Death to America

  • Inui [comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    I feel you but mainly because I get to hear a lawn mower almost every day since different people outside my apartment are mowing on different days. The noise pollution is unbearable sometimes.

    • UlyssesT
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      15 days ago

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      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        3 months ago

        Two-stroke engines need to be banned for most applications. Electric equipment only. And honestly even then I feel like you should need a permit to make that amount of noise, and it should be like the rules for animal research, you need a plan to replace or minimize where possible.

        Do you really need to be weed whacking along that fence? Is it actually gonna be a problem? If so, do you really need to be doing it weekly? Would monthly suffice?

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          • SummerIsTooWarm [any, undecided]
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            3 months ago

            I never had a situation where rakes were insufficient. Even if you want to remove leaves from long grass (for whatever reason), a rake with long prongs is sufficient. Blowers are just about convenience and speed. I hate them with passion, as you cannot block out the noise, even with a closed window and head between pillows. And while the electric ones are a bit better they're still way too noisy.

            • huf [he/him]
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              3 months ago

              convenience? you blow your leaves across to your neighbors. then they come out with their leafblowers and blow it back.

              back and forth forever.

            • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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              3 months ago

              And why are you removing the leaves from the grass in the first place? The grass is a great place for leaves to be. It’s where they belong.

              If you’re using it to move leaves from pavement to the grass I understand more, but we’ve had a tool for that for thousands of years: A broom.

              • SummerIsTooWarm [any, undecided]
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                3 months ago

                I don't understand it either why people are so keen on disrupting natural nutrient cycles by removing leaves completely but some municipalities even require it (probably still the bourgeois brainworms of showing off how much land you can waste).

          • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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            3 months ago

            If your yard is too big for you to rake,
            then it's too big for you to own.

            That's the party line.

    • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 months ago

      the fucking lawn machines are so loud and just constant. the suburbs are unironically louder than the city because of dipshits growing a crop of fucking grass

      Death to America