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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a look that says "please just stop and go away." The girl's, that is. The guy's look says "I wonder what human meat tastes like."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Fuck I forgot his name but hes craaazy at geoguessr πŸ˜‚ edit, brainvolt or something like that

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rainbolt, it's in the post title.

[–] onyxjet 4 points 2 days ago

No, Brainvolt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Brainvolt is kinda pretty good name, though.

[–] [email protected] 166 points 4 days ago (7 children)

How are people supposed to tell these states apart when 99% of them look like a 3 year old's first attempt at drawing a square?

[–] BetaBlake 46 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Pretty easy when you grow up learning a thing

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[–] PapaStevesy 19 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (4 children)

How are you supposed to tell European countries apart when 99% of them look like amorphous blobs?

[–] LouNeko 42 points 4 days ago (9 children)

You don't have to, just know that we are united by our common hate for The Frenchβ„’

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And we also don’t shorten all of our countries expecting people to know what we meant.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I could tell you that's Alabama but my problem is I would have no idea that face was supposed to mean something, it looks like a blank stare to me

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[–] flames5123 13 points 3 days ago (20 children)

Most US states are the size of EU countries. We don’t know the β€œstates” of EU countries because those are like counties in our states, and most people barely know all of their own state’s counties because there are too many.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Empty landmass isn't the only important thing.

I.e. Florida, the third most populous US state (21M), is about half the size of the whole of Germany.

But Germany's most populous state (North Rhine - Westphalia / NRW) has a pop of 18M.

It's waaaaay smaller, but the n of inhabitants is comparable.


To the point: I don't think , it's necessary to know the names of foreign states. But it's good to know roughly what's going on in the world. It is no secret, that US Americans are exceptionally caught in their own bubble.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Or, for another perspective: In terms of population, Ohio and Belgium are pretty much equal, but in terms of area, the former is 4x as large.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Doesn’t matter. Just take the piss the same.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

to be fair to georgia, the bottom is shaped like that because of a river, I assume thats the case for AL as well

[–] SupraMario 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I was under the impression a lot of states use rivers or water ways as state lines. Guessing it was that way as it was easiest before gps.

[–] untorquer 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Eh a lot of States are shaped by successive land aquisitions. They are territories then the state borders were defined upon statehood. These aquisitions by conquering or purchase happened over many decades. The national border of the time being adopted as a state border. This were often based on geographical details. After the Louisiana purchase there was a ton of land and it made sense to use a mixture of big squares and pre-existing territory borders. Though big landmarks like the Columbia/Mississippi rivers or mountain ranges play a role.

Though there's lots of politics involved but there's skates Wikipedia.

[–] SupraMario 1 points 2 days ago

Learn something new every day

[–] finitebanjo 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Each state had to agree on the boundaries, and as with all of human history they were quite possessive and possibly greedy. Thats why in the middle of the Mojave Desert the lines are all clean and uniform: nobody was willing to fight over the middle of the Mojave Desert.

EDIT: Also it caused a lot of disputes when rivers were nobody's territory as they were a major mode of transportation and people on the river or crossing the river would end up being harassed by landowners on either side as if they owned the river.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 days ago (6 children)

People in Alabama don’t look as refined as this. They look like you’d expect orange-man cultists would look. Sorry Alabamans.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That may be because the girl pictured is Italian model/ influencer Gio Scotti, who is in fact not Alabaman.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (3 children)

How you know?

Cuz of Roman memes?

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] disguy_ovahea 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

The thing that bugged me is that at the end of Season 3, they were legally married. This never got resolved in season 4.

If it got resolved in season 5, I didn't watch it.

[–] Mickey7 66 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is this about a guy wanting to do his cousin?

[–] [email protected] 173 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Yes and the guy at the bottom is a famous "geo guesser" that tries to pinpoint the location of street view pics from minimal information. So he pinpointed the original poster to "Alabama" because they be fuckin their cousins a lot there i guess. (i assumed its Alabama without looking at a USA map)

[–] Warl0k3 108 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

alabama's rep so bad there are more people that know they fuck their cousins than there are people who know where alabama even is.

[–] ByteJunk 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Never been to America, no idea where Alabama is, but it's a well known fact that they... love family very much.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You're correct, that is Alabama. A good method for differentiating it from Mississippi is that Alabama has mostly straight borders and Mississippi has a long wiggly border (the Mississippi river). Not sure if that's actually helpful but it's how I remember them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Eh i dont think there is any value in remembering stuff like that, especially if you are not from the US. But thanks for the explainer :)

[–] Warl0k3 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

The only reason we americans need to know this is to make sure we never accidentally end up going there.

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