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[–] tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz 51 points 5 days ago (3 children)

it is not completely useless as it seems to give an accurate portrayal of geopolitical boundaries at the time.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm so happy that they put the 1507 borders on. Someone spent some real effort and thought on this completely pointless thing.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing they just found a map from the time period and added the electricity bit as the meme. Very little effort involved.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

But still effort

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 12 points 5 days ago

I'm pretty sure the Crown of Aragon wasn't part of France in 1507 so I wouldn't trust the rest the map either.

[–] jayemar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Agreed, I just wish they'd labeled that countries, or whatever the equivalents were