theshmaylor:papercranes07: theshmaylor:okay but I must know, does OP realize that the other orange b
theshmaylor:papercranes07: theshmaylor:okay but I must know, does OP realize that the other orange bit is ALSO michigan?because I simply cannot understand calling a state “not shaped weird” when it’s in TWO PIECES, separated by the FIFTH LARGEST LAKE IN THE WORLD coming out of my cave because my newsfeed is filled with gordon lightfoot and i just need people to know that not only is it the 45th anniversary of when the edmund fitzgerald sank but that it sank on lake superior (aka the top of this weird michigan-great lake sandwich aka the largest lake by surface area 3rd/4th by volume depending) along a stretch called the “shipwreck coast” not far from whitefish point which is considered the “graveyard of the great lakes” and that doesn’t even begin to address that the number of ships that have gone down is probably in the thousands??????so uh that imagery is uncomfortably accurate whoops yes good, thank you for this addition. I was trying to find some way to express “this isn’t just some measly little lake. this is an unknowable and probably haunted force of nature that doesn’t care about you or your family or your neighbors” but I couldn’t make the words happen. the fact that people decided “yeah we can count two pieces on either side of that as the same” is absolutely WILD to me, especially since rivers define like half the borders in this country. Rivers? nah we cannot possibly occupy both sides of it. Big scary lake? sure why not! -- source link
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