Blaze (he/him) to interestingasfuck@lemm.eeEnglish · 6 个月前Longer than expectedfiles.catbox.moeexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1304arrow-down16
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minus-squareOvata@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-26 个月前You can make other cool comparisons like this by going this here: thetruesize.com
minus-squarelaughterlaughter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 个月前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.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·6 个月前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)
minus-squarelaughterlaughter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·6 个月前Ok, fair point. But who is “we”?
minus-squareEddoWagt@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·6 个月前Pretty 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