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The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

1mo ago

Better organized states

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Should've organized them alphabetically too

Much better to organize it by water systems, with some additional divisions for the Mississippi system.
- What, kind sir, is the source of this beautiful piece of mappery?
  
  Seems to be this.
- No wonder it's called the mighty Mississippi. It's huge!

So the states get gradually smaller as you go north? Got it.
- Yeah, I would have gone with straight lines, not these weird curved ones.
  
  This somehow feels like a joke about map projections that would make its way into Futurama
- Vermont's huge now compared to before.

Some choices were definitely made here.
- Delaware.
  
  Where?

Uh oh. Looks like someone messed with Texas.

Gerrymanderers hate this one trick...

I moved from Pennsylvania back home to Minnesota a decade ago. Didn't expect it to move back to me.

I see we've forgotten our non-contiguous siblings.
But more to the point, why not just arrange them alphabetically while we're here?

I'm not sure which state is furthest from it's original position, but Indiana seems quite far from home.
- Delaware is in the U.P.
- Kentucky took a pretty big trip, but New Jersey is the funniest to me. At least it still gets an eastern coast.
  
  Connecticut borders Alabama, but I guess it still has Massachusetts

Lol. California just became The State of Los Angeles
- Ah yes Nevada, famous for its coast lines and the bay area

This hurts.

Georgia and Florida are already kind of like that, culturally speaking.

I love this map. It breaks my brain in so many ways!

Can't believe someone finally won the Toledo War. Really didn't expect it to be Rhode Island
- tears up gambling ticket

Boooooo!
Edit: I am pleased Ohio is in Oklahoma now.
- They fucking deserve it.

Arkansas straight up deleted from existence.
Edit: it’s west of Oklahoma!
- It's in West Texas
  
  Ha you’re right thanks, I just missed it. I saw Oklahoma and didn’t look carefully to the west of it - I think I have been conditioned by the clearly inferior maps we’ve been using.
  
  It's clearly north of Texas??

I'm not sure what giving NJ a giant flaccid water dong that just barely enters Virginia is supposed to symbolize, but I'm here for it.
I think.
- Just the tip

Maine be like "You guys changed the map?"

Settle down, Jefferson.
- I feel like a lot of people won't get your solid joke.
  
  I'll cry into my basket of sweet early peas.

We are just gonna give South Carolina the outer banks? No. Redraw these lines, pls thnx
South Carolina is Worst Carolina and they deserve nothing but the highway that runs through the state so people can get out quickly.
- IMO we can just delete it. No one will notice.

There are now two Kansas Cities in Ohio

At first I was pissed thinking I don't want to live in Virginia or Maryland then I was like why the hell is Maryland south of Virginia?
- Why the hell is Maryland landlocked??
  Edit: also .. not wanting to live in MD or VA over Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois or Tennessee is … a choice I guess.

Made New York even richer and more influential, while nerfing most of the competition.

The idea that Connecticut shares a border with Alabama and SC is fundamentally cursed

Do all the people from the state move too, or is this just redrawn boundaries? Because if it's the former, California and Texas are going to be a bad time.
- Ohio just got a lot warmer if it's the former.

New Jersey moves to Minnesota. That...
Yeah that tracks.

Ooo, I like this! Now I want to see a map where the area of each state is proportional to its population, but still fitting together in a recognizable way.
- You're looking for a Cartogram!
  Something like this!
  Or this!

Since it’s not my country I vote for going diagonally
- How about squiggles

Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.

I can't exactly tell but I think this map would have me living in Ohio. So, I'd rather not thank you.
- And where you are now is much better?

Do any people have to move? Do the governors have to move prior to next election?
- Only if they live right on one of the new lines. No one can live on the lines!

I like this - it puts the Midwest where I assumed it was, before finding out that it's actually where I would want to call the 'Mideast'.

[ANGRY PENNSYLVANIAN NOISES]

NTY, I do not want to live where Ohio is.

I guess we're just moving New Orleans to Galveston, Biloxi can take over the old location, though personally it feels very threatening to have Mississippi move back to me!

So Rhode Bay instead? It definitely isn't an island.
- Was it ever?
  
  Well, at least it has islands in its current form.

Delaware just hanging out all impudent.

Went from Iowa to West Virginia. The politics are the same, just... Less teeth now.
- *fewer teeth
  🤣🤣

Ain't no way south Dakota is that far left

Damn my brain loves this for some reason.

texas could honestly be a bit smaller. other states could make better use of that space

Aww, Delaware is so ugly now.

This is unironically an improvement for Washington and Oregon.

Wow, you accurately maintained their shapes and everything!

A more perfect union

Based on the Houstonians (as well as other Texans) I know, you'd have one hell of a riot in Louisiana.

This is delightful chaotic organization.

Florida and California are gonna be pissed

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