• hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    Good thing that ocean was there or 1600s Virginia would have claimed the entire planet with their innovative “peeling the label off a biscuit can” approach to real estate.

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      3 months ago

      Of course. They couldn’t though, because the Spanish had already claimed the whole Pacific ocean as their territory. (/s, but only on the connection between the two things)