• EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Laws regarding public access to nature are much better in Europe & the UK than in the US.

    If I remember correctly, Trespassing isn’t a viable law in Finland.

    You want to walk across the land? Go ahead.

    In the US: CRIME

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      1 month ago

      Not just crime but in large parts of the country it’s a popular myth that they can shoot you for being on their property. They can’t, that’s ridiculous, but Hollywood and popular myth won’t let it die.

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        Also, legality doesn’t change the odds of some old white dude taking pot shots from his porch at strange noises, because of precisely the same popular myth