• sketelon@eviltoast.org
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    7 months ago

    I can’t recall the source, but I remember hearing that the Amazon, generations ago, was farmed. The trees aren’t distributed naturally, or something like that, we see signs of intentional crop management. However, it was done in a symbiotic way with nature so that it almost looks natural, until you look closer. With lots of fruit trees and food sources so that food was an abundant free resource.

    Wish I could remember the source for this, sounds like heaven on earth, working with nature is all we need to rediscover freedom.

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPM
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      7 months ago

      You’re thinking about indigenous groups that farmed parts of the Amazon. You want a rabbit hole? Google Terra preta. See you in a few years ;)

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    7 months ago

    I remember when I was young I got ticketed for trespassing on public property. I was so offended. Yet that’s the society we live in. Public resources aren’t for use by the public, they are for use by the small fraction of the public who control them.

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      7 months ago

      We’re gonna need the detail. The county jail is public property, but you can’t waltz in and say hi to the inmates.

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        7 months ago

        It was for staying too late in a public park. It was meant to be closed after dark. I overstayed by like an hour.

        I think there’s a big difference between breaking and entering and trespassing. Going into a restricted area is more like the latter. Although there’s the whole ethics of a prison to consider as well but I don’t want to get into that.

        But yes there may be a small number of situations where public access should be forbidden but right now that’s a minority of all of the completely unnecessary restrictions that exist.

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    7 months ago

    Same comments I got when I said I was planting apple trees in my front yard. Those are for the public, the ones in my back yard are for me.

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    7 months ago

    In my city, olive trees thrive like mad. I could probably start a business selling a few tons of brined and jarred olives a year entirely on free produce.

    Lemons, too. I could go for a 15 minute walk in any random neighbourhood and come back with 10 pounds of lemons.

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    7 months ago

    “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.” - Leviticus 19:9, 10

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      7 months ago

      that just obviously doesn’t happen though, my city’s full of fruit trees all over and the absolute worst thing that happens is that dumb kids shake down some of the fruit because they’re dumb, and you can just… pick that up…