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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Please don't post images like this, I'll end up with fellow Americans telling people in Chicago to flee north to Italy before you know it.

Well, then again maybe they won't know what Italy looks like

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you know that Venice sits at the same latitude as Minneapolis?

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Didn't know that off the top of my head. I was making a joke about Italy and Chicago being at the same longitude do to the picture.

Although the area just west of Venice, now part of Tuscany I believe was given to Spain in exchange for the Louisiana Purchase (part of a larger deal) , which I believe may have included Minneapolis. Don't remember where the lines fall.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Of course I'd rather take a quick 2 hour flight to Greece instead of going to California. Way closer

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At first I didn't realize you were complaining about the picture layout and thought you were making a clever comment about how part of Italy really is at a more northerly latitude than Chicago.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ah no, just referencing the number of times Ive heard people either jokingly or being serious say that Alaska is next to Hawaii. Stemming from pictures like this

Also something I have had someone in person use as a reference as to why they knew Texas was larger than Alaska while playing trivia at a bar

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Those migrant vessels they sink are full of thousands of desperate Hoosiers in search of a better life