InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months ago[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menacehexbear.netimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up153arrow-down1image[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menacehexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoPlot twist: USSR returns but not on Asian ("Eur"asia is Eurocentric nonsense; Europe is a peninsula) continental substrate
minus-squarecombat_doomerism [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoi’ll take it
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agobecause wh*tes decided which way was right side up
minus-squareMurple_27@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoUp is North, because North is at the top of a compass, and is the direction a compass will always point towards.
minus-squareaddieu [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoThe earliest known compasses humans used were called “zhi nan zhen,” meaning “south pointing needle.” It pointed south. European navigators using the technology inverted this so it would point north.
minus-squarexj9 [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoAntarctica is clearly earth’s hat. The compass has nothing to do with it.
minus-squareMurple_27@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI prefer this explanation, tbh.
minus-squareLemister [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoAsia as a concept was created by the europeans though - it is was the greeks called anatolia or asia minor.
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Plot twist: USSR returns but not on Asian ("Eur"asia is Eurocentric nonsense; Europe is a peninsula) continental substrate
i’ll take it
Why is it upside down?
because wh*tes decided which way was right side up
Up is North, because North is at the top of a compass, and is the direction a compass will always point towards.
The earliest known compasses humans used were called “zhi nan zhen,” meaning “south pointing needle.” It pointed south. European navigators using the technology inverted this so it would point north.
Antarctica is clearly earth’s hat. The compass has nothing to do with it.
I prefer this explanation, tbh.
Asia as a concept was created by the europeans though - it is was the greeks called anatolia or asia minor.