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[-] mEEGal@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

No, it just can't be scaled down and somehow kept in place at the tame time

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago

Its distorted on the Mercator projection quite a bit because of its width. So the true shape looks very different presented like this.

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