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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by anovikov on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:50AM (#25904551)
Fantastic! Compare this utterly bullshit Chinese world "map" from 1609: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Sancai_T...

With Piri Reis map from 100 years before: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91XW2CEmU4L...

(which is a part of an atlas, picturing many areas of the world with literally amazing detail and precision)

Granted, Piri Reis did an amazing job, even raising a few conspiracy theories on how he did it, but here is the fairly average European map of the world from 1609:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200.ct001217r/

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