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Bad Map Projection: The United Stralia

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This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne.
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rickhensley
35 days ago
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At least Orlando seems to be no more.
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mareino
34 days ago
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I've been to Darwin, Minnesota. It's like Darwin, Australia, but colder and with more twine.
Washington, District of Columbia
gordol
34 days ago
The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota. https://youtu.be/Yv_QUiDYTTg?si=oibcLxugRwhm9tiz
denubis
34 days ago
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This is so cursed and I do not like it.

UK Coal

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The Watership Down rabbits removed an additional 0.1 nanometers constructing their warren, although that was mostly soil. British rabbits have historically mined very little coal; the sole rabbit-run coal plant was shut down in the 1990s.
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rickhensley
51 days ago
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Now do the math for how much they added in refuse.
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kyb
50 days ago
Well really, you add stuff by stealing it from other countries and bringing it back to yours. Of course, the UK did quite a lot of that during times of Empire...
rickhensley
50 days ago
I was thinking refuse = trash (aka landfills), but that tracks, too.
jlvanderzwan
50 days ago
That's the sign of a good sedimentation joke: it has layers
gordol
50 days ago
I refuse to measure the refuse.
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Spelling

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Any time I misspell a word it's just because I have too much integrity to copy answers from the dictionary.
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rickhensley
301 days ago
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Now I want all of my Word documents to be filled with red squiggles.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness

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Click here to go see the bonus panel!

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Now, realize there is no Self. Only insane monkey who can't reach the breaks.


Today's News:
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rickhensley
302 days ago
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That got dark (and real) right there at the end.
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vhtc
301 days ago
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okay
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Label the States

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Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.
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rickhensley
341 days ago
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This is cruel; I’m giving copies to every kid I know.
Ohio
EspadaV8
340 days ago
For a non-American, what's cruel about it?
denismm
340 days ago
It looks reasonable at a glance but many nonexistent states have been inserted - see https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2868:_Label_the_States for more details.
EspadaV8
340 days ago
Ah, I never knew about that site. Thanks for the link.
denismm
340 days ago
it's super handy! :)
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gordol
341 days ago
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What's the little one completely surrounded by the great state of Orlando?
Earth
denismm
341 days ago
That’s Lake Okeechobee.
gordol
340 days ago
@denismm, I think you missed the joke.
denismm
340 days ago
Oh sorry, I saw people genuinely confused elsewhere.
alt_text_bot
341 days ago
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Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.
Lythimus
341 days ago
The 14 states you missed are: Franklin, Jefferson, Superior, Delmarva, Absaroka, Scott, Transylvania, Deseret, Cascadia, Lincoln, Atlantica, New Amsterdam, Sequoia, and Dixie.
rraszews
341 days ago
Transylvania, Cisylvania, and the Penn Republic.
silberbaer
340 days ago
My favorites are Kentuckessee and Middle Carolina. Not a fan of South Oregon, though.

DateTime

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It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]
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rickhensley
342 days ago
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The flipping truth
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Groxx
341 days ago
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Distributed systems engineers agree: meaningless to ask.
Silicon Valley, CA
JayM
342 days ago
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hahahaha.
Atlanta, GA
alt_text_bot
342 days ago
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It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]
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