▲ 745 ▼ 'Merica, with all its diversity (thelemmy.club) submitted 20 hours ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world 199 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 hours ago (1 child) I mean most American states are shaped as rectangles, Objectively false! and are under 2 million inhabitants. Objectively false! I don't know why anyone is upvoting you permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mirshafie@europe.pub 1 point 11 hours ago (1 child) You're objectively right, I was being hyperbolic. It's a lot of states that are rectangle-shaped with quite small populations though. I mean if I had given the cutoff of "4.3 million inhabitants", then that would cover half of all states. And easily more than half at least one 90 degree angle. Europe also has a lot of small states to be fair, and I don't think we can expect people in general to keep track of all these. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 point 10 hours ago (1 child) This isn't really relevant to the conversation, but your comments made me curious and I've just discovered that San Marino is actually a full 61km^2^. I had no idea, I thought it was about the same size as Monaco. The other mildly interesting tidbit is that Luxembourg is about the same size as Rhode Island - and both fill the role of "vortex of unknowable financial hijinks" for their respective region. I wonder what it is about small regions that breeds both tax havens and a shockingly high density of chocolatiers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 9 hours ago (1 child) Yeah these small independent states are really strange. At least Rhode Island isn't landlocked, but Luxembourg depends on all of its neighbors using it to launder money, and I'm not sure why that's tolerated. Maybe it's the chocolate. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 point 8 hours ago NIMBYism, but for financial criminals? Oh well. At the very least they're not boring, I suppose that counts for something. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 1 point 11 hours ago (1 child) You're objectively right, I was being hyperbolic. It's a lot of states that are rectangle-shaped with quite small populations though. I mean if I had given the cutoff of "4.3 million inhabitants", then that would cover half of all states. And easily more than half at least one 90 degree angle. Europe also has a lot of small states to be fair, and I don't think we can expect people in general to keep track of all these. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 point 10 hours ago (1 child) This isn't really relevant to the conversation, but your comments made me curious and I've just discovered that San Marino is actually a full 61km^2^. I had no idea, I thought it was about the same size as Monaco. The other mildly interesting tidbit is that Luxembourg is about the same size as Rhode Island - and both fill the role of "vortex of unknowable financial hijinks" for their respective region. I wonder what it is about small regions that breeds both tax havens and a shockingly high density of chocolatiers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 9 hours ago (1 child) Yeah these small independent states are really strange. At least Rhode Island isn't landlocked, but Luxembourg depends on all of its neighbors using it to launder money, and I'm not sure why that's tolerated. Maybe it's the chocolate. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 point 8 hours ago NIMBYism, but for financial criminals? Oh well. At the very least they're not boring, I suppose that counts for something. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 point 10 hours ago (1 child) This isn't really relevant to the conversation, but your comments made me curious and I've just discovered that San Marino is actually a full 61km^2^. I had no idea, I thought it was about the same size as Monaco. The other mildly interesting tidbit is that Luxembourg is about the same size as Rhode Island - and both fill the role of "vortex of unknowable financial hijinks" for their respective region. I wonder what it is about small regions that breeds both tax havens and a shockingly high density of chocolatiers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 9 hours ago (1 child) Yeah these small independent states are really strange. At least Rhode Island isn't landlocked, but Luxembourg depends on all of its neighbors using it to launder money, and I'm not sure why that's tolerated. Maybe it's the chocolate. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 point 8 hours ago NIMBYism, but for financial criminals? Oh well. At the very least they're not boring, I suppose that counts for something. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 9 hours ago (1 child) Yeah these small independent states are really strange. At least Rhode Island isn't landlocked, but Luxembourg depends on all of its neighbors using it to launder money, and I'm not sure why that's tolerated. Maybe it's the chocolate. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 point 8 hours ago NIMBYism, but for financial criminals? Oh well. At the very least they're not boring, I suppose that counts for something. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 point 8 hours ago NIMBYism, but for financial criminals? Oh well. At the very least they're not boring, I suppose that counts for something. permalink fedilink source parent
