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Depends on the zone.
In Texas where I lived… you get snakes. BIG snakes. And fun things like ninja bug swarms, wasp colonies, black widows, and such.
There aren’t a lot of wet leaves in Florida with so many palms or evergreens, but if you do leave them, you get disease and parisites, especially if its up against your house. Like, all the native plants in your yard will start dying. And it’s definitely not safe to step in.
Ok but please clean your sidewalks, people. Don’t use the environment as an excuse to be a bad neighbor. We still need to use the sidewalks.
It is strange to me, that sidewalks aren’t public property and are managed (and cleaned) like the streets in other countries 😄
They are public property and designed and built by the municipalities in many places. The cities and towns just prefer to offload the cleaning part to who every lives in front of a section of sidewalk.
Let’s call it “Civic Duty” and your chance to do something nice and beneficial for your neighborhood.
In Brazil the property owner is responsible for everything up to the edge of the road in a lot of places, including building and maintaining sidewalks…they go to shit and nobody fixes them lol
In the US, it’s the opposite.
People typically don’t own land a few feet in between them and the street.
I have crashed my escooter on slippery wet leaves. They were too slippery to steer.
Now I ride my bike instead I haven’t had that problem as the roads are swept
Probably depending on the country and according legislature, but as a pedestrian, I often wish for more scooters to take to the road as well. In most aspects they are very equivalent to bicycles and just as fast and dangerous. Worst of all are those scooter drivers who switch between road and sidewalk with every traffic light.
ASSuming you still have one left…
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The issue is parasitic HOAs that don’t allow it.
Everyone with an HOA chooses to have it.
I stopped raking years ago, and have started seeing fireflies again.
My neighbours hate it, but honestly, I’ve never understood raking in the first place. It’s autumn, and leaves are natural. What’s with the obsession to make lawns look like artificial carpeted spaces?
The leaves look nice imo. Better than a scalped layer of dying grass.
For calling themselves “land of the free” there is surprisingly little freedom, unless you are rich of course. At that point you can rape kids and get away with murder.
As an American. The cause is racism.
No, really. HOA’s were originally created to keep black people out of white neighborhoods after government-backed segregation was made illegal.
As long as you don’t let your grass grow too much
Officially it was a suicide. Or at least according to the Don(ald).
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HOA’s don’t allow watching Friends? I thought HOAs were bad.
Landlords Inc.
Yeaaaa, validate me for not taking leaves
Screw blackberries tho
Excuse me? What do you have against delicious blackberries?
The plants are nigh impossible to control or remove. They’re like mint; only plant it in the ground if you hate yourself and your neighbors :)
My neighbors planted blackberries on their side of the property line. It takes a good few days each year for me to cut them back off my side. Please, if you want blackberries, plant them in their own little zone, and be mindful of how they can spread
Thanks, I know what I’m planting!
Mint doesn’t need to be put in the ground. Just put it in a pot outside, it’ll do the rest, and leave you with some level of plausible deniability.
I know this because my ex got some different types of mint to grow, since we both loved it. She put them in pots on the front porch, about 4 feet off the ground.
That mint found its way to the lawn. We still don’t know where it started from, just that the pot was flourishing, and then so was the yard. The new owner of that house is still finding mint growing in random parts.
That mint found its way to the lawn. We still don’t know where it started from
Seeds. Plus mint creeps, but definitely seeds too.
Also mint is native in some places it’s like that.
Is mint bad for yards? A fully mint lawn sounds incredible.
It can choke out native plant life, if left to do its thing. It is an invasive species for non-native areas, and that can even come down to what type of mint is native.
The main issues are that mint doesn’t have a lot of requirements to grow, and is notoriously hard to kill. If it’s in a place it can survive, it can and will thrive left unchecked.
Yeah no joke, mint grows THICC. Smells lovely though and very nutritious ang good for Mojitos! Mo-ji-tos!
I know the Himalayan blackberry and they are awful to have on your property. Each year all too much time is diverted towards controlling it and attempting to eliminate it. The birds (if they exist) eat them and spread the seeds. They pop up where you thought you’d already handled them. Ug.
We do collect them to make cobblers and such, but I would gladly do without that if I could rid us of them entirely.
Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water
After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water
Bamboo as well.
Oh man. My mother was a huge fan of landscaping with invasive species. This is also a place that has had a lot of local plants absolutely smothered by kudzu vine. Bamboo was going in right as I was moving to another state. Maybe it was a good idea to cut contract with her, I can’t imagine it’s been cheap or easy to maintain
Bamboo is fine. Just dont plant too much, and cut it back. You’ll never pay for stakes or sticks again.
