• @[email protected]
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    Defense is a surprisingly large use of land. How is that? Can anyone explain the most land intensive uses of the Armed Forces? Like tank training areas maybe?

    • @kalpol
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      Mikitary bases are pretty big. Air force, army, national guard, naval air stations, naval bases, there is a lot going on there.

      • @Whats_your_reasoning
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        Can’t forget that military bases are communities where people live, too. Not just barracks and mess halls for individuals, but there are full neighborhoods and shopping centers for families.*

        *My knowledge on this is limited, I just remember visiting a family member on base when I was younger.

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    So nice of the 100 largest land owning families to have the same amount of land as the entire urban or rural housing population of the rest of the country. I assume it’s to fatten themselves up for the rest of us just like the cows.

    When do we get to eat them again?

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      It would be a subset of “urban commercial”, right? Somewhere in the range of half to three-quarters of it?

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        Depends how these are defined. Public parking or on-street parking are likely in a different category, not to mention people’s driveways.

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    hugging the west coast, there are tons of cow farms, and a small part of cali is for the military, SEAL training.

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      Probably ignored as that would skew the data making think that the US is still one big wilderness.

    • troybot [he/him]
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      That’s the federal wildfire sanctuary established by president William McKinney. While most fire has been domesticated, the remaining feral fire is allowed to burn free in Utah.

      • @kautau
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        I heard that even though the fire was born here, it has illegal flameborn parents so they’re going to put it on a cargo ship with a bunch of pallets and deport it and that’s how we’ll solve the wildfire issue. Saw it on Joe rogan

    • @ChicoSuave
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      Can’t rake everywhere all the time

  • Greg Clarke
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    It seems a little inefficient to put all the airports together

  • @[email protected]
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    Can we put the 100 largest landowning families in Florida, then saw it off from the rest of the country?

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      no need to saw, when invasive species and the ocean is taking over. because florida loves to import all the illegal exotic animals, they got plenty reptiles, giant snails, giant rats. the latter 2 both carry nasty parasites.

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      Some land is not worth anything but a golf course. An acre here is not the same as an acre there.

      Here in NW Florida the topsoil is paper thin, total crap. We seem to do fine growing pine for lumber and planting solar farms. Head further north and it’s a whole different story. Break slavery populations down by county, you got a soil map. Again, land is not necessarily useful land, if that makes sense.

      Don’t give a shit about golf, but I’ve heard modern ranges are family and eco friendly, park like. Anywhere you’ve sectioned land off from concrete and asphalt development is a win. Hell, we have a solid and varied bird population at Lowe’s, along with some hawks that regularly patrol, just from our outdoor section and a little surrounding bit of woods. Weird, I know, didn’t expect that. Can’t wait to see what the insect population looks like in a couple of months.