Meanwhile, I just passed over Europe’s flyover countries yesterday.
I’m so sorry. Hope your trip is uneventful and you make it out safe
That’s a silicon wafer
If the fly-over states aren’t woke, then why do they look exactly like solar cells?
They’re the oldest type of solar. Converting sunlight into corn.
Microprocessor die lookin ass
Hope ya don’t get iced.
A game for the plane ride - can you name all 152,489 states?
Imagine flying to other continents and discovering they divide land by natural geographic formations. Americans could never.
You mean aside from a lot of our states, and the Texas-Mexico border, and portions of the US-Canada border?
I think they meant all those coasts that are man made. Still think we should have said no when they wanted to extend Florida so far out.
Thank Thomas Jefferson for that brain damage. It has a lot to do with why most of our topsoil is now in the Gulf of Mexico.
We use lots of natural borders as the delimiters of given states. The Mississippi River is a big one. You see it more out east than west IMHO.
natural geographic formations
Do you mean squiggly lines by a drunk British man?
Hey those are fully intentionally drawn to ensure everyone has just enough ethnic and religious minorities to ensure they force those groups to be a problem for them. Also to screw the Kurds
I’m so happy that we Europeans have really come together over the years to fuck the Kurds.
True, but I was referring to copses of trees, creeks, hillsides, slabs of boulder, underground water. Things that are a pain in the ass to farm around so often affect the division of property lines and then the selling rates of land.
That happens in parts of the US that actually have those things, just not in the super flat bits that don’t have anything interesting in them to use as a boundary to begin with. Kinda hard to break things up by rivers or ridges or trees when there aren’t any there naturally. But near me, that stuff is super common as boundaries for fields for exactly the same reason.
Fun fact: the trees used to mark those boundaries are called witness trees, and since they were never chopped down they are the only remaining old growth trees in a lot of areas.
Does the area you live in not get deforested? We generally pull boulders and whatnot out of the ground when we have to in order to make more sellable plots
Not really, no, though there are logging operations and they sometimes ruin large swaths of land by planting shit like a whole forest of pine where there used to be a healthy mixed forest.
This area is pretty heavily wooded yet, though. The fields that are here are old, generations back stuff with more natural boundaries, rows of wind-break trees between fields and the like, swampy areas left in field corners. We aren’t really adding new farmland here either, in fact there are incentive programs to reforest former farmland. Often old farmland is used for development.
We do pull stuff out if we are developing the property, sure, but otherwise no, most land is left pretty natural.
I guess I shouldn’t speak for places I haven’t lived, even here in the US. that sounds way less shitty than what I’m used to
There wasn’t really any of that out in the prairie.
There’s plenty of that in the prairie. it’s a pain in the ass. unless you’re living on land so old that generations before you did all the work getting it ready, which would also be when things were divided up
Because only in the US are farm fields rectangular.
A good chunk of them are circular because they can automate watering easier that way.
Aaaaakshully…
*only ones part of a shit industry are rectangular on an American scale
“Our Glorious Agricultural Fields” vs “Their Barbaric Farming Practices”
I’m American raised on farms in a flyover state. It would be “My barbaric practices” because I took part in it.
or you know. you’re the main character and nothing about your life could ever be wrong
But they call them squares
Those were divided over natural formations due to practical concerns (war and defensible positions), not out of some love of nature
probably, but the fact that it works out better for nature is still notable. also market forces behind checkerboard country are just reprehensible and will never have consideration for human life, let alone nature
why would any thinking person travel to murica now?
My husband is American, and his whole family gathers for Easter every year. We return to Thailand next week.
Wow, you’re brave! They’re in a war!
Its an American war, the kind where Americans only notice or care by their prices going up.
Things are always calm and normal in the US while we’re at war with another country.
I think that’s why we’re always at war, and why the effects on oil prices get all the attention. That’s the biggest conceivable effect of the war on most americans in their minds.
It’s like Europe is the city where all the people have to live with one another, and the US is the mansion out in the boonies with almost no neighbors, and the inhabitants are dicks to the few neighbors they do have.
Uhhh I mean the country itself is fine(ish) the war isn’t on our land it’s in Iran.
It’s all Ohio, isn’t it?
Indiana and Illinois look the same as this as you continue west of Ohio
Indiana? They named a state after the Dog?!
Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are the interesting parts of the Midwest (and Minnesota and Wisconsin). Once you leave the Great Lakes Midwest for the Great Plains Midwest you’re gonna be bored out of your mind until you hit the Rockies. Iowa is so boring its tourist traps are trucker themed.
I did the drive from Ohio to the PNW a year ago and yeah, it’s bad when you’re missing Ohio and can’t wait for Wyoming… Minnesota rocked though, absolutely awesome rest stops, we were glad to take a detour there to shave some time off South Dakota.
The western part of South Dakota is rather beautiful country, but basically anything east from the Badlands national park is rubbish.
Fly carefully! The nukes come from there! Seen it in movies! Farmer diligently bailing his hay and suddenly a nuke flies out of the ground behind him, the poor bastard!
Those
concentration campsICE detention facilities are really visible from the sky.My condolences
Jesus, those American states, OMG 😳
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