This is a fallacy of composition. the tradeoffs vary. The equal-area projection has zero (or close to) size distortion globally, at the expensive of shape inaccuracy as you approach the polar regions; Antarctica looks particularly wrong if you know anything about its coastline. But most people don't, and nobody really lives in Antarctica besides penguins.
It's not my favorite projection visually speaking but I can see why they would go with it since much of human history/ society/ economy etc. is a function of available land and so its kinda natural that people mentally prioritize size over shape. Shape matters a great deal too, but that's more at the local level. Nobody uses a global map for specific navigation or survey purposes outside of highly technical things like satellite navigation etc that occupy a negligible fraction of humans, and who as technicians are going to employ multiple projections rather than a single generic one.
"The United States, the only country to vote against the resolution, said it promoted an "ideological agenda" and was a distraction from the "genuine problems of international peace, prosperity or good relations"."
Yup seeing the first picture at first I thought it would be some hack involving literal pizza boxes to do some ghetto build simulating good old... "pizza boxes" (the ones I fondly remember are the SGI Indy and then I guess the Commodore C128D qualifies too).
Nor about my circa 2003 gaming PC cobbled together from leftover parts from past builds, using copper wire to provide a common ground that pizza box cardboard cannot.
kinda a bummer that it somewhat looks like it does have a camera for the untrained eye. Defeats the whole purpose of "be X but also make it obvious it's X"
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