> The earth is round, there is no need for nuance there. Clearly there is _some_ need for nuance there since the Earth isn't exactly a sphere. Even calling it

> The earth is round, there is no need for nuance there. Clearly there is _some_ need for nuance there since the Earth isn't exactly a sphere. Even calling it an oblate ellipsoid isn't a perfect model. There is nuance everywhere, and clearly some models are more wrong than others; modeling the Earth as flat is much less accurate than a sphere, which in turn is less accurate than the somewhat flattened spheres common today, which in turn is less accurate than whatever the true shape of the Earth is. But the takeaway from that shouldn't be creating a dogma that "the Earth is round" and moving on, just to own the guys that claim its flat (who are by and large just trolling you). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_the_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_the_Earth