r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/luna_rey55 • 7h ago
Meme needing explanation Petah, please help
Does this have to do with the size of the continents on the map
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u/Sad-Working-9937 7h ago
That's the "new" True Earth projection that the UN just voted for, Al Gore was wearing it 25 years ago
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u/TucsonKhan 7h ago
So, hipster Gore. He was doing it before it was cool
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u/Brandunaware 7h ago
A leading advocate for policies to address climate change. Helped inspire the movie Love Story. Instrumental to funding for the early Internet.
Is it time for the Al Goreissance?
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u/sangimil 7h ago
He would have been a fine president in place of the one there that just gave our country away to his Texas oil bros, but he was quite a bit of a hypocrite. He has/did lived quite an extravagant life and all the while he scrubbed his conscience clear of most environmental wrongdoing with carbon offset credits. I get it to a point but he for sure took a lot of advantage flying in private jets and riding around in suburban when people who were also spreading environmental consciousness were flying commercial and buying hybrids. I will admit either had tradeoffs but I always got a bit of arrogant “do as I say not as I do” vibes from him.
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u/Accurate_Potato_8539 6h ago
I dont think he's a hypocrite necessarily. You can think what you will about carbon offset credits, but my guess is Gore mostly believes in them. He's that generation of politician and that type of wonk.
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u/Ok_Recipe2769 5h ago
Al Gore lacked the charisma
He had the Clinton policies but not his Charisma and he suffered from proportionality
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u/morknox 7h ago
Its called "Equal Earth projection", not "true earth". This map isnt more "true" than the mercator projection. All projections are faulty in some way or another. There is no way to accuretely represent the surface of a sphere on a 2-dimensional projection.
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u/SolidDandylion 5h ago
The mercator is known as one of the worst though, it makes Canada and Greenland book absolutely massive, almost as big as Africa. Extremely misleading
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u/Icanfallupstairs 4h ago edited 3h ago
Different maps serve different purposes, and the mercator map was never intended to give a representation of the relative size of the countries. If you want an accurate depiction you need a globe.
The equal earth map shows size better, but is terrible for judging distance, but that's fine because no one is judging it based on that, as it isn't the point of the map.
The mercator isn't a bad map at all. Changing the map to something that is more relevant to current sensibilities is fine, but it's silly to try and say that the old one is bad or wrong.
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u/senorgraves 2h ago
Mercator is dope because it makes Europe legible which otherwise is just a bunch of tiny countries. Also makes it possible to do states in the US if you wanna
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u/NohWan3104 4h ago
Bullshit.
No one's implying it has to be perfect
But 'more true' is absolutely a thing.
X being 10% off, y being 80% off, 10% isn't perfect but 'more true' a bit clumsy phrasing, but more accurate.
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u/SolidDandylion 5h ago edited 5h ago
No it's not, look at South America. It's a different projection, maybe the one we have been using in Europe all this time.
It's not the mercator (massive Greenland) but it's not the new UN one (flat nose South America)
It's probably the equirectangular one
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u/TheDwiin 1h ago
Yep, it decentralizes the northern hemisphere which overly stretches Europe, Russia and NA to appear much bigger than they actually are.
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u/Catch_ME 7h ago edited 7h ago
This is proposed replacement to the Mercator map.
Africa is bigger than Canada in this map. Spoiler, Africa is bigger than Canada in real life
Edit: here's a scene from the West Wing that explains it very well https://youtu.be/eLqC3FNNOaI
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u/SolidDandylion 5h ago
No it isn't, look at South America. I think it is this one : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirectangular_projection
There are very many
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u/RaisingEve 1h ago
And an ep of Map Men where they debate different projections of maps. “Knowing Africa is huge is important”
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u/InspectorPoe 22m ago
Nope, that is not new. That is just normal fucking map, the one Europe, Africa and Asia uses for decades, just Americas are not in the centre here.
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u/mylifeonearth_ 7h ago
It's even much bigger than Russia. Which we use to study as biggest on map.
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u/ThroatDistension 7h ago
Which we use to study as biggest on map.
