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[โ€“] starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That is the weirdest generalization I've ever read.

Houses are built differently all throughout Europe. Trees were planted at different times, with different varieties. Sweden has huge swathes of pine, where I live it's mostly oak and beech. A lot of that pine is fairly young while the forest near me is hundreds of years old. Hell, Wales has an ancient rain forest.

There is no such thing as a European anything.

[โ€“] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

And yet the type of woodland in Deadpool & Wolverine appears almost exclusively in Europe, and so (given how much they'd have to go out of their way to find somewhere like that elsewhere), must be European.

If anything I'm generalising that all North American woodland is either primeval or modern plantations, but nowhere have I said that there isn't woodland like that in Europe.