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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago

Thanks MapGPT

[–] kartoffelsaft@programming.dev 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)
[–] Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think the upper right corner should be just all New York.

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[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 4 days ago

all my dakotas gone

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago

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

[–] IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 4 days ago

The cost of Trump's wall is gonna bankrupt us

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fuck, I'm still in Mississippi ☹️

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] faltryka@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They forgot Alaska and Hawaii

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

No, they were deported, obviously.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

The confusion regarding the Midwest is exacerbated exponentially

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] match@pawb.social 7 points 4 days ago

i would absolutely play this tabletop setting

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Ronald is really beautiful this time of year.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Um, hello - War of 1831 anyone?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

They must have gotten their history education in Zackers.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago

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

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

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

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lake Doramos is ENORMOUS. Easily the largest in the world.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The U.S. has 4 of the 5 largest freshwater lakes in the world; Doramos, Superior, Huron, and Michigan. Nature is beautiful!

[–] thomasloven@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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!).

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] thomasloven@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Exactly this.

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[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Kansas looks in the mirror and sees Chaster.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

And Nebraska sees Oyblaf.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I think we would have an easier time naming the 40 provinces of canada.

We'd struggle with naming all 50 states of mexico.

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

POV you're playing geoguessr and the map is long flat expanse in the middle of bumfuck nowhere but you know it's the US because of the roads and yet have no idea other than it's a random midwestern/plains state

looks at image for 0.5 seconds

"This is the gradient of western Kansas."

-Rainbolt, probably.

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 8 points 4 days ago

Obesity is a real problem everywhere, not just us but in Mexico and Canada too.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This sounds like a mixture of prescription drugs and made up english towns

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 days ago

Most glurons can't name them all either. All Hail Mono!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Proud Onfremer here - Go Fightin' Zyglars!

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I want a huge Shandle shaped sticker.

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This map brings up so many questions. One could assume that some sort of magic shifted the earth enlarging it, or it's an alternate reality of some sort. How does politics work in this version of America? This is easily twice the area of the real USA, I imagine it's basically impossible to govern these lands federally. It's already difficult enough as it is in reality with all these incompetents in charge.

What would the population look like? Would it be the same in all real states and a proportional amount in new ones? Or would it be more spread out, with urban centers farther apart?

Is there a source for this image? Like, is there a preexisting lore for it? Or can I roll with this and have fun?

[–] Rivalarrival 3 points 4 days ago

London has 12 Grimmauld Place. The US has 88 states hidden in plain sight.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

realistically the west coast would either be Spanish or maybe japanese

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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Hello from sabmeg!

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 points 4 days ago

I ❤️ Shandle

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

New Canada implies a possible universe where Canada plans a 3 day special military operation to free the oppressed people of Canada that live within US borders

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

Baltichusets?

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