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Any countries still giving free land for expats? Asking for myself, I want a simple life.
I hear Israel is handing out free land these days - or, more accurately, will allow you to steal it from the people living there while fascist goons squads backs you up with overwhelming firepower.
You know… the way settler-colonialism has pretty much always worked.
Sicily gives you derelict houses
Oooh! Free vendetta ghosts!
That’d be cool. It’s a fixer upper.
Sorry, it’s all air bnb’s now.
Any countries still giving free land for expats?
That depends. Do you have a time machine?
Nope but I saw an advert on YouTube selling them for cheap so I can get one.
As long as you aren’t Native American, ironically, the homestead act still applies to about 10% of the country
You can always work something out in Russia.
And then everyone clapped…
I don’t even know if seed would have been available back then year round, and for something like that “lifetime supply” would be what you used and handed out during planting season.
But seed isn’t cheap, I don’t think someone would have made up that story if they knew how unbelievable it was. There’s no way he could just grab a 20 pound bag of seed every month. That’s close to $100 today for just grass, not even crops.
And even if it was pre-tractor and done with a horse/donkey…
Most farmers would be getting them so close to perfectly straight this would have been impossible to judge.
“Seed” in 1910 was not even close to what it is today. This was also likely cereal grains and maybe some pulses. What you could buy was basically grain from the previous year.
Also the local Coop’s/grain sellers would absolutely give free seed to new immigrants anyways. It was just smart business for them. The new farmers had no place else to sell the harvest but to them. More production = more money for them. A few pennies invested that yielded dollars for years.
So, they pioneered the drug trade, but with grain?
He didn’t say 20 pounds. He said 20 bags. Could have been any size.
You sorely overestimate how easy it is to get a trained animal to walk in a perfectly straight line. They do not get magical perfect-line-walking powers just because they are animals.
Also, the farmer steers the plow direction and depth.
https://rbogash.com/Horses/plowing-3.html#:~:text=On its side%2C the plow,lines tied around his body.
Or a rock, or something else to knock it off track.
Ah yes.
Nothing ever happens.
Username checks out. You give too many my guy.
Dude is in half of Lemmy threads bitching about something. I’m just surprised they didn’t somehow tie this into Biden being bad.
Seed back then would have just been unprocessed grain. I don’t know about prices in the early 1900s, but the current price of unprocessed wheat is around $230 per metric ton. That’s around $0.10/lb and would put 20 lbs at around $2 given wholesale bulk pricing.
Not even in the ballpark of the $5/lb you cite for grass seed.
I won a lifetime supply of breathing air.
So far, I’m not disappointed.
Yeah but shrinkflation means these days it comes with 20% less nutritional* particles.
*combustible
Some cities are still working on increasing them though. Just don’t go to the premium mountain venues though, or you get 20% less air per air!
So far, my only problem is when I go underwater.
For some reason, the lifetime supply of breathing doesn’t apply there.
That’s roaming. Have to pay extra; not covered by basic terms of service.
Giving away stolen land
Cool guy peepaw
