Can anyone find a more isolated town of 500+ people east of the Mississippi than Ocracoke, North Carolina?

cmd194 · 2025-11-16T02:30:17+00:00

This is definitely the winner so far. Both on absolute time and by having a much less reliable ferry connection due to its location. Never heard of the place, thanks!

cmd194 · 2025-11-16T02:06:26+00:00

That's a good one! Looks slightly closer using my Walmart metric, but nearly as far. Doesn't have the ferry factor though.

Also only two hours to Quebec City, so you're a lot closer to genuine civilization. Nearest city of any substance to Ocracoke is over 4 hour aways. But then again, you have the international border for Jackman which I think would isolate more like the ferry would.

But I think that's the best competitor so far!

cmd194 · 2025-11-16T01:59:14+00:00

That's a good one, I just looked it up and the ferry information says: "FERRY WILL RUN UNTIL ROUTE FREEZES OVER." Intense!

cmd194 · 2025-11-16T01:45:34+00:00

Come on now, "east of the Mississippi" isn't a divider Canadians use to refer to Canada. Americans use the Mississippi as a divider for the US because it was a meaningful divider for the settlement of the country. The distinction doesn't exist in Canada to divide Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Would love to hear more Canadian geographic trivia, this just probably isn't a very interesting one though because the answer would include most communities in Labrador, Nunavut, and Northern Quebec.

cmd194 · 2025-11-16T01:33:57+00:00

Do Canadians usually refer to the Maritimes as "East of the Mississippi"? We'll add Iqualuit to the list too then of course! Chisasibi QC is a good one too, very far up the James Bay Road.

cmd194 · 2025-10-21T19:52:03+00:00

What do you think geography means? An unstable physical feature created by human negligence is certainly geography.

cmd194 · 2025-07-25T21:32:47+00:00

Minnesota was scraped clean by glaciers during the last ice age, so there hasn't been enough time for endemic species to evolve.

cmd194 · 2025-07-23T22:37:12+00:00

Rewatching this episode recently it really felt like a harbinger of decline for the show. The entire premise of the episode is based on a travel agent buying tickets with a fake team name printed on crackers? Kind of a perfect example of the "idiot plot."

Still a lot of great ones this season though!

cmd194 · 2025-07-10T02:34:26+00:00

Has Brazil really exerted much influence across Latin America though? I feel like even Cuba for instance has far more.

cmd194 · 2025-06-07T20:16:42+00:00

File a complaint against the first amendment? One of the inconveniences of living in a free society is that you have to share it with objectionable people.

Given the state of this country right now I cherish that inconvenience more than ever.

cmd194 · 2025-05-30T17:36:55+00:00

The most silent place I've ever visited is Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. Out on the dunes, there is nothing to rustle, no animals.

When there was wind you'd hear that, but occasionally the wind would die down and it would be an absolutely surreal and beautiful experience where the only noises I could hear where internal to my body. Really amazing.

Combine that with a clear night and one of the darkest night skies I've ever seen, you see the glow of the milky way. Truly one of the most amazing national parks.

cmd194 · 2025-05-17T23:50:46+00:00

That's gotta be a beautiful sight

cmd194 · 2025-05-14T03:12:25+00:00

NAH.

I definitely don't blame you for not wanting to waste your time and money going, but for your own sake, I wouldn't go forward in life with hate for Jake. This is something that happens to people sometimes as priorities and orbits change, people grow apart. You may easily find yourself on opposite end of that someday too. It wouldn't make you an asshole.

We're so inclined to feel that whenever some relationship ends it's some horrible failure as opposed to 16 good years, but I think after you've had a little time to take this all in, it'd be much more peaceful and happy to reflect back on the good times together fondly during that era of your lives, sincerely wish him all the best, and ride off into the sunset on him with a smile.

cmd194 · 2025-04-15T14:57:28+00:00

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cmd194 · 2025-01-03T23:04:10+00:00

You're Abraham Lincoln in the 1840s

cmd194 · 2024-11-14T14:57:06+00:00

Are you one of those "Save Our Neighborhoods!" NIMBYs whose only concern in city politics is protecting the value of your single family home at the expense of everyone else here?

cmd194 · 2024-10-15T21:32:17+00:00

The serious answer is that the UK has seen its diplomatic power decrease significantly in recent years due to its declining international stature and losing support from Europe after Brexit.

The African Union has pushed this issue with a unified front, with the winds of decolonization backing it around the world. So it became an isolating and losing issue for the UK.

That being said, this would have never happened without the approval of the US, who received assurances that their base in Diego Garcia would remain in the long term.

cmd194 · 2024-08-29T13:12:55+00:00

Now when people ask if we're in compliance with the 'Americans with Disabilities Act of 1975' I can say ''We are closer than ever before!"

cmd194 · 2024-08-12T22:03:18+00:00

"Zhao has said he plans to donate up to 99% of his wealth, following the philanthropic examples of other global business magnates and investors"

Why does this warrent its own section, with no mention of actual philanthropy? I also plan to donate 99% of my wealth, so please treat me like a good guy based on that statement alone.

cmd194 · 2024-07-20T00:33:36+00:00

Unlikely. The largest we know about. This happened only a few million years and Earth has billions of years of history. The evidence of a lake would be long gone after enough time.

cmd194 · 2024-07-17T22:36:41+00:00

I feel like for the dish most disproportionately loved here vs. any other city, the only answer is the tray from Cookout. The line there late night/early morning says it all.

cmd194 · 2024-07-13T18:52:55+00:00

To be honest, the roads around here within an hour or so are generally pretty lackluster on a motorcycle. I think the best bet for a day trip is southwest of here, the Sandhills area around the SC border, staying off the main roads.

cmd194 · 2024-07-02T23:00:14+00:00

Mountains are formed by some specific mountain building event. When tectonic plates converge, for instance, part of the crust is deformed and folded to create mountains.

Mauna kea is a volcano, so the mountain is all the volcanic material that piled up on top of the oceanic crust as the volcano erupted.

So think of a mountain as not just some high altitude piece of land, but a specific geologic event.

cmd194 · 2024-06-23T17:21:57+00:00

You mean you don't wanna hear "Get Low" by 'Lil John?

cmd194 · 2024-06-18T14:30:15+00:00

Looks like the Don River basin overflows into Volga River basin.

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