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Maybe the real Iran was the friends we made along the way

https://lemmy.today/post/48410955

Feb 27 at 4:25pmWeb
Show threadcosmictricksterFeb 27
Another map without New Zealand!
Show threadStopTechFeb 27
But does it have Old Zealand?
Show threadcosmictricksterFeb 27
Technically, yes. Province in Netherlands, actual name Zeeland.
Show threadYaDownWitCPPFeb 27
Looks like the sequel became a much bigger hit.
Show threadcosmictricksterFeb 27
Not according to some mapmakers apparently. 😢
Show threadHapankaaliFeb 27
New Zealand certainly has the nicer mountains.
Show threadStopTechFeb 27
TIL
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamFeb 28
wait hold up i now have to have a head to head competition of who has the better cheese
Show threadRekorseFeb 28
I thought Zeeland was part of Denmark.
Show threadWesternInfidelsFeb 27
Isn’t this one just cropped?
Show threadGladiusBFeb 28
New Zealand doesn’t exist. Birds and giraffes either.
Show threadWildmimicFeb 27
Tbh, as a central european i am very much concerned about the amount of americans putting iran in central europe lol
Show threadVonRepostiFeb 27
As a Scandinavian: Phew.
Show threadSubArcticTundraFeb 27
All of those dots on Greenland explains what 's going on right now
Show threadFrozengyroFeb 27
Better invade all these places to be safe
Show threadSpice HoarderFeb 27

Guess where we dropping booyyyss 🤠

Yeeeehhhaaawww!

Show threadDæmon S.Feb 27
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As a Brazilian, I wasn't aware of how many cities and towns named "Iran" we had, especially throughout the state of Amazonas (guess what is located in Amazonas that USA wants to snatch so badly?). Gonna visit Iran someday, but it seems like a long travel. At least the most geographically close Iran from where I live would be "Irã, Paraná". 😅
Show threadprotistFeb 27
Looks like they got Iraan, TX correct
Show threadbleistift2Feb 27
Now that‘s an explanation! They never heard of Iran as a country and thought it was a random-ass city. And since they didn’t know where it was, they guessed the center of the US!
Show threadprotistFeb 27

Iraan, TX is a real place, though it’s pronounced “Ira-Ann.”

Iraan is the second largest town in the second largest county in the second largest state in the United States, which is the second largest country in North America.

“We’re Number 2!”

Show threadMinnesotaGoddamFeb 28
every place is known for something. what does ira-ann make? like, big ball of twine? bacon factory? help me out
Show threadprotistFeb 28
Oil
Show threadAeronMelonFeb 27
That one person who has it in for Arizona.
Show threadZoteTheMightyFeb 27
Honestly, Iran sounds more pleasant.
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamFeb 28
hey, i know a couple really nice greek restaurants (and by extension, families) in phoenix. they just made some really big mistakes by moving to phoenix.
Show threadHawkFeb 27
I wonder if this is because they often use an America centered map
Show threadKairosFeb 27
Or because people don’t take it seriously, such as the ones who selected the ocean.
Show threadHawkFeb 27
Nah, they just thought the white was the landmass
Show threadDeestanFeb 27
No, Jeremy. This is the chart that Ann sneezed on with a mouthful of cheerios. The actual distribution plot is still in the printer.
Show threadNeilNuggetstrongFeb 27

Thought process:

“Iran? Like a marathon? That could be anywhere”

Show threadWesternInfidelsFeb 27
🎵 And Iran, Iran so far away-ay-ay 🎵
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamFeb 28
marathon is in greece. i’m pretty sweaty. shower’s over there. must be in america
Show threadblockheadjtFeb 27
Are these schoolchildren? Adults? People in retirement homes? All ages?
Show threadCannonFodderFeb 27
Quite a few up in Greenland. Maybe this explains Trump’s confusion about that.
Show threadEvil KittyFeb 27
I think Iran is its own planet somewhere in andromeda galaxy.
Show threadcaptainlezbianFeb 27
Surety these are trolls, especially the ones putting it in the ocean…
Show threadIlovethebombFeb 27
Most of them were fairly close.
Show threadporous_grey_matterFeb 27
Many of them were fairly close, but with 23% in the borders I wouldn’t judge that most were, if I look where I think half the dots are it’s starting to get quite far into Europe
Show threadFormfillerFeb 27
Show threadstupidcaseyFeb 27

How many data points you think that is something like 5,177? HAY chatGPT HOW MANY NUKES DOSE AMERICA HAVE?

…

What a wonderful coincidence.

Show threadBetaBlakeFeb 27
I need to know the source of this because this has to be fake or trolls because all of those in the western hemisphere or in the ocean are just silly and can’t be for real
Show threadViking_HippieFeb 27

those in the western hemisphere or in the ocean are just silly

Correct

and can’t be for real

Likely incorrect. You’d be shocked at how profoundly stupid and/or misinformed some people are in a country that routinely robs its public education system to pay churches and private corporations…

Show threadcopdFeb 28
Do you honestly think those data points in the Atlantic are genuine not trolling?
Show threadM0oP0oFeb 28
Yes
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamFeb 28
if it was a fox news poll i’d pick 1600 pennsylvania avenue in DC specifically.
Show threadGladiusBFeb 28
This is someone just hitting an iPad leaving a grocery store to move on with their life
Show threadSaharaMaleikuhmFeb 27
Americans are extremely dumb so this does not surprise me at all.
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamFeb 28
hey! we may be americans, and we may be extreme, but, uh, what was the third thing you said?
Show threadPossibly linuxFeb 27
In fairless they may of just answered wrong
Show threadGrandwolf319Feb 28
This has to be a joke right? Some dots are in the ocean
Show threadAxExRxFeb 28
Buster: ovbiously, the blue part here is land.
Show threadFlashMobOfOneFeb 28
I’d love to think that, but this is America, where basic geography might as well be Egyptian hieroglyphics to most people.
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamFeb 28
10th grade history we didn’t do history, we did maps and had to memorize all the countries. if we sang the song we got bonus points.
Show threadLoreshieldFeb 28
Maybe they’re thinking the current Iranian state succeeded Atlantis and they’re placing the latter in the Atlantic instead of the Mediterranean, as Dr. Jones correctly did after reading the Hermocrates? ¯\(°_o)/¯
Show threadVenat0rFeb 28
maybe they think it’s a small island?
Show threadjbellowsFeb 28
That there is (n+1) people who in identifying a desert, Farsi speaking, country chose the ORKNEY ISLANDS…smh
Show threadRememberTheApollo_Feb 28
The points chosen so far off from Iran just prove the point in a perverse way. The people are stupid, uneducated, or just willfully being assholes by choosing the wrong places. Just go ahead and lump them together. One set is damaging because of ignorance, the rest due to malice. Pretty much sums up trump and his followers.
Show threadalienghicMar 8

I tested my US middle school student who, when forced to pick a country on this wikipedia blank world map, …wikimedia.org/…/A_large_blank_world_map_with_oce… picked Ireland.

I did get it right, though uh thank you to reporting from ukraine for your news tied to map animations.