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[–] 64 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Tbh, as a central european i am very much concerned about the amount of americans putting iran in central europe lol

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  • [–] 46 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    Another map without New Zealand!

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  • [–] [S] 31 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    But does it have Old Zealand?

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  • [–] 64 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Technically, yes. Province in Netherlands, actual name Zeeland.

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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..

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Thought process:

    "Iran? Like a marathon? That could be anywhere"

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Looks like they got Iraan, TX correct

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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!"

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    This has to be a joke right? Some dots are in the ocean

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    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)/¯

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Are these schoolchildren? Adults? People in retirement homes? All ages?

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    That one person who has it in for Arizona.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Surety these are trolls, especially the ones putting it in the ocean…

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago*

    No, Jeremy. This is the chart that Ann sneezed on with a mouthful of cheerios.

    The actual distribution plot is still in the printer. Go get it.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    I think Iran is its own planet somewhere in andromeda galaxy.

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    Quite a few up in Greenland. Maybe this explains Trump's confusion about that.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

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

    ...

    What a wonderful coincidence.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    That there is (n+1) people who in identifying a desert, Farsi speaking, country chose the ORKNEY ISLANDS...smh

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Most of them were fairly close.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    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, Africa, India or China. Which imo should all be fairly easy to rule out, but shrug

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I tested my US middle school student who, when forced to pick a country on this wikipedia blank world map, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/A_large_blank_world_map_with_oceans_marked_in_blue.PNG picked Ireland.

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

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    I wonder if this is because they often use an America centered map

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    In fairless they may of just answered wrong

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