Expand North! So much room up there.
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What exactly are you guarding? I figure there’s a reason not many people live outside of that area depicted.
Have you seen Game of Thrones?
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so basically the entire us?
Don't be such a hyperbolic drama queen; I'm sure theres like a ten square foot area in south dakota or something.
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Yep, which is why its more or less blatant ignorance of the constitution
Pretty sure it's not ignorance, otherwise how would they clean their butts?
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Fun Fact, a lot of North Dakotans live higher north than half of Canadians.
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Fun Fact, a lot of North Dakotans live higher north than half of Canadians.
If I understand correctly based on a map and Wikipedia, the concept of "a lot of people" does not exist in North Dakota, though.
I had never heard of the city of Bismarck, their state capital of more than 70 thousand inhabitants, a bit over 10% of the state's population. But, now I do. I also had not thought there can be a state capital with that little population. (And then this made me curious and I learned that in Germany the smallest state capital is Schwerin, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and it has about 98 000 inhabitants in a state of 1½ million inhabitants.)
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The United States also has eight times the total population. I only saw one source that said 40% and the overwhelming majority said either 2/3 or something in the low 70%
Could it be that one source referred only to places with an actual border, while the rest included anything within 160 km of any coast?
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If I understand correctly based on a map and Wikipedia, the concept of "a lot of people" does not exist in North Dakota, though.
I had never heard of the city of Bismarck, their state capital of more than 70 thousand inhabitants, a bit over 10% of the state's population. But, now I do. I also had not thought there can be a state capital with that little population. (And then this made me curious and I learned that in Germany the smallest state capital is Schwerin, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and it has about 98 000 inhabitants in a state of 1½ million inhabitants.)
The subset is a lot of and the set is North Dakotans.
If you have a room of ten people a lot of them can have things in common.
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We stand on guard.
For thee?
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If I understand correctly based on a map and Wikipedia, the concept of "a lot of people" does not exist in North Dakota, though.
I had never heard of the city of Bismarck, their state capital of more than 70 thousand inhabitants, a bit over 10% of the state's population. But, now I do. I also had not thought there can be a state capital with that little population. (And then this made me curious and I learned that in Germany the smallest state capital is Schwerin, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and it has about 98 000 inhabitants in a state of 1½ million inhabitants.)
Speaking of Germany, Bismarck is named after Otto von and when he was still alive! Greater Bismarck includes Mandan too, so it’s a bit more like 100k+ people in the area, but yeah it’s pretty small. Lots of the middle west is like that. They need to be consolidated into a single state for the senate lol
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FTFYWinnipeg has almost a million people!!
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Speaking of Germany, Bismarck is named after Otto von and when he was still alive! Greater Bismarck includes Mandan too, so it’s a bit more like 100k+ people in the area, but yeah it’s pretty small. Lots of the middle west is like that. They need to be consolidated into a single state for the senate lol
Awesome trivia! Thanks!
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But Canada is "too big" for rail. Except of course all those railways 100 years ago that pretty much made this nation possible, or how nearly every city had trams in most neighborhoods.
And the Trans-Siberian railway has existed for years, is thousands of miles long in awful conditions, AND electrified. We don't have an excuse.
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Do you have a source for this? Our cargo trains run through some pretty frigid winters. Many European countries have a similar climate and they have trains. Aren't the swiss famous for sending trains through snowy mountains?
They certainly are. They have some of the steepest adhesion railways in the world on those mountains.
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The subset is a lot of and the set is North Dakotans.
If you have a room of ten people a lot of them can have things in common.
Don't worry, I did already understand this
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Pretty sure it's not ignorance, otherwise how would they clean their butts?
who ever claimed ICE cleans their butts?
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who ever claimed ICE cleans their butts?
Then how do they get so nuch shit and ass hair on the constitution?
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But Canada is "too big" for rail. Except of course all those railways 100 years ago that pretty much made this nation possible, or how nearly every city had trams in most neighborhoods.
except for the places in the north where people CURRENTLY LIVE that are only reachable by train and airplane (not even sure about the last one, might be helicopter if the terrain is shitty enough)
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It's not just that. Trains don't run as well or brake as efficiently in cold weather, they have slippery metal rails for a reason. That's why we switched to cars and trucks too readily, and as sad as that is, I think we might need electric cars more than Americans ever needed any cars.
(That said, electric cars should be thanks to electrified smartroads, not stuffing the car itself full of computer hardware.)
trains are the most reliable mode of transport in winter conditions, the fact that they're so monstrously heavy and have tiny points of contact with the rails means they will simply squeeze out snow and crush ice, no plowing needed.
go ahead and try to drive a car through 20cm of slushy snow, it ain't happening.
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Also this map is kinda misleading. Edmonton and the entire 4 maritime provinces are not here, and the main reason so much of the population is close to the border is that something like 1/3 of the population is clustered around the great lakes/st Laurence, because people came here by boat.
for reference:
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Ayyyy one of the 15% that doesn't live near the border checking in
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