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davidw on Aug 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Live map of Russia advancing into Ukraine

Let's see: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

ceejayoz on Aug 28, 2014 [–]

Live mapping an invasion for the first time isn't an "interesting new phenomenon"?

davidw on Aug 28, 2014 | [–]

It's been done before:

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/raf-operations-room

Note also that no one is talking about the map in and of itself because it's not all that interesting and nothing new.

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