the united states of america

heh, i've been guilty of this too.

https://i.imgur.com/x4y2GNz.png

And dammit, I just realized that I have W. Virginia included in there!

so it was arkansas that was in the briefcase in pulp fiction

this is more than the united states of america but i took the picture and uploaded it and i want to share it, dammit

https://i.imgur.com/ZitpLB1.jpg

from a pretty neat book called The Inversion of the World i came across in the oversize dept. of the library a few days ago

you can open it in a new tab to read some of the made-up inverted earth locations

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/19/upshot/facebook-county-friendships.html

https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MetroMap2017a.png

Proud to be a dweller in the PORAQRANADA Atlantic seaboard megalopolis

what is going on with kentessee and virginolina

Haha, MSP should've been Sweden, but Finland will work... Wait, Israel for Miami eh?

I'm sure Microsoft and Amazon are proud of their ability to more or less match Nigeria in their economic contributions to the world

ya shoulda been cuba or some shit

la being mexico is apt

some real weird ones in there tho

i'm sure some canadians burned their pancakes when they saw how tiny their gdp is when placed in america like pour some maple syrup on that fire

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DorVrbfXoAAVLd5.jpg

lmao lucid dreams

https://i.imgur.com/3xZOY1l.jpg

i... what is up with Tennessee

https://teachthecivilwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-10.04.08-AM.png

would be my guess.

whoa! wild

Perhaps, though in that case the east coast would be glowing much more as well. Maybe also Tennessee soil is just super good for digging + good amount of empty space

no graveyards in minnesota because they send their dead on flaming barges down the mississippi

ha, that actually seems to be the case in Louisiana. (Down a river, at least.)

Or wait, I'm looking at the battlefields. NEVER MIND.

https://i.imgur.com/BJT7VQI.jpg

hahah short pump

ESSEX? The choice is Mianus in Connecticut. Great for cracking people up on car rides ("Be careful of skidding through Mianus, it's slippery").

https://i.imgur.com/2PsWyeX.jpg

uh surprisingly accurate:

https://d2svrcwl6l7hz1.cloudfront.net/content/B01MF8P00H/resources/0?mime=image/*

it's actually the front cover of a book: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01MF8P00H/

columbus got lost

"Be careful of skidding through Mianus, it's slippery"

"Mianus really needs to get plowed" is the appropriate reaction to this weather iirc

https://ddydc3qiky-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/walmart-nation-1024x778.jpg

You can't get much more private than the Freemasons, can ya, Colorado?

How are all those state university systems considered "private employers"?

I don't think this answers Brad's question, but

For the purposes of our analysis, we treated some state government employers like public universities as independent organizations, in keeping with how states frequently identify and compare company headcounts. Military bases were excluded from the list. In many cases, employee counts for the various colleges, laboratories, and medical centers falling under a single university system were combined. This was because these systems frequently attribute employees from the university and medical centers together. However, when a spokesperson from the medical centers or universities identified the organizations as distinct employers, they were counted separately.

Because you'll also see this map pop up from time to time. Can't be both!

https://i.imgur.com/aFbCjzM.jpg

wankers corner isn't a "town", it's an intersection in wilsonville

i'm very glad to learn that i work for oregon's equivalent of wal-mart though

really shows we have a long way to go before basketball coaches are taken as seriously as they should be

wankers corner isn't a "town", it's an intersection in wilsonville

it's a way of life imo

Top 3 state employees in my state:

Athletics Head Football Coach $3,500,000
Athletics Head Basketball Coach $2,550,000
Surgery Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery $1,300,000

Highest-paid non-college state employee is the head of the Dept. of Human Services at $282,800.

https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/PJM_2240_01.jpg

show me puke

Utah

i would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when the artist drew the outlines of the states and just generally planned out where the states would go and how much space everything would need

haha "sucker"

They got Texas right.

https://i.imgur.com/sdNvkLl.gif

https://i.imgur.com/t30MnXj.jpg

those are some high quality united states of americas

glorious

lies

I70 does not go through harrisburg

Here we go...