Edit: ugh, the creator made this with AI
Homie’s thumb is on the wrong side.
Looking at the water hose it seems like AI to me
Look at the kid’s face
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Why an ai image
It’s a way to counteract the environmental benefits of not maintaining a lawn by wasting electricity to generate an image instead of using one of the thousands of suitable pictures that already exist. Duh
I found this image online and now that I see it was created by AI, the hypocracy is obvious.
OP is too lazy to maintain a lawn do you think they’d put effort into this?
TONY! Love that man.
Join our goddamned cult. Kill Your Lawn. Create habitat and eradicate the bland. Create a native plant or a vegetable garden in your front yard. Killing your lawn and growing native plants is the best way to learn to identify the plants that USED to grow where you lived before the commercial automobile slum cesspool (trademark) was built. But most importantly, kill the lawn within yourself.
Even the video description is cool.
Why not? It’s a meme not the Sistine chapel ceiling
Cause it looks shitty. A literal Ms paint scribble would be better.
Who cares? Like, I’m not defending ai images here, they suck. But are you really seeking a high quality vintage art style meme?
Pretty sure Michelangelo could figure out how a fucking hose works tho
Sure. Why couldn’t he?
Dad: Jimmy the HOA evicted the last family that started growing vegetables in their front garden.
Jimmy: Let’s mess up those fascists.
And they did…
I find it mad that hoa were allowed to be established. Sorry how much money did you pay for this land oh it’s it 0 weird it’s exactly the amount of fucks in my pocket.
It’s unfortunate because I actually think there is a need for a lower layer of governance below the municipality but the HOA is a terrible structure for that purpose for many reasons.
a need for a lower layer of governance below the municipality
Yeah it’s called common decency in society. Yous probably call it goddamn communism or something
Nobody else needs HOAs
I don’t know what you’re trying to say here or what communism has to do with what I was saying.
There was a thing a few months ago where some artist connected NYC and Dublin with a live video feed. It had to be shut down because a woman showed her breasts on the feed. This was legal in NYC, but not in Dublin. “Decency” in one culture can be oppression in another. We need some form of adjudication beyond village wisdom.
Word.
Lawns were grown to demonstrate social status by having land that was not needed for food production to fulfil one’s immediate needs.
In the same time period, eating meat at every meal was a demonstration of social status - only the wealthy and powerful had enough livestock to slaughter and eat them routinely.
Like lawns, and meat, and college education, and a dozen other forms of conspicuous consumption - privileges of the wealthy during the Victorian era and earlier, when industrialized society made those privileges cheaper, the middle class seized on them to emulate the upper class, and after a hundred fifty years those privileges became expectations.
And conspicuous consumption as a status symbol, when universalized to the majority of society, led inevitably to unsustainable consumption and the world as it is now.
It’s funny, my yard is essentially the community play ground. When I don’t maintain it, the clover gets destroyed and it turns into a mud pit the kids can’t play on really. Natural grasses didn’t stand a chance even after being given the time to establish.
I consulted with a landscape architect who I was partnered with on an elementary school I was building looking for what I could do naturally to keep the yard in tact while the kids played… this was a nationwide firm, on a LEED Gold project. Their answer? Grass. Rye grass, KBG and red fescue was the recommendation.
I nuked the lawn, soil and seeded it and two years later it’s held up wonderfully and is enjoyed by a handful of families.
I planted Milk weed for the pollinators. They don’t want most of the crap people plant trying to be Eco friendly anyways or so the landscape architect told me.
This anti lawn tirade is kinda anti-kid to a degree. When my kids are older and not using it every day, I’ll tear it all out and hardscape it. I don’t wanna maintain things for no purpose.
This anti lawn tirade is kinda anti-kid to a degree.
I see where you’re coming from, but I’d argue that more public parks with playgrounds and fields to play on is better than lawns. In some places that’s not prioritised, possibly where you are, and so it sounds great what you have going on!
But if there are enough public parks for kids to play at, then lawns just end up being wasted space that could instead be a garden or have native plants that help the native wildlife, or something like that.
I don’t know anyone that actually uses their lawn for anything… Some people might host BBQs or stuff like that, in which case I don’t mind. In my view, if it gets used, great! But most of the time they don’t and they just suck up water resources and petrol on mowing with no real benefit
The best lawn is one that serves a purpose for a reasonably sized group of people. Feeling or being compelled to maintain something you don’t want, that’s of no value to you, or nature, is the worst part of lawn culture to me. Nobody should be expected to have a lawn they don’t want, if you have a better use for the space, do that instead if you want.
Sounds like their lawn is at least good for their community. Maybe it’s suboptimal urban planning, but that’s far less bad than wanton waste of resources in my book.
I’ve got a play structure on mine. There’s usually a half dozen kids on it daily.
Hope you have great homeowner’s insurance in case any of them gets injured.
They don’t want most of the crap people plant trying to be Eco friendly anyways or so the landscape architect told me.
The research of entomologist, Dr. Doug Tallamy, and his team at the University of Delaware have identified 14% of native plants (the keystones) support 90% of butterfly and moth lepidoptera species. The research of horticulturist Jarrod Fowler has shown that 15% to 60% of North American native bee species are pollen specialists who only eat pollen from 40% of native plants.
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@thatsTheCatch Looks like you accidentally posted the same comment twice.
Thanks
Imo what you’re saying is reasonable not just for kids but for everyone - we need spaces for outdoor recreation and sport. And that includes some amount of native grasses. That being said, if you go through a suburb, most lawns are not used for that purpose and certainly, almost every boulevard is wasted. Many neighbourhoods either lack public parks, or the parks are not safely accessible by bicycle.
That’s where the whole nolawn discussion comes in: to stop making lawns the default. They have a place, but we’re overdoing it to the point of pushing out native species and pollinators such as bees and butterflies.
It’s not anti-kid. Tons of people live in cities with no yards whatsoever and they still manage to raise children and to let those children play. Shared parks offer better play opportunities than private lawns do in an urban environment.
Random fact - there is no sales tax (vat) on grass seed in the UK because you can, in a roundabout way, eat it. At least, your cow or your sheep can.
Food isn’t taxed .
You know those little flowers that look like tiny pansies, the violets? Tasty as fuck, so also tax-free
Unless the law has changed very recently cakes are not taxed but biscuits are, in the UK. Jaffa Cakes baked a giant Jaffa cake when they went to court to prove they aren’t biscuits.
FFA student
WEED EATER.
I’m a weed eater and proud of it.
I love Tiny Adult Burt Reynolds.
So you can play sports at home, Timmy.
Mixed native ground covers could be just as good…
You aren’t eating that (for the most part)
Edit I’m very pro alternative lawns, but the flat, consistent texture as seen on a sports field is specifically what I’m noting
