I'm so sorry. Hope your trip is uneventful and you make it out safe
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A game for the plane ride - can you name all 152,489 states?
why would any thinking person travel to murica now?
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!
Imagine flying to other continents and discovering they divide land by natural geographic formations. Americans could never.
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
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.
There wasn't really any of that out in the prairie.
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.
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
Those were divided over natural formations due to practical concerns (war and defensible positions), not out of some love of nature
You mean aside from a lot of our states, and the Texas-Mexico border, and portions of the US-Canada border?
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.
They look nice, but you don't want to get any on you. The ones you fly over are super racist.
Those concentration camps ICE detention facilities are really visible from the sky.


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