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[-] Ovata@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can make other cool comparisons like this by going this here: thetruesize.com

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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 4 months ago

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 4 months ago

Ok, fair point.

But who is "we"?

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago

Pretty much everybody on this planet

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Nope. Not true.

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

Okay thanks for the input

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