halowpeano

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about other states, but in upstate New York a village is a legal entity that is a defined area within a town. A town is a subdivision of a county.

  In other states, I think they don’t subdivide counties. So every person in one of those states either lives in an unincorporated part of a county, or a town/city. Those who live unincorporated are only governed by the county, while those in towns/cities are governed by both town and county.

  So in New York there are no unincorporated parts of counties. Everyone lives in a town, which is part of a county. Some people may also live in villages, which are areas in towns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon measures up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither is derivative of the other, they both grow from a common source. It’s like saying humans evolved from chimps, it’s not true, both came from a common ancestor that itself is neither chimp or human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably Alien Dawn, it’s basically a 3D Rimworld clone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨succession⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Destroyed no matter the cause? I’ve heard of laws like that for intentionally cutting down healthy trees, but it never applied to natural causes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty interesting when you really think about it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it actually is interesting if you’re going to call out humans as a species of animal!

  All across species from unicellular to megafauna, from plants to fungus, you can find mechanisms used to defend an individual’s physical territory. Ants and bees from the same species will fight and kill others colony members of they stray into their territory. Bears will fight and kill other bears. Our closest relatives, chimps, will go to war with neighboring chimp bands.

  Artificial borders are humans way of saying “this is my territory enter at your own risk”. The REALLY interesting thing is that we have established systematic exceptions to the behaviors we see in nature. “Ask us before you come and you can visit and be safe here from those that enforce our territory.”

  The temporary nature is unique, many social animals will permanently adopt an outsider into their group on occasion, equivalent to immigration, but I’m not aware of any that have pre-agreed temporary violations of group territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s malice.