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[–] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

slaps roof of Africa* "this bad boy can fit so much fucking Africas in it!"

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Little known fact: you can fit most of Europe and all of Spain into Spain

[–] orhtej2@eviltoast.org 6 points 4 months ago

Africa for scale ❤️

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago

Playing with your Mercator Projection again huh??

[–] jeff@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

I'm not a geographicist, but this looks right to me.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Shouldn’t they be using the 121 BCE version of Old Glory?

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Texas and Tunisia, sittin' in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-geee.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

Not sure about Jupiter, but Africa is more realistic than you'd think. Sinai is part of Egypt and in Asia, so you'd need all of Africa sans Egypt to be smaller than Sinai, which is probably true. Something something Mercator.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I get the joke of tiny us and China being a play on how America-centric the internet can be when they may not be as central to everyone. Sounds a bit defensive though.

The all encompassing Roman Empire meme may be somewhat amusing: nice try

But that tiny Africa in Africa is funny. It builds on so many recent threads about the limitations of popular Mercator projection maps, and intended or not, back to how Africa frequently gets shortchanged for attention, relative to how big and how populous it is. And I’ll give a chuckle for the nod to poorly educated adults who can’t recognized basic geography or math. Thumbs up for this part

[–] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Every joke deserves to be dissected to death