• Susaga
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    10 months ago

    It takes about 8 to 12 hours to drive across Texas, which is longer than it takes to cross Germany. France and Germany have different laws, and so do Texas and New Mexico. Once you realise that the USA is essentially 50 different countries stapled together, it makes a lot more sense.

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        10 months ago

        Alright. So one American state is the size of 16 German ones.

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            10 months ago

            Texas has a bigger population than Australia. In fact, it would be 51st largest population and 40th largest area in the world if it split off from the USA.

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      10 months ago

      I’d imagine that France and Germany probably have more similar laws than some US states do because of the EU.

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        10 months ago

        Not so sure about this…maybe you could find two states that have very differing laws compared to France-Germany, but on the whole it’s probably not true. Kind of hard to quantify that though.