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[-] cosmictrickster@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

Another map without New Zealand!

[-] StopTech@lemmy.today 30 points 1 week ago

But does it have Old Zealand?

[-] cosmictrickster@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago

Technically, yes. Province in Netherlands, actual name Zeeland.

[-] StopTech@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

wait hold up i now have to have a head to head competition of who has the better cheese

nothing is more important

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

New Zealand doesn't exist. Birds and giraffes either.

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 1 points 1 week ago

Isn't this one just cropped?

They often are

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

I need to know the source of this because this has to be fake or trolls because all of those in the western hemisphere or in the ocean are just silly and can't be for real

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

those in the western hemisphere or in the ocean are just silly

Correct

and can't be for real

Likely incorrect. You'd be shocked at how profoundly stupid and/or misinformed some people are in a country that routinely robs its public education system to pay churches and private corporations..

[-] copd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Do you honestly think those data points in the Atlantic are genuine and not trolling?

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

if it was a fox news poll i'd pick 1600 pennsylvania avenue in DC specifically.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This is someone just hitting an iPad leaving a grocery store to move on with their life

[-] NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Thought process:

"Iran? Like a marathon? That could be anywhere"

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

🎵 And Iran, Iran so far away-ay-ay 🎵

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

marathon is in greece. i'm pretty sweaty. shower's over there. must be in america

[-] protist@mander.xyz 16 points 1 week ago

Looks like they got Iraan, TX correct

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Now that‘s an explanation! They never heard of Iran as a country and thought it was a random-ass city. And since they didn’t know where it was, they guessed the center of the US!

[-] protist@mander.xyz 14 points 1 week ago

Iraan, TX is a real place, though it's pronounced "Ira-Ann."

Iraan is the second largest town in the second largest county in the second largest state in the United States, which is the second largest country in North America.

"We're Number 2!"

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

every place is known for something. what does ira-ann make? like, big ball of twine? bacon factory? help me out. wastewater treatment? they are number two.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago
[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

This has to be a joke right? Some dots are in the ocean

[-] axexrx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Buster: ovbiously, the blue part here is land.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'd love to think that, but this is America, where basic geography might as well be Egyptian hieroglyphics to most people.

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

10th grade history we didn't do history, we did maps and had to memorize all the countries. if we sang the song (without mumbling) we got bonus points.

[-] Venat0r@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

maybe they think it's a small island?

[-] Loreshield@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe they're thinking the current Iranian state succeeded Atlantis and they're placing the latter in the Atlantic instead of the Mediterranean, as Dr. Jones correctly did after reading the Hermocrates? ¯\(°_o)/¯

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Are these schoolchildren? Adults? People in retirement homes? All ages?

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

That one person who has it in for Arizona.

[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Honestly, Iran sounds more pleasant.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

hey, i know a couple really nice greek restaurants (and by extension, families) in phoenix. they just made some really big mistakes by moving to phoenix.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Surety these are trolls, especially the ones putting it in the ocean…

[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, Jeremy. This is the chart that Ann sneezed on with a mouthful of cheerios.

The actual distribution plot is still in the printer. Go get it.

[-] Una@europe.pub 5 points 1 week ago

I think Iran is its own planet somewhere in andromeda galaxy.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] jbellows@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

That there is (n+1) people who in identifying a desert, Farsi speaking, country chose the ORKNEY ISLANDS...smh

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Quite a few up in Greenland. Maybe this explains Trump's confusion about that.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Americans are extremely dumb so this does not surprise me at all.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

hey! we may be americans, and we may be extreme, but, uh, what was the third thing you said?

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Most of them were fairly close.

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Many of them were fairly close, but with 23% in the borders I wouldn't judge that most were, if I look where I think half the dots are it's starting to get quite far into Europe, Africa, India or China. Which imo should all be fairly easy to rule out, but shrug

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The points chosen so far off from Iran just prove the point in a perverse way. The people are stupid, uneducated, or just willfully being assholes by choosing the wrong places. Just go ahead and lump them together. One set is damaging because of ignorance, the rest due to malice. Pretty much sums up trump and his followers.

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I wonder if this is because they often use an America centered map

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 17 points 1 week ago

Or because people don't take it seriously, such as the ones who selected the ocean.

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Nah, they just thought the white was the landmass

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

In fairless they may of just answered wrong

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