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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 year ago

Everything's bigger in rule

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Everything's bigger in rule

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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 year ago
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  • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world
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    It’s true!

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
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      This is mind blowing

      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world
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        Big if true

      • FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        It’s all Texases, all the way down.

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    Who knew, Texas is bigger than Luxembourg

    • Ledivin@lemmy.world
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      That’s probably just a perspective trick, there’s no way

      • can
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        I see you’re joking but for anyone curious

        Luxemburg: Total Area 2,586.4 km2

        Texas: Total Area 695,662 km2

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          Not really curious, no

          • can
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            Your loss

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      Which is crazy since Luxemburg has its own language while Texas is speaking the same as Ireland which is already bigger than Luxemburg

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      Crazy how nature do that

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    Europeans thinking a 2h trip is a long ass trip. Then they come visit North America thinking they can visit from coast to coast by car in two weeks.

    North Americans going to Europe thinking it’ll take 4 hours to go from one city to the next when they can actually cross three whole countries in that time frame.

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      The most culture shock I’ve ever experienced was being in southern France, craving some Italian, and realizing I can literally just go to Italy for dinner.

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        Hahahahaha right??? Ain’t that crazy?

        Edit:

        Same happened to me. Was in South West of France. Saw a board on the highway that said Barcelona was 3h away. Like what???

        So we went to Barcelona for a weekend because why the fuck not.

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      2h is a long ass trip we’ve just been gaslit

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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        If only we had a high speed rail system like in Japan…

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      Am European. I drove from sfo to nyc in 4.5 days. Would I do that again? No.

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        Same, took 5. Still brutal as hell

    • BluesF@lemmy.world
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      Honestly I blame American TV for this. Especially anything involving the FBI! In Hannibal they zip between states non stop like it’s nothing. I assume it’s all supposed to be happening over many days, but it just seems like they’re going to and from work in Minnesota and home in Virginia lol

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      No we don’t think 2 hours is a long ass trip. We think 2 hours is a long ass commute.

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      I’ve done LA to DC in a week. You just don’t pass through many cool places along the way.

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        But man, can you look at some fucking corn.

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          The Plains go on, and on, and on, and on…

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      “Hey, has that state no one cares about seen this joke?”

      "I don’t know, I’ll ask 'er.

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      What would happen if you divide Alaska in two equally-sized states? Texas becomes the third largest state.

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    “Texas needs to shut up before we split in half and make Texas the 3rd biggest state”

    • Alaska probably
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      “That’s an impressively well-typed threat for a moose.”

      • Texas probably
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        “Come up here and fight us then, we’ve seen how you handle snow.”

        • Alaska probably
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      Alaska could be split into four equal states & Texas would be the fifth biggest.

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      deleted by creator

      • Maco1969@lemmy.world
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        The Mercator scale on maps makes everything equatorial look tiny compared to northern and southern latitudes.

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    So you’re saying they should secede from the Union and be an independent world superpower because they don’t need the rest of us, right? Right?

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      No, that’s ludicrous.

      Give them back to Mexico.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      They’re welcome to attempt again. Though we were a bit too gentle last time

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    I grew up in Texas and moved to England. I remember my first weekend there looking at a map thinking of going to visit Cambridge. It was a couple of inches away on the map and I thought, should be an hour maybe an hour and half drive. Imagine my surprise when I arrived in Cambridge in 20 minutes. I forgot to take into consideration scale.

    Yes it was a paper map, I know I’m old.

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    I realize it’s all for jokes but I think neither the image nor comments images are adjusting for actual area, since on a projected map there will be warping outwards of center.

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    “that’s not where paris is.”

    --any texan.

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    That’s not where Paris, TX is….

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      and bbq and rodeo and jesus and warm smiles and cold daggers

      also all the cultural influence from Mexico, but that doesn’t count I guess

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        And Toadies

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          Honestly there’s a surprising amount of good music that comes out of Texas that isnt country

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        And slabs!

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      if Europe ever gets colonized it’ll be crushed down to the cultural equivalent of Michigan

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          You got me. What’s couture?

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      Tons of culture, it’s just all living deep underground near the earths core, where it’s still warm.

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      One of my favourite webcomic artists/vtubers is from Texas!

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    This is just a piece of the land we stole from a country that spain stole once

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    Overcompensate much?

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    I expected Texas to be a lot bigger, given the memes.

    Fun fact: the largest cattle station in Australia is 8x larger than the largest cattle station in the US (which is in Texas).

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