OptimusPhillip

OptimusPhillip t1_jcic5dp wrote

Fun fact: it is totally legal to lie in political campaign ads in the US. The FTC's truth in advertising regulations only apply to advertisements for commercial goods and services, and the FCC has no equivalent regulations for candidate or issue advertisements.

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OptimusPhillip t1_j3fdntg wrote

Okay, fair enough. The shape bounded by four lines of latitude and longitude on one hemisphere of a circle is not a rectangle. Even in a non-Euclidean spherical plane, it's not a rectangle (since latitude lines aren't great circles). That said, OP described Colorado's true shape as a polygon, so they're quite clearly referring to the imperfect survey thing, and not the fact that Colorado can't be a Euclidean rectangle.

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