• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    I live in California and I can buy weed at the weed store.

    Texans can’t.

    Californian women have protected human rights that Texan women don’t.

    So I guess my state has more freedom than Texas.

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    Who the hell sticks a bumper sticker on the side of their car? Hell, who the hell sticks a bumper sticker anywhere but the windows? Good luck removing them without destroying your paint once you get sick of them.

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    Also Alaska: It’s over, Texas. I have the high ground.

    Alaska - High point: 20,320 feet - Sea level
    Texas - High point: 8,749 feet - Sea level

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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!

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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.

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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.”

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        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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    lol

    Sincerely, Australia; where two states are bigger than Alaska, and all but 2 states and 1 of 2 real internal territories are bigger than itty-bitty Texas.

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      Those 2 small states are where most of the people live though.

      And within those states, most live in the main city. Even more if you count the commuter cities.

      Also points for both snow and heat in different parts.

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      TIL the claimed Australian Antarctic Territory is six times the size of Texas.

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        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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    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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      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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        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.