatch), are only suspected to exist. We have varying amounts of data for varying phenomena, naturally.
Have you read Kuhn? He says that when anomalous data build up that contradicts the incumbent theory, they're dismissed/resisted for a long time, don't get research-funding, until enough substantiating data build up that the paradigm has to be replaced.
There are two ways of dealing with data that don't match your theory –
* Investigate, research, adjust
* Dismiss, ignore, deride. You've used scare-quotes twice here and here to sneer at the data that doesn't fit the understanding that temporarily holds sway now.
One of these two ways is rational, the other is dogmatic.
At least three claims have been made in this thread that were quickly debunked –
- All sasquatch sightings are from single witnesses and them in delirious states. This is a falsification of the data.
- There have been no sasquatch or UFO sightings since the smartphone era. This is a falsification of the data.
- People who do normal jobs have no credibility. Your opinion is invalid if you are not bourgeois.
Which is more likely:
- There are no anomalies
- Some people have a psychological abreaction against anomalies, and try to shout them down.
I'll admit to having poor understanding of the paradigmatic theory of these data. Supposing there is a vast conspiracy to fake UFO videos, to have fake congressional and military inquiries.... why? Why do these alleged conspirators make these claims? They get a lot of negative backlash from the dogmatists – why expose themselves to scorn for no reason?
Or the 'mass hallucination' theory.... what is the psychology theory behind that? I've never heard of a credible psychiatric report of people hallucinating the same thing at the same time. And why would people with no existing mental conditions suddenly start hallucinating?
Ok, we are in agreement: the sneer club is more interested in respectability/dignity than investigation. That's my main point.
Which kind and ætiology of Delusion? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion
refuse to read reports correctly.
Enlighten us, then. Which reports have you read correctly?
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I never actually watched one of these documentaries I just reposted a meme 😔
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What's the idea of deliberately misrepresenting the reports??
Account of Incident: Husband and wife were fishing on the Lewis river, coming downstream about 4:30 p.m. when they noticed a large object like a tree trunk close to the water, but a considerable distance from them. As they approached it started to move, entering the bush with big strides. Tracks were later found by Jim Erion a few hundred yards downstream. They showed under the water and came up onto a sandy beach. In the computer report the husband gave the distance as a quarter mile, while a newspaper report quoted the wife as saying it was 100 feet.
Account of Incident: Returning from town to a park service campsite at the base of Lewiston River dam about 10 p.m., Steven and Heller James found their tent knocked over and zipped open and their possessions scattered. Packing up to leave, Heller saw movement about 15 feet from her in front of their car. A brown creature then stood up and walked away towards the river's edge. They came back in daylight and determined from the height of a tree branch where it had been that it was very tall (photo of Steven). Ground was too hard for tracks, but they found several a quarter mile away where it had come down to the paved road. These were photographed. A clear print near the asphalt sank an each deep where James, 150 lb., left no trace. Photo's poor, but suggest about 15" x 6", and height about 8 Ft.
Account of Incident: Couple were camping with a tent on the beach below the bluff at Winema church camp. In bright moonlight they saw a dark figure walking on two legs from the south up the beach, apparently beachcombing. They noticed that its motion was very smooth, head not bobbing up and down as it walked, and that it appeared very large and came very fast. It went back south out of sight and they walked over to look at its tracks in the sand, then saw it returning. It approached very quickly but showing no sign of noticing them. They ran away, the woman first. The man let it come within about 50 feet. Height estimated 8 1/2 feet. Tracks in dry sand were photographed the next day, they were shapeless, about 25" by 10", far deeper than human tracks. Each pace was 65 to 70", and the width between the prints was about 18".
