www.healthyyards.org is the link in the image. I’m not affiliated with it in any way, I just hate when people put links in images and you can’t click on them. Almost as bad as texting someone a QR code. Motherfucker, what am I supposed to do with that, get another phone to scan it?
Heal thy yards
FWIW I know on iPhones if you tap and hold on a QR code in an image, it should give you the option to open the link.
I’d be surprised if Android doesn’t have a similar behaviour available?
Screenshot, share to binary eye, done 🥳
Kind of amazing that people still need to be convinced to wear helmets while riding.
You’d have a hard time convincing me to ride without one.
This is very context related. As an example, in the Netherlands almost no one wears a helmet while riding a bike and the cyclist union discourages the government from any legislation requiring people to do so.
Cycling is so safe, you really don’t need one (unless you think you should also wear one walking down the street). The cyclist union’s argument is that if you force people to wear a helmet, fewer people would cycle, more would drive a car and in the end more people would end up getting hit by a car.
That being said, I would 1000% wear a helmet in most other countries.
Same, but it’s actually a charity I started recently to fundraise to buy bikes (and helmets) for teenagers who sign up for a cycling club at local high schools! There’s a bunch of kids who are interested in the club but can’t afford their own bike. Cycling is pitifully rare here in the US so I’m hoping to improve that in a small way 🙏
In that case, masterful self plug.
Where are you located in the US? I think I have a few unused bikes.
Thanks! South Carolina - details on https://helmetheads.club/ if you’re actually interested in supporting, anything is appreciated!
Thanks! Unfortunately I’m pretty far from SC, but I’ll see if I can contribute anything via the website.
https://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx
If on desktop
But… they’re sharing an image? Where else would you like it to go, in the EXIF metadata?
Like in a radio advert, you just remember the URL and type it in!
rewild that shit!
I can revegetate her
Because of bullshit HOA rules.
Because I’m also on a lot of cocaine and I’ve cleaned the entirer inside of my house to surgical standards.
And a beautiful new coat of Scheele’s Green I hope
Bungalows have never been sustainable, tax an infrastructure-wise. We need a similar one.
Mayberry and cars were neat for the 50s, but we’ve sacrificed green space and agri space for bungalow sprawl. We either have to reduce people or forget single-level fire-trap houses and driving 20 min to a parking lot for daily needs.
I don’t know where you live but I have not seen a new bungalow built in 40 years.
I’ve seen plenty knocked down to build a McMansion on though.
It’s not an issue of the style of house; it’s an issue of the lot square footage allocated to a single house (i.e. dwelling units per acre).
Think of it like this: if you’ve got a single family house on a square 1-acre lot, that’s a little over 200 feet on each side. Assuming it’s not a corner lot and you’ve got a neighbor across the street, your tax dollars basically need to pay to maintain 100’ of street, water and sewer pipes, etc. plus the cost per mile of city vehicles driving past it. (Plus some amount related to the depth of the yard and its effect on the length of other roads on other sides of the block, but let’s ignore that for simplicity.)
In comparison, if it were 4 1/4-acre lots instead (with 50’ of street frontage each), each family would only be responsible for 25’ worth of infrastructure. Or if it were a 10-unit multifamily building on that lot, each family would only need to pay for 10’.
Unfortunately, because tax is based on property value and not street frontage and value doesn’t scale linearly like that, what ends up happening is that the city loses money on the large-lot single-family, and those people (who are already generally some of the richest since they can afford large lots) end up getting subsidized by the (poorest) people who take up the least amount of space.
It’s both unjust and a perverse incentive to consume more space than you need.
City ordinances…
Become a 🌻 Social Justice Druid 🌿
Mine’s all brown and overgrown, am I doing it right?
Can we get rid of lawns while bringing back the fashion please?
We only have yards because some asshat when creaytng the cookie cutter home system for suburbia thought it was a good thing to force non rich people to care for a thing only rich people had because they paid others to take care of it to show they had wealth to hire a ton of people, so that “they would be too busy to think about commuting crimes”…
We also have them because they are nice to look at, smell good, and pleasant to use; the exact same reasons that the wealthy had them.
Most alternatives to a traditional lawn lose at least two of those and they can take just as much time to maintain.
Suburban lawns are a problem but there’s very few, if any, alternatives that provide the same benefits.
Nice to look at is subjective. I find them ugly, but ofcourse that is rooted in knowing that they’re basically dead land that just looks green. Just like tree plantations aren’t as pretty as a forest. What I find prettier is chaotic growth that is mostly left to it’s own.
Smell, again subjective, I find the varried smell much more pleasant. But the smell is always superceded by the nearby dairy farm anyways in my case, as it is for my neighbours with their grass yards
“Pleasant to use” you mean easy for kids to play on? Can’t argue with that if you have kids. I don’t and I enjoy watching my chaotic yard used more by birds and insects. , knowing that there’s at least more life in there.
18th century? Who was doing this in the 1700s?
Today’s lawn is pretty much a tiny copy of the Estate Grounds that the Aristocrats used to have.
And they were spraying all kinds of nasty shit on grass that isn’t native to make it look pretty?
The “that isn’t native” part is mostly a US problem. The reason they aren’t native here is that Europeans brought over the same turfgrass species they’d been using at home.
“Kentucky bluegrass,” for instance, is actually native to Europe, despite the name. Ditto for fescue, bermudagrass, etc.
Nah they just used the poors to take care of it.
Which I guess is still sorta true today.
And they were spraying all kinds of nasty shit…
Yes they used literal shit, both animal and human.
…on grass that isn’t native…
I can’t answer that but it really wouldn’t surprise me. The ruling class commonly imported plants and animals from all over the world.
…to make it look pretty?
No pictures exist, obviously, but I’m quite sure that groundskeepers were doing whatever was necessary to make their Lords estate look as good as possible.