Russia is still the biggest country.
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u/DoctorMedieval 7h ago
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u/tim123113 7h ago
maybe it's hiding behind the cup. lol
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u/Caffeine_Cowpies 7h ago
But it is still a map with no New Zealand.
Because New Zealand is a psy op. Nobody has actually been there
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u/throwaway34627594 7h ago
That's where Frodo and Gandalf live.
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u/softwaredoug 7h ago
Sorry New Zealand, you took all the sea level rise. But thanks for taking one for the team.
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u/Sir_Thequestionwas 6h ago
I remember this the UN decided to make Africa Larger and in turn the raising water levels swallowed New Zealond whole. It's so unfortunate that the entirety of New Zealand was rarely above the sea level.
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u/BlindedByBeamos 7h ago
I love that his cup placement ensures that NZ is once again, not visible on the map.
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u/Aeon_Return 7h ago
Bring back short shorts.
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u/Plrdr21 6h ago
They never left, you just need to be bold enough to wear them. Real runners never quit wearing these.
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u/Aeon_Return 6h ago
Straight woman approved. Men, if your gams are up to the challenge, show 'em off! We like a bit of eye candy too 🔥
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u/Sir_Thequestionwas 6h ago
Fun Fact - 80% of supposed female legs in advertisments are actually male. Basically 80% of female leg models are male.
this is just an urban legend there is no evidence of this whatsoever
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u/Plrdr21 6h ago
I just want to point out that this is what mens athletic shorts should look like. This and Tom Selleck in Magnum PI are examples of how mens shorts should be. The 80s-mid 90s got plenty of things wrong but short shorts were peak. Somewhere between 1993 and the early 2000s men's shorts seemed to have changed from shorts designed for men with legs, to shorts designed for men afraid to let anyone see their kneecaps.
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u/potataoboi 2h ago
youre thinking of what are essentialy basketball shorts, you can get split shorts with or without liners pretty easily
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u/Carthonn 6h ago
World would have been a lot different if we actually counted all the votes in 2000.
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u/luna_rey55 7h ago
Maybe it has something to do with the size of continents on the map
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u/Thomassaurus 7h ago
That's also what I'm wondering just because I think I heard something about a new world map a bit ago.
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u/avid-shrug 7h ago
It looks like an equal-area projection, which is the same type of map the UN adopted recently with some controversy
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u/Barilla3113 7h ago
It's the Gall–Peters projection I think, displays the size of continents much more accurately than Mercator (which is infamous for making Europe look much larger than it actually is).
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u/dangernoodlezzz 7h ago
The world would be different if he wouldn’t have been cheated out by George W Bush
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u/THRILLMOVSE 5h ago
Not sure if the cup is covering it, but, I don't think New Zealand would fit on there
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u/New-Acanthisitta-641 7h ago
Why is this on here again? This is so stupid.
You are the joke.
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u/Wide_Appointment5602 5h ago
Am I the only one bothered by how short their shorts are. Idk man shorts should be around the knees I don’t want to be seeing your upper thighs
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u/uwill1der 7h ago
its a more accurate map than what we had been using to that point.
The Gall-Peters projection
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u/Specialist_Sector54 7h ago
All projects are inaccurate in some way, Mercator and Gall-Peters are both flawed, Mercator distorts size and distance to maintain angles and shapes, Gall-Peters distorts angles and shapes to maintain size.
Big proponent of the Robinson or Winkel-Tripel.
Gall-Peters just looks kinda ugly because it distorts the shapes of landmasses so much.
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u/PreciousTC 7h ago
Oh phew. Glad that's finally handled. Guess I'll have to protest something else now lmao
Russia is knocking at Europe's door and this is what the UN focuses on LOL
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u/Barilla3113 7h ago
The UN can do more than one thing at once?
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u/TheGipper80 7h ago
Can we all just agree that if any president wears shorts like that again, we automatically invoke the 25th?
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u/kreaganr93 7h ago
This man lost the presidency to a genocidal madman. So no, we will not be doing that. Lol
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