So much toil and misery and toxic chemicals and ecological destruction so :grillman: can feel comfortable in a perpetual 50s childhood.
Weeds are good people. Dandelions and clovers are lovely treats for bees
Until I started getting hundreds of dollars in repeated fines and even :grillman: breaking the law in a way cops didn't care about to outright destroy some of my native plants and hedges and the like to fit their green obedience square standards better, I had so many happy bugs, birds, and even lizards around my house. :sadness-abysmal:
So glad to have a fence around my yard so nobody can complain about what kinds of plants I have there
Transforming some of my acreage away from lawn and mass agriculture has lead to some of the more libertarian moments of my life. Just telling people like, "this here's private property" or "I own this ground".
Been one of the most fulfilling things I've done (not even close to complete).
I cannot express the hate I have for the standard American lawn. I see if every day and it honestly disgusts me. Fuck lawns
It's an inescapable symbol of so much of the horrible shit about this culture, and they'll use violence to force you to participate in it by leveraging fines or other legal actions if your grass isn't green enough or short enough or healthy enough or or or or or. Fuck it. I want to exterminate Kentucky blue grass from the earth.
Congratulations. I have so many fucking tree shelters up and I hate looking at them. I want to say some can come down next season but I had a deer snap an apple tree trunk clean in half last year and that thing was already an inch or two thick, so maybe that’s wishful thinking. They’re fucking unstoppable. We’ll see who has the last laugh come hunting season though.
Releasing wolves in to our nations cities would solve so many problems. No more off-leash dogs. No more deer overpopulation. And it probably wouldn't be too hard to train them to piss on cop cars.
Disney is the chief exponent of propaganda for the ungulate industrial complex and fuck them.
Ron DeSantis has entered the chat.
"Why would anyone do drugs when all you have to do is mow a lawn?"
:Hank-Hill:
Why would anyone waste all that fertilizer, water, seeding & mowing work + fuel costs just to make the damn ground green
There are a substantial cohort of people who simply enjoy spending time in their living spaces. They like to make these spaces comfortable and tending to growing things brings them psychic rewards. It's deeply rooted in our psyche. I recently moved into an apartment with a flower box and boy, I had no idea you could get so much pleasure from a couple of herbs growing in pots. I love watering them and watching them grow and pruning them. I wish I had a much larger area to take care of. Maybe a house...with a yard...
Buddy I've had a yard, it sucks. Gardens are where it's at. Parks rule. Also more clover and mixed grasses. More mosses. More rocks and paths through weeds.. Fuck lawn grass.
Also growing lil plants feels way different from the lawn idk I can't describe it. A cactus is like on the opposite end of the spectrum from shitty lawn grass.
Yeah I know. I'm saying grass is an ok compromise to me if it's limited to a field people use a lot. Fields are perfectly fine if allowed to get those nice clover flowers bees can actually pollinate
Many of them are divorced, that's for sure. Ask them about why The Wife left them :grill-broke:
There's got to be something about how lawn conformity is the only vestige of control some people have in otherwise hopelessly chaotic and miserable lives.
They lost control of The Wife, The Kids don't call them anymore, and they're slowly becoming less relevant even after decades of clawing onto power long enough to strip it from two successive generations, so that lawn is where they seem to metaphorically want to die. :grill-broke:
Best part of walking around a neighborhood is seeing all the flowers people grow in their yards. Way better than grass
The British guy who invented lawns is next on my time travel hitlist after I throw Augustine out of a window and shoot John Calvin.
lawns are ugly and white unless you fertilize the shit out of them
yes lawns suck but this stat is super disingenuous.
how many acres of lawns are irrigated is the correct comparison to the farm crops. in many rainy parts of the US lawns just grow with zero watering or waste of scarce water resources.
only a moron who doesn't actually understand that different bioregions exist and that some places have PLENTY OF WATER thinks that irrigating things is always inherently bad. grow up and learn how the environment actually works before trying to be an anvironmentalist maybe???
Per the original analysis, only a third of the total lawn area would need to be irrigated to beat maize, which is the most irrigated crop by area in the US. While it is all based on satellite estimates, they did account for the fact that not all lawns are irrigated
Years of telling me to touch grass now you want me to kill Grass :meow-tableflip:
