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Today, the United Nations voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes (programming.dev)
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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/world/un-vote-new-world-map-intl-scli

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[–] eah@programming.dev 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

It's such a tragedy that the Earth had to be a sphere. I mean, I know it was inevitable. But come on, universe. A sphere? Really? You had to have known about Gauss's Theorema Egregium, yet you chose sphere. Now we're all fighting over who gets to be squished or enlarged and in what directions.