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Submitted 5 months ago by ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social to xkcd@lemmy.world
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joyjoy@lemm.ee 5 months ago
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I only looked at this for ten seconds and I forgot how the real map looks.
j4k3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The malignant Dak-ancer has spread to your Cancerlina. The illness stems from exposure to fascist gerrymandering. It’s a fatal prognosis.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I… I can’t even figure what’s wrong with it even though I know it’s so very, very wrong. My brain hurts.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
As someone from Europe it looks fine to me.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I genuinely didn’t get the joke until I read the hover text and even then I just assumed he put extra lines in to troll the Americans.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s an awful lot of Dakotas.
Sconrad122@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And no Howoming, Whatoming, Wheroming, or Whooming, missed opportunities.
Balinares@pawb.social 5 months ago
What really gets me is how you swapped Alabama and Mississippi just for kicks.
jemikwa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Ohno
Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
That’s my favorite. Plus, they way it can be read as “Ohenno” or Oh hell no. Columbia on the West Coast is also a neat idea, considering that Columbia was the manufactured goddess designed to be an avatar for American greatness, before we got the Statue of Liberty. Columbia still has a big statue on top of the Capitol building in DC that never gets mentioned.
Glifted@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Did I have a stroke?
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yse
ForestOrca@kbin.social 5 months ago
This magazine has been cracking me up for weeks now. Had to share:
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HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s a Typo: His name is Ted and he’s into GILFs.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
It took me way too long to realize he added States not just mislabeled them.
makyo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Me too, it’s better this way than the original
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This map freaks me out and I don’t know why.
EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Because everything you know is wrong, nothing is real, nothing matters, have a panic attack, you deserve it!
mathterdark@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ok but where’s MASHINGTON
admin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
West of Wontanna
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fun fact, there are no US states that start with A.
TheMagicalTimonini@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The closest is Arkansas which starts with an “A”. Which is pronounced similar to an “A”.
starman2112@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Some ChatGPT fun facts
palordrolap@kbin.social 5 months ago
Likewise there are no states with a B in the name.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Isn’t Kentucky the only one that starts with a K?
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I have an inkling that the two Arkansas are pronounced differently. “Are-Kansas” and “Are-Can-Saw”.
abouttocomealive@lemmy.world 5 months ago
One is Akansas
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I see that now. I did not see it then.
Aatube@kbin.social 5 months ago
Are-ken-saw, A-kan-saw and a Kan-sahs
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
One has no R
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I see that now. I did not see it then.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But where is Are-Cannot-Saw?
badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Next to Coloradon’t
Nougat@kbin.social 5 months ago
That's because Arkansas (ARE-can-saw) retained the native language pronounciation, while Kansas (CAN-zuhs) was Anglicanized.
misophist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Today I learned the native language was French!
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ok, I don’t get it.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
A recent XKCD was just the blank map with ~64 “states” and the direction to try and name them all.
jarvis2323@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Here it is: lemmy.world/post/9604451
custard_swollower@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I see Kansas, but where’s Kan’tsas?
bratosch@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Kansas, Akansas, Arkansas was clever my guy. How would you pronounce Akansas tho? A-kansahh? Akansahh? A-Kansas? Akansas? Ahkansas? Ah-kansahh?
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Arkansas, just to piss off the French
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Ah-kansah, I would imagine.
the_frumious_bandersnatch@programming.dev 5 months ago
Is this what having an aneurysm feels like?
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Should be Kansas, Arkansas, and Cokansas.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Arkansas and yourkansas
Kase@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Looks right to me ╮(•‿• )╭
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
How do you want them labeled? They already have the names.
ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 5 months ago
The names are an edit from the original xkcd comic, where the states are blank.
Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I did a couple of cartography classes in college and I can say this is 100% correct.
charonn0@startrek.website 5 months ago
It just occurred to me that there are no states named East Statename.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 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.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Serious answer: we started at the eastern seaboard and expanded west. “East Statename” implies eastern expansion.
Nougat@kbin.social 5 months ago
That's because the expansion of the US across the continent was westward.
charonn0@startrek.website 5 months ago
I know. It just seemed funny that the other three directions are represented.
If/when Puerto Rico becomes the 51st state, it should take the name East Puerto Rico, just to be fair.
bratosch@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Are there any ‘West _____’ states? I know there are north and south
charonn0@startrek.website 5 months ago
Country roads take me home to the place I belong
spoiler
West Virginia
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 months ago
I think you forgot that Wyoming isn't real
ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 5 months ago
It's just a fancy name for "Dakota[citation needed]".
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
This makes my brain hurt
Windows94@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Central Dakota…
SapphironZA@lemmings.world 5 months ago
America’s waistline grew a little it seems after thanksgiving
ForestOrca@kbin.social 5 months ago
I have to say I prefer New Mexico A and New Mexico B. Also Tennessee and Elevenessee are made for each other.
Chetzemoka@startrek.website 5 months ago
Why are there so many Mexicos?? The Mexicos are multiplying, you guys. We’re about to be overrun.
fireweed@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Columbia should be Jefferson. Alternatively Columbia could be Oregon, then Oregon becomes Columbia.
rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 5 months ago
I had a college professor who absolutely would have handed something like this out as a pop quiz.
skydivekingair@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You missed Upper Peninsula north of Wisconsin.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
“Texas”
Well that’s a very generous description
wyrmroot@programming.dev 5 months ago
We’ve been ignoring the Dakotas for too long, they are spreading at an alarming rate!
abbadon420@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Incest often doesn’t provide viable offspring though.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Tell that to the British royal line
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s what happens when the antidax narrative takes hold.
WashedOver@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Damn that’s scary. I don’t think there’s many drag queens there but child abuse in those states are higher than most. /s