The true size of russia

Thank you!

It’s a really good map for navigating at sea. The compass directions are always going to be accurate vs. something like the Robinson projection with accurate size but distorted shape.

Every projection is a compromise and a distortion. Globe is best :)

More to your point, is is probably the most popular projection – even online maps like Google use a version of it – so it is worth being able to recognize it and understand its strengths and weaknesses.

I think it’s a good choice for this particular map, but I could imagine a different map with more cities which would be a bad choice for pie charts.

Do you have an example? For me, it would be very difficult to tell the difference between a single color that’s a mix of 50% blue, 50% green, vs 45% blue, 55% green, and have any kind of idea what value they corresponded to. But with a pie chart, it’s easy.

Are you talking about this kind of bar chart kind of thing?

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For me, this wouldn’t work as well on a map because a pie chart is kind of like a big point, but the rectangular shape of the column would look weird on a map. You wouldn’t know where the center of the column was supposed to be as easily as the pie chart is clearly directly on top of the city it’s talking about.

But most of this seems like it is about subjective tastes rather than peer-reviewed studies on what kind of map is more useful.

Where is the supplemental data table and sources?!

How well are they enforced?

Greatly prefer this as well. It’s a lot easier to tell the difference between 50 and 75% with a pie chart than it is with your eyeballs looking at how similar or different two colors are.

Its not about androgenic hair loss?

Matrix has “threads” but that is cursed. >:(

Crimes against cartography.

I think the difference is that while other services boom and bust, the fediverse keeps growing slowly because it is decentralized, and can’t be enshittified in the same way.

It is not as easy or attractive as Bluesky right now, but it keeps growing slowly and getting more kinds of people.

Maybe it won’t be the network of choice for journalists, metal celebrities, etc, like twitter and bluesky, but it already is making its way as something more like old school tumblr – some people like it, some don’t.

Why are you so mad lol

Where do you live? Because my family considers themselves midwestern. I’m sorry you feel that way about it.

How many people do you know from the great plains states?

I have family from Kansas and Colorado, who worked the wheat harvests going from north Texas through to the Dakotas and eastern Montana. Eastern Colorado and western Kansas are not very different at all. I don’t see why you would want to say a cultural definition is incorrect when it’s people’s self identity.

The census bureau did not invent the term, nor are they in charge of it.

To answer your main question, “pennsatucky” and the fact that the roads are badly maintained once you cross the border over from a neighboring state.

But you’re right about the good parts. Also, Pennsylvania dutch!

What’s Akron like? It seems like it should be cool.

That’s exactly what people say about Ohio too.

Go hang out with Hawaii.

Alaska can come too.