ppl managing to live where they grew up is really bizarre to me
Hi! Croatian here. As an inland country, I found a job processing uranium. We have a lot of it.
God I wish I was processing uranium in Croatia
I think about this post every day
Hey, another Croatian here! Croatia has a coastline and I can’t find a single mention of uranium in Croatia. I don’t know what kind of paralel universe this person is from.
One thing Ghosts of Tsushima was good at dramatizing is that SE Asia is full of severe mountains going straight into the ocean, far more so than the west coast of the US which is itself far younger and more severe than the heavily eroded Appalachians of the East Coast
By #hoffshots : Trying to capture a scene when flying by at 500 mph isn’t always easy. But sometime the skies open up, the routing is perfect, and it all comes together. This was one of those times flying by mount rainier with the elusive cap cloud perched on top.
Something I see underemphasized is that car dealerships give off huge amounts of property, sales, and business taxes and from a public revenue standpoint are essentially money fountains, so keeping dealership owners happy in place is not only clutch for local politicians as political actors, but as the legitimately elected guardians of their particular electorates’ interests
If you see a stretch of road with a bunch of dealerships in a row it is inevitably right on the edge of a jurisdictional border (perhaps a historic pre-annexation one!) and there is a reason they’re all on the same side of it.
Basically at any time you are in Japan, you are at the coast (the plains count), in the mountains, in the foothills, on Hokkaido, on a minor outlying island, or at Lake Biwa.
Thoroughly mystified by the top one. “America colonized heavily by the British with a bunch of cities named after English cities” is just… America again. The bottom one at least makes sense even if it’s absurd (minus the part where the Central Powers cede a bunch of territory to Japan, an allied nation in WWI, for seemingly no reason)
The [first] map appeared on the cover of The Fatherland, a pro-German weekly paper established at the start of the war, with the title ‘New Map of the D.S.E. - Dependent States of England - Formerly U.S.A.’
It was published in response to Life magazine’s famous cover [second pic here] imagining the country conquered by the Central Powers and Japan:
As I always comment, love how both sides of the war agree “oh yeah also Japan your ostensible ally is gonna backstab you and take California”, a totally reasonable and justified fear in the 1910’s for sure.
Why are they agreed that Americans will be put on a reservation in specifically El Paso?
That’s interesting, it implies Pacific coast exploration began from shipyards built on the far side of the isthmus of Darien? I don’t have much background on the period.
The first transcontinental railroad ran to San Francisco, and when a southern route was built the obvious western terminus was San Diego, but San Francisco elites feared the growth of another California power center so they pulled strings to get it redirected to Los Angeles, which was originally the agricultural lands feeding a Spanish mission and had no natural port. (They first built long piers around Malibu and then an artificial breakwater-protected harbor down by Long Beach.)
Then in 1892, the city was found to sit atop a major oil field and a drilling boom ensued, then in WWI the existence of a large labor force without strong left-labor organization like elsewhere on the west coast and in coastal shipping range of the wood-producing Pacific Northwest made it ideal to spin up a military aircraft industry.
Then after WWI, the booming Mediterranean-climate city drew a lot of immigrants from post-Ottoman lands as their national restructurings wrang out, then the motion picture industry relocated there from upstate New York for the weather and to get distance from Thomas Edison’s IP-enforcing goons, then in WWII that defense aerospace industry got even bigger, carrying the region through the Cold War.
But so why there specifically is that downtown (which was not particularly central to the city since its auto-oriented postwar expansion) is on the banks of the seasonal Los Angeles River, which irrigated the land to grow crops for the mission at the northern mouth of the San Fernando Valley.
I am a wanker who creamed themself at “Rutherford Road” and can sympathise with naming new towns after classical locations, as confusing and disappointing as it is to hear Americans talk about them and realise they’re just on about someplace on the East Coast… but Troy?! my god what the fuck did you have against that place?
I don’t even resent our English places names too much, I bet their Newcastle and Ipswich are shit too and we can bond, though obvious Scottish ones are better.
But my god if you’re going to go full wanker, thing about the associations. Did you want that town to suffer? Did they serve you bad food?
Someone in charge of establishing the Military District, the part of upstate New York given to Revolutionary War veterans, liked classical Greece. That’s where Seneca and Attica and Ithaca and Utica come from.
