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"If northern-hemisphere imperialism hadn't happened the Mercator projection would've been invented anyways, duh"
Yeah, as a map for *navigation*, as a map that shows *direction*, as a map for fucking *sailors*. NOT as the *default fucking map we use to teach schoolchildren how the world works*, the use of the Mercator map projection by fucking SHIPPING COMPANIES isn't what's being questioned, dumbfuck, it's the fact that it's used as the default geographic projection in all aspects of life DESPITE NOT BEING FUCKING DESIGNED FOR THAT, and how it's kind of convenient for said northern hemisphere imperialists that they just so happened to normalize a map that LITERALLY makes them bigger than the people they were colonizing.
Yeah, as a map for *navigation*, as a map that shows *direction*, as a map for fucking *sailors*. NOT as the *default fucking map we use to teach schoolchildren how the world works*, the use of the Mercator map projection by fucking SHIPPING COMPANIES isn't what's being questioned, dumbfuck, it's the fact that it's used as the default geographic projection in all aspects of life DESPITE NOT BEING FUCKING DESIGNED FOR THAT, and how it's kind of convenient for said northern hemisphere imperialists that they just so happened to normalize a map that LITERALLY makes them bigger than the people they were colonizing.
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@AppleAmps my favorite map projection is dynamaxion tbh
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