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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    natural geographic formations

    Do you mean drunk squiggly lines by a British man?

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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  • Shnog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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  • Soulg@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because only in the US are farm fields rectangular.

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    • NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A good chunk of them are circular because they can automate watering easier that way.

      Aaaaakshully…

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But they call them squares

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  • stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Idaho about that, actually.

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  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s all Ohio, isn’t it?

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  • mrnobody@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Indiana and Illinois look the same as this as you continue west of Ohio

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 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.

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Indiana? They named a state after the Dog?!

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the fly-over states aren’t woke, then why do they look exactly like solar cells?

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re the oldest type of solar. Converting sunlight into corn.

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• NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• FGoo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Microprocessor die lookin ass

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hope ya don’t get iced.

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• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The ones you don’t fly over? Also super racist.

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• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My condolences

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• WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  state of this array

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• hraegsvelmir@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• strop@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jesus, those American states, OMG 😳

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• fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re game.

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• pewpew@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a silicon wafer

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