The confusion regarding the Midwest is exacerbated exponentially
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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You know more than you might think.
Glass is an other one. Superfluids, Supersolids, condensates, superconductors, you might know as well.
Then there are the others: liquid crystal, microphase, fermionic condensates, degenerate matter, quark matter, color glass condensate, string-net liquid, superglass, chain-melted state, quantum hall state, and photonic matter.
All these newfangled snowflake states of matter! When I was young in 1874 there were only three and we didn't need any more!
i would absolutely play this tabletop setting
Lake Doramos is ENORMOUS. Easily the largest in the world.
The U.S. has 4 of the 5 largest freshwater lakes in the world; Doramos, Superior, Huron, and Michigan. Nature is beautiful!
POV you're playing geoguessr and the map is long flat expanse in the middle of bumfuck nowhere but you know it's the US because of the roads and yet have no idea other than it's a random midwestern/plains state
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"This is the gradient of western Kansas."
-Rainbolt, probably.
I want a huge Shandle shaped sticker.
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New Canada implies a possible universe where Canada plans a 3 day special military operation to free the oppressed people of Canada that live within US borders
Baltichusets?
Thanks MapGPT
The cost of Trump's wall is gonna bankrupt us
I think the upper right corner should be just all New York.
New York, New England, Maine. Rhode Island would totally stay independent but they should change their name to New Britain just to fuck with New England.
all my dakotas gone
The longer you look, the more ridiculous the names are. "Ohio", what the hell kind of name is that?
Fuck, I'm still in Mississippi ☹️
Thank God for Mississippi! Even when there are 138 states.
If Mississippi fell into the Gulf of ~~Mexico~~ ~~America~~ Oil, nobody would miss us.
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They forgot Alaska and Hawaii
No, they were deported, obviously.
Ah, brings back all those summer memories I would have made at Lake Doramos.
The Trankish/Fitretion shore is nice, I guess, but when you live nearer the Canadian border and end up vacationing in Mesfate, you look forward to going back to school.
Ronald is really beautiful this time of year.
Why does Central Trankland get that big island in the middle of Lake Doramos?
Um, hello - War of 1831 anyone?
They must have gotten their history education in Zackers.
Things have certainly changed since I was in school. But, that was 40 years ago, so IDK.
I’m still salty we didn’t get New Canada
Kansas looks in the mirror and sees Chaster.
And Nebraska sees Oyblaf.
Honestly, as a European I dare say most Europeans couldn’t name all 50 states, and definitely not place them on a map.
I’m confident I could correctly place Texas, Florida, probably California and maybe Kentucky if the borders were drawn.
Naming more than one or two state capitals? Forget it!
Edit: quite sure about Alaska and Hawaii too, but I forgot those (see!).
Yeah, but the average us-american couldn't even begin to name the départements of France for example. Or anything on the scale of NUTS1 in Europe or Brazil or China.
The individual states are better compared to medium/small European countries than to districts of most countries in terms of size, population, economy and political independence.
Not being able to place Boise is is more like not being able to place Skopje than Nantes. (And yes, I had to look two of those up)
California maybe, Nebraska not. Catalunya is more significant than over half of the states. As is northrhine-westfalia.
Fellow European, seconding this. I can roughly point out Georgia and New York instead of Kentucky and Michigan is easy because of the coast line. I've been to the east coast, I couldn't point out the state I was in to save my live.
All these straight borders are confusing AF anyway.
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Obesity is a real problem everywhere, not just us but in Mexico and Canada too.
I think we would have an easier time naming the 40 provinces of canada.
We'd struggle with naming all 50 states of mexico.
Proud Onfremer here - Go Fightin' Zyglars!
Most glurons can't name them all either. All Hail Mono!
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