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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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[–] 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.)