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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, fair point.

But who is "we"?

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

Pretty much everybody on this planet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Okay thanks for the input