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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • Most people’s goals in commenting is not to change the minds of others. It is usually about alliance building. Essentially breaking people up into groups, looking for others that fit into the group you are in, excluding those why aren’t. Polarization really. When lemmy was new, lemmy was the group. So people less often tried to alienate others in order to carve out thier niche. But as it has grown, it has driven people toward fracturing to form groups from the group. This is just how humans evolved to be.



  • Where do you live? My experiences are in NY and Oregon. We have a few places like you describe. But the vast majority are mom and pop courses where they carve out a little space for a hole and leave the rest untouched. The on closest to me is surrounded by houses, so some of the trees they have are really old. Would have been cleared for housing if not for the course. So it is almost like an oasis for wildlife. Though obviously it is on the high end side for sure, it still preserves some natural space that acts as a way point for larger stuff moving through the area from the undeveloped land not too far by. Thier ecosystem isn’t impressive, but still plenty of small stuff for the ducks that stop by continuously.




  • I think you are talking about the kind of golf courses you see in movies and TV. Those do exist. But they are a tiny minority. The shrubs and such I am talking about aren’t cultivated. Most courses are not that high end. My buddy plays a ton of golf, but at low end places because he is a teacher. The fairway and the green are the only place they modify the landscape. Every hole is surrounded by untouched natural space. Trees, overgrowth, and whatever was there. Costs too much to manage. Some don’t fertilizer or water anything but the greens, though only select climates can getaway with not watering in the summer. You are asssuming all golf courses are like the high end ones. They aren’t.




  • So to some extent it probably is human nature. I mean way back men had to compete for women. And they probably had to fight the women too. So younger and weaker were prefered. Plus, get them early before another man does.
    But the important fact is that human nature is not automatically a good thing. People like to say it is, but it isn’t. It is the reason we have billionaires. It is the reason some people can justify letting children die of starvation. I could go on. Human nature got us where we are. But now that we are here, we need to fight against human nature and work for the good of ALL of us, not just whatever group we are part of today.