I never got into geography, tbh. It’s not actually that useful for anything.
american culture
Submitted 4 months ago by nave@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In my geography class, we were taught about how weather and climate happens. Geography has as much influence on it as physics. So whenever someone points out why it is so cold if there is global warming, I teach them that warming temperatures fuels warm high pressure areas, which pushes out colder low pressure area. For example, if the American East Coast is experiencing extremely cold temperatures, the other side of the Atlantic would be experiencing warmer but rainy intense storms because the high pressure area is pushing the colder low pressure area to the US East Coast. As you can see, extreme weathers will only get worse because of climate change as the world gets warmer.
But I think the most practical everyday geography knowledge for people is knowing why the taste of tap water sucks. Just know that areas with limestone bedrocks have water that taste better. Limestone is full of calcium and other minerals, and filters groundwater quite well unlike in areas that have igneous rocks such as basalt or granite.
I don’t want to sound like I’m pontificating but I believe it’s important to have as much general knowledge as possible because you never know when those knowledge might have practical utility one day. But on the one hand, yeah there are more immediate practical concerns that requires more specific knowledge. Knowing about Jupiter will not fix a pipe leak in your kitchen. It’s about having the balance and knowing when to use seemingly useless knowledge, and what knowledge you need to use for more practical cases. Overall though, it’s better to have broad knowledge as it makes you less impervious to misinformation.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well I learned about the atmosphere in science classes and I learned math in Physics, and Meteorology should be a completely distinct subject from just naming municipal districts on a map.
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 4 months ago
How would you know if you never got into it? Sounds ignorant to me
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thats fair, but it’s not even used for chartering and navigating, so what is it good for?
To clarify, though, when I say “geography” I’m referring to borders for countries, states, and counties on a large scale. Thinks like USGS terrain data and coordinate grids aren’t included.
teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
yes it is. you learn how the world works. what gets exported from where. where the refugees come from and to, and why. what conflicts there are, where, and why.
Pyro@programming.dev 4 months ago
Check out the EPIC Saga!
Maiq@lemy.lol 4 months ago
Will it work if I buy it from GOG, these launchers are getting out of hand.
Pyro@programming.dev 4 months ago
It’s a nine-part concept album about the Odyssey: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic:_The_Musical
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m a little mad that Nolan is making the Odyssey. It’s gonna be so pretentious and trendy, and I’d be surprised if Anya Taylor Joy, Timothee chalamet and Jeremy Allan White aren’t in it, to round it out into the most pretentious movie in history.
VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Yeah, another heavy dramatic saga to wade through. I think I’d prefer a Simon Pegg/Nick Frost adaptation. Or maybe a Matt Stone/Trey Parker version. Something still epic, but also hilarious and full of the vibrancy of humans.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You bring up a point, that in these Greek Epics you do find humor. But Christopher Nolan doesn’t know what a sense of humor is
Siegfried@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Anya Taylor Joy would do a great cirse imo
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 4 months ago
She’s in everything. She’s this year’s Jennifer Lawrence, and Jeremy Allan White is Bradley Cooper.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fucking Liam
InspiringOne@lemm.ee 3 months ago
America is supposed to be like far cry 5 without the violence and like need for speed payback. And like new dawn without the violence in the spring. But also like playing cabela’s big game hunter, certain areas were kind of empty house and road wise. Meaning we raced hatchback cars/suvs on dirt roads, just flipping them wasn’t wanted so there was heavy metal in the bottoms or trunks and roll cages. If you get to Detroit then it’s like need for speed underground 2 and or midnight club mixed with max payne and four brothers.
Otherwise it was just amusement parks, coney islands and zoos or sea world and beaches, with fast food restaurants not called Mc Donald’s but it came to exist and places like Detroit came to exist. Detroit wasn’t that bad it was gangster as fuck though, fur coats, gold diamond jewelry, guns, cocaine, Escalades, of course there was pot, it’s like pot was legal back in the early 2000s and 90s then outlawed in 2007 then decriminalized in 2008 in Michigan, maybe because of dispensaries.
Head shops probably sold weed and other substances back then. Cocaine was and pharmaceuticals were widely used, Detroit or Detroit area was were pharmaceuticals were manufactured. It’s like medical marijuana was to get dispensaries back in Michigan and then they were specifically banned in the medical marijuana bill that was voted on, but pot was decriminalized so we didn’t get the legalization thing. This all just went on with local drug enforcement through the Westland police department. Because they were disease killed by them like wow cable.
It was like a more realistic version of Houston Texas rap music. All those guys did was buy gold and that’s why they had big chains. It was just like the show American Pawn. Detroit was just scary to think about like SUVs pulling up on the side of you with Al 47s and jackin or kidnapping you, like being robbed or killed at any time. This is why communication didn’t always go on at all. There were certain businesses people went to and tv existed or they went through tv commercials or the radio or road billboards, flyers, and people supported them or had a reason of going there instead of starting a business or making their own.
Detroit was entirely a western tavern or town where you would carry a pistol or two. And most of Detroit watched television during Kwame, Kwame was still here before he was mayor. I just go with the flow we all kind of got separated by diseases 20 years ago as self employed or sole proprietor Detroit.
Just cocaine dealers stayed in the winter or no one went many places so cocaine was more noticed or shoot outs over it back in 2003. It’s why it’s good to always give someone a free ounce or kilo to start selling and or using, or a front, fronting is repeat business but becomes like credit card debt without interest and you get used like slaves or as sellers or promoters/workers. But everyone needed some type of base salary to spend like ten or twelve grand a year or 25, people sitting or standing scare other incidents from taking place same with law enforcement. Yes everyone knew and cocaine was like legal or illegal and certain trials or chases went on. Men didn’t really go near each other or near dictators or they were doing business. If it’s not friendship one guys probably a porn producer or pimp. There’s definitely a big after market economy in Detroit, especially with automobiles.
Diamonds were but weren’t valuable, they were a more risky investment but yes they’re desirable and bought as earrings and things or even as bullion. This is why we didn’t constantly synthesize them. Custom jewelry work was just as much as custom anything work and resale value can fluctuate if you can even find a buyer, I didn’t buy chains back or I might melt them down. But molds got saved, no ones supposed to grow broke and some inflation did go on, so only drug dealers and sole proprietors kind of had money in places like Houston. Most sole proprietors were also drug dealers/sellers or buyers.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Hot Take:
Ulysses > The Odyssey
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I may be misremembering but didn’t the derogative “Chad” start in the UK?
cazssiew@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think you’re thinking of chav
Z3k3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Shared this with dome American friends to throw them a bone as they are taking it tight from us on a daily basis