Perpetual work. Sounds like a viable business strategy.
Mint is “ok”.
They’re a highly invasive species here in Washington state. Brought by settlers. They’ve displaced the native species and are nearly impossible to get rid of.
Just like the settlers!
But not nearly as delicious
Depends who you ask.
i mean… i can do something to help, might not effect the long term though 😋
On the contrary, I overpicked and killed a blackberry plant as a kid. Sounds like a solid tactic.
Himelayan blackberries are invasive
Not if you live in the Himalaya ☝️🤓
Let’s bring this plant home from the other side of the world from the edges of human atmosphere and plant it back home. It will probably be nice to look at.
I mean if that’s its origin, it probably still lives there unless the name is not its place of origin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_armeniacus
Since it’s drought resistant its flourishing in climate change.
Thanks
Look past their juicy and delicious flesh comrade! invasive species are the scourge of many a backyard garden
Some of us live in countries that have native blackberries.
Certain blackberries are deeply irritating invasive species. Delicious, but an outright menace that can destroy local forests. Methods to control them are extensive and extreme. Never eat road side blackberries in the US, certain states use herbicide to stem the tide. Bushes next to highways are more likely to be sprayed. Low pedestrian traffic and cheaper maintenance than cutting them back.
… You ever tried clearing a yard or whole garden overgrown by wild blackberries for years?
God, they’re delicious, but they are EVERYWHERE, regrow as soon as you turn around, and you either are very slow and careful or get hurt a lot. Nasty little suckers, those thorns.
I’d guess OP has the same trauma as me
Got a few growing in my front garden, just cut the sections of thorns from time to time. Dunno what else to do with such a tiny garden really. Nature does its thing there.
Blackberries are “ok”.
What’s up with h all the hate for Friends these days? It’s a simple feel good comedy that got laughs, why hate on that?
I loved friends, still do
I never watched it, but it always looked bad.
How do you think it compares to Fresh Prince or George Lopez?
It is cringe 😄
Simple feel good comedy is just a distraction from reality. Even worse, with their semi fantasy “this is how real world is” style, they are actually hurting society making people think they are living in this fantasy society.
Go for Silo, severance and Invasion. Those shows offer way more reality based society even while being full-on fantasy.
It’s a comfort show that’s still popular. But for some people they just don’t get it. Kinda like how the office is a comfort show. Why do people still watch them? Not sure, I don’t get the appeal. But it’s pretty common to have a comfort show and that’s probably fine.
I’ll watch Friends over the Office personally. This is despite the fact that I think the Office is more creative in some ways. Reason is all the cringe, particularly around Michael. So I’ll watch things like the Jim pranking Dwight compilation on YouTube, but I won’t watch the show again. But Friends is completely OK background noise. You don’t have to pay attention to it. You’ll just notice the funny bits sometimes while you’re doing other things. You won’t be like “shit I missed the last episode, now I have to go back” because it doesn’t matter what happened usually.
Michael was the star of the show and it died when he left.
A couple of my redditbrained friends agree with you, though. I don’t think they can tolerate humor that offends anyone.
I don’t disagree that it died when he left, nor that he was the star of the show.
It’s not humor that offends someone that I can’t tolerate, it’s the cringe. Maybe it’s because I was awkward growing up and I still sometimes blurt out things I shouldn’t (I blame ADHD for this one, I often don’t realize what I’ve said before I said it). Michael has the parts of my personality that I’m the most insecure about, amplified 100x.
You can directly make fun of me as a person and I’m not offended. Call me a planet, tell me I’m an idiot in some creative way, for any number of the stupid things I’ve done in my life, whatever… But Michael’s cringe just… hurts my soul.
I honestly don’t get all the love for the show. It was the stereotypical sitcom that was super generic and not all that funny. I was always completely bored by it.
And the salamander didn’t say anything bad about it. It said there’s better shows. Are you going to try and claim that Friends is better than Breaking Bad or the first 8 seasons of Game of Thrones?
I like that when you mention better shows you choose 2 shows that are not at all light hearted, funny or comparable to Friends in any manner.
Why watch friends when you can watch 2 shows that have many fucked up things happen in them
I hate them all 😶
Game of Thrones only had 4 seasons though. Shame they never finished it.
First 5?
Yess, everything after was horseshit
Are you going to try and claim that Friends is better than Breaking Bad or the first 8 seasons of Game of Thrones?
