@libroraptor @quixote

With our own government decapitating the entities who would have generated those maps, I'd say there's no present danger.

The current crop of pseudo scientists installed into the hollowed out homes of formerly renowned U.S. expertise are no threat.

@quixote @libroraptor @infobeautiful

Yep - and dropping all y'all off world economies, too!

Can we see a Mercator/GDP projection pulleeze?

@tsukkitsune @toddhorowitz @infobeautiful

This!!

I asked in my ArcGIS class if the distortions resulted from using the ideal shapes of classic geometry to try to fit across the random shapes of the actual Earth. With the implied corollary of who got to choose which wrongness.

That guy said "Whoah! That [very basic question] is a bit above my pay grade" and skipped to the next question.