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[–] 29 points 7 months ago

I'm so sorry. Hope your trip is uneventful and you make it out safe

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    A game for the plane ride - can you name all 152,489 states?

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    why would any thinking person travel to murica now?

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Wow, you're brave! They're in a war!

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    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)

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Microprocessor die lookin ass

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    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!

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  • [–] 46 points 7 months ago (27 children)

    Imagine flying to other continents and discovering they divide land by natural geographic formations. Americans could never.

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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago* (10 children)

    natural geographic formations

    Do you mean squiggly lines by a drunk British man?

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Because only in the US are farm fields rectangular.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    *only ones part of a shit industry are rectangular on an American scale

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Those were divided over natural formations due to practical concerns (war and defensible positions), not out of some love of nature

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    You mean aside from a lot of our states, and the Texas-Mexico border, and portions of the US-Canada border?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    They look nice, but you don't want to get any on you. The ones you fly over are super racist.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    state of this array

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Those concentration camps ICE detention facilities are really visible from the sky.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Meanwhile, I just passed over Europe's flyover countries yesterday.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Jesus, those American states, OMG 😳

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    My condolences

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    You're game.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    That's a silicon wafer

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