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> In a statement after the vote, Yaryna Ferencevych, deputy U.S. representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, accused the United Nations of promoting

> In a statement after the vote, Yaryna Ferencevych, deputy U.S. representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, accused the United Nations of promoting an ideological agenda and distracting from more pressing issues. > "Resolutions like this and the ideological agenda they promote, are barnacles on our work here, and the reason this institution is losing its credibility," the statement read. I dunno, bro, "more accurate map" seems less "ideological" than "refuse to contemplate anything that could be perceived by the most fragile people alive as diminishing the US." Sometimes it gets harder and harder to understand why certain things trigger these children.

beej71 26d ago
They can't hear you over their loud and non-ideological renaming of Lake America.
- hydropax 26d ago
  Also, the great state of New America, located between Arizona and Texas. https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2096657477928448250 https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2096657477928448250 Might be a joke, might not. Who knows, with this crew
MrMember 26d ago
Is it a more accurate map? It more accurately represents the size of Africa but there are distortions in other places that aren't present in a Mercator projection.
- DemocracyFTW2 26d ago
  To be fair you either produce a globe that faithfully reproduces the geoid (a sphere should do for most cases) or you'll always distort something on the map: angles, areas, distances. And then there's the question of the overall map shape: you can get away with less overall distortion at the price of partitioning the map into more pieces (as done e.g. by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map). The Mercator projection has the advantage, if indeed it is one, of being rectangular. To me, a shortcoming of the Equal Earth projection is that it makes places like Australia and Alaska look like they're somehow 'on the fringe'.

beej71 26d ago

They can't hear you over their loud and non-ideological renaming of Lake America.

hydropax 26d ago
Also, the great state of New America, located between Arizona and Texas. https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2096657477928448250 https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2096657477928448250 Might be a joke, might not. Who knows, with this crew

MrMember 26d ago

Is it a more accurate map? It more accurately represents the size of Africa but there are distortions in other places that aren't present in a Mercator projection.

DemocracyFTW2 26d ago
To be fair you either produce a globe that faithfully reproduces the geoid (a sphere should do for most cases) or you'll always distort something on the map: angles, areas, distances. And then there's the question of the overall map shape: you can get away with less overall distortion at the price of partitioning the map into more pieces (as done e.g. by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map). The Mercator projection has the advantage, if indeed it is one, of being rectangular. To me, a shortcoming of the Equal Earth projection is that it makes places like Australia and Alaska look like they're somehow 'on the fringe'.