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sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  natural geographic formations

  Do you mean drunk squiggly lines by a British man?

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    True, but I was referring to copses of trees, creeks, hillsides, slabs of boulder, underground water. Things that are a pain in the ass to farm around so often affect the division of property lines and then the selling rates of land.

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    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That happens in parts of the US that actually have those things, just not in the super flat bits that don’t have anything interesting in them to use as a boundary to begin with. Kinda hard to break things up by rivers or ridges or trees when there aren’t any there naturally. But near me, that stuff is super common as boundaries for fields for exactly the same reason.

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      • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Fun fact: the trees used to mark those boundaries are called witness trees, and since they were never chopped down they are the only remaining old growth trees in a lot of areas.

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      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Does the area you live in not get deforested? We generally pull boulders and whatnot out of the ground when we have to in order to make more sellable plots

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There wasn’t really any of that out in the prairie.

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      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There’s plenty of that in the prairie. it’s a pain in the ass. unless you’re living on land so old that generations before you did all the work getting it ready

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hey those are fully intentionally drawn to ensure everyone has just enough ethnic and religious minorities to ensure they force those groups to be a problem for them. Also to screw the Kurds

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    • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m so happy that we Europeans have really come together over the years to fuck the Kurds.

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• Shnog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We use lots of natural borders as the delimiters of given states. The Mississippi River is a big one. You see it more out east than west IMHO.

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• First_Thunder@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Those were divided over natural formations due to practical concerns (war and defensible positions), not out of some love of nature

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    probably, but the fact that it works out better for nature is still notable. also market forces behind checkerboard country are just reprehensible and will never have consideration for human life, let alone nature

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• Soulg@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You mean aside from a lot of our states, and the Texas-Mexico border, and portions of the US-Canada border?

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Soulg@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I laughed, well played

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think they meant all those coasts that are man made. Still think we should have said no when they wanted to extend Florida so far out.

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Because only in the US are farm fields rectangular.

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  • NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A good chunk of them are circular because they can automate watering easier that way.

    Aaaaakshully…

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s sort of a mix of both. Some people like to include walking paths to make everything a little easier/nicer-looking.

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    *only ones part of a shit industry are rectangular on an American scale

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  • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But they call them squares

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• stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Idaho about that, actually.

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• SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thank Thomas Jefferson for that brain damage. It has a lot to do with why most of our topsoil is now in the Gulf of Mexico.

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