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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldGood luck, everybody
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    6 hours ago

    advice dumb. People […] give better advice.

    Not my comment flying straight over your head. That reply typifies what I’m talking about.

    What advice do you think the joke was giving? Why would you think a joke is providing actual advice? Why would you think that actual advice is a useful response to a joke?
    Even if it wasn’t funny, if you recognize it as a joke, none of the behavior makes sense. This smells strongly of lying to save face.

    Once again, I can’t tell if you’re too autistic to understand a joke, or I’m too autistic to understand your advanced satire.


  • Not without other tradeoffs.

    There is no map projection that gets everything correct, because a 3d surface cannot be accurately projected onto a 2d surface without loss.

    You can get projections that accurately show size, but not shape.
    Or accurately show size and shape of landmass, but oceans get warped.
    Etc. if you want accuracy you need a globe.


  • Map projections always have inaccuracies, they make deliberate tradeoffs.

    The common Mercator projection allows the long and lat lines to be straight, but it means shapes near the poles get stretched.

    Some projections do a better job of accurately portraying shapes at the sacrifice of size.
    Some can do shape an size of landmass, but the oceans are distorted.
    Etc, all projections have compromises.