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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to CartographyAnarchy@sh.itjust.works · 10 days ago

Ask your European friend if they can name all 138 states

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Ask your European friend if they can name all 138 states

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to CartographyAnarchy@sh.itjust.works · 10 days ago
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    Thanks MapGPT

  • syl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The cost of Trump’s wall is gonna bankrupt us

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    xktd 2394

    • Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz
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      I think the upper right corner should be just all New York.

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        New York, New England, Maine. Rhode Island would totally stay independent but they should change their name to New Britain just to fuck with New England.

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      all my dakotas gone

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    The longer you look, the more ridiculous the names are. “Ohio”, what the hell kind of name is that?

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    Fuck, I’m still in Mississippi ☹️

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      Thank God for Mississippi! Even when there are 138 states.

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        If Mississippi fell into the Gulf of Mexico America Oil, nobody would miss us.

        • Mac@mander.xyz
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          Miss who?

          • edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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            issippi

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    They forgot Alaska and Hawaii

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      No, they were deported, obviously.

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    Ah, brings back all those summer memories I would have made at Lake Doramos.

    • egrets@lemmy.world
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      The Trankish/Fitretion shore is nice, I guess, but when you live nearer the Canadian border and end up vacationing in Mesfate, you look forward to going back to school.

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    Ronald is really beautiful this time of year.

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    Things have certainly changed since I was in school. But, that was 40 years ago, so IDK.

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    Why does Central Trankland get that big island in the middle of Lake Doramos?

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      Um, hello - War of 1831 anyone?

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        They must have gotten their history education in Zackers.

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    I’m still salty we didn’t get New Canada

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    Kansas looks in the mirror and sees Chaster.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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      And Nebraska sees Oyblaf.

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    The confusion regarding the Midwest is exacerbated exponentially

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    I only know solid, liquid, gaseous, and plasma. :(

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      You know more than you might think.

      Glass is an other one. Superfluids, Supersolids, condensates, superconductors, you might know as well.

      Then there are the others: liquid crystal, microphase, fermionic condensates, degenerate matter, quark matter, color glass condensate, string-net liquid, superglass, chain-melted state, quantum hall state, and photonic matter.

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        All these newfangled snowflake states of matter! When I was young in 1874 there were only three and we didn’t need any more!

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    Honestly, as a European I dare say most Europeans couldn’t name all 50 states, and definitely not place them on a map.

    I’m confident I could correctly place Texas, Florida, probably California and maybe Kentucky if the borders were drawn.

    Naming more than one or two state capitals? Forget it!

    Edit: quite sure about Alaska and Hawaii too, but I forgot those (see!).

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      Yeah, but the average us-american couldn’t even begin to name the départements of France for example. Or anything on the scale of NUTS1 in Europe or Brazil or China.

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        The individual states are better compared to medium/small European countries than to districts of most countries in terms of size, population, economy and political independence.

        Not being able to place Boise is is more like not being able to place Skopje than Nantes. (And yes, I had to look two of those up)

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          California maybe, Nebraska not. Catalunya is more significant than over half of the states. As is northrhine-westfalia.

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      Why Kentucky?

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        as a european its the KFC plate the chef with the big chef hat is holding

        • thomasloven@lemmy.world
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          Exactly this.

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          That’s hilarious and I appreciate the answer.

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      Fellow European, seconding this. I can roughly point out Georgia and New York instead of Kentucky and Michigan is easy because of the coast line. I’ve been to the east coast, I couldn’t point out the state I was in to save my live.

      All these straight borders are confusing AF anyway.

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