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[–] Ovata@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 11 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.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 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)

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ok, fair point.

But who is "we"?

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much everybody on this planet

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Not true.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

Okay thanks for the input