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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

Thanks MapGPT

[–] IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 week ago

The cost of Trump's wall is gonna bankrupt us

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

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

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[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago

all my dakotas gone

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

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

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

Fuck, I'm still in Mississippi ☹️

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

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

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] faltryka@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They forgot Alaska and Hawaii

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

No, they were deported, obviously.

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

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

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Ronald is really beautiful this time of year.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

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

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

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

Um, hello - War of 1831 anyone?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

They must have gotten their history education in Zackers.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

The confusion regarding the Midwest is exacerbated exponentially

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

Kansas looks in the mirror and sees Chaster.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

And Nebraska sees Oyblaf.

[–] thomasloven@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] thomasloven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Exactly this.

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

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

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week 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 1 week 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!

[–] match@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago

i would absolutely play this tabletop setting

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Proud Onfremer here - Go Fightin' Zyglars!

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

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[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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?

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

realistically the west coast would either be Spanish or maybe japanese

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There's a high probability that the rest of the world is wider as well.... since it seems like the states never grew higher.... is there a whole new section at the equator filled with new continents/countries?

[–] Rivalarrival 3 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

I ❤️ Shandle

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Hello from sabmeg!

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I want a huge Shandle shaped sticker.

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