• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    As if anyone outside those states could distinguish between unlabelled outlines of Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina.

    Self-reporting, because this is shit we learn in like 3rd grade in the US and that adults should (albeit aren’t expected to) be able to do. NH and Vermont I could tell you but mainly because I reassemble their little 69 in my head as a memory aid. (A sane memory aid without needing to remember “big end bottom” or “big end top” is that NH’s small vertical end is super narrow compared to its large one.)

    Whereas Wyoming and Colorado – presented separately in a void with no scale – I could only tell because Wyoming is nearly a perfect rectangle while Colorado is an isosceles trapezoid (just very slightly). That’s one you basically have to just memorize via a top/bottom relationship.