Post #3743032

2026-07-11 03:22 UTC

@DarkSheepArts@mastoart.social @jaykuo@universeodon.com just look at a globe and look at the center of the Pacific Ocean and notice that there's almost no land anywhere. Virtually all land on earth is on the other side of the world from the center of the Pacific Ocean. At somewhere out there in the middle, there's a little string of islands called Hawaii. It's a long friggin' way from everywhere. This lady is Wonder Woman Class Super!

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2026-07-11 16:31

@wbpeckham@techhub.social @DarkSheepArts@mastoart.social @jaykuo@universeodon.com Maps often pull Hawaii and Alaska off and put them near the west coast. I’d mostly seen maps that showed Hawaii a couple of hundred miles from California and thought that’s where it was until I looked on a world map. They put a little box around them to show that they’ve been moved, but that doesn’t convey that Hawaii was moved further than the width of the map. The same happens on a much smaller scale on this side of the pond. Maps of the UK that include the Channel Islands (which are very close to the coast of France) tend to put them in a little box near Plymouth. I assumed growing up that the reason they were British was because they much closer to Britain than France, which is not even slightly true.

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