Final Δ

you can tell the economy is doing awesome when every ad is like “play our slot machines—they’re weirdly addictive!” “no money? try loan shark!” “sports betting: the cooler way to be a man” and i swear to god i’m barely paraphrasing the copy of several ads i just saw i swear to jesus christ

i feel so guilty for this but i really just want an easy life and i always have. like i hate discomfort i hate striving i hate constantly trying i don’t have much ambition i don’t like it when things are hard. it never built my character it actually just gave me more problems on top of the pre-existing ones. i want very badly for it to feel simple and light and comfortable

Okay no Chicago is not a coastal city. When I moved up to the Midwest (currently in iowa) and I heard someone say "let's go to the beach" and they meant TO A LAKE I about died. The beach is Galveston, corpus Christi, Miami, etc. Beaches are where the land touches THE OCEAN. not a lake!! I will die on this hill!!!! Midwesterners just want to pretend like their states aren't boring as fuck. Be happy with your great lakes and stop calling them beaches! They're lake shores!

If you say beach and you mean to include lake shores then you're admitting your state is boring and also you're wrong bc nobody thinks "beach" and by *default* includes lake superior or wtv

not the point at all but portland is not a coastal city at all

Yeah but Portlanders are considered Coastal Elites so it's a Coastal City in Spirit

coastal? no. elites? absolutely

Google being wrong once again

if you're in a state that borders the ocean you can't call a lake a beach BUT if you're in a state with huge lakes and no oceans you can absolutely call a big enough lake shore a beach. some lake shores are very very beach like

As the Great Lakes are basically inland freshwater seas, they get a pass on the beach thing. Other lakes have to call their stuff lakeshores.

And more importantly which looks nicer to spend an afternoon?

im assuming Lake Kentucky is on the left because the trees are nicer

How the fuck did you guess that based off of the trees?

Correct, Chicago is a Coastal City and Portland is Not a Coastal City

Chicago is not a coastal city as it's not on the ocean. Coastal Cities and Coastal Elites are buzzwords to say "these places are out of touch with middle america" and by middle america they mean the midwest (which is not in the middle but is still called the midwest). They will never call the people of Charleston, SC Coastal Elites despite Charleston being on the Atlantic coast because to the people who came up with the buzzword, that's not a place for Elites because it isn't the ~Left Coast~ (aka the Pacific coast of the United States that trends more liberal in the liberal-conservative political divide) or the Northeast.

yeah ig that does look like a sea. ill agree w you

Thank you <3

Either Lake Michigan counts as a Coast or the Long Island Sound Doesn't count because you can't have it both ways

A Sound is part of the Ocean.

I really don't think that is relevant to the broader discussion

my criteria is if it's big enough to have a harbor, it's a coast

Yes, your seal is childproof, however, it is also 30 year old adult with carpal tunnel proof as well

Sometimes you try to write one research paper and your subjects inform you that you will be writing an entirely different one.

Christmas as a cultural icon is starting to get really dystopian in a climate sense, december has historically been a time of year in which there would be snow in a significant portion of europe and north america, and the fact that its not even icy this time of year and all the christmas songs and decorations reference a time of year that will likely never exist in the same way again in my life time is so strange.

(Stares in bewildered Australian) And?

I swear to fucking god if I see another post about someone from the southern hemisphere saying shit like this. No one on Tumblr is capable of understanding when someone is talking about their own experience and be normal about it. I don't even really give a shit about the Christmas side of this just that climate change has gotten so bad that there is no longer ice in Scotland in December and you should be worried about that actually. Imagine if people came on here being like I don't give a shit about Australian wildfires because it doesn't effect me

Oh my god you people can't read anything without being mad that it's not about you.

I live in Central Europe and we ABSOLUTELY used to have snow in December when I was a kid, roughly twenty years ago. We don't anymore. Wtf are some of these replies on.

I've always wanted to move to Norway...