UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition
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Re: UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition
#2> In a statement after the vote, Yaryna Ferencevych, deputy U.S. representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, accused the United Nations of promoting an ideological agenda and distracting from more pressing issues.
> "Resolutions like this and the ideological agenda they promote, are barnacles on our work here, and the reason this institution is losing its credibility," the statement read.
I dunno, bro, "more accurate map" seems less "ideological" than "refuse to contemplate anything that could be perceived by the most fragile people alive as diminishing the US."
Sometimes it gets harder and harder to understand why certain things trigger these children.
Re: UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition
#3> In a statement after the vote, Yaryna Ferencevych, deputy U.S. representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, accused the United Nations of promoting an ideological agenda and distracting from more pressing issues. > "Resolutions like this and the ideological agenda they promote, are barnacles on our work here, and the reason this institution is losing its credibility," the statement read. I dunno, bro, "m…
They can't hear you over their loud and non-ideological renaming of Lake America.
Re: UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition
#4I'm neutral on the map. If it makes somebody happy, great.
Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-cartogram
Re: UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition
#5I'm neutral on the map. If it makes somebody happy, great. Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-cartogram
> Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map
why?
Re: UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition
#6I'm neutral on the map. If it makes somebody happy, great. Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-cartogram
> Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map why?
Watch the map animation at the top of the NPR article.
Notice how most of 'em don't even bother to show the deep interior of Antarctica.
If you aren't a geologist or similar - how much of the importance of a place is due to the people living there?
Re: UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition
#7Why don't they use the Mollweide projection instead?
Re: UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition
#8Why don't they use the Mollweide projection instead?
Or Collignon!
Re: UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition
#9Noted in the linked UN news source:
> Six countries – Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine – abstained.
It would have been interesting if NPR had covered the diplomatic and economic considerations behind those countries abstaining, and no other right-wing nationalist regime siding with the US.
Re: UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition
#10> In a statement after the vote, Yaryna Ferencevych, deputy U.S. representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, accused the United Nations of promoting an ideological agenda and distracting from more pressing issues. > "Resolutions like this and the ideological agenda they promote, are barnacles on our work here, and the reason this institution is losing its credibility," the statement read. I dunno, bro, "m…
They can't hear you over their loud and non-ideological renaming of Lake America.
Also, the great state of New America, located between Arizona and Texas. https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2096657477928448250
Might be a joke, might not. Who knows, with this crew