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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months 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)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok, fair point.

But who is "we"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much everybody on this planet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Not true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Okay thanks for the input