One thing I’m getting super sick of on my news feed is this crap about… maps lying to me my whole life.

First off it’s a representation of a sphere on a 2 dimensional plane. If your teachers throughout your education didn’t explain this to you or have the weird opened orange looking maps your teachers and schools failed you.

Second. How about you look at a fucking globe. I mean shit that’s not difficult. Bam! accurately represented planet. Who hasn’t looked at a globe?

Third. STOP COMPARING A CONTINENT TO COUNTRIES! FUCK! No wonder so many idiots out there think it is. You folks keep sensationalizing this and comparing the two. IT IS A CONTINENT, of course the United States is smaller, and so is China. FUCK!

Lastly, why is this even a big deal? Folks keep saying it changes how the world sees it due to it being represented as smaller. How is the size of the landmass causing you to think more or less about it? Are we trying to argue “Bigger is better” here? no. Yes of course it’s important for the sake of accuracy, but do we view North Korea differently because it is a tiny country? No, oh wait, that’s a country lets compare continents. Is Australia less than Asia because it’s smaller? NO!

fuck I’m going to keep going.

Second lastly, If you want to talk about looking closer at things and devoting more attention to stuff lets focus on different numbers than size. How about total population, or gdp, or poverty levels, or literacy levels, or live births, or avg life expectancy, or standard of living, or anything representative of the populous and not just the land.

Another thought on maps and globes. Yes you could flip the world upside down and it’s a perfectly acceptable view of the planet. Once again… who cares. If that’s how you feel, print it that way. We’ve attached the idea of north with up, so when the poles switch maybe we should?

I honestly could care less about any of this because It’s so low on the list of shit that really matters in the world. The problem is people keep bringing it up likes is a big deal. I’m sorry if the inaccuracy of maps is new to you, you’ve been living in a fucking cave.

I don’t even care if you agree with me or not. Get over your bad self

Rant = over.