@bradenslen Yes. I can’t believe how much I would love to be a kid still, (despite the world being what it is).
To quote Yogi Berra: “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
@bradenslen Speaking of taxes, I just learned that, although there is no sales or income tax in New Hampshire, excavating your land (as in digging up rocks) is taxable — even if you don’t sell it, assuming you did too much digging.
@fgtech In Norway, everything on your property that is beneath 2 meters under the ground (or something like that) is government property, so you will need a permit to excavate it. But I don’t think it is taxable.
@odd Interesting! Seems like a good system, although two meters does seem a bit too shallow. Why not ten? Hard to dig a good rabbit warren for yourself without a bit of depth. 🐇
@fgtech I think it’s to prevent too many pipe bursts, and wire cuts. And you would definitely need a permit, and a license to blow it up.
@odd Oh, yes of course. We need permits to dig in developed areas as well. There’s a system (funded by utility companies I think) called Dig Safe that we have to involve before digging any deeper than a vegetable garden. They come and mark out any buried utilities.
@odd As a kid I remember saying, "When I grow up, I'm going to..." and some adult would very kindly respond, "Don't be in a hurry to be a grownup, enjoy being a kid while you can." I now understand what they were saying. (looks at bags of rocks)
@fgtech That seems more handy than what we’ve got. Just looked at a list of things that you need to check before starting digging, and it’s like 6 or 7 different things.
@fgtech It's a "sin tax". They are afraid you might have too much fun with rocks so they tax it. Killjoys.
@bradenslen Haha, yes. I saw someone on Mastodon recently, that paid like $54* for a small bucket of rocks, because they “were nice rocks”, (and not as in gems). I found that unreasonable.
*) I don’t remember if that was including shipping, but it was an online purchase.