• GluWu@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    I have a question that I know nothing about but if someone was able to put a piece of metal, say a piece of rebar, into a tree without harming it, then that’s means nobody would be able to cut it down right? Or at least damage more equipment than the tree is worth. Sounds possible but I have no idea and don’t know how you would do that type of thing.

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      Not gonna work. They’re living beings like you, that sort of thing causes infections, by the time that a blade would hit something like that, it would likely kill the tree regardless.

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      Trees with rebar in them are cut all the time. Loggers are trained to examine the trees for signs before cutting into it - your rebar will leave visible scars for years, and the logger will see those signs and cut in a different area to avoid it.

      I am a trained logger - I volunteer with a local youth camp clearing dead trees.

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    10 days ago

    And oil exploration, and real estate development, and golf courses, and casinos, and…

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    10 days ago

    since Canadian lumber has a tariff making it so expensive now they will chop down the US forests for the value of lumber is high

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      oh and the type of trees in the us for logging, isnt very good quality so it ends up more expensive anyways.

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      On another thread, another lemming explained that our logging industry can’t even use the trees from national parks because we’ve specialized all of our mills to specifically sized (and possibly specific kinds of?) trees. The trees from national parks would basically just end up being used for pulp instead of building homes or something.

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        building homes

        You think anyone in this administration gives a shit about the housing situation!? This is an article about our (We The People) national forests! They’re stripping the country for parts. Fuck, when’s the next date we all protest and march!?

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          when’s the next date we all protest and march!?

          not to be rude but why would you think it would matter at all? they know people don’t want this and they don’t care. power cedes nothing without a demand. the tool you’re looking for is violence, not protest.

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        Yeah American lumber is heavily reliant on forestry since in the long run it’s easier, why fuck around building infrastructure and moving equipment when you can just set a couple acres aside and cut them every couple of years. Also I’m pretty sure this also applies to our pulp production so even that would make it a waste of time to go after national forests.

        We may actually entirely side step Trump’s stupidity and evilness on this simply because the industry has moved on from clear cutting. Also while there are probably some mills that can process Lumber from the parks they are probably specialized and also have their own designated forests, for example the guys who process Lumber for the USS Constitution.

  • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    The forests aren’t healthy… And some could indeed use proper thinning out. They’ve been stopped from burning naturally and remain uncut causing many tiny scrawny trees rather than large healthy forests. This makes wildfires that get out of hand that much more intense. The forests are full of perfect fire fuel. So proper thinning would be excellent in fact.

    Obviously that’s not what trump is gonna do tho. No need to thin if you just clear cut.

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      Yeah, you need to cut or burn the new growth; it’s those old, huge trees that people want to cut down that survive the fires and re-seed the forest afterward.

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        Ya exactly… I only point out that the emergency order cites Forest health which is laughable. It is important but this order does shit to address it of course. Just one more thing they can point to and pretend to be doing something good. No one wants the twiggy brushy lumber that needs to be cleared away after decades of mismanagement.

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    Once again, we find out most of the past presidents just obeyed decorum and norms… Did no one consider that a bad-faith president would just say, "uh…‘EMERGENCY’ ", then he’s allowed to bypass Congress and just do whatever the fuck he wants!?

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      There are 3 powers here supposed to balance:

      • the president
      • the houses
      • the supreme court

      Guess who scored all of them?

      Incidentally this is the reason the judiciary power in other democracies is self governed (e.g., judges elect their own supreme court) and parties in the judiciary are forbidden

      But… well… here we are 🤷‍♂️

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      Afaik congress could stop him, revoking his “emergency tariff powers” and revoking the emergency itself. But they won’t. Like Trump, they only seek power.

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      We went over this with bush 2 and decided the answer is basically yes. Otherwise it’d be letting the terrorists win

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      This needs to be turned against him. Obviously through the courts would be ideal. But at least in terms of the media juxtaposing his emergency declarations with his golfing.

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    do you remember when in minecraft you chopped down a forest for wood and didn’t replant it? remember how you had to go to triple the distance to find another one, wasting even more time?

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    This is the exact same tactic this regime will use on the 20th of April to declare martial law. I’m really curious how long it took the Germans in the late 1930’s to call it what it was.

    This is a coup d’etat. Lots of people will die. The regime - even if DJT dies or gets shot - will go on. There won’t be any more fair elections. I hope these protests go from 5 million to 10 million on Saturday, because only a mass movement can stop this.

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      This is the exact same tactic this regime will use on the 20th of April to declare martial law.

      Just stop with this. You are basing this off astrology, as you pointed out in your other comment. I’m not saying there’s no chance it won’t happen, but spouting that opinion like it’s an informed fact with concrete evidence is dangerously close to misinformation.

