#When I move to the west coast

[crows-and-cookies]

I'm drunk right now and worried about the ethics of having a pet turtle and my friend silenced her notifications on text 12 of a 16 text rant

[bedlamsbard]

every day I am shocked the Midwest accent is real

[girlboyburger]

What are your favorite cow breeds?

SO i've answered this question before BUT i want to answer it again but my opinion have slightly changed i love literally all bovines. they're such a neat type of animal that come in sooo so many shapes and sizes with the connecting factor being incredibly cute and big all across the board. thhhat being said, i'd say that jersey / holstein cows are still pretty close to the top of my list in faves. jerseys are just. gonjus. pretty pretty shades of brown / orange and decently docile temperaments. also very common around where i live so bonus points for being a type of cow i've interacted with

holstiens are your Average Black and White cow ! equally pretty and make up about 90% of cow breeds in the US. they've been around for almost 2,000 years and i can not stress ENOUGH how much of a weak spot i have for animals that have cute pink noses. big big babies ;u; also a cow i have Experience With because i'm in da midwest, so i can drive about 20 mins in any direction and come upon these guys

(also only partially related; don't cows just have such kind eyes?? such a warm and soulful animal everytime i look at pics like this i want to kiss them on the tall forehead.) so, those answers are the same as last time. BUT. but. i want to take this post to direct everyone's attention to zebu cattle. because they're absolutely beautiful and interesting and underrated imo. Feast your eyes on this Beast

theyre just s. so the animal of all time.

[rubyredbonnetblue]

the way i wanna learn how to dance soooo badly but i would feel SO awkward going to classes without a partner as a built-in friend/moral support

[doctorweebmd]

i love the comments on the latest chapter of the path to paradise where people are like 'akutagawa leave those crabs alone!'

because that's something I do

literally traveling the world's oceans, harassing all of God's crustaceans

for example took a weekend trip with my partner for our 6 year wedding anniversary a few days ago and spent a solid multiple hours searching for and harassing crabs

here is photo evidence of the largest and most in-chargest one I found:

[atlas-affogato]

Listen I love america, I love living here, its my home, but the one thing that drives me absolutely crazy—and if this is a thing that people do in other languages/in other countries I'd like to know—is that no matter where you live there will be two ways of pronouncing a word, and you will always be pronouncing it wrong. And they will laugh at you for thinking you were pronouncing it right. Always.

[poorlittlevampire]

ALSO in a shocking turn of events ive actually improved my sleep schedule a LOT which is good for me and my health but very bad for my social life since all of my friends are west coast and i dont talk to them as much bc of the time difference

[cupioriot]

I really need to start getting more srs about learning french

[devotioncrater]

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[national-hockey-gay]

dutch bros, homemade tomato soup, and all my crushed hopes and dreams make a perfect combination for an edit making day

[truly-sincerely]

When I was younger I used to go to internet meetups with a bunch (~60) of mostly Americans and Canadians and I got really good at picking up hyper-specific regional accents. I think because I'm a little tone deaf so I can't really tell the difference between similar voices, so my brain focused on pronunciation to tell people apart instead.

There was only one other person in the group from 'the south coast' that's Southern California (SoCal) but specifically the area North of Los Angeles. He was from Thousand Oaks and I'm from Santa Barbara. We had the same accent.

People from San Diego (South of Los Angeles) or San Francisco (in NorCal) had their own accents.

rb this and tell me what ur accent is. this has no purpose except the fact i just realized i could have like... mutuals with cockney accents or newfoundland accents or something and thats just wild

[fulokis]

Found a Reddit thread about people discussing leaving after Milton and asking others if they would do it too, and the amount of replies saying it’s Florida we get hurricanes astounds me.

Like I’m sorry are y’all really that dense that meteorologists the people who study the weather were getting choked up over how quickly this thing got its act together? Is hearing these people who are typically calm and collected about these things anxious and upset not harrowing?

And to those on the coast saying to move inland, not realizing that inland gets impact from these things too? Sure it’s not the surge but flooding, wind, tornados? They all still impact inland it’s not like it hits the coast and dissipates that’s not how massive systems like these work. Several areas inland had flash flood emergency’s for Milton, the nws doesn’t lightly hand those out. Oh and those tornados from Milton? Other than being wedge tornados that Florida rarely gets, killed people and one has already been rated as significant. These impacted areas forecast to not be hit hard by Milton at all.

There were others saying that if you don’t like hurricanes move to where there are blizzards as if this past winter wasn’t mild as hell for a good portion of the conus. Like Buffalo the city that got that monster storm back in 2022 didn’t really have snow this past winter mild.

Perhaps instead of thinking that these people looking to move after Milton are weak maybe you should be looking at the fact that Florida just got hit with major hurricanes with only a week separating them. And yes that’s a fact of living in Florida, but I also think that this should be raising concerns, because the question then becomes how many times do you rebuild before it becomes to expensive to?

Fort Myers is still cleaning up from Ian and now they also have to clean up impacts from this storm. The big bend got hit by a major last year, then a hurricane earlier in the year and a couple weeks ago by Helene which was a major hurricane.

I drove past that area the other day, the one Helene impacted, I was well off the coast and there were trees snapped in half with their bark stripped off, trees knocked down billboards torn. Not to mention the rain dropped on the Carolinas.

When do we say instead of “it’s Florida we get hurricanes”, this is concerning? And yeah you could bring up 2004 and Florida being hit with four hurricanes but I raise you all this is the first time since records began in 1850 (that we know of, since satellite improved data) that Florida has had major land falling hurricanes three years in a row.

This is what happens when the oceans are so warm. Hurricanes thrive on warm water, they in reality are designed to redistribute the heat in the ocean. But that hasn’t been happening this year, maybe it cools down for a week or two but then it goes right back up. That’s part of how Milton was able to be so intense so soon after Helene went through.

In the end I think Floridians need to be more concerned with this trend, because if it keeps up who knows how many lives will be lost because people think it’s Florida hurricanes happen.

[veone]

Fried cabbage n onions, salmon paddies and johnny cakes! If I make this well I have southern grandma cred!

[pleasestopthese]

this thread is a star trek episode

Natalie Portman being confused by the fact that you have to say “hi” to someone before starting a conversation in France got me like ?????

[fazcinatingblog]

Today is so boring at work, I miss him (and by him, I mean Tony obviously)