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[–] wyrmroot@programming.dev 98 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Incest often doesn't provide viable offspring though.

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tell that to the British royal line

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Any royal line for that matter

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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 74 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is cursed.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 54 points 11 months ago

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

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 17 points 11 months ago

As someone from Europe it looks fine to me.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 36 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.

[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 33 points 11 months ago

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

[–] jemikwa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ohno

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Did I have a stroke?

[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 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:
https://sopuli.xyz/c/aneurysmposting

https://kbin.social/m/aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz

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

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[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 17 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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[–] mathterdark@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ok but where’s MASHINGTON

[–] admin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

West of Wontanna

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ok, I don't get it.

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 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.

[–] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] abouttocomealive@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

One is Akansas

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] TheMagicalTimonini@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] starman2112@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Some ChatGPT fun facts

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[–] bratosch@lemm.ee 12 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?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ahkansas, just to piss off the French

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[–] custard_swollower@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

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

[–] the_frumious_bandersnatch@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago

Is this what having an aneurysm feels like?

[–] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 11 months ago

Should be Kansas, Arkansas, and Cokansas.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's because the expansion of the US across the continent was westward.

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Serious answer: we started at the eastern seaboard and expanded west. "East Statename" implies eastern expansion.

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think you forgot that Wyoming isn't real

[–] ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

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

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

This makes my brain hurt

[–] Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 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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[–] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 6 points 11 months ago

America's waistline grew a little it seems after thanksgiving

[–] Windows94@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Central Dakota...

[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 5 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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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why are there so many Mexicos?? The Mexicos are multiplying, you guys. We're about to be overrun.

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