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        Lol, as I just pointed out in my other comment, you’re someone who sees a picture and jumps to conclusions. Don’t brigade and attempt to rob others who want to read the entire linked article.

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          Oh it’s astrology bullshit. I was interested in what you were saying in this thread right up until you posted that link.

          I agree that we’re in for a rough time, but don’t post your astrological quackery like it’s prediction with solid evidence on what this the administration is going to in the future. Humans are amazing at finding patterns in chaos an ascribing meaning to it, but it doesn’t mean astrology is at all relevant to anything.

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            Yeah I read the first sentence of the post in the image, and closed the page. No, the movement of the planets doesn’t mean Trump is declaring martial law on 4/20. For fuck sake…

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            If you want to go that fast and only look at the pretty picture, maybe go read comic books. It’s not just astrology bullshit. Horoscopes are bullshit, astrology when done well can be scarily accurate. Plus I’m not using astrology as the trend setter, but the trend confirmer.

            The key thing you refused to read is that Musk is in charge, he’s a proven neo Nazi, and particularly adores Hitler. The rest you’ll have to read yourself. Or you can pander here for some more cheap upvotes.

            PS: please lemmy, can we raise the level of discourse please and not upvote these populist comments? Stay on reddit if you just want to be a walking regex that sees “astrology” + “bullshit” = upvote.

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              I know Musk is a neo Nazi, that’s not new information, and couching that fact in astrology destroys the credibility of that fact.

              I did read your whole posted link and I’m still calling bullshit, because any time you invoke astrology, all credibility is out the window. This isn’t a “populist” opinion, this is a simple fact: astrology is a ancient system for applying humans’ overactive pattern regocognition, and correlating real world events to the movements of planetary objects against an arbitrary selections of stars.

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                It doesn’t matter what you believe you don’t have to try and convince other people that you were right and other people

                I was merely using astrology to corroborate something that was already pointed out with an abundance of other really good arguments.

                To me you’re just a Muppet who will dismiss the discovery of a cure for cancer because the researcher said he found a cure of cancer on his birthday. Babies and bathwater and stuff

                If you think that the wealthy and the powerful of the world don’t use astrology to time their events, that’s when you lose all credibility with me.

                Thank you for taking in this discussion with me

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                  Yeah that’s not how science works.

                  You are the one making the claim (“astrology is real”) and therefore the honus is on you to provide evidence. And the saying holds true. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

                  And you cannot provide that because it does not exist.

                  Edit: I just had another thought about your initial claim… You said that it works “when done correctly.”

                  I’m wondering, how does one know if the astrology was done correctly aside from the prediction ending up being correct? So wouldn’t that be a tautology?

                  It would be like saying that, “if you flip a coin correctly, it will always end up on tails,” with the only measure of success being “it landed on tails, therefore you flipped it correctly.” Therefore, by definition, flipping a coin “correctly” has a 100% success rate.

                  Do you see how meaningless all of that is?

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              Astrology should be derided to an extent that it’s hard to even quantify. It sounds like conspiracy theory forums are more of your jam

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                Don’t worry it gets downvoted there too.

                Hitler was an occultist and into numerology, so is Musk. I don’t know why this is so hard to understand.

                This is the typical peasants fighting among themselves while they are steamrolling their Project 2025 in broad daylight.

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      *mass armed movement they don’t care if 100 million person manifest if they fear nothing after that and no they don’t need a reason for martial law still gonna happen with only peaceful protest

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        I thought when talking about the USA the arms and violence is implied. Though, historically it is curious how the French with a notorious lack of weapons wreak more havoc than them 2nd amendment folks.

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      I’m really curious how long it took the Germans in the late 1930’s to call it what it was.

      In Germany, by 1934 the regime had publicly admitted murdering hundreds of their opponents without trial.
      And written a law after the fact which simply stated: “The measures taken on June 30, July 1 and 2, 1934 are lawful as state self-defense.”
      Germans knew.

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        I agree. But I’m just wondering if they went to the butcher to get a bit of meat if they were a acknowledging that they were living under a dictatorial regime right now?

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          Up until late 1944 or early 1945, most people basically just kept living their lives normally, while making some secret jokes about the regime, being annoyed by the constant air raid sirens, complaining about food shortages, actively looking away when their Jewish neighbors were arrested, and mourning their dead sons, yes.

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    Guns don’t need wood parts anymore. I believe billionaire biomaterials work better? I’d say some testing is on order. We need some billionaires. I believe the bones are probably the sturdiest parts. And their teeth have gold.

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    I love that this map still has the Gulf of Mexico.

    I hate that this will be done to our national forests. They’re a natural treasure and should be protected for so many reasons.

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    Bunch of unpatriotic freeloading trees and animals. About time we have a president that puts them in their place. They’re ripping us off!

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    The stock market is not static, fool. It’s about ready to explode!!