• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    My heart wants to like this on principle because that’s how geography should be divided, but it looks like garbage. I never really stopped before to appreciate how tidy and professional those arbitrary perpendicular lines look.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      I guess it worked for Kansas City, right? Be prepared for NYC NY, vs NYC CT

      • lemming741@lemmy.world
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        I get why rivers and creeks and streams were historically convenient borders, but when we started building cities along them it got weird. Then some mf’er invented the bridge and it all went to hell.

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        I can definitely see the Mississippi River still, so I don’t think it’s watersheds. Unless they’re using peaks and troughs both. I’m sure there’s a term for it. My understanding of water shed is that it means everything that flows into a river so a river would be in the middle. So the borders of watersheds are more like mountains than rivers.

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    6 days ago

    I’d like to see a map with cultural boundaries. As a resident of NE Florida I can say we might as well be part of Georgia.

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    7 days ago

    As always Florida is Florida It’s a law of nature nothing before nor after can be Florida, Florida is eternal just like the geriatrics in there nursing homes.

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    As someone of the earth sciences it is my opinion that whoever drew this has exactly zero understanding of “natural geographic borders”.

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      100% agree. As an Oregonian, that border on the Willamette made me wanna cry. Literally no consideration of nature or people with that boundary, and yet it’s called a “natural border”.

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      Looking at Long Island, I find it interesting that they chose the Hudson River as a natural boundary but apparently Long Island Sound is no big deal

      I can’t figure out what Rhode Island’s border is meant to be but it apparently doesn’t include Rhode Island

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      The fact that the Mississippi River isn’t being used as a border anymore in some states bother me. But I’d love to see your take.

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      7 days ago

      Deleware River that is as wide as a 33+ lane highway is not a natural border? Wacky.

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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      Mine now. We’ll combine it with Atlantic City and make Gotham which will somehow take up like the entire south part of the state together.

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    Asking the Colonial powers to not make weirdly straight unnatural borders is like asking Russia to stop invading occupying it’s neighbours land