That would be great for the stuff that has been digitized. A lot of the historic content they’re referring to could very well still be on film or obsolete tape formats that require specialized equipment to play back. With the dwindling funding they’ve had, it’s anyone’s guess how much they’ve been able to transfer to digital formats by now.

And yet, that explains absolutely nothing about the relevance of Pearl Harbor to this situation, which is what this particular thread of the discussion was related to. Thanks for the downvote anyway, though.

No, the sign makes sense and highlights the main reason the Serbs are so opposed to the hotel. The proposed site was a historical building that was bombed by NATO during the war for Kosovo’s independence. Serbs pretty universally see those events as “American” bombings and often cite them as cause to despise the US. So, the sign is pointing out the insensitivity of an American developer building a hotel in that location by comparing it to a Japanese developer building a hotel in Pearl Harbor.

Given how deeply Serbia is within the sphere of Russian influence, I doubt they care one way or the other that it’s affiliated with Jared Kushner, they just don’t like that it would have been owned by an American.

I didn’t intend to suggest that Carl Sagan invented climate science in 1985, just that the political conversation has been clear and ongoing for decades (indeed, longer than 40 years), yet the opposing narratives continue to claim it’s unproven, and the progress remains insufficient.

40 years ago.

It’s so easy to lose sight among all the gish-galloping nonsense around these topics just how long the problem has been almost fully understood and very clearly articulated. It’s absolutely devastating to think about how catastrophically the world has failed to meet the challenge he describes here in the intervening decades.