• Hubbubbub
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    169 days ago

    Fuck that. The Northeast created this country and we’re not gonna be erased.

          • @[email protected]
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            Linux isn’t derived from Unix, just originally based on it. The BSDs and Darwin (Mac) would be the unfortunate casualties, but at least most of the country won’t be stuck with Windows?

            Edit: And, I guess, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4/5. The former “borrowed” the networking stack from OpenBSD, and the latter are based on some BSD variant if I recall correctly.

  • pruwyben
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    108 days ago

    I like how the map shows the curvature of the north border (49th parallel), meaning all these lines bulge north in the middle.

  • Hjalmar
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    398 days ago

    You should sort them in alphabetical order, my European brain won’t be able to remember them otherwise

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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      38 days ago

      You just gotta remember the mnemonic for them!

      Many Wild Owls In Winter Never Make Unusual Noises, Always Calm and Focused

      But that’s just taught to us in class as little kids so I forget it’s not second nature for the rest of the world!

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        Insular, gossipy, ugly, unintelligible, poorly dressed crazy religious dumbfucks and normal humans who actually have empathy and can accept their town gaining new residents without throwing a redneck tantrum about it every day while said new resident occupies free real estate in their moldy swamp brains.

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          58 days ago

          Right thooooo

          ugly, poorly dressed

          meh ain’t hurting nobody

          unintelligible

          little our fault innit, also don’t wanna punch down

          Get your emotion though not denying your feeling :)

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            From my perspective it’s punching back. But there are always exceptions to the rule. My philosophy is “give respect, get respect”, not “viciously slander, patronize and exclude outsiders until they break yet somehow still feel entitled to their kindness and expect them to suck you off and inflate your already over-inflated ego”.

      • @[email protected]
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        118 days ago

        At that time only the South wanted independence, now it might be that both parts would rather live on their own.

        • @[email protected]
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          158 days ago

          These welfare queen red states would turn into Somalia in short order. If I can’t make it back to a blue state before the borders close I’m going to fucking kill myself.

          • @[email protected]
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            88 days ago

            Better to have a small Somalia2 than turn all the US into the Beautiful Somalia of Covfefe, don’t you agree?

              • @[email protected]
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                18 days ago

                We’ll smuggle you out.

                I feel like any major restructure like that would require some sort of open border policy, even if temporary, simply because people have never had any reason to not move…? And if we Balkanize with closed borders from go, well that’s for sure going to cause conflict.

    • Kühlschrank
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      Believe it or not, those two terms are used interchangably and somehow no one gets confused. A continent AND a country can both have the same name without the world ending.

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          48 days ago

          I will never understand why y’all get such a pedantry hard on for this specific topic

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            48 days ago

            I think to most of those people it’s like the US is trying to “steal” the name America from the rest of the continents, but it’s really only the Spanish speaking parts of the Americas that feel that way about it. But they can have it their way in their language, and it doesn’t detract from anything. It’s like getting pissy because some cultures count continents by separating Europe from Asia and others have Eurasia (without even getting started on Afro-Eurasia).

    • OhStopYellingAtMe
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      98 days ago

      “America” is a shortened name for “United States of America,” in addition to the name of the continent. It can be both, you know.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 days ago

        Yup. They misappropriated a continent’s name to feel more important. Otherwise they would feel smaller than Australia presumably.

  • @[email protected]
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    248 days ago

    Split it along the time zones instead. Less states and simpler administration. Washington DC can be its own time zone just to mess with people.

  • @[email protected]
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    27 days ago

    Flower petal distribution.

    Like a voronoi grid with limited colors, each color a state. Every state would have a bit of everything.