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[–] 129 points 1 year ago (13 children)

My favorite Texas dig is: If you cut Alaska in half, Texas would be the third biggest state.

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  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Alaska: "We have the biggest state!"

    Texas: "How long does it take to drive across?"

    Alaska: "We wouldn't know, we've never left Anchorage."

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Alaska: our mountains are so huge, weather so severe, and land so vast, that mankind does not have the ability to build roads across our state. Come at me, Texas.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Texas: the biggest usable state.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    FTFY: the biggest usable (mentally) unstable state.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I live in California and I can buy weed at the weed store.

    Texans can't.

    Californian women have protected human rights that Texan women don't.

    So I guess my state has more freedom than Texas.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    We also have legal psychedelic mushrooms, at least where I am in Oakland.

    Also, I fucking hate cowboys. Had a layover in 2001 in Dallas. I couldn’t believe how many cowboy hats, boots, belt buckles. It was a clown show. I’ll never fly through Texas again.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Wait what? You're telling me there is a reason to go to Oakland without continuing on into SF?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Come buy some. For some reason they can't be sold in weedshops, but they're often next door or across the street. My partner tried mushrooms for the first time recently. The kitties were adorably soft and we just laughed a lot.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Bigger in everyway! Bigger crime, bigger gun problem, bigger capture by oil companies, bigger environmental damage, bigger racism, bigger highways... The list goes on!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Not to defend Texas, but Alaska has waaaaaay more crime. At least if we're talking about violent crimes. I wanted to move there once, but I decided against that based mostly on that factor. Approximately 8 in every 1000 people will commit a violent crime in Alaska. For reference, Texas is about 5.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yep. One guy in my class had an exchange student from Texas. Absolute biggest asshole. A real advertisement for Texas: "Never go to a state where they breed idiots like that."

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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What a lame thing to be proud of

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Everyone knows Colorado would be bigger than Texas if you hammered it flat.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago*

    Also Alaska: It’s over, Texas. I have the high ground.

    Alaska - High point: 20,320 feet - Sea level
    Texas - High point: 8,749 feet - Sea level

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    lol

    Sincerely, Australia; where two states are bigger than Alaska, and all but 2 states and 1 of 2 real internal territories are bigger than itty-bitty Texas.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    TIL the claimed Australian Antarctic Territory is six times the size of Texas.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I mean yeah, the Australian Antarctic Territory (that we basically inherited from the UK, IIRC) is fucking massive. But it's also what we call an "external territory", so I wasn't counting it.

    The internal territories are the Northern Territory (practically a state for our purposes here) and the Australian Capital Territory (similar to America's District of Columbia, but with real legislative representation!). Oh, and the Jervis Bay Territory, but for most practical intents and purposes that's another arm of the ACT.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Those 2 small states are where most of the people live though.

    And within those states, most live in the main city. Even more if you count the commuter cities.

    Also points for both snow and heat in different parts.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    laughs in Western Australian

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Who the hell sticks a bumper sticker on the side of their car? Hell, who the hell sticks a bumper sticker anywhere but the windows? Good luck removing them without destroying your paint once you get sick of them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Who the hell gets bumper stickers they might later regret and want to remove?

    Also: A little baby oil or rubbing alcohol will destroy the adhesives in the sticker and leave your paint just fine.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    You assume I give a shit about the state where I live.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    My province is bigger than your state

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    In 2145 the competition between the two states takes a violent turn as the cyberpolarbear division meets the mechacowboys in brutal mechanized combat, fighting in the sweltering heat among the gaint sand dunes in the deserts of Anchorage.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oh yeah? Well my state is blue.

    (Aka not considered a shithole state)

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  • [+] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Interesting, TIL. My intuition when looking at maps somehow had me wrongly estimate California as larger than Texas. But Alaska is of course in a league of its own.

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    San Antonio -> Austin -> Dallas is ~5h (and they're basically in a straight line)

    LA to SF is ~6h

    Add Houston on the end and it's 8h+ (roughly a C shaped route) or roughly San Diego to SF.

    Interesting the distance between the furthest points in each state is roughly 14 hours for both. They're weirdly analogous.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    my state of despair

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