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YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

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  • I didn't say they were made for that. They are used for it tho.

    • Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

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  • Yeah, but if the indeed come and try to sue you, a competent lawyer will force the case dismissal and they will end up having to review whatever law they pass.

    • Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data

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  • This was an issue that appeared when writing heavy files to disks (50gb+), so people that werent doing it were safe. And don't worry, its a matter of when LOL. I was a windows "virgin" until one day my system drive appeared encrypted and locked by bitlocker when I never activated it, nor had any recovery key.

    • YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

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  • It was probably done for free by some volunteer dude.... You can contact them and offer to fix it for free probably

    • YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

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  • yeah, most of the world already moved on from it, but its still being used in many texts and countries.

    • YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

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  • Its the same take that's applied to any party seen as a "status quo". Your boss, the CEO, police, the state, movies, everything is "projected" to show something that it isn't to subtly manipulate the basis of your decisions.

    • YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

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  • They are only using the cause to promote their brand social responsibility probably. In any case, the issue with the distorted view of the map that ideologically and politically benefited one side has been known for decades, and most of the countries that were colonies now use the correct one.

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  • Yes, but thats only for navigation. The map was chosen to be used as the standard in colonial time, because it brainwashed the colonies to believe that the people subjugating them were from great and big countries on the other side of the world. There would be a lot more revolts if people actually knew that they were being held captives by weak dudes from some small european piece of land that was only a fraction of the size of their country.