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Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid?

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    I have to mail my glovebox gun to myself when I drive through Canada because they hate freedom.

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    In Canada's defense, that is in significant part, handguns. If you keep a long gun with you, as long as it doesn't hit their 10,000 J (7375 ft-lbs) muzzle energy limit --- and if it's in your glovebox, I assume that whatever you have isn't doing that --- and doesn't hit their specific restrictions on upper receivers, you're probably okay.

    A NATO 5.56 mm rifle round looks like it has a muzzle energy of about 1.8 kJ.

    That'd let you carry an elephant gun.

    If you want a semi-auto rifle...goes looking

    Looks like they exist in 500 Auto Max.

    https://gunsamerica.com/digest/big-horn-armory-ar500/

    I imagine that one of those would be okay. Looks like the ammunition is sold in Canada.

    EDIT: If you want something that you can shoot one-handed, maybe a short bullpup rifle with a barrel of at least 470mm (~18.5 in), which is apparently their "handgun"/"not-handgun" divider.

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      We tried. Canada kept getting in the way.

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      We wouldn't have that problem if they would just voluntarily surrender their sovereignty and become the 51st state smh

      ::: spoiler ...
      Edit: hopefully I don't need the /s but there it is anyway
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        A very modest and reasonable proposal

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          Yes.

          But unrelated to this. Which is silly; just do a ferry, dumkopf.

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          The have a ferry system called the Alaska Marine Highway System but for some dumb reason they leave out of Washington state in the northwest.

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            The have a ferry system called the Alaska Marine Highway System but for some dumb reason they leave out of Washington state in the northwest.

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            Just more governmental waste!

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              and the fentanyl

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              And my ax!

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                I wonder what it would cost, assuming it was possible, to build a bridge to Hawaii.

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                About 2-4 trillion and it would technically be almost impossible to build.

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                  I understand that this is just a shitpost, but the scaling here is crazy šŸ˜† Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas

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                    We tried. Canada kept getting in the way.

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                    The Rockies did too

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                      That would be a very long bridge, probably too long to biuld. Notice the size of lake Ponchartrain by New Orleans, which is 24 miles. This would be a bridge hundreds of miles long. It's likely not feasible, sadly.

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                      I'm glad I checked the comments because I was going to point out the same hypothetical issue lol

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                        I understand that this is just a shitpost, but the scaling here is crazy šŸ˜† Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas

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                        Now that you mention it, the projection is unusual. Is this the map they use in Texas to make it look bigger?

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                          I understand that this is just a shitpost, but the scaling here is crazy šŸ˜† Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas

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                          no its smaller, the map shows it is smaller

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                            Buncha crackheads live there and we don't want to provide shelter to bridge trolls

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                              And my ax!

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                              and my fentanyl!

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                                and my fentanyl!

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                                This thread did not disappoint

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                                  and my fentanyl!

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                                  Mrgoomoos is alreading bring the fentanyl. A little goes a long way.

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                                    and my fentanyl!

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                                    and my illegals!

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                                    • natakunox@lemmy.worldN [email protected]

                                      Mrgoomoos is alreading bring the fentanyl. A little goes a long way.

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                                      is mrgoomoos's flinstones' chewable fentanyl? i won't take any other

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