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· Föderation EN Fr 20.09.2024 17:21:17 @SallyStrange @OmegaMastadon @breadandcircuses and fwiw, you can grow pears in north america, i have a pear tree in my backyard, the squirrels love them. |
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Föderation EN Fr 20.09.2024 17:26:34 Oh yeah, missed that bit of weirdness. Yep there are pear trees all over N. America. They're not indigenous but then neither are apple trees. |
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Föderation EN Fr 20.09.2024 17:37:29 @SallyStrange the squirrels aren’t indigenous either. |
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Föderation EN Fr 20.09.2024 17:42:35 @arrrg nor is a lot of the grass that covers our lawns... So many things |
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Föderation EN Fr 20.09.2024 17:52:41 @SallyStrange how beautiful this place must have been before colonization, it must have been just awe-inspiring. it still is in many places, despite being compromised. the only people who lived here loved the land and the animals and the trees before europeans came along and fucked it all up. what we call the united states of america is probably the world's largest crime scene. |
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Föderation EN Fr 20.09.2024 17:56:23 @arrrg I regularly am awestruck by the natural beauty around me, while also being aware that what I'm seeing must be a faded echo of what existed before |
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Föderation EN Fr 20.09.2024 17:59:01 @arrrg @SallyStrange As true as it is sad, though the whole of Africa could probably give the Americas (South America had it very bad too) a run for the money |
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Föderation EN Fr 20.09.2024 18:28:36 I try not to over-romanticize the first inhabitants of N. America, who probably hunted mastodons to extinction, burned forests to spread corn crops, had wars with each other, etc. But even so, it's nothing compared to what happened after 1492. |
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Föderation EN Fr 20.09.2024 18:10:59 @arrrg @SallyStrange Are they from Thailand or Argentina? I feel that the answer to this is somehow important. 😉 |
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Föderation EN Fr 20.09.2024 18:23:57 @davidbcohen @arrrg uh Europe I thought |
