return2ozma@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoThe U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative sizewww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down11
arrow-up198arrow-down1external-linkThe U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative sizewww.npr.orgreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square16linkfedilink
minus-squareassembly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·18 hours agoLOL. I saw that one country voted against it and kept saying, “please not the US, please not the US”…but alas…here we are.
minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·17 hours agoIt’s gotta be because Trump is going to assume it’s an attempt to trick him into not wanting Greenland
minus-squareikt@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down35·17 hours agotbf “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. He’s not wrong
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·12 hours agoSo promoting accuracy is a reason to loose credibility in your mind?
minus-squareikt@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down7·7 hours agoAccuracy isn’t the problem, if they’d come out and said we’re changing the map to be more accurate I would have been like, great! But this whole, Africa needs justice for appearing smaller on a map, I cried tears of joy etcetc this is about social justice etc what a load of wank
LOL. I saw that one country voted against it and kept saying, “please not the US, please not the US”…but alas…here we are.
It’s gotta be because Trump is going to assume it’s an attempt to trick him into not wanting Greenland
tbf
He’s not wrong
So promoting accuracy is a reason to loose credibility in your mind?
Accuracy isn’t the problem, if they’d come out and said we’re changing the map to be more accurate I would have been like, great!
But this whole, Africa needs justice for appearing smaller on a map, I cried tears of joy etcetc this is about social justice etc what a load of wank