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2y ago

It's hard to believe

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NZ: am I a joke to you?
- Hey, at least you made it on the map.
  
  Aw come on, bro...
  Be nice!
  
  I do believe there is a sub on that other site called Maps without New Zealand..
- On the map only to be excluded from the circle
- it still makes the statement correct
- Yes

That's not a circle
- Something something map projections.
  
  This is a common misconception, this circle is actually a straight line around the globe and the "inside" includes Antarctica and new Zealand. And because there's a race of fully sentient crab people living under the kiwis and totaling 800 billion in number, the map is correct.
  Weird that they vote though
- Thats because the world is flat
  
  Ah yes, "Mercator Earth Theory" 😂
- Yeah, we don't even have a name for whateverthefuck shape India is!

Thats the worst circle i have ever seen
- But you have seen it!
- That is just an artifact of the map projection
  
  My thoughts too. Put that back on a globe and it's pretty damn close to a circle! Considering it's hand drawn..

Fun fact: every 1 in 2 people make up 50% of the world population.

New Zealand get your shit together
- Aye aye cap'n

Yeah? Well at least in NZ we know how to draw a freaking circle. Didn't want to be in your stinky club anyway
- Deedn't weent tee bee een yeeer steenky cleeeeb eeeneeeweey.
  
  Nah that's an Aussie accent mate. Way off.

I know the author is Terrible Maps so I probably shouldn't complain, but what are those continent colour groupings?
- They're not grouped, that's what the planet actually looks like from space.
  
  Can't believe I made such a foolish blunder in front of the head of NASA, my apologies doctor
- Future geopolitical map
  
  The future lacks the Middle East?

Are kiwis really people let's be honest
- Well no, they are a fruit.
  
  Those "fruits" you've been eating were birds. :(

I wonder how many people live outside the red circle and have to commute to work within it.

This is false. The red circle is too small to fit more than maybe a couple fetuses, depending on your screen size.

TIL

Can "in" and "out" be meaningfully defined though, considering that circle is on a globe though?
- I get the feeling that if this were on a globe, it would appear as a long, thin, and nearly empty circle.

I mean, considering this map excludes Antarctica, and there are people living (at least temporarily) in Antarctica, it is technically true.
- Also New Zealand, but I've heard that the science is still out about whether or not they actually exist.
  
  We don't, it's a psy-op.
- You’re forgetting New Zealand haha.

How tall is the red wall? If it's only at sea level than this is entirely false, most people's would be above it.
- It just goes up all the way
  
  So satellites, the moon, the planets all crash into it? Nice try.

More humans, anyway.
- Way to stand up for my alien homies, yo!
- Crabs, deep sea squids, coral polyps, and sea sponges are all people now.
  
  I was thinking of life throughout the rest of the universe
- How do you know? Maybe there is a race of advanced intra terrestrial humans that live under water. Also this map is missing the great wall of ice that holds the water in place.

That is true. As far as I know, nobody lives on my phone screen.
- Then... wouldn't it be false?

Ah this meme makes me nostalgic for back before everyone else got on the internet.
Red circle map, you were joy back in the day

More Gentoo live outside red circle than inside of it.

I mean, if we can't see the circle that means its a really big one, so.....
Duh....

No.

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