Mark13Prepper 🇺🇸
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@Mark13prepper
Catholic who enjoys medieval and military history, good stories and myths (Tolkien and Lewis can't be outdone), and the outdoors. Anti-AI. Jesus Christ is Lord.
For those who pray, I would appreciate some prayers for an individual I know who is suffering from years of alcoholism and PTSD, who's body is now not doing well at all. They are trying to do better, but it is difficult and painful for them.
At the end of the day, even prior to the advent of AI, most readers didn’t actually know the specific process an author used to bring their vision to life. For many classics, we still don’t.
The Pentagon has made detailed preparations for deploying US ground troops into Iran. Follow: @AFpost
People who have never owned land don’t really understand the upkeep involved in maintaining it at just a basic level, at least in the Southeast. Clearing downed trees, grading roads, bush-hogging etc. in the South if you don’t maintain land ecological succession comes quickly.
Chinese Professor Jiang tells Tucker Carlson that the United States should abandon its role as a global “hegemon” and “bully” and seek an equal ‘partnership’ with China, Russia, and Iran. Follow: @AFpost
@RorateCaeli Can you tell us from whom derive the name for our continent? Asking for a friend.
Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
