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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Correction that they are also farming lumber, but the cycle is just much much longer.

I know a family that does it as one of a few things they do. Their timber land is relatively small so they have it harvested all at once. Every couple of decades a company pays them a healthy sum to get the timber and then nothing is done with the land for the next couple of decades while trees grow. In addition to the cash payment, they get to own the land tax free as it counts for agricultural exemptions.

Others in the thread are deeper into it and speak of staggered logging so there is annual logging off like 1/25th of the trees at a time.

Not to say there isn't cutting of totally natural forest, but there is farming too.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Of course in that scenario it may be private information, but given you are trying to file it, inherently you at least are in the realm of sharing it.

I would imagine things like asking for legal advice on a crime committed, which could hilariously backfire when that chat transcript shows up in court.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Once they have that much care and thought, then they probably would have the thought of asking the art teacher or art students to do something vaguely meaningful.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

They would presumably have an art teacher. Or a student that wanted to express their feelings via art.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

So you just said about 20 years of life is only twice that of the last three years of life for your starting figure. Add in college and it's still not that egregiously more.

You feel the need to add public school costs, but not add in medicare, social security, and other expenses exclusive to old age.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

I said unique, old people need a lot of health care, generally way more than a kid. Most kids after birth just have routine checkups and not much else. Infants might get a bit more doctor visits because the parents don't know if they should worry or not because the infant can't speak, but generally even those amount to nothing.

Babies more universally need diapers than old folks, and do eat more than an older person, but health care is absolutely bigger for elderly.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Not really. The unique expense for a kid is education compared to the old, and elder care can easily eclipse that.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Even at constant population or even mildly declining, you would expect the young to outnumber the old by a bit. Given people die on the way to getting old and die whole being old more than the young die.

They may be even fewer than when the currently old folks when they were young but still be expected to outnumber the old

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

That's the neat part, they generally do pay for "their" electricity, but there isn't enough electricity for them to do that so power plants and infrastructure expansion must happen and they pretend that's for everyone, not just them, so they shouldn't pay for the capacity since technically they can't tell whose electricity is really whose.

It's a pretty broken model in this scenario.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I mean, it's somewhat possible, depending on context. However even if it helps someone with vision realize their goals 10 percent faster, it helps the person with zero vision pump out slop 100x faster than someone with good content to make.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Where's the roadkill?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A very quick turn let's you see the other half. Bonus, you can look at it from the perspective of a pole and get a much better view of the parts of earth that map projections just utterly mangle. Particularly helpful for understanding arctic geopolitics.

The distortion only applies if you take the screen flatness literally, and no one is going to accuse a 3d game of being hopelessly distorted by virtue of being on a flat screen.

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