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Lawns are ugly as fuck and an ecological atrocity

The absurdity of an outdoor carpet made of plants weekly denied the singular purpose they exist (bearing seeds) is enraging to me

When homeless, would look at open spaces, abandoned buildings, and think what a waste. I would understand about homeless encampment, more understanding, found self getting way more tolerant. More forgiving. I actually got excited when seeing homeless people on streets being resourceful, building communities.

This year, finally got an studio apt. Rent controlled, many people here, including me working to recover from homelessness.

My case manager came to my apt to fix my window. I'm on the back apt building. Love location cuz it looks onto a fenced in property, undeveloped, just trees.

He looked at the space. And said what a waste, so many homeless people could be housed there.

I said, no way, then it'd get crowded, filthy, crime. It'd ruin my peace. Then I stopped. Realized, how little it took for me to go to the darkside.

america has the disease of Jeffersonian individualism where the imagined ideal is a self-sufficient lord of the manor, the unexamined part of which is free land and enslaved labor

"noise pollution" is a thing. and yeah people shouldn't have to tiptoe around but I don't feel too friendly to people's "right to make noise" when I'm suffering from migraines. We need to work on finding solutions that make our world more peaceful and less noisy in general

First of all, it’s TikTok. 99% of the people there are unable to detect sarcasm and satire and believe in every outrageous thing related to sex and relationship some random girl says on a podcast and get angry. The entire thing is meant to piss you off so you talk about it.

Second of all, real life people do not like waking up to the sound of a lawn mower no matter how burbbrained they are.

Third of all, social media in general have a habit of taking something innocuous and interpreting it in the worst possible way. People are raising their heart rate for no reason other than to feel something. It’s essentially self harm in another way.

Like damn she was just talking about how it would be nice to enjoy a peaceful morning and random commenters took it as a personal attack. Shit you not I truly believe some suburbanites would go to war over their lawn the way they treat it like a fortress to a castle.

I know from personal experience that if you ever, ever ask a pink-faced thumb-headed divorce dad to not blast out floorboard-shaking-loud max-bass buttrock or flaghumping yeehaw country after midnight while taking rant selfies in the cabin of his mobile suburban assault vehicle, he will never stop taking the opportunity to do it extra just to spite you.

Treatbrain is a progressively worsening condition that involves louder and more aggressively "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOO" spite over time.

The thought of being a bother to other people makes me feel sick and panicky. I cope with this by reassuring myself that I'm doing my best and they probably aren't that bothered anyway.

I'd someone actually told me I'm bothering them I'd consider jumping into traffic. Just put my head in the mower blades and fucking end it.

At least my electric mower is quiet. Much better.

I’m all for hating boomers and their lawns, but tbh her argument sounds like those boomers complaining about kids playing outside or “my ethnic neighbors are playing loud music.”

There’s respect, but there’s also the recognition you live around other people and they’re allowed to live their lives too. A lawnmower is an extremely common sound in the suburban auditory landscape, it’s not like he’s shooting off guns at 6am.

Leaf blowers should bee fucking outlawed. The most pointless and obnoxious tool in existence which pump vast amounts of pollution into the atmosphere. I genuinely am bothered less by the people doing burnouts and shooting off guns at like 2 am in my neighborhood (equally productive activities to leaf blowing imo), because it may be louder but it's less annoying.

Death to lawn care. (Yes, I did formerly work for a landscaping company, how could you tell)

the peace? you mean the spooky silence? not even the forest is that quiet. suburbs are creepy as fuck. a lawn mower would be a relief from the oppressive deathly quiet.

i don't really get being so bothered by other people doing stuff. then again, i just expect outside to be kinda loud. sirens, fireworks, children screaming, birds chirping, &c. silence to me means bad stuff is happening.

I agree, that woman has no respect for the desires of those early morning leafblowers

Honestly shocked to see so many people here demonizing people doing their outdoor physical labor in the summer during the coolest part of the day.

"They could just do it in the afternoon."

Motherfucker, we have released so much carbon into the atmosphere that it's 103 degrees with 75% humidity, at 3pm, I'm not getting a fucking heat stroke so that you can exist outside in perfect silence at 9 in the morning.

I work in retail.

Most people are selfish and evil.

This is very silly but also a problem that central planning could totally solve. Imagine if every lawn used native plants that required minimal upkeep, and then there were specific times for caretaker tasks that create a lot of noise pollution (like mowing, preferably during a time when most people are at work). This is the sort of thing a HOA could conceivably do to make everyone's lives better, instead of colluding to keep black people out of the neighborhood.

i hate lawn mowing and i hate sundays because of that obnoxious ominous droneing humming buzz they make. i hate lawns. i hate suburbs. i hate the people who maintain and live in them. my deepest wish is for all suburbs to be ripped from the bosom of the earth and hurled into the sun. all cars and roads too. only trains and efficient high density affordable housing will be spared my cosmic wrath when i achieve apotheosis.

I disagree I think that restrictions and rules like that make you smaller if you never push back against them. People have a right to exist and make noise in their own homes

I grew up in a house where every noise I made was a cause of me being told off and I really hated it. If you let such people boss you about it's like you lose something of yourself it is deeply unpleasant to live under those confines

There should just be designated windows for lawn care on the weekend, say 2 hours on saturday from 3-5, with weekdays being unrestricted. If they wanted they could even make battery powered equipment exempt. As someone else posted it’s way quieter. Small engines are also highly polluting.

It's a systemic issue of having lawns and fining people for letting them become natural spaces instead, so I'm team "Complaining about it is fine and getting mad about the complaint is weird, but I'd rather get woken up than have less-than-minimum wage workers get more heat stroke."