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[โ€“] Denixen@feddit.nu 1 points 2 months ago

Africa is fucking vast! I always knew that,but looking at mercator maps puts it in perspective. You could comfortably fit Russia into it, the worlds largest country by are ๐Ÿ˜ณ

[โ€“] Avicenna@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

over compensation, much like americans using monster trucks

[โ€“] gergolippai@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

in summary, australia is fucking big.

[โ€“] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm curious if anyone ever made a "Super Mercator" projection, something where "ze west" is even more exaggerated and some continents even more disproportionately reduced missing/removed to own the libs. It kinda sounds like something governments would do/people would like nowadays.

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