• Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2

  • United Kingdom area: 244,376 km2

  • Wyoming population: 576,851 (2020)

  • Glasgow urban area population: 632,350 (2020)

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Straight Border Syndrome.

The straighter a places borders are, the less likely it is that there’s anything there worth fighting over, and the more likely that the lines were drawn thousands of miles away by people who’d never even been there.

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That’s most of the US/Canada border. That little tick where Minnesota sticks up into Canada is because a treaty was made with a map that didn’t actually show the accurate geography there.

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  • Australia’s Northern Territory area: 1.42m km2

  • Australia’s Northern Territory population: 246,500 (2020)

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  • Greenland area: 2,166,086 km2

  • Greenland population: 56,583 (2022 estimate)

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Nice. I guess Antarctica’s next.

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There are 5 times as many trans people in America as there are whyomingans.

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Would probably be 8 or 9 times as many if poor people in Wyoming could afford to move and no trans people felt the need to pretend to be cis for safety too.

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Why did I think there was two million people in Wyoming, what the hell happened?

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We don’t talk about The Incident.

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Did it involve Bruno in any way?

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Bruno

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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Maybe you had it confused with the neighboring state Nebraska? 🤷

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I was confused, certainly, I’m not sure how.

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I misread it as “less popular than Glasgow.”

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That’s undoubtedly true too, though 😁

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Yellowstone?

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Doesn’t make up for the rest of the state

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