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[–] Ovata@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 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)

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, fair point.

But who is "we"?

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty much everybody on this planet

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope. Not true.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

Okay thanks for the input