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[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 99 points 2 days ago

They built a land bridge. They even named it. Canada.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago

Canada is where all the illegals live

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago
[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[-] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

and my illegals!

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mrgoomoos is alreading bring the fentanyl. A little goes a long way.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

is mrgoomoos's flinstones' chewable fentanyl? i won't take any other

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

This thread did not disappoint

[-] dickalan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

If you watch Fox News then yes but if you actually look at the figures, it’s fucking nothing

[-] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

I think they were speaking ironically.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago

It's because Alaska has migratory patterns, that's why it's sometimes southwest of Texas, other times it's right next to California.

How are you going to build a bridge that moves that far, dumbass?

[-] WalterLego@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

A suspended bridge can be really flexible. Or make it out of ropes, like in the Indiana Jones movies.

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Alaska doesn't like being tethered, it will just buck around and turn the whole Pacific into a churning gyre. The wildness would have to be beaten out of it first. Don't worry though, that's being worked on.

[-] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago

Yes. VERY. I have encountered three people in the wild who actually believe that Alaska is an island. The best time was when I was traveling with my kid and they said we were from Alaska to a group of people in an elevator. One of the kids in the elevator said "can you drive to Alaska?". the mom told then her , "they can't drive to Alaska because it's an island! and that's why there at the airport!" To which the DAD replied "ARE YOU FREAKIN SERIOUS? WTF." 

That was pretty good.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 2 days ago

I've done that to my ex wife in public a couple of times.

I learned that someone being hot does not compensate for stupid.

[-] percent@infosec.pub 14 points 1 day ago

I understand that this is just a shitpost, but the scaling here is crazy 😆 Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas

[-] jimmux@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

Now that you mention it, the projection is unusual. Is this the map they use in Texas to make it look bigger?

[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

no its smaller, the map shows it is smaller

[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Don’t forget to build one to Hawaii too. That’s where the delicious pizzas grow, right?

[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Florida to Cuba, Cuba to Hawaii, Hawaii to Louisiana

The food wood be amazing

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

And why didn't they just call it the Gulf of Hawaii? That would've been a lot less controversial.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

We tried. Canada kept getting in the way.

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We wouldn't have that problem if they would just voluntarily surrender their sovereignty and become the 51st state smh

...Edit: hopefully I don't need the /s but there it is anyway

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The Rockies did too

[-] mEEGal@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

I'd pay to see someone asking random americans in the streets about this

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Pfft. We all know that map isn't official.

The reason you can't build that bridge is because Alaska is farther southwest near Hawaii, and there is a big wall around them.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

To be fair, ambushing anyone on the street, out of context, is extremely likely to get a dumber answer than normal.

This would make a good study, actually. Ambush people on the street and quiz them. For the control group, quiz them immediately, on the street. For the experimental group, take them to a more relaxed location, allow them to sit, give them a minute or two to get collected, quiz them and measure the difference from the control group. You can do it with easy, medium, hard questions.

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Because there’s a country between the Mainland and Alaska. Any bridge would need to be negotiated with Mexico.

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago

A very modest and reasonable proposal

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yes.

But unrelated to this. Which is silly; just do a ferry, dumkopf.

[-] N0MAD@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

The have a ferry system called the Alaska Marine Highway System but for some dumb reason they leave out of Washington state in the northwest.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Just more governmental waste!

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

During the Mexican-American War the US secretly bribed Alaska to sneak up behind Mexico and eat Mexico in one big gulp.

Then the US put Alaska in a box to quarantine it because it started to get sick. This is what you see illustrated on many maps because it was historically a very important moment to US geography.

Eventually Alaska got too nauseous, threw Mexico back up and crawled back on top of Canada.

What a lot of people don't realize though is what made Alaska so sick wasn't Mexico, it was that Alaska mistook Texas for part of Mexico and took both Mexico and Texas in one bite, and it was only the extreme toxicity of Texas that made Alaska so queasy.

Ultimately the plan of course backfired, Mexico was fine chilling inside Alaska (Alaskans and Mexicans had even taken to calling it "Mexicalaska") and this upset the rest of the US and caused riots all over the country for weeks... and unfortunately for architects of the Alaska Ambush, Alaska was not big enough to dilute the corrosive bigotry of Texas in order for Alaska to keep it down permanently.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Bravo, I love this kind of 'analogy taken too far' creative writing =D

[-] RagingHungryPanda@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

That would be a very long bridge, probably too long to biuld. Notice the size of lake Ponchartrain by New Orleans, which is 24 miles. This would be a bridge hundreds of miles long. It's likely not feasible, sadly.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

Not with that attitude! What has become of us? We used to do big things like put monkeys on the Empire State Building.

I was really hoping for this level of engineering pedantry and sensibility, thank you.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Buncha crackheads live there and we don't want to provide shelter to bridge trolls

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Alaskan lobby doesn't want mexicans there, whether they're new or not

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Alaska is gonna become Canada’s 11th province. So a bridge ain’t happening.

[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

That'd be a long bridge.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

It appears to my eye that the red line goes from around Arena NM to ~Ciudad Cuauhtemoc Mexico.

That's about 235 miles.

The current longest bridge is Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge in China which is 102 miles, but the majority of that is over land.

However, since the map put Alaska in the middle of Mexico.....

We TOTALLY could.

[-] 474D@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Perhaps not for this reason, but yes, we are stupid

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Because America doesn't have enough money to build the bridge they are saving it to get 6 trillion luxury cars and houses /s

[-] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is a misconception. It's not expensive to build the bridge, it's just prohibitive to move Alaska down there especially while changing its border projection neatly.

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, and how convenient I know a guy who has a bridge to sell as well!

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Because then they couldn't sell their precious Alaskan cruises.

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