Yes
Big mood. Only old sitcom besides Seinfeld that can still make me snort-laugh at times.
Because it wasnt simple, and its got a lot of old culture in it that doesnt always hit the same way as it did then.
Its a product of its time, and making fun of it is sort of like making fun of older generations for whatever reason.
I will say I dont like how apparently women needed to be under 100 pounds to be considered attractive back then, and it bums me out knowing that Chandler’s actor was struggling with addiction during a chunk of the show.
It does have some really well written bits though, but its usually not the ones people bring up most often.
women needed to be under 100 pounds to be considered attractive
What makes you think this has changed?
The fact that a lot of men now appreciate big booty bitches? I don’t think I’d ever find a woman under 100 pounds attractive even. That’s basically underweight.
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I mean, as someone who grew up watching and loving friends, it’s extremely problematic.
I’ve come to realize over the years that most TV is problematic, but you can still be consciously aware of it and still enjoy what you like within that context. I think it’s worse if you watch it, but have no idea that it’s problematic. My dad watches big bang theory sometimes, and that show is incredibly misogynistic for laughs. He has no idea, he thinks the humor is normal. He just takes a lot of that stuff in completely unexamined. My point being, if you are consciously aware of something being problematic, it makes your consumption of it more responsible.
big bang theory
Blackface for nerds.
I don’t like it, but it’s plenty well written, it’s obvious why people like it. I think people just like to hate on things they don’t like, it can be fun to be negative with no substantial harm, like complaining for fun.
Reavers
I recently got into FRIENDS purely cuz it’s cozy. But it’s hard to reference it without looking a little behind.
“OHHHH ROSS AND RACHEL I GET IT NOW!!!”
I loved Friends growing up.
But it was of a different era and now many of their jokes make me uncomfortable.
The morals of characters in ‘Friends’ make me wonder why it’s ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Curb’ that are considered questionable.
Best joke was always “O Ill prove it! Ill prove it like a theorem!”
That one aged just fine. Ross’ character, not so much.
Wrong.
The best joke will always be piVOT
That joke makes me remeber the time I helped my friend move into his 8th floor condo. He has an oversized black leather sofa that didn’t fit in their elevator and we had to take it up the stairs and if it was any bigger it would not have made it up the stairs at all.
Each flight of stairs required us to remove the hand rail, slowly carry it up the flight, then precisely lift and pivot onto the next landing and ready for the next flight, replacing the hand rail, and repeating the process a total of 16 times. I told him that when he leaves that place the sofa is either leaving via the window, chainsaw, or sold with the condo.
Gonna have to disagree, but yea that one is definitely a fan favorite.
OHHHH ROSS AND RACHEL I GET IT NOW!!!"
My older brother watched Friends every single night, rerun after rerun. Ross and Rachel are the reason I immediately dislike any “will they / won’t they” plots when watching a new show.
I just feel bad about all that sleep you’re gonna miss wishing you were with me!
Oh, no, no, no, don’t you worry about me “falling asleep.” I STILL HAVE YOUR LETTER!
There was some good writing in that show.
I rewatched it couple of years ago and I think it’s still funny and not that dated. The only thing I didn’t like was the laugh track.
Edit: I accept I am wrong here. His style looks like AI slop to me. I see his responses in the screenshots. I’m wrong. I’ll keep my statement about slop as-is, though, since it’s true.
HELLO THERE!
DID YOU KNOW USING AI SLOP AS A CARTOON IS HARMING THE ENVIRONMENT?
Brian Ahearn may make poignant cartoons, but his use of generative AI to illustrate them is sad.Does he though??
I looked into it and found this from not even all that long ago.
I’m all for calling slop out, but we gotta be sure. It does kinda have that style but I don’t see other signs.
Edit: He’s posted his art on Instagram since at least 2020, well before AI image models could put out anything nearly passable.
Its already a thing where random internet users will scream “AI slop” at indie game developers and many of them spend more time arguing that it’s not, showing evidence and still losing sales because of it.
The wolf spider art is familiar to me. It also is distinctly different from the salamander art to my eyes. I get it, my mistake. I have edited my comment.
I don’t get the joke with the beaver.
Vanilla flavoring used to be made from castoreum, which is harvested from beaver anal glands
Something something anal glands
HA! Anal glands…
I, too, lie about not using AI to make money.
How do you know it’s AI?
