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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not really, no, though there are logging operations and they sometimes ruin large swaths of land by planting shit like a whole forest of pine where there used to be a healthy mixed forest.

        This area is pretty heavily wooded yet, though. The fields that are here are old, generations back stuff with more natural boundaries, rows of wind-break trees between fields and the like, swampy areas left in field corners. We aren’t really adding new farmland here either, in fact there are incentive programs to reforest former farmland.

        We do pull stuff out if we are developing the property, sure, but otherwise no, most land is left pretty natural.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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