Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to interestingasfuck@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 year agoLonger than expectedfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up1305arrow-down16
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minus-squareOvata@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoYou can make other cool comparisons like this by going this here: thetruesize.com
minus-squarelaughterlaughter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoEh. They could have used a different projection. It’s kinda silly to grab, say, Algeria, move it around, and see it grow and shrink.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agothat’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)
minus-squarelaughterlaughter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoOk, fair point. But who is “we”?
minus-squareEddoWagt@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoPretty much everybody on this planet
You can make other cool comparisons like this by going this here: thetruesize.com
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.
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)
Ok, fair point.
But who is “we”?
Pretty much everybody on this planet
Nope. Not true.
Okay thanks for the input