• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Please don’t post images like this, I’ll end up with fellow Americans telling people in Chicago to flee north to Italy before you know it.

    Well, then again maybe they won’t know what Italy looks like

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        1 day ago

        Didn’t know that off the top of my head. I was making a joke about Italy and Chicago being at the same longitude do to the picture.

        Although the area just west of Venice, now part of Tuscany I believe was given to Spain in exchange for the Louisiana Purchase (part of a larger deal) , which I believe may have included Minneapolis. Don’t remember where the lines fall.

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      At first I didn’t realize you were complaining about the picture layout and thought you were making a clever comment about how part of Italy really is at a more northerly latitude than Chicago.

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        Ah no, just referencing the number of times Ive heard people either jokingly or being serious say that Alaska is next to Hawaii. Stemming from pictures like this

        Also something I have had someone in person use as a reference as to why they knew Texas was larger than Alaska while playing trivia at a bar

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      1 day ago

      Those migrant vessels they sink are full of thousands of desperate Hoosiers in search of a better life

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      2 days ago

      Of course I’d rather take a quick 2 hour flight to Greece instead of going to California. Way closer