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Merged Mercator projection to be phased out?

Like when then UN passes a tiny and reasonable resolution and someone spends 10-11 pages ranting about how much they hate it, while also insisting they it's insignificant and doesn't mean anything?
Ah, but if you have a PhD in Disputatiousness from Oxford then you can't miss an opportunity to use it, eh?
 
Cat owners that I know would reject this vigorously.
Cat owners that I have been would embrace it enthusiastically, with the addition of an 's' and an 'h' beforehand.
Also other bad words, curses, damnations, swears and such...

But then the unholy spike demon will sit upon these wretched slaves and purr, and lick it's own arse - publicly, no less! It will be not utterly awful for up to a whole minute. This will make the pathetic apes instantly forget everything that happened before, and once more demonstrate the cats' complete dominion over the pathetic worms that are humanity.
 
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It fell under geography when I was in secondary school - so been around for at least 5 decades.
Aye, but you can't teach and discuss its topics without touching upon themes such as injustice, gender inequality, cruelty to native populations, and so on, and so it's one of those studies that attracts the ire of certain people. Hence all the bad-faith accusations of such courses being woke, virtue signalling, pandering, an attempt to make men and white people hate themselves, and, apparently, soft studies for people who don't have the brains to study math and physics. Et cetera.
 
A globe doesn't show you all countries at once.

I haven't read the whole thread, but is there any objection to the "orange peel" representation for use in situations where ocean navigation isn't being discussed? Reading "The end of the world is flat" rather persuaded me it was a good solution.
 
Eh. I fail to really see the issue.
Sure, Mercator is really good for navigation, but it's really bad for everything else. So why not use a more realistic map for most things and should you want to learn how to navigate ships you get the Mercator lessons.
 
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if @Emily's Cat hasn't used a paper map in decades, and her its generalization of that personal experience to assume the same of all others is an example of autoethnography.
Well, I can barely navigate using GPS that literally tells me where to turn, so no, I don't use paper maps much. But that's a me problem, and I generally assume others are better at it than I am. I don't generally tend to assume that my personal navel gazing is of any interest to others.

(Edited to correct an erroneous pronoun.)
:cautious: I suspect you think you've scored a point. Knock yourself out, I literally don't care what pronoun you use for me. My sense of self is stable enough that trying to impugn my femininity is a waste of your time.
 
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Who here has actually read the UN resolution itself?


Okay, I've skimmed it now. It's pretty verbose.

On the one hand, I like how, similar to a legal filing, they include a comprehensive list of all the other findings, resolutions, etc. that inform the resolution in question.

On the other hand, a legal filing uses this list to cite all the legal factors from statute and case law that lead to the legal conclusion being proposed in the present filing. The UN mimicking the practice, but having nothing but previous UN waffle to cite, just makes the whole thing comical.
 
Eh. I fail to really see the issue.
Sure, Mercator is really good for navigation, but it's really bad for everything else.
What else do you need a map for?

That's a serious question, btw. Not because it doesn't have an answer, but because the answer will tell you something about what sort of map you should be using. And in a lot of cases, the map you should probably be using isn't even a global map at all, making the choice between Mercator and alternative global maps irrelevant.
So why not use a more realistic map for most things
There are no realistic global maps. They are all heavily distorted (an inevitability of mapping a curved surface to a flat one), it's only a choice of what you want to distort and what you want to preserve. But that's application-specific, it's not a universal choice.
 
Cat owners that I have been would embrace it enthusiastically, with the addition of an 's' and an 'h' beforehand.
Also other bad words, curses, damnations, swears and such...

But then the unholy spike demon will sit upon these wretched slaves and purr, and lick it's own arse - publicly, no less! It will be not utterly awful for up to a whole minute. This will make the pathetic apes instantly forget everything that happened before, and once more demonstrate the cats' complete dominion over the pathetic worms that are humanity.
All good cat owners know that cats must have at least ten different names, and no less than half of those names must be obscenities.
 
Aye, but you can't teach and discuss its topics without touching upon themes such as injustice, gender inequality, cruelty to native populations, and so on, and so it's one of those studies that attracts the ire of certain people. Hence all the bad-faith accusations of such courses being woke, virtue signalling, pandering, an attempt to make men and white people hate themselves, and, apparently, soft studies for people who don't have the brains to study math and physics. Et cetera.
I'm pretty sure you can teach "here's where things are and how things are shaped and where borders are" without belaboring any of the social justice projects you listed out.

If you were arguing that you can't teach history without touching on those themes, you'd have a point.
 

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