Yeah as someone pointed out to me in another post. AI slop stole from artists like these hence why it looks similar and some of us have this initial negative reaction. Farking waste of air those thieving tech bros!
That doesn´t look at all like AI slop
The line weight and huge, perfectly centered round eyes all are hallmarks of AI slop. I accept that I’m wrong about him specifically, but this style looks like like AI to me.
Is he an AI artist?
No, because such a thing doesn’t exist.
But also because (at least as far as I can tell), he doesn’t use AI.
Everyone uses AI
Uhhh no that’s not true. Unless you’re one to say everything a computer does is AI, like the NPCs in video games are “AI”
I refer specifically to generative AI that’s taken prominence this decade.
There are few exceptions.
There are topics to debate on concerning AI use, but in the end art itself is always subjective. What’s funny is that AI has gotten to a level now where if used carefully it might fly under the radar of AI critics, meanwhile they are attacking artists who aren’t using AI but have a style that seems to them to be “fake”.
I knew it was harming the environment.
Don’t shame them for their guilty pleasure, lizard creature!
AMPHIBIAN
Hard N.
Better shows to watch:
Buffy
The Wire
MST3K
Survivor up to season 16
The New Girl
GOT (stop mid season 4)
Broad City
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
I’m going to avoid all of these.
Watch Wonder Showzen or Delocated if you want to see something that’s not for pussies.
GOT (stop mid season 4)
Yeah to bad they never finished it
“Legend has it, they’re still fighting to this day!”
I still think GoT is worth watching until the end of S6, the battle of the bastards is a fantastic episode and seeing Sansa’s arc play out was pretty satisfying. Then it went to absolute shit.
Survivor was never good tbh
Personal preference
Or all Star Trek media released prior to 2009.
In a single sitting.
After 2009 it gets more hit or miss. There’s still a bunch of worthwhile stuff though.
You’re right.
I do love 65% of SNW, though.
I really enjoyed the first two seasons, but had to stop after the holodeck episode.
A holodeck… in the prequel to TOS. Just WTF.
Yeah, the musical episode was hot garbage. And the one with the drone swarm… Well shit, why didn’t everyone do that?
Still, dunno, just have a soft spot for it
I thought it was hilarious. As a pure hommage to old trek that episode was amazing, and it didn’t try to be anything else.
DS9
Does the Wheadon sex pest stuff ruin Buffy?
I haven’t seen it but was a Firefly fan, and some of the things in that show now make me cringe.
Not really, but it’s a nostalgia watch for me. It wasn’t an issue when I watched it the first time, and it’s more about what the cast was doing. Wheadon didn’t even write or direct every episode, so it’s hard to really say he ruined every moment of work from maybe a hundred or so people.
If you can seperate the author from the work, then yeah. There’s nothing I can remember from a recent rewatch that’s like tastelessly pervy in it. It does handle some mature themes, there’s some episodes that deal with like SA and stuff like that, but it was handled with levity.
That said, you’ll probably still cringe a bit because there’s parts of it that are so blatantly late 90s/early 2000s that they’re just funny to think about now. stuff like the “internet ghost” is incredibly dated.
>sexual assault, it was handled with levity
As it deserves!
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Hell yes. Is there a decent quality version somewhere? I have some potato quality divx on a spool somewhere.
Sailing the warm ports can reward you with a dvd rip. PM me for details.
RiffTrax (MST3K) Aeon Flux. Trust me. Thank me later.
The live action one? I’m all on on that.
Yeah with Charlize Theron. I mean the film is “ok” for entertainment, but by gawd, the RiffTrax commentary is so fucking worth it, I think it’s the funniest RiffTrax of all time, it’s like 3 bucks on their site, or you can DL it from thepiratebay.org (if it’s still seeded, last I looked there was at least a few of them)
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Some guy running away from a murder scene.
Commentary: “Idiot! Streaking with his clothes on!”
The Good Place
BoJack Horseman
Babylon 5
I mowed and bagged all the leaves in my backyard and put them in my chickens run. They loved it…
The leaves in the front yard got blown to the “woods” between my neighbor and I.
After I mowed up most the leaves in the back, I did another pass with a lower deck setting to get most the pine needles/cones…those went in the woods (the girls don’t like too many needles)…then blew what needles/cones/dog poop remained into a pile, mowed that up (dumped in woods).
Whatever was left got blown under the deck.
Did I do good?
just leave them in place (within reason). your chickens probably loved the leaves because a lot of native bugs use dead leaves to lay their eggs; both mowing the leaves and giving them to the chickens probably killed a lottttt of bugs. and it removes important nutrients from your homes immediate surrounding ecosystem. you’ll save butterflies and fireflies!
