I Like the Mercator Because It Makes Hippies Cry

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Read YouTube comments at your own risk, but I found this one amusing:

I always find the imperialist critique of the Mercator projection a bit odd. Sounds really smart, but does anyone actually ever think, “Hey look, Africa is slightly smaller than it should be. Still pretty massive, but around the same size as Greenland. Must be an awful and insignificant place.”?

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