No obvious signs that it's a bit, but Poe's law, etc.
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Instead of blaming the Flemish for the abomination that is the Mercator projection, they're blaming Russia for appearing larger than the Sahara within the Mercator projection.
I'm tired of this Mercator slander. it's a perfectly good map that's good at what it was supposed to do. It's not the fault of the Flemish that idiots don't understand it's not supposed to represent land area.
If humans were meant to navigate the oceans, then at least one of the many gods would have given us gills. Rhumb lines? More like dumb lines
Edit: Also, if Mercator was cool, there'd be sea serpents and/or dragons in the oceans of his map. Maybe a couple leviathans and kraken. But no, he had to be a square about rectangles