gay_geekOff to the States tomorrow for Easter.
macnielIllinois, 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 yout 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.
Yeah it was beautiful at the end, but it was a lot of boring to get there. And tbh it was easy to forget how beautiful it was because it was dwarfed by the beauty of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and the Cascades. I’m biased, I think there’s little on Gaia’s great green ass more beautiful than mountains, and forests and valleys, as well as lakes and oceans are among the few things that compete.
I’ll also say Peoria surprised me as a hub of urban beauty. But I’m generally an Illinois lover, something about that state is beautiful and smells weirdly comfortable.
Imagine flying to other continents and discovering they divide land by natural geographic formations. Americans could never.
First_ThunderThose 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
𝔄 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔢𝔰𝔢natural geographic formations
Do you mean drunk squiggly lines by a British man?
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.
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.
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’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
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.
*only ones part of a shit industry are rectangular on an American scale
Miles O'Brien“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
A good chunk of them are circular because they can automate watering easier that way.
Aaaaakshully…
potoooooooo ✅️It’s sort of a mix of both. Some people like to include walking paths to make everything a little easier/nicer-looking.
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.
Idaho about that, actually.
My husband is American, and his whole family gathers for Easter every year. We return to Thailand next week.
GrailThings 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.
1984
AnUnusualRelicTBF, the US is always in a war.
「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)My older brother is about to go to China for like matchmaking and stuff and then if he finds someone, they’re gonna marry and then he’s gonna apply for his (hypothetical) wife to come to the US…
So yeah, that’s irl
(Context: My family is originally from China, mom be pressuring him to marry cuz “if he gets too old nobody would marry him” lol (he’s 28 btw))
My aunt who are like “middle class” still goes abroad on vacations all the fucking time, its just bussiness as usual for them… I never hear about a border entry denial when they come back…
(That said, I’m paranoid so I’m not gonna risk exiting since I don’t wanna risk not being allowed back in)
ExtremeDullardThose concentration camps ICE detention facilities are really visible from the sky.
finallymadeanaccountFly 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!
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]My condolences
stropA game for the plane ride - can you name all 152,489 states?
lumpenproletariatHope ya don’t get iced.
If the fly-over states aren’t woke, then why do they look exactly like solar cells?
FGoo
MinnesotaGoddamI’m so sorry. Hope your trip is uneventful and you make it out safe
pewpewMeanwhile, I just passed over Europe’s flyover countries yesterday.
They look nice, but you don’t want to get any on you. The ones you fly over are super racist.
The ones you don’t fly over? Also super racist.