Orwi@programming.dev to Mildly Interesting · edit-21 month agoToday, the United Nations voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizesprogramming.devimagemessage-square243linkfedilinkarrow-up1817arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1808arrow-down1imageToday, the United Nations voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizesprogramming.devOrwi@programming.dev to Mildly Interesting · edit-21 month agomessage-square243linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLanskelinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 month agoDid the US vote no, because they are smaller on new maps?
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·1 month agoTheir stated reason boils down to “New map is woke”. I hate this timeline.
minus-squarejosephmbasilelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoGreenland is also much smaller in the new map. So in essence they shrunk his ambition down to the size of his little dingleberry and there was nothing he could do but whine.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·1 month agoOr because China looks bigger?
minus-squarehumanspiral@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoAs I heard it, Africa is smaller on map than it should be. “It would be woke to fix that”
Did the US vote no, because they are smaller on new maps?
Their stated reason boils down to “New map is woke”.
I hate this timeline.
Greenland is also much smaller in the new map. So in essence they shrunk his ambition down to the size of his little dingleberry and there was nothing he could do but whine.
Or because China looks bigger?
As I heard it, Africa is smaller on map than it should be. “It would be woke to fix that”