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- katja ( @katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 111•3 months ago
Eh, close enough.
- Blackmist ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English24•3 months ago
If you had to condense it for a videogame, this would cover most bases.
- SuspiciousCatThing ( @SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social ) 19•3 months ago
I don’t get this though. Maps are free online. You don’t even have to guess anymore.
- Successful_Try543 ( @Successful_Try543@feddit.org ) English15•3 months ago
A bit like a map on how Europe is perceived by Americans, where whole Germany is Bavaria.
- porous_grey_matter ( @porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ) 7•3 months ago
As if Americans have any idea what Bavaria is. And if they could even name one city in Germany it certainly wouldn’t be anything in the south, it’d be Hamburg, because hamburgers lol
- odium ( @odium@programming.dev ) 4•3 months ago
I feel like Berlin would be more famous, with it being the capital and the Berlin wall.
- Successful_Try543 ( @Successful_Try543@feddit.org ) English3•3 months ago
Don’t forget the Oktoberfest in Munich.
- Match!! ( @match@pawb.social ) English2•3 months ago
as an American, i was going to go berlin, munich, and then “that part in the south everyone seems to hate for being hicks”
- lugal ( @lugal@lemmy.ml ) 3•3 months ago
Isn’t heidelberg super famous because of Elvis?
- ddh ( @DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•3 months ago
Not anymore.
- Lad ( @AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ) 12•3 months ago
If you had to divide the mainland US into 4 “regions” this is probably the best way to split it.
- JasonDJ ( @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ) 11•3 months ago
Was this a news report from the future on the signing of the Treaty of 2034 that ended the second US Civil War?
- Schmoo ( @Schmoo@slrpnk.net ) 11•3 months ago
I like how the New York, Florida, and Texas tristate border still makes my homeland of western Kentucky instantly recognizable by the weird little nubbin that is the Jackson Purchase.
- Crikeste ( @Crikeste@lemm.ee ) 6•3 months ago
Same with the harsh 90* angle in the CA/TX border. That’s Utah, baby! 😎
- Zier ( @Zier@fedia.io ) 10•3 months ago
I know I don’t live in Texas because we still have electricity running here. Florida checks out though!
- 🅰️🅾️poster ( @lrnz92@feddit.it ) 10•3 months ago
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- stallmer ( @stallmer@sopuli.xyz ) English9•3 months ago
How dare you split Michigan logically!
- pseudo ( @pseudo@jlai.lu ) 4•3 months ago
Can you explain to the non-US citizen the split in Michigan? If you want I can explain the split in Lorraine, France in exchange (^_^)
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English7•3 months ago
The state of Michigan exists on both sides of the great lakes (which are effectively freshwater oceans, containing their own maritime economies, marine salvage operations, maritime weather and even famous lost ships) so there’s the Michigan mainland which contains major cities like Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids, but then there’s the “upper penninsula” which is heavily wooded and some consider a continuation of the “north woods” of Wisconsin. Map for context:
- pseudo ( @pseudo@jlai.lu ) 4•3 months ago
Thanks.
As promise, here is the explanation for the split in Lorraine: Lorraine is a region in easter France that is culturally split in two. One part is of Frank culture, like Paris and French tradition, the other as a culture much closer to Germany, Luxembourg and german speaking countries. It also as a germanic tradition as local languages used to be some german dialect rather that french dialect.
This part of Lorraine which is roughly the Moselle county used to be called germanic Lorraine but this term started to be ambiguous when France lost Alsace, the very famously german-cultured region at the border of France and Germany, and the Moselle county in 1871.
After the great war, Alsace-Moselle was part of France again, but as some of its social laws where better than France at the time, it was decided to keep them in place and not to apply the laws that where voted in France when it was part of German. Because of that, today Lorraine is separated not only culturally but also by laws in place. Go to Metz, on the germanic part, and have two more non-work holiday as in Nancy in the french. In Nancy and Metz, social contributions are calculated differently and important laws for France are not applied no the german side : Church and State are not separated there.
Of course, French State work on every day following that law but in Moselle and Alsace, men of worship can be pay with public money.
All that with having Nancy and Metz separated by 50 km and both being part of Lorraine.- Match!! ( @match@pawb.social ) English2•3 months ago
neat, thanks!
- FundMECFSResearch ( @FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•3 months ago
This is what those “state vs state battle royale” fantasy war simulators look like after a couple rounds
- tacosanonymous ( @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ) 8•3 months ago
It certainly feels that way sometimes.
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 7•3 months ago
Wait, Alaska is missing!
- dumbass ( @dumbass@leminal.space ) English7•3 months ago
That not how it looks?
- Mia ( @shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English7•3 months ago
looks about right…