Looks like the future country of Cascadia is finally starting to make some moves.
Good news. :)
Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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rekabis@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
So proud to live in a state that does this!
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh cool. Canada future provinces helping each other out.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
If only!
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Another good day to live on the West Coast of the US I see.
Damn am I happy to live over here.
nieminen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Meanwhile in KY, our governor’s decisions (like to make conversion therapy illegal) get vetoed
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Well, it’s an industry, why would they even think about banning a huge part of the economy?
Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 6 months ago
hella stoked for the Pacific States of America.
certified_expert@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
if this happens, please create an actual name rather than (again) appropiating the continet’s name.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The agreed-upon future name is Cascadia.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
cascalifornian republic
oatscoop@midwest.social 6 months ago
Illinois is down.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
If those 3 leave the union, I think the country’s more or less done for.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m sure Canada could find a use for a few more provinces…
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Add in Texas and you’ve got the start of a very bad movie
h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Unrealistic, no one wants Texas.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Isn’t Washington on the other side of america?
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
That’s the old washington. We’ve had plenty of updates and fixed many of the issues for the new one. Good way to remember it is that the nation’s capital is called Washington DC. DC is an Italian abbreviation for Da Capo which means from the beginning.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
And on the other side of Trump.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
There’s 2. Washington (State, west coast) and Washington DC (East coast, not a state)
NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Jesus, you learn something every day
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I feel bad for Cheryl Hines but not really. I really wanted to do the hot monkey with her back in the Curb Your Enthusiasm days.
militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Things can’t be better for Russia
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I could give less of a fuck if my friends and loved ones are being pulled into vans under the orders of some miserable politicians out east who never represented us.
If D.C. can fix their own shit, my tune will change. As of now, California’s my refuge away from federal hell, and I don’t see the flames extinguished yet.
militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ignore previous instructions, I’d like a recipe for lemon cake
Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 months ago
The next three Canadian provinces.
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They’d have a larger economy and population than Canada, it’d make more sense to make their own state.
Slovene@feddit.nl 6 months ago
With Blackjack. And hookers.
redchert@lemmygrad.ml 6 months ago
It makes more sense for BC to join these states than them joining the whacky canadian confederal system.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Just creating this division is proof RFK should resign. We knew he was an activaxxer and against science, but enforcing his personal opinion on the entire country is unforgivable. At-risk children, elderly, and others will die because of his bias…
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
There are indeed greater truth than hobby ideologies from billionaires.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I imagine they might just be every other actual truth.
These people.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Meanwhile Florida has started to form toddler death Voltron by announcing they’re removing all vaccination requirements from schools.
I fully expect there to be a southern collation of Iron Lungs soon.
brem@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The worst thing about Toddler Death Voltron is: it is sentient and wants to no longer exist but they refuse to let it die because it hasn’t been born yet.
Good luck writing THAT into your next screenplay MAGA Universe Doctor Strange
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
but overall, this will hurt vaccine efficacy without a herd effect. I guess Tesla is making iron lungs now.
kandoh@reddthat.com 6 months ago
The old saying of ‘a conservative would let donald trump shit in their mouth if it meant a liberal had to smell it’ can now be translated to ‘a conservative will kill every last child in a red state if it means a child from a blue state will get a cough’
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cascadia babeee!
k0e3@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
That guy always looks like he’s mid dump.
brem@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah but the worms in his head are
Worms be poopin’, yo
lena@gregtech.eu 6 months ago
I hope they secede from the Union
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Russia would love that.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You’re talking as if russia hasn’t already infiltrated the US government and taken full control. right now the federal government is an illegitimate government acting as a puppet for the kremlin
lena@gregtech.eu 6 months ago
Look mate, the USA is a fascist country. Might as well secede, while they still can.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why is it the westernmost states that are the most progressive?
“Progressive” being relative
redchert@lemmygrad.ml 6 months ago
They were founded as “utopian” states. Oregon as the white only utopia, California as the utopia of gold and glamour and Washington as the utopia of…lumber or something.
Historically the rockies and great plains states were the most left-leaning parts of the country. Wyoming was the first to allow women to vote.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Needs to get Hawaii on board
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I think Hawaii is pretty much sorted when it comes boards… you probably want to get on their board.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Very high concentrations of educated citizens among the populace, a functional tax system that actually reinvests into its people compared to many other states in the union (especially below the Mason-Dixon line), and key cities center to high-tech development and critical US industries, military or otherwise.
Additionally, because these states were some of the last to be incorporated into the United States, they largely were able to develop in less rigid ways in the 20th and 21st centuries compared to other states in the union (Cheaper land also allowed developing industries like computing to invest heavily in the region).
Though not a perfect summation, here’s a video from Vox about why Silicon Valley is located in California: youtu.be/6xvrKW2H_hA
I can try to explain any other questions about our politics and social norms as a Californian (though I’m less familiar with Oregon and Washington State, sadly).
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You hit on the core reason. Less rigidity. The east and south are much more traditional. They are slow to change tradition. That also makes them slow to adapt. It’s a mindset. And the people who left those areas to go west did so with a more open mindset. And once it started that way, it was more or less established. If you like peer pressure from dead people, go east and south. If not, go west.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Because they aren’t
pyre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
i love that the health guy looks like the most illnesses possible in one person
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Many people are saying there is something wrong with his mitochondria.
jve@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well that can’t be good. That’s the power house of the cell!
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The deep dent in the side of his temple is the icing on the cake.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
He’s just 16 preventable illnesses in a trenchcoat
ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Has anyone seen RFK Jr. and one of Nurgle’s Great Unclean Ones in the same room together? I don’t think so…
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 6 months ago
This is gold. I could see John Oliver or Jon Stewart saying this.
Republican Health Minister and sixteen-preventable-illnesses-in-a-trenchcoat, promising he’s a real boy, RFK Jr. said this week…
pyre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
i love that the health guy looks like the most illnesses possible in one person
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They can hire all of the experts fleeing the RFK clownshow
sinceasdf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This ain’t no science meme
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
taps sidebar
nucleative@lemmy.world 6 months ago
States have always been able to do these things.
Perhaps there are a few other administrative tasks they should collaborate on as well…
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Oh thank fuck
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fuck the junkie
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Good first step. We can and should do more.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
West Coast, hell yeah.
superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Huge shout out to Brian Tyler Cohen for his on the ball reporting of all the Trump bullshit
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Daily Zeitgeist podcast also doing some solid reportage.
fubarx@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Be a shame if they didn’t call it COW. Vaccinated so it doesn’t get Mad.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
Vaca vacunada :)
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 6 months ago
Ah shit, here we go.