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[โ€“] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They're not swapping by 2040. Geomagnetic poles take an obscenely long time to swap; we're talkin' hundreds of thousands of years. What's gonna happen by 2040 is that Earth's geomagnetic "North" will line up with "true North".

Ah. That's more like it.