LEZERD!!
Also, when you want to remove them (partially or in spring), just mow them and leave the mulch. Easiest cleanup, good for the plants and wildlife
Aside from the wildlife that was hiding in the leaves you just ran though a gasoline powered blender that is.
Good.
They should stay off my grass.
*battery powered blender…
But yeah, you’re right. Goes without saying that one should try to evict as many leaf-tenants as possible beforehand.
Would be nice if there was some timeframe where this is safe for most wildlife
Does this kill the bug?
Like, for real…what are the chances of the bug getting hit by the blade, in the first place? Its one fast blade vs one real small bug. Possibly one with the gift of flight.
Then it’s in a bag full of grass. And aren’t most bugs passive breathers? So wouldn’t all the air rushing through the vacuum into the bag just like, idk, give them superpowers or something?
I tried this for the first time this year. I was surprised how clean it looked afterwards, the leaf mulch mostly disappears into the grass.
I read about mulch once.
Sure, if by “wild life” you mean insects and rodents that you probably don’t want in your yard. Also, your grass will be dead if you have a good amount of trees.
Hedgehogs love leaves. And fuck yes do I want some rodents in my yard. I love bunnies. Why would I not want cool ass beetles? And I’m sure the little lizard wouldn’t mind as well.
Fuck the monoculture you call grass. I have a local wildflower yard.
Akshually rabbits aren’t rodents…
Of course I entirely agree with your post and am just being anal
Fine, then I love squirrels.
Hope you love snakes and fleas too
I love danger noodles. Especially since they’re not dangerous where I live. I will not commit to making my yard be void of life because I am incapable of using flea shampoo. I will also stay far away from wild animals, like you should.
Had a squirrel in my garden earlier today. Invasive bastard…
Could do with encouraging more wildflowers in the open area of my garden that has kinda become a lawn. I put down a meadow grass seed mix and clover. Not sure if much clover really grew though. Ground had been under concrete for decades that I removed after buying the house.
Daisies and dandelions seem like good choices to try and grow there, add some colour and they can usually manage being trimmed shortish too. Don’t have a lawnmower but my partner complains if I don’t strim it a few times a year. Tbh the pathway probably needs it now but leaving the rest over winter.
What makes you insult your furry neighbor?
They are invasive
If you ecological invasiveness, which is an issue with squirrels in some countries, thats fair. But theres ways you can work around that and still have a nice, healthy yard.
Where I live all the grass in peoples yards are not native and would absolutely die without constant upkeep by humans. I really don’t understand the point. I get that it looks neat and upholds the aesthetic of luxury yards, but I’ve never thought natural foilage was ugly and never understood why it was unwanted by people. The picture perfect at grass lawns are very uninviting for people to actually walk around on. At that point it’s basically the equivalent of putting plastic on all your furniture and telling guests not to sit on it
Those lawns could be clover, and they would look even nicer, require less upkeep, and be better for the environment and wildlife.
Some people don’t mind sharing the land they have with them. Especially as the land available to wildlife decreases year on year.
Personally I’ll take insects and native rodents over sterile trimmed grass any day, especially for the front yard which doesn’t even get used aside from a ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ style lawn and garden manicure unspoken competition.
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You mean like complaining on the Internet about a throwaway joke in a webcomic?
The Friends dig was just a utilitarian punchline for the comic to add some comedy to the informative nature of the first panel. I dunno why people take things to heart so much when there really are so, so many better shows than Friends. The comic doesn’t even say that Friends is bad, just that there’s better. Show viewing options have expanded and improved a lot since 1994.
I generally agree with you, however I don’t think you can really say thatviewing options have improved. That depends on a lot of factors, with the most important one being preference.
I mean even if the best ever show to you was something in the 1990s, that’s still an option so I don’t think anyone can say options have gotten worse. But if you like some of the newer shows more than the laugh track sitcoms, options have improved for you.
When it comes to choices, more IS better if the original choices are still there too.
Yes more choice often better, not always but often. You specifically said that there are better shows out there though. That’s not fact that’s opinion. Art is like that.
I didn’t say that, that was someone else. My point was that if for everyone, either the choices have stayed the same (because you only watch Friends and Seinfeld), or they’ve gotten better, because you like the new shows better. That means that on the whole, things are better, because for literally nobody are the available options now worse than in the 90s.
Alright then, my bad.
