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[–] Necromnomicon@lemmy.world 77 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jeez. Americans will use anything but metric.

[–] jettrscga@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Canada's metric. Close enough in much the same way that beef is vegetarian because cows eat grass.

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago

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

[–] DanglingFury@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] ares35@kbin.social 7 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

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

[–] ares35@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

deca-canuck

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago

Great units, eh!

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 11 months ago

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