@kjhealyKieran Healy If they poke the π»... they'll indeed find out.. with teeth. Texas is a very, very distant second in every single metric. It's not even close. Anyone reading this who doubts me, look it the data yourself. California is the fourth largest economy in the whole world, after the US, China, and Germany. Japan is fifth.
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