Pedantic quibble with this article from The Guardian (and I know pedantic quibbles have an audience here, because this is Mastodon):
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@miss_rodent
Thinking of those poor folks in Canada whose home was the geographic center of the lower 48 and got used in some software as a default lat/lon for the whole US when the country was present but the address was missing, and had all these random people showing up at their house for various reasons@inthehands ... Wait, is that a real thing that happened? I wouldn't be surprised if it is, b/c we live in the dumbest timeline, but it also sounds like a joke, and I can't tell...
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Pedantic quibble with this article from The Guardian (and I know pedantic quibbles have an audience here, because this is Mastodon):
Minneapolis and St. Paul are immediately adjacent to each other. They share a border. They are only “11 miles apart” in the way that the US and Canada are ~1350 miles apart: if you measure center to center.
Aside from the ill-defined question of “What center are we measuring from??,“ there’s the misleading impression that there’s 11 miles of something •else• in between them. Just say “adjacent” or “neighboring.” Sheesh.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/michelin-guide-st-paul-minneapolis
@inthehands you'd think the Guardian would know about the very similar Leeds and Bradford in the UK.
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@inthehands ... Wait, is that a real thing that happened? I wouldn't be surprised if it is, b/c we live in the dumbest timeline, but it also sounds like a joke, and I can't tell...
@miss_rodent
I could only find somewhat clickbaity coverage, but yes, it’s really happened — and I think I heard about another story like this from a decade or two earlier:
https://www.uniladtech.com/news/internet-glitch-fbi-kansas-687747-20240805 -
I bike from Minneapolis to St. Paul for work every day. Minneapolis is 11 miles from St. Paul. My bike ride is <4 miles. Riddle me that, Guardian!
This is particularly confusing from St. Paul's 3rd ward.
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@miss_rodent
I could only find somewhat clickbaity coverage, but yes, it’s really happened — and I think I heard about another story like this from a decade or two earlier:
https://www.uniladtech.com/news/internet-glitch-fbi-kansas-687747-20240805@inthehands wow, that sounds... fucking horrible for the people living there.
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This is particularly confusing from St. Paul's 3rd ward.
@michael_w_busch
A friend of mine once referred to Longfellow as “the Minneapolis / St. Paul DMZ” -
Pedantic quibble with this article from The Guardian (and I know pedantic quibbles have an audience here, because this is Mastodon):
Minneapolis and St. Paul are immediately adjacent to each other. They share a border. They are only “11 miles apart” in the way that the US and Canada are ~1350 miles apart: if you measure center to center.
Aside from the ill-defined question of “What center are we measuring from??,“ there’s the misleading impression that there’s 11 miles of something •else• in between them. Just say “adjacent” or “neighboring.” Sheesh.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/michelin-guide-st-paul-minneapolis
@inthehands agree it's dumb, but what bothers me more is the obligatory throwaway reference to icemania in an article that is otherwise entirely about restaurant promotion. What story about Minneapolis can possibly be complete without including a nod to the violence in the streets
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Pedantic quibble with this article from The Guardian (and I know pedantic quibbles have an audience here, because this is Mastodon):
Minneapolis and St. Paul are immediately adjacent to each other. They share a border. They are only “11 miles apart” in the way that the US and Canada are ~1350 miles apart: if you measure center to center.
Aside from the ill-defined question of “What center are we measuring from??,“ there’s the misleading impression that there’s 11 miles of something •else• in between them. Just say “adjacent” or “neighboring.” Sheesh.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/michelin-guide-st-paul-minneapolis
@inthehands now I am curious what the longest possible direct route from the far corner of the one to the opposite corner of the other is.
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Pedantic quibble with this article from The Guardian (and I know pedantic quibbles have an audience here, because this is Mastodon):
Minneapolis and St. Paul are immediately adjacent to each other. They share a border. They are only “11 miles apart” in the way that the US and Canada are ~1350 miles apart: if you measure center to center.
Aside from the ill-defined question of “What center are we measuring from??,“ there’s the misleading impression that there’s 11 miles of something •else• in between them. Just say “adjacent” or “neighboring.” Sheesh.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/michelin-guide-st-paul-minneapolis
@inthehands I remember the print edition being famous for quirks, and I guess they're still doing it, decades later.
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@michael_w_busch
A friend of mine once referred to Longfellow as “the Minneapolis / St. Paul DMZ”@inthehands
And I guess it’s desperately needed (an uneducated guess tho).
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I bike from Minneapolis to St. Paul for work every day. Minneapolis is 11 miles from St. Paul. My bike ride is <4 miles. Riddle me that, Guardian!
@inthehands city planners are a wild bunch?
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