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[–] [email protected] 108 points 11 months ago (4 children)

We’ve been ignoring the Dakotas for too long, they are spreading at an alarming rate!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Incest often doesn't provide viable offspring though.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tell that to the British royal line

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Any royal line for that matter

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I only looked at this for ten seconds and I forgot how the real map looks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

The malignant Dak-ancer has spread to your Cancerlina. The illness stems from exposure to fascist gerrymandering. It's a fatal prognosis.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As someone from Europe it looks fine to me.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's an awful lot of Dakotas. Also, Ohio really ought to be renamed Ohno.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

And no Howoming, Whatoming, Wheroming, or Whooming, missed opportunities.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

What really gets me is how you swapped Alabama and Mississippi just for kicks.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

This magazine has been cracking me up for weeks now. Had to share:
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https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

Hmm, trying to understand your username, are you both very intelligent/ talented AND have a lift kit on your vehicle?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This map freaks me out and I don't know why.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

Because everything you know is wrong, nothing is real, nothing matters, have a panic attack, you deserve it!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It took me way too long to realize he added States not just mislabeled them.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ok but where’s MASHINGTON

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

West of Wontanna

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Fun fact, there are no US states that start with A.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The closest is Arkansas which starts with an "A". Which is pronounced similar to an "A".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Some ChatGPT fun facts

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I have an inkling that the two Arkansas are pronounced differently. "Are-Kansas" and "Are-Can-Saw".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But where is Are-Cannot-Saw?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A recent XKCD was just the blank map with ~64 "states" and the direction to try and name them all.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Kansas, Akansas, Arkansas was clever my guy. How would you pronounce Akansas tho? A-kansahh? Akansahh? A-Kansas? Akansas? Ahkansas? Ah-kansahh?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ahkansas, just to piss off the French

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Is this what having an aneurysm feels like?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

I see Kansas, but where's Kan'tsas?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Should be Kansas, Arkansas, and Cokansas.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (9 children)

It just occurred to me that there are no states named East Statename.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

English settlers arrived in the east. So wherever they were when they named an area, that was the original, and as they spread west, north or south, they had to add those directions to keep them distinct.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Looks right to me ╮⁠(•⁠‿• )⁠╭

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I did a couple of cartography classes in college and I can say this is 100% correct.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

How would you like them labeled? They already have the names.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The names are an edit of the original xkcd comic, where the states are blank.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think you forgot that Wyoming isn't real

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It's just a fancy name for "Dakota[citation needed]".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

This makes my brain hurt

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

America's waistline grew a little it seems after thanksgiving

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Columbia should be Jefferson. Alternatively Columbia could be Oregon, then Oregon becomes Columbia. Cascadia would also be appropriate for either.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Central Dakota...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I have to say I prefer New Mexico A and New Mexico B. It's poetic justice, as the Eastern border of New Mexico was drawn by a drunken surveyor from TX, so we're just getting back what was ours. Take a look at the map, and the history, strange, but true. Also Tennessee and Elevenessee are made for each other.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had a college professor who absolutely would have handed something like this out as a pop quiz.

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