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[–] wyrmroot@programming.dev 106 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Incest often doesn't provide viable offspring though.

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell that to the British royal line

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Any royal line for that matter

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's what happens when the antidax narrative takes hold.

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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is cursed.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year 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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[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone from Europe it looks fine to me.

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 34 points 1 year ago

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

[–] jemikwa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohno

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[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did I have a stroke?

[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

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

[–] mathterdark@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ok but where’s MASHINGTON

[–] admin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

West of Wontanna

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

[–] abouttocomealive@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One is Akansas

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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But where is Are-Cannot-Saw?

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Next to Coloradon't

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

Ok, I don't get it.

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] the_frumious_bandersnatch@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

Is this what having an aneurysm feels like?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] TheMagicalTimonini@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] starman2112@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Some ChatGPT fun facts

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[–] bratosch@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ahkansas, just to piss off the French

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[–] custard_swollower@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should be Kansas, Arkansas, and Cokansas.

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[–] Kase@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Looks right to me ╮⁠(•⁠‿• )⁠╭

[–] Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

This makes my brain hurt

[–] Windows94@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Central Dakota...

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you forgot that Wyoming isn't real

[–] ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

America's waistline grew a little it seems after thanksgiving

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 5 points 1 year 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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