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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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[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Moral of the story: pretty much every decision is made for logical reasons. Sometimes the reasons are unclear, motivations are selfish, or circumstances later change such that the decision is no longer sound, but it's very rare that "they're just stupid" is the cause.

[–] AAA@feddit.org 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't think so, I just didn't knew the reason. Therefore I asked.

Now I'm annoyed that I got downvoted for asking at all. What's the moral there? Don't ask questions?

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

What’s the moral there?

Don't worry about vote score and just block obvious assholes.

(To be clear, I wasn't trying to be snarky to you specifically. There's just a lot of people in this thread acting like literally the only reason the Mercator projection is used is because of racism.)