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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • Agree and disagree. There is a place for sophisticated management tools but when they stop getting supported or they’re purchase by a company you hate, you’re left scrambling to convert everything.

    Best case for me anyway are sophisticated tools that use markdown as the basis of their files like Obsidian. So I know if they disappear I still have all my data in a universal format without any effort on my end.




  • I do believe our maps have influenced people’s ideas quite a lot and maybe even led some people towards flat eartherism. I have a friend who believes Trump wants Greenland because of this very projection and it’s absurd overexaggeration.

    Not to mention, and mildly relevant to OP, it also obscures the comically large and absolutely real size of the Pacific Ocean: