BilliJo Aldrin

Very impressive build. I've seen too many people that just rezzed a giant cube the dimensions of the property, texture it grass on all sides (if you are lucky), then plop a house on top. No real effort, no real imagination.

I'm sure you don't see a downside to any new rule that might cut down on your competition. Where exactly is this "search" located / hosted? I see an option to list my land in search for $30 L per week, but I never list any of my properties and they all show up in the inworld search. Is there some other search that I'm not aware of... and thus have no interest in using since inworld search works just fine for me?

ooo theres a place you can terraform for fun? I love to terraform. 😁

oooo talk about greedy, someone just bought one of my $500 L parcels and relisted it right away for $2,999 L I should send him a list of my $1,000 L parcels. 😁

I believe the article said they needed to burn closer to a million acres a year to maintain the forests. The controlled burns they do are too little too late. I leave you to this because once again it seems your whole purpose here is to belittle and denigrate everything I post.

The entire article supports my contention except for a throw away line about global warming. And how does the writer know there are no global warming deniers on the fire line?

I didn't link to the propublica article.

There is a totally discredited theory that oil is not biological in origin (ie dead sea creatures) but is in fact a product of natural processes deep in the mantle. If its true, oil is renewable and we have an infinite supply. 😁

A wildfire is the result of the condition of the forest when the fire starts. If there isn't 100 years of accumulated debris on the forest floor, you probably won't get a wildfire. Climate change doesn't start wildfires, each fire has an identifiable source, You will never find that the cause of a wild fire is listed as global warming. Except of course by global warming alarmists and do nothing politicians like the governor of Cali who wishes to shift the blame for their ineptitude.

Federal Regulations Have Made Western Wildfires Worse Controlled, prescribed burns can stop wildfires from spreading. Too bad they are effectively prohibited by rules like the Clean Air Act. SAM RUTZICK | 9.14.2020 3:30 PM Parts of the western United States look like scenes from an apocalyptic movie—a red-orange tinge across everything, literally blotting out the sun, as more than three million acres burn. The fires are running rampant, despite firefighters' best efforts, across California, Oregon, and Washington state. The human cost is huge: 35 people have already died, and more than 4,000 homes have burned. Yet these fires could have been stopped before they got this big, were it not for over-restrictive regulations that have made necessary forest management techniques impossible. Take controlled burns: fires that are lit on purpose, intentionally burning tinder to keep potentially larger, unintentional wildfires from finding fuel. Especially since the 1960s, efforts to extinguish all fires—even natural, low-impact forest fires that serve as nature's equivalent of a controlled burn—have made forests more susceptible to larger fires and have made controlled burns more and more necessary. But the regulatory requirements one must meet before starting a controlled burn are complex and lengthy. According to Jonathan Wood, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation and an adjunct fellow with the Property and Environment Research Center, the National Environmental Policy Act requires "a couple-thousand-page document analyzing every single conceivable impact to the environment that the plan might have." This is a public process, Wood adds, that "often results in litigation." There's even more paperwork when the controlled burn might overlap with areas designated as critical habitat for an endangered species. "What you'll often find," Wood says, "is that there are projects which have been extremely well-vetted, which have been years in the work, there will be a 5,000-page document, which no one could conceivably ever read because it's so long and complicated, but then the project will still get put on hold for an indefinite period of time, because some special interest group filed a lawsuit." So much time is spent considering the ramifications of an action; little is spent considering the impact of doing nothing. From 1999 to 2017, an average of 13,000 acres of California were subjected to controlled burns each year. In February 2020, Nature Sustainability published a report arguing that California needs to burn 20 million acres of forest in order to restore forest health. The Clean Air Act of 1990 creates another obstacle. The law treat the smoke from a controlled, prescribed burn as a pollutant that must be analyzed and permitted before the burn can be done. The smoke from a wildfire is not similarly scrutinized. But needless to say, the environmental impact of a multi-state wildfire is much larger than that of a smaller controlled burn. There is no magic bullet when it comes to the issue of preventing wildfires. But if we want to stop disasters of the scale, state and federal governments need to rethink forest management. They could start by easing the regulatory burden upon proven techniques. https://reason.com/2020/09/14/western-wildfires-can-be-prevented-if-burdens-on-forest-management-are-eased/?utm_medium=email

Thank you for helping prove my contention that wild fires have nothing to do with global warming.

So they took him for a mental health evaluation? Maybe he was driven crazy by "man made global warming". You can link anything to "man made global warming" if you just try hard enough

If it makes you feel any better, EVERY prediction of climate gloom and doom over the last 50 years has not come true. Ask yourself why this one should be any different.

I posted a pic of my signs before, they are tasteful and quite artistic. They only enhance the environment. As I said before, every parcel I bought was very reasonably priced. The neighbors chose not to buy them, so I did. I must admit though, that Vote Biden sign is pretty ugly. Note: I edited the picture to take out my ads in case I was ARed for using the forum post for advertising

Ironically, now that we are energy self sufficient (thanks to President Trump) we no longer need to add ethanol to our gasoline. Unfortunately once a subsidy is in place it is almost impossible to end it.

Unfortunately we won't have any choice. The fake crisis of "Man Made Global Warming" is the socialist's last best chance to make over the west into their own vision. You think the coronavirus lockdown was bad. Wait until they get power (not in 2020 thank God) and announce that the climate is only months away from total collapse and the only way to avert it is to have a breather of a few months to allow the climate to "catch up". Then they shut down everything. Paranoid fantasy? Maybe Maybe not.

I decorate my place and go to parties. There is usually a Rocky Horror party or two. 😁

There was a large LL tree encroaching on one of my ad parcels. It was there when I bought the parcel. I submitted a ticket asking them to move it a bit, but they came and took it out entirely. 😁 So defo ask them to remove stuff thats in your way.

Its really not an ugly sign, its not even anywhere as big as it could be. I'm sorry, but if there is a 16 sq m parcel for sale at a reasonable price in front of someone house, they should cut off 16 sq m in back and buy it. A lot of my parcels aren't even for sale, I'm using them for networked advertising instead. Please stop insulting me, I'd hate to have to AR you

I think we all agree that the climate constantly changes, the only real question is, what percentage of the change is caused by man I say zero, some zealots say all of it

If I buy it for $100 L, that means anyone could have bought it for $100 L. What's wrong with relisting it at a higher price? Thought you were a capitalist, free marketeer?

We aren't talking about forest fires per se, we are talking about out of control wildfires. Lets say forest fires are caused by global warming. The point is, do they become out of control wildfires due to decades of poor forest management policies, or are they containable as a result of good forest management practices? Containable does NOT necessarily mean putting them out, it means minimizing extent and threat to human habitation

There are a certain percentage of forest fires that have a specific natural cause, mainly lightning strikes. Whether the resulting fire is manageable, or becomes an out of control wildfire depends on forest management practices that have been in place over the previous decades. However, putting out every forest fire as soon as it starts is NOT a proper forest management technique.

Wanna protect your property by cutting a firebreak around your property? If might cost you big time. From the article: They were labelled law breakers, fined $50,000 and left emotionally and financially drained. But seven years after the Sheahans bulldozed trees to make a fire break — an act that got them dragged before a magistrate and penalised — they feel vindicated. Their house is one of the few in Reedy Creek, Victoria, still standing. https://www.smh.com.au/national/fined-for-illegal-clearing-family-now-feel-vindicated-20090212-85bd.html I can post 100 similar stories, but you get the idea.

I wasn't laughing at the forest fires. 😁 Forest fires are part of the natural order of things. They have always happened, they always will happen. Thoughtful forest management, including controlled burning, cutting fire breaks around towns, and yes even tree harvesting can have the effect of minimizing the chances of out of control wildfires in the future.