Comment on Can't stop till brimstone

affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  mander.xyz/…/3bf6669c-7940-4b27-aec5-a2850ad309f2…

  source

  • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sorry, I still don’t get the part about “salting the earth”. Is that something people do to get rid of weeds?

    source

    • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep. Did this recently actually lol.

      But also commonly known as a war thing, done to render the enemy’s land infertile. Can’t grow food for a while and stuff.

      Neither of these things really make much sense in context, though.

      source

      • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We (in Germany) use salt in winter to defrost the pavement and streets but it doesn’t have a big effect on the weeds. They still appear from any crack they can find.

        source
      • artifactsofchina@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I remember hearing that the Sahara desert was created by Romans salting the earth.

        That can’t possibly be true?

        Also I wonder how it is connected to Jesus saying ‘you are the salt of the earth’. That seems like am entirely different thing, but then again maybe not?

        I feel like the most modern equivalent is Vietnam.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Salting the Earth” is an idiom that references possibly apocryphal stories of ancient warfare where an invading army would literally put large amounts of salt or salt water in the enemy’s fields so that they wouldn’t be able to grow crops. This was done to make sure that the population couldn’t rebuild and become a threat in the future. Nowadays it is used to mean that someone is making really, really sure that something is destroyed and not coming back.

      source
    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes.

      source

      • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And it’s just as bad / good as glyphosate?

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Homer Simpson’s take on it:

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0BxqHgwlvs

      source
• Aquila@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Monsanto did some fucked up shit

  source
• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  salting the earth, prevents plants from growing.

  source