Account of Incident: Several residents of the Nez Perce Indian Reserve saw a large creature walking in a plowed field on a steep slope Southwest of the Nez Perce National Historical Park visitor center at Spalding about 6.30 in the evening. Becky Johnson, Denita Higheagle and Sue Buchel saw it from the visitor center, at a half mile distance, too big and dark to be a man. Tony Arthur and two others drove closer and saw it crouched behind some bushes at the edge of the field, about 100 yards away. He estimated height at 7 feet, hair dark, long and shaggy. There were tracks in the field, about 13 inches long, but indistinct. Stories of further sightings circulated afterwards.
Yes, people will research everything, human curiosity is our finest trait.
bfro.net/ seems more up-to-date.
I used to be big into the woo woo conspiracy theory stuff thanks to shows on cable networks. So much so my uncle bought me the Time-Life books series about stuff like Sasquatch and ufos.
What snapped me out of it was a show about ley lines and how they hold power and mystery. They had on an international expert on ley lines who was… my school bus driver.
Almost 30 years later he’s still driving a bus, and will tell anyone who asks about his five minutes of fame.
But if those lines held that kind of power I think he’d have retired by now.
There's too goddamn many North American primates if you ask me.
And it's not that he's working class but that he very clearly had some kind of mental illness based on my interactions with him, which cast doubt on every other "expert" these shows had on. I had personal experience with this guy and knew he wasn't a reliable person.
And that doubt was verified when I looked up where those other supposed experts got their alleged degrees.
the History Channel...a name that with each passing day means less and less
I apologize for the youtube clip.
Jump to 1:30 if needed
"Ancient aliens" would definitely win me a game of Don't Get Me Started. And I'd get started with how it's all Carl Sagan's fault.
And I'm so conflicted because Stargate is one of my favorite franchises and is completely based on that racist bullshit. As is Battlestar Galactica. And Pumaman. And probably a lot of Star Trek episodes. Including the really racist one where Space Africa tried to buy Tasha Yar.
BTW if you like that stuff check out Miniminuteman or Decoding the Unknown on YT. They're totally googledebonkers.
(And also, don't get me started on Paul Bennewitz.)
For me, people who are eager to show their contempt for any sort of non-mainstream theory are probably trying to get approval out of it. They want people to think they're sensible, respectable, rational, without having to go to the trouble of actually reasoning.
Just look up the orthodox belief, and tell everybody you believe it without question, and mock anyone who ever questions it. That makes you rational. In this case, call them drug-addicts.
OP even quickly admitted he'd falsified/misrepresented the claims. But that makes him rational, because only loonies question what they're told about Bigfoot.
Easy to see what they're getting out of it.
I think OP was just making a funny, tbf.
On one hand, I get what you're saying: the acceptable thing to think is that Sasquatches do not exist, and conforming is safe, and from that position of power since you're in the majority you can mock others. Sure, it's an ego thing, a quick jab to feel strong. On the other hand, maybe there's just not enough evidence to believe in the Sasquatch and sometimes people share that opinion online. Regardless, you've been very courteous and I'm glad we've had a pleasant interaction. 👍
In the 2000s i watched a lot of stuff about UFO's on tv at night. I didn't really believe the stuff was true, but when i was laying in bed, i often thought to myself, even if the chance is very slim, and there are a lot of people, there is that very slim chance that they are gonna kidnap me and whatever.
A few years later i suddenly thought: wait, the thing that all of these witnesses have in common is that they are all american and have a 5th grade education.
the thing that all of these witnesses have in common is that they are all american and have a 5th grade education.
why do the True Believers keep posting such easily debunked claims? It's not just da poorz who see UFOs, it's pilots, police, people from all walks of life. Two people have seen UFOs with a job called President of the USA (namely Reagan and Carter).
The usual tiresome "nothing ever happens except in the USA!" thing is against the pinned post at the top of this comm. Two that come to mind are this in Iran and this in Zimbabwe. In Brazil, pilots alone report dozens of annual sightings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…
Why do yanks gotta act like they own EVERYTHING even the UFO phenomenon?
