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Remember that "The West Wing" episode where geographers petition the White House chief of staff to replace the Mercator projection with the more accurate and less Euro/US-centric Peters one? This one looks designed to stroke the Yuge ego of one Donald J Trump...

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I remember that episode well, and had cause recently (size of Greenland in the news) to show someone else the same thing.

In the Peter's projection the size of the US and especially Europe, become "smaller" relative to say the size of Africa.

It can be quite disconcerting to a person when their "place in the world" is challenged at such a fundamental level.

oh my god, today I learned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY

Yes, a great and educational episode, which is exactly why it's fiction. Although I would expect anyone working at the White House to have seen an actual globe. Well, perhaps not this White House.

> Well, perhaps not this White House.

Unbeliever!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi,_K...

Okay, well, perhaps he has averted his gaze.

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