• @deranger
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      A United States. You wouldn’t say “an uniform”. You would say “an underling”. First one has a y sound to start, second has a u sound to start. The usage of a/an depends on the next sound, not the next letter.

        • Kevin
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          77 months ago

          I’m gonna read the u as an oo and oo can’t stop me

        • @mossy_
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          37 months ago

          because ‘a’ vs ‘an’ is dependant on the first sound not the first letter. For some reason the “yew” in uniform counts as a consonant.

            • @mossy_
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              17 months ago

              oh, you were concerned about a typo and not the logic behind their comment?

      • Flying SquidM
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        17 months ago

        You wouldn’t say “an uniform”.

        You would if you wanted to be an jerk about it.

    • Pennomi
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      57 months ago

      It wouldn’t look the same, but the US could domestically produce enough food and energy to sustain itself.

      • @Chocrates
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        77 months ago

        That could probably be said about anywhere, given time, money, and willingness to reduce population.

        I could probably build an underground vertical farm in the Sahara and feed myself, if I pumped in saltwater to desalinate.

        • @TheControlled
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          I don’t think that’s true. Many, many countries don’t have what it takes to self sustain in a modern world.

      • @TheControlled
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        7 months ago

        I mean, it absolutely could. California alone supplies the planet with a massive percentage of food. If the this image was accurate, we’d have a surplus of food. We might just have to tolerate losing a lot of stuff we can’t (?) grow, like bananas. Or they’d be remarkably expensive because only Hawaii or Florida or somewhere that could grow them.

        Power? Again, we have collosal amounts of energy or energy potential. From green energy to fossil fuels and natural gas. Without selling it to our allies, we’d have a surplus of energy.

        This is literally why America is the superpower. But a lot of countries could likely do this. Russia could for sure too.

        Economically, however, I can’t even speculate.

        Fun thought experiment, worthy of a Kutzgesagt video!

        Edit: I thought you said “couldn’t” but I already posted so 乁⁠༼⁠☯⁠‿⁠☯⁠✿⁠༽⁠ㄏ

        • Pennomi
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          27 months ago

          Nah you did good explaining it in detail, nice work.