Because there's no consensus in monochromatic maps about whether the darker or lighter area should be land or sea, my brain gets momentarily confused every time and I just see a bunch of nonsense shapes until I can work out what is what.
Memes
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So it's not only me
Y'all are the only two
There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
This is almost assuredly satire

I suspect you can get there even faster if you don't use the Mercator projection
Well it's totally unnecessary to go above ground, let's go in a straight line through the earth, much shorter!
The line connecting any two points on the surface of the earth would take about 42 minutes to transit in free fall, ignoring air resistance and assuming perfectly spherical planet with uniform density.
Connecting members of the flat earth society around the globe.
Not everyone gets to geodesics in school.
Ignoring the obvious flaw in his "idea". It's funny he needed AI to draw a straight line 💀