• Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
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      9 hours ago

      If I understand correctly based on a map and Wikipedia, the concept of “a lot of people” does not exist in North Dakota, though.

      I had never heard of the city of Bismarck, their state capital of more than 70 thousand inhabitants, a bit over 10% of the state’s population. But, now I do. I also had not thought there can be a state capital with that little population. (And then this made me curious and I learned that in Germany the smallest state capital is Schwerin, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and it has about 98 000 inhabitants in a state of 1½ million inhabitants.)

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        8 hours ago

        Speaking of Germany, Bismarck is named after Otto von and when he was still alive! Greater Bismarck includes Mandan too, so it’s a bit more like 100k+ people in the area, but yeah it’s pretty small. Lots of the middle west is like that. They need to be consolidated into a single state for the senate lol

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        The subset is a lot of and the set is North Dakotans.

        If you have a room of ten people a lot of them can have things in common.