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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Okay, now this is getting ridiculous. You put this same thing on a typical equal-area projection and it will still fail.

Projections distorting things isn't a conspiracy, it's guaranteed by mathematics.