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[-] Necromnomicon@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

Jeez. Americans will use anything but metric.

[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

This is the best combination of funny/mindfuck I’ve seen in a while. Well done!

[-] DanglingFury@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I didn't realize so many people lived up in the northeast

[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Yes, the majority of the population in the US is in the northeast, that's why people hate the electoral college system. It gives a significant amount of power to a majority voting minority. A better way to represent a minority would be a ranked choice system.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Electoral college vs ranked choice voting is a false dichotomy. You can do one, the other, both, or neither.

The way to eliminating the electoral college, since it is enshrined in the constitution, is either a constitutional amendment changing to a popular vote method (highly unlikely), or the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

[-] avogadro@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

And both ways involve the states that benefit from the disproportionate power choosing to give it up.

[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I didn't say it was ever gonna happen unfortunately, I'm just saying it SHOULD happen

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Well when you are settling east to west some people don't like taking super long dangerous trips

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

I didn't realize so few people lived in the Northwest. I thought Seattle was bigger than that

[-] ares35@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

that yellow space has pretty much all the empty space all the way into minnesota. it's all big rocks, missile silos, and prairie dogs.

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's big, not huge, but there's not a lot of other big cities out west. In terms of metro area population, it falls right in between Detroit and Minneapolis.

[-] Toto@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Americans won’t understand this because our population is measured in metric

[-] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

I like how because it's units of Canadas, it's an even 10 parts.

[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I didn’t catch that at first. Makes it even better!

[-] ares35@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

deca-canuck

[-] ebits21@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

Great units, eh!

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Slaps US-Canada border

This bad boy can fit so many fucking Canadas in it

We've got: New England Canada, North Atlantic Canada, Mid Atlantic Canada, Florida Canada, Gulf Coast Canada, Rust Belt Canada, Midwest Canada, Southern Canada, California Canada, and All The Rest Canada.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Plus we can technically fit more in the super north Canada and Island Canada

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