People are on edge now in a way I’ve never known in my life, despite all evidence pointing towards violent crimes being at their lowest rate since before I was born. The world is safer, but no one feels safe.

Have become? I don’t understand.

Such an excellent article where politics was intentionally and easily avoided followed up by the most presumptuous paranoid nonsense perfectly making the point of how fearful so many are of everything, but especially the other team.

I don’t think it’s some marketing creation that a manicured lawn looks better than an overgrown lot with weeds and grass 12 inches tall going to seed. They also breed snakes and insect problems when overgrown.

Not all of them...

But the butterflies!

My parents moved from Brooklyn, NY to a nice quiet town in Litchfield County in CT. They had zero concept of owning a house with a lawn, never mind a 1 acre plot of lawn. By the time they realized they needed to do something about it, a lawnmower was no longer an option. They had to wait until it got longer and have a…

I have seen the neighbors crop over a foot

My parents gave me their old Echo backpack blower last year and it will cut my yard cleanup time by probably 80% this fall if not more compared to my regular handheld Echo. So not sure what that saves emissions wise. I have a lot of electric tools where I can but I need the runtime and power of gas for my yard. Would…

If I didn’t mow all May, the grass would be so long by June that it would be impossible to mow

My neighbors don’t believe in mowing their epic crop of Dandelions

Every day we stray further from reality.

Seems pretty bland so far. What’s the dramatic part?

So...a few observations. Damn, Springer died at the age of 29. So young. Nazi Occupation again in Germany in the mid 90's? I understand why he looked like he died a hard 29. Finally, born in 1994, meaning somewhere between that and now he definitely messed around with the space time continuum. I mean it could explain…

Luckily the roads and bridges are so well built and maintained that all this added weight won’t be an issue at all.

And, this is why the parking garages are going to crumble.

Anyone else see this as ripe for abuse?

Not sure what the law is like in NZ, but, if it’s anything like it is in Canada this:

often involving protesters gluing themselves to asphalt, so they can’t move out of the way of oncoming traffic.

So, we have a sense of Last Generation’s goals and tactics here: Get maximum impact in the news, by attacking — but never damaging — things that people were already looking at