Arrogant Cowboys
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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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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."
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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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.
But Texas has 40 times the population
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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.
mankind does not have the ability to build roads across our state
Only pipelines
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TIL the claimed Australian Antarctic Territory is six times the size of Texas.
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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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.
Texas: the biggest usable state.
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Texas: the biggest usable state.
FTFY: the biggest
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FTFY: the biggest
usable(mentally) unstable state.Nah, that’s Alaska.
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Bigger in everyway! Bigger crime, bigger gun problem, bigger capture by oil companies, bigger environmental damage, bigger racism, bigger highways... The list goes on!
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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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Texas is almost as long as California but quite a bit more thicc.
One additional factor, though, is that California's major cities are mainly spread all along its lengthy coastline, while most of Texas's major cities (Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, etc) are clustered in the interior, decently far but not that far from one another. So going between Austin/Houston/Dallas is not necessarily as daunting a trip as going from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
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Nah, that’s Alaska.
No, that is just the biggest state.
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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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the arrogant cowboys are the best NFL team to ever do it
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Bigger in everyway! Bigger crime, bigger gun problem, bigger capture by oil companies, bigger environmental damage, bigger racism, bigger highways... The list goes on!
And the biggest drunk! Wait....
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Texas is almost as long as California but quite a bit more thicc.
One additional factor, though, is that California's major cities are mainly spread all along its lengthy coastline, while most of Texas's major cities (Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, etc) are clustered in the interior, decently far but not that far from one another. So going between Austin/Houston/Dallas is not necessarily as daunting a trip as going from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
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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But Texas has 40 times the population
I'm talking about per population. Of course if there's more people there's more crime.
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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."
One of the worst people I ever had the displeasure of working with was from Texas.
Granted, I have also worked with others from Texas that were fine.
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Everyone knows Colorado would be bigger than Texas if you hammered it flat.
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Also Alaska: It’s over, Texas. I have the high ground.
Alaska - High point: 20,320 feet - Sea level
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You assume I give a shit about the state where I live.
