• @[email protected]
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    33 hours ago

    Whitespace pride! (Okay, only by a bit in my case. I wonder if we have any Yellowknifers)

    • @Archelon
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      Also the whole East Coast

      • @[email protected]
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        Oh shit, Newfoundland left again and took NS, PEI and maybe NB with them, I didn’t even notice.

    • @Soleos
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      It’s Legendary though and will cost you $1867 to unlock.

  • @[email protected]
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    717 hours ago

    Canada is the north side of the st. Lawrence river, everything else is just that area’s backyard

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    I think that if climate change causes a lot of snow in the north to melt, it will create a lot of new arable space further north that people could potentially migrate to (even from other countries, eg climate migrants from the inhabitable equator)

    (disclaimer: never been to Canada)

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      We’ve been choked by forest fire smoke every summer for a few years now. I hear some of the boreal forest that burned down is coming back as plains. Also, interestingly, we never stopped clearing new farmland around the high 50’s of latitude.

      It’s really noticeable already as far north as I am. People will talk about how freakish the weather has been here, and then suddenly get quiet if anyone says “climate” instead of “weather” because it’s oil country and they still want to be on the denier train. Man, humanity is depressing sometimes.

      The flip side is that the traditional breadbasket areas in the center-west of this strip are basically turning into desert.

    • @Pilferjinx
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      It would probably be extremely swampy for a long time. All that time it would release a tremendous amount of methane.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 hours ago

        I mean, it’s already swampy. Canada has the band of current habitability shown, followed by muskeg (frozen swamp) and boreal forest for most of it’s area, followed by a strip of tundra along the coast (and continuing into all those giant uninhabited islands). Swamps are actually carbon fixers, though; it’s the process of a swamp drying out and the exposed plant matter rotting that’s the problem.

        The tundra bit has permafrost that will thaw and rot into pretty pure methane, which is bad, but that’s in line to become new boreal forest next rather than new farmland.

      • @JokklMaster
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        Sounds to me like a great energy opportunity, natural gas is totally green energy right? /s

  • @[email protected]
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    331 day ago

    Could have just included the Ontario part snd Vancouver Island and it would still be true lol.

  • granolabar
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    I am sure some US hardliners see the map and wonder how is this country still independent.

    These positions are not defensible from military perspective.

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      C’mon, it even looks like a rifle
      Who would be insane enough to invade a country, that already looks like a weapon?

      • @rockSlayer
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        Careful how you phrase that, I heard a militia of collectors is forming to capture the biggest depiction of a gun in the world

    • Captain Aggravated
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      You want to know why Canada still exists despite having a fraction of the manpower or military of the United States?

      It’s because the United States likes Canada. We think they’re fun to have around.

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        That took place entirely in the Great Lakes area. The other bit was still very, very Native.

        Also, we like to take credit for that, but that was basically the British Empire fighting for one of it’s colonies, and IIRC most of the British soldiers involved were not from here.

        No, we’re going back to the North Atlantic triangle days if the US goes funny like it appears to be going.

      • granolabar
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        Touche but US capabilities are now that of a global empire, all of Canada is within few hundred mile from US border and its core literally cuts into the US while power disparity is wider than Ukraine/Russia.

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          Nobody who knows much seriously thinks we’d win a conventional war. We could slap together nukes pretty quickly, but we’d probably rather just get annexed. Our defences are all diplomatic.

    • @Voyajer
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      Trump did call Trudeau governor of the great state of Canada yesterday and suggested it should become the 51st state a ~week ago

      • granolabar
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        dude is too stupid to understand why he should not do it.

        until i hear some GOP chaney and kissegeer types, i aint worried.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 hours ago

          Yeah, I’m not worried about imminent invasion either. A trade war will already basically cause chaos, though, and it could escalate from there. Hopefully the government is up to the task.

  • @ChocoboRocket
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    The real anarchy would be to make Canadians live anywhere BUT what’s on the map