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submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/interestingasfuck@lemm.ee

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[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh. They could have used a different projection. It's kinda silly to grab, say, Algeria, move it around, and see it grow and shrink.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that's literally the point of the website, to show how countries change as you move them about the mercator projection (which is the standard projection we interact with)

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, fair point.

But who is "we"?

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much everybody on this planet

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. Not true.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Okay thanks for the input