Spyke
piefed.social

I love that San Francisco (NorCal) and LA (SoCal) are swapped.

(And also that NYC doesn’t actually include NYC.)

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Jesus_666reply
lemmy.world

Four colors. Deserts are colorless; you'd need forest racists as well.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

yeah don't lump the northwest and midwest in with Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, thanks.

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canreply
sh.itjust.works

don't lump the northwest and midwest

Could you define those two please? I know I could look up which states they but I'm curious what defines them to you. Or is it purely geographical?

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Northwest: Washington, Oregon

Midwest: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan

That's just personally what I think of anyway, I don't know if Iowa is technically part of the midwest mix or not.

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Ikereply

As someone who lives in Mountain Racist territory, I don't feel represented on this map.

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qjkxbmwvzreply
startrek.website

Maybe in the before times, but with the LA residents' response to the fascist in chief, I think most of us in San Francisco are honored to share the state, and be confused, with Angelenos.

Just keep the Dodgers in SoCal. This is the Giants' city.

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I feel like it's one of those things where if you're in California, people are going to have a lot of big opinions. But if we're talking outside the state, we got each other's backs.

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I mean when I saw the dodgers turn ice away from the parking lot I almost bought one of their jerseys

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Hux
lemmy.ml

Ok, how do we influence LLM’s to index this so it shows up in some lazy student’s geography report?

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Idea: tarpit, but let it escape after indexing about 10,000 instances of these silly maps generated by our own AI.

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lemmy.world

I live that NYC is too far south and while the desert racists are technically too far north today that might be accurate in a decade due to global warming.

Can't believe you didn't know about the hippies in the NW corner!

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Asafumreply
feddit.nl

It's pretty funny that they cut off NYC almost exactly at NYC just slightly south

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My first thought was to scan it to see if they at least got Boston in the NYC section. Only to realize NYC is not in NYC but is actually in Nomansland.

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canreply
sh.itjust.works

Can't believe you didn't know about the hippies in the NW corner!

I'm Canadian, let me guess. Seattle and Portland?

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Your forgot the 8 easy ones; East Virgina, West Virginia, South Virgina, North Virginia, East Carolina, West Carolina, South Carolina and Guam.

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lemmy.world

Apart from the LA/SF mixup and NY a bit off, this is a good representation of the US.

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I think that both low key kinda work but skibidi Ohio is kind more aura. Also, skibidi Ohio rizz would be more common (and more correct?) then skibidi rizz Ohio

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lemmy.world

Replace Nomansland with Corn and it's pretty much spot on

Source: i live in Corn

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Leatherreply
lemmy.world

You live in Nomand land, and your trying to flex with corn? Sir...

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Flex? Have you lived in Corn? It's course and rough and gets everywhere

It's just that there are men in No Man's Land, but the ratio of men to corn makes the label Corn more accurate than No Man's Land

It's science

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Mixed up LA and SF, desert racists shoulx include breaking bad, and swamp racists kind of starts farther west, but yes,

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rumbareply
lemmy.zip

Yeah that whole desert racists/breaking bad/vegas section is more of a venn diagram.

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Really is. Though imo nevada (more like fo:nv than just v) is kind of its own thing. More baroque crazy mobbed up gambling&sovcit nonsense.

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Pretty good. Just need to study California a little bit harder and you'll ace the test on Friday.

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discuss.online

You forgot Chicago, known for its awesome food, murder rate, and corrupt police.

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Etterrareply
discuss.online

I've literally met people from Ecuador who thought Chicago was a crime infested hell hole because they watch gangster movies lol. If you don't know where Chicago is then you've probably never seen a TV before either.

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A wizard with a gun riding an undead dinosaur is the most '80s shit ever and I love it.

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lemmy.world

I seem to live on the line between swamp racist and desert racist

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lemmy.ca

“Desert Racists”
“Swamp Racists”

ROTFLMAO 🤣🤣🤣

Bloody accurate, you are.

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chiliedoggreply
lemmy.world

There's also mountain racists and wood racists.

It's like varieties of horrible elves.

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slrpnk.net

As a lifelong southerner, I can attest to a veritable cornucopia of racists. There are:

Swamp racists, marsh racists, bayou racists (all are different), mountain racists, valley racists, low country racists, beach racists, ocean racists (totally different species, unrelated, with overlapping territory), woods racists, forest racists, and countless other unknown and tiny micro communities of different racists.

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lemmy.world

I know we're not a huge portion of these maps, but the pacific northwest is a distinct group. We can be called mountain hippies if you like.

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pjwestinreply
lemmy.world

Yeah, seriously. At least call us, "Revolutionary War Reenactors," or, "Cold NYC." I'd even take, "Southern Quebec." But lumping us in with Montana and the Dakotas? That's some bullshit.

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As a non-American the LA/SF thing doesn't bother me and seems pretty ignorable in the big picture.

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Sex trafficking is a lucrative enough business by itself, but combined with religion? Piles of cash.

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The mongols, morons... Ahh I give up. Even my spelling checker can't find them.

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I wanted to point out that you left out Washington DC... But then I noticed that it was covered under "swamp racists"

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Don't forget New New York, Old New York, New England, Old England, Old New England and New New England.

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lemmy.sdf.org

It appears like most of Appalachia is under "swamp racists" and the rest as "NYC", which I strongly reject. Very little of Appalachia is swamp, it's mostly forested mountains. And it's far to rural to be compared to NYC.

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feddit.org

And it's far to rural...

Sorry, Appalachia does not exist in European mental maps.

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feddit.org

I do know that the Appalachian mountains exist because it's a popular area for horror movies and ghost stories and the people there have an endearing dialect but I couldn't tell you where in the States they're located.

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Once read a forum thread on "how your state/region is depicted in media" and had to point out that aside from one movie about a college the biggest things I could point to were the Wrong Turn movies (slasher movies about inbred cannibal hillfolk) and the movie version of Silent Hill (which is set in WV but based on Centralia, PA while the game version of Silent Hill is in New England).

Centralia, PA is one of those places with less than a dozen residents and a neat history. It's been on fire since 1962, the government tried to eminent domain all real estate in Centralia and a handful of extremely stubborn folks fought back leading to an agreement where they get to stay there for the rest of their lives after which the property reverts to the government via eminent domain. All seven of them. Five of which are still around as of 2020, having lived under that agreement for forty years. The church still holds services, and their graveyard are still maintained, even the one that's in a perpetual haze as the ground releases smoke.

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jlai.lu

It is not nomandsland but rather great lake region and other Canada-like space.

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pseudoreply
jlai.lu

Never heard of the last two. Sorry. What are they suppose to refer to?

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feddit.org

I just thought "great lake" sounds funny. Great but not great enough for an actual name.

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I have no clue how they are supposed to be name. In French, we call the place "la région des grands lacs" and I was pretty sure I got the english name right.

Edit: According to Wikipedia, I've only forgot an s at Lakes.

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I mean the Great Lakes are truly inland freshwater oceans with tides, imense international shipping, famous shipwrecks, forgotten shipwrecks, folk songs about famous shipwrecks and even piracy

So the term "great lakes" clearly communicates that these are lakes (freshwater, not hydrologically connected to the ocean) but also that these are notable lakes as the "great" indicates the size, notability and gives a sense of wonder

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lemmy.world

This is good. I will have to come up with one for europe with less racist but more bigots.

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feddit.org

For the love of fuck don't hold back. Us Euros have left our guard down way too much with all the attention on the others.

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