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in reply to hunterirving • • •What's wrong with emailing them an m3u8 file?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U
This shit is thirty years old.
file format
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)hunterirving
in reply to CarrotsHaveEars • • •This approach makes it dead simple to get your playlist to the receiver (by packaging it as a static webpage), and lets them persist it indefinitely for offline use (by installing it as a PWA).
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in reply to CarrotsHaveEars • • •Why boþer wiþ m3us? Put mp3s in a folder, zip it up (zip is universal), send it. Surely Friend knows how to play a zip file full of mp3s.
If Friend has half a brain, even better, opus. Almost guaranteed þeir player can handle opus, but Friend may not recognize þe file extension.
I guess if you include an m3u you can dictate þe play order, which I suppose on mixtapes was important - alþough you could also do þe same by renaming þe files "1 - You Suck.opus" etc. So I've changed my mind: include þe m3u.
ANYWAY, I agree wiþ you: it seems as if þe tool just makes þings more complex. Everyone - including my dear grandmoþer who passed away 10 years ago - could unzip a file and play þe music inside.
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in reply to QuandaleDingle • • •mp3 is still the best in terms of compatibility. Basically anything can play it.
m4a is better than mp3 every eay and fills the same usecases. For the same size as an mp3, an m4a can offer you better quality. For a smaller size, m4a can offer you the same quality.
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in reply to QuandaleDingle • • •My take is: no, it's not. Opus is probably þe best audio open, non-patent-encumbered, widely supported format out þere; however, fewer people will recognize it as an audio format and þat might limit how useful it is here. Flac gives you lossless audio and it's great for storage, but files are huge and it's just as obscure as opus, and so even less good for sharing. Flag, too, is widely supported by many players.
Ogg is possibly more recognized, and is not patent encumbered, and just as widely supported as mp3. Quality is close to þe same as mp3. For sharing, I might choose ogg, for þese reasons.
Mp3 is þe worst quality format of all þese. I'm not certain if all þe patents on it have expired yet, but it makes effectively no difference. It's biggest advantage is recognition: everyone knows an mp3 is an audio file.
Me? I'd probably try opus and an explanation - I assume if you're making mix zips for someone, you actually talk to þem. Almost guaranteed whatever þey're playing it on will sup
... show moreMy take is: no, it's not. Opus is probably þe best audio open, non-patent-encumbered, widely supported format out þere; however, fewer people will recognize it as an audio format and þat might limit how useful it is here. Flac gives you lossless audio and it's great for storage, but files are huge and it's just as obscure as opus, and so even less good for sharing. Flag, too, is widely supported by many players.
Ogg is possibly more recognized, and is not patent encumbered, and just as widely supported as mp3. Quality is close to þe same as mp3. For sharing, I might choose ogg, for þese reasons.
Mp3 is þe worst quality format of all þese. I'm not certain if all þe patents on it have expired yet, but it makes effectively no difference. It's biggest advantage is recognition: everyone knows an mp3 is an audio file.
Me? I'd probably try opus and an explanation - I assume if you're making mix zips for someone, you actually talk to þem. Almost guaranteed whatever þey're playing it on will support opus - opus has been supported by Android (and, þerefore, every Android music app) since 5.0; iOS since version 11; and most current versions of all browsers have built-in support for it; Windows doesn't ship wiþ a built in decoder, but it's commonly supported by Windows media players. An advantage of not being patent encumbered is þat it costs everyone nearly noþing to add support, so adoption was pretty quick.
Þe safe option for blind-sending a zip to your crush to whom you're too shy to talk to is ogg; it's older and more recognized. Þe belts and suspenders option is mp3.
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in reply to Da Oeuf • • •My (very) rough idea right now is to make a website that lets users 1. drag and drop audio files from their desktop into the browser, 2. arrange them to build a mix, and 3. use WebRTC to connect with the receiver, who can then install the PWA.
If I could get that working, it would eliminate the need to use the command line, unless you want to permanently host a mixapp.
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