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Submitted 1 year ago by ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social to xkcd@lemmy.world
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joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I only looked at this for ten seconds and I forgot how the real map looks.
j4k3@lemmy.world 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.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year ago
As someone from Europe it looks fine to me.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
That’s an awful lot of Dakotas.
Sconrad122@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And no Howoming, Whatoming, Wheroming, or Whooming, missed opportunities.
Balinares@pawb.social 1 year ago
What really gets me is how you swapped Alabama and Mississippi just for kicks.
jemikwa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Ohno
Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year 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 1 year ago
Did I have a stroke?
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yse
ForestOrca@kbin.social 1 year ago
This magazine has been cracking me up for weeks now. Had to share:
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HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s a Typo: His name is Ted and he’s into GILFs.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
It took me way too long to realize he added States not just mislabeled them.
makyo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Me too, it’s better this way than the original
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This map freaks me out and I don’t know why.
EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because everything you know is wrong, nothing is real, nothing matters, have a panic attack, you deserve it!
mathterdark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ok but where’s MASHINGTON
admin@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
West of Wontanna
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fun fact, there are no US states that start with A.
TheMagicalTimonini@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The closest is Arkansas which starts with an “A”. Which is pronounced similar to an “A”.
starman2112@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Some ChatGPT fun facts
palordrolap@kbin.social 1 year ago
Likewise there are no states with a B in the name.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Isn’t Kentucky the only one that starts with a K?
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I have an inkling that the two Arkansas are pronounced differently. “Are-Kansas” and “Are-Can-Saw”.
abouttocomealive@lemmy.world 1 year ago
One is Akansas
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I see that now. I did not see it then.
Aatube@kbin.social 1 year ago
Are-ken-saw, A-kan-saw and a Kan-sahs
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
One has no R
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I see that now. I did not see it then.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But where is Are-Cannot-Saw?
badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Next to Coloradon’t
Nougat@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's because Arkansas (ARE-can-saw) retained the native language pronounciation, while Kansas (CAN-zuhs) was Anglicanized.
misophist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Today I learned the native language was French!
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ok, I don’t get it.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
A recent XKCD was just the blank map with ~64 “states” and the direction to try and name them all.
jarvis2323@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Here it is: lemmy.world/post/9604451
custard_swollower@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see Kansas, but where’s Kan’tsas?
bratosch@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year ago
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Arkansas, just to piss off the French
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Ah-kansah, I would imagine.
the_frumious_bandersnatch@programming.dev 1 year ago
Is this what having an aneurysm feels like?
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Should be Kansas, Arkansas, and Cokansas.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Arkansas and yourkansas
Kase@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Looks right to me ╮(•‿• )╭
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
How do you want them labeled? They already have the names.
ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 1 year ago
The names are an edit from the original xkcd comic, where the states are blank.
Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I did a couple of cartography classes in college and I can say this is 100% correct.
charonn0@startrek.website 1 year ago
It just occurred to me that there are no states named East Statename.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Serious answer: we started at the eastern seaboard and expanded west. “East Statename” implies eastern expansion.
Nougat@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's because the expansion of the US across the continent was westward.
charonn0@startrek.website 1 year 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 1 year ago
Are there any ‘West _____’ states? I know there are north and south
charonn0@startrek.website 1 year ago
Country roads take me home to the place I belong
spoiler
West Virginia
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
I think you forgot that Wyoming isn't real
ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's just a fancy name for "Dakota[citation needed]".
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This makes my brain hurt
Windows94@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Central Dakota…
SapphironZA@lemmings.world 1 year ago
America’s waistline grew a little it seems after thanksgiving
ForestOrca@kbin.social 1 year 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 1 year ago
Why are there so many Mexicos?? The Mexicos are multiplying, you guys. We’re about to be overrun.
fireweed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Columbia should be Jefferson. Alternatively Columbia could be Oregon, then Oregon becomes Columbia.
rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 1 year ago
I had a college professor who absolutely would have handed something like this out as a pop quiz.
skydivekingair@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You missed Upper Peninsula north of Wisconsin.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
“Texas”
Well that’s a very generous description
wyrmroot@programming.dev 1 year ago
We’ve been ignoring the Dakotas for too long, they are spreading at an alarming rate!
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Incest often doesn’t provide viable offspring though.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Tell that to the British royal line
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s what happens when the antidax narrative takes hold.
WashedOver@lemmy.ca 1 year 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