The issue is parasitic HOAs that don’t allow it.
be a friend to the animals
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Bosht@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 hours ago
For calling themselves “land of the free” there is surprisingly little freedom, unless you are of course. At that point you can rape kids and get away with murder.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Officially it was a suicide. Or at least according to the Don(ald).
Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
As long as you don’t let your grass grow too much
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
HOA’s don’t allow watching Friends? I thought HOAs were bad.
tomiant@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Landlords Inc.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Yeaaaa, validate me for not taking leaves
Screw blackberries tho
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Excuse me? What do have against delicious blackberries?
FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 14 hours ago
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 :)
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
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.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Look past their juicy and delicious flesh comrade! invasive species are the scourge of many a backyard garden
TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
frosch@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
… 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
tomiant@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Blackberries are “ok”.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
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.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 13 hours ago
bytesonbike@discuss.online 12 hours ago
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.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
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.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
I don’t get the joke with the beaver.
tomiant@piefed.social 8 hours ago
I, too, lie about not using AI to make money.
justlemmyin@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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!
paequ2@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
How do you know it’s AI?
judgyweevil@feddit.it 12 hours ago
That doesn´t look at all like AI slop
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
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.
the_q@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Is he an AI artist?
Empricorn@feddit.nl 13 hours ago
No, because such a thing doesn’t exist.
tomiant@piefed.social 8 hours ago
I knew it was harming the environment.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
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?
erev@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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!!!”
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
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.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 11 hours ago
I loved Friends growing up.
But it was of a different era and now many of their jokes make me uncomfortable.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The morals of characters in ‘Friends’ make me wonder why it’s ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Curb’ that are considered questionable.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Best joke was always “O Ill prove it! Ill prove it like a theorem!”
That one aged just fine. Ross’ character, not so much.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
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.
dephyre@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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!
tomiant@piefed.social 8 hours ago
There was some good writing in that show.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
And Im going outside to rake up my leaves. And my neighbours leaves. Fuck that… gecko? No one shits on Friends, you little shit! NO ONE!!! lol
Ashiette@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
No one needs to shit on Friends, it’s already shit.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Remove the laugh track, and Ross is a full blown narcissistic sociopath… The only person he seems to genuinely care about is his son, Ben… But even Ben seems to vanish in the later seasons. There are fan theories that Ross completely abandoned Ben (or that Carol and Susan took full custody because Ross was always such a prick) after Emma was born. Phoebe is a manipulative bitch who uses quirkiness as an excuse to toy with people.
Rachel is a spoiled disorganized mess, who’s need for attention compelled her to constantly keep Ross on a leash without letting him get too close. She broke up with a dude, got her feelings hurt when he had a rebound, then constantly held it over his head after they got back together. When he got tired of it and found someone else, she crashed their wedding in the hopes that he would leave his fiancée at the altar. Chandler regularly uses sarcasm to poke at his friends’ insecurities and belittle them, and masks all of his insecurities with self-deprecating humor instead of actually working to better himself.
Monica’s obsessive need for control regularly leads her to manipulate or bully others, and consistently overshadows her empathy.Joey was too good for the rest of the characters. His only real emotional flaw was that he never really had any deep romantic connections. But that was largely because he was more into the hookup culture, and he reserved his attempts at deeper romance for the few partners he really got along with. He never tried to hide the fact that he was a playboy, even around the women he was sleeping with. He was an idiot, but he at least cared for and about the other main characters, in a way that none of them ever seemed to reciprocate.
Also, the show was ultimately about six rich white people, who occasionally cosplayed as relatable lower middle class folk. In a city as diverse as NYC, you would have to work to find a city block so completely deprived of melanin. The series was 10 seasons long, and black people only had speaking roles in like 25 episodes… And a lot of those were because Ross and Joey dated the same black woman for like 10 episodes in the last season. They also very clearly lived in a nice part of the city, (some have estimated that Monica’s apartment would run for ~$3-4M when the show was airing) and their financial struggles were only ever superficial to make them more relatable.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Remove the laugh track, and Ross is a full blown narcissistic sociopath…
Yeah, we all saw that video, mate. It only makes him look like that, because hes pausing for the audience laughter. Its a sitcom… I dont really know what you expect. You take away the LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE and everyone looks like a nutjob.
But even Ben seems to vanish in the later seasons.
You can blame the Sprouse brothers getting more work for that, I would assume. Theres strict laws around how many hours a kid can work, and those kids were starting to gain popularity doing a couple of movies a year. Getting the schedules to line up was probably the main reason. But yeah, it was odd to see not see him show up again. But he was mentioned, most notably in jokes about his absence. Like when Jack says Emma is his first grandchild.
Phoebe is a manipulative bitch who uses quirkiness as an excuse to toy with people.
Rachel is a spoiled disorganized mess
Yes, that was the start of her character arc… You have seen character arcs before, right? You start off at one place. Have a few experiences, make some good and bad choices, learn from those experiences and then ultimately grow into a new version of the character? Does having flaws make a character bad? Some would say that flawed characters are the best characters. For example, Kim Wexler is a deeply flawed character, and one of the best of recent memory.
Chandler regularly uses sarcasm to poke at his friends’ insecurities and belittle them, and masks all of his insecurities with self-deprecating humor instead of actually working to better himself.
Same answer as Rachel.
Monica’s obsessive need for control regularly leads her to manipulate or bully others, and consistently overshadows her empathy.
See Rachel again.
Joey was too good for the rest of the characters. His only real emotional flaw was that he never really had any deep romantic connections.
Did you even watch the show?
Also, the show was ultimately about six rich white people, who occasionally cosplayed as relatable lower middle class folk. In a city as diverse as NYC, you would have to work to find a city block so completely deprived of melanin
So, white people cant be friends with only white people? Thats kinda racist, isnt it? Its not like there wasnt any other black people on the show. In the first season monica works with and is friends with a black woman. She just isnt part of the main cast. Do you have the same complaints about Living Single? Or the Fresh Prince? Or any of the other completely black casts of 90s sitcoms? Ill be you dont, cos Reddit never told you to…
They also very clearly lived in a nice part of the city, (some have estimated that Monica’s apartment would run for ~$3-4M when the show was airing) and their financial struggles were only ever superficial to make them more relatable.
So, Im guessing you just got all of this from Reddit? Cos theres loads of reasons not to like friends, and you havent hit any of them. What you have done is hit every single popular thing to say on reddit. Including reddits uncanny ability to miss the mark on all of them. The answer to the apartment was “rent control” and “subletting the apartment from Monicas grandmother”. Things that were brought up in the show REGULARLY. If you really wanted to challenge the cost of living, you would have picked Joey. As he was an out of work actor in a non rent controlled apartment. But even that was addressed by the fact that Chandler basically paid for everything and Joey owed him a fuck load of money. But Joey is the easy one to go after in this complaint, not Monica and Rachel. But reddit users are dumb as fuck, so there you have it.
Honestly, its the racism in your post thats so very disturbing. That white people MUST have a token black friend, or they are considered racist.
In a city as diverse as NYC, you would have to work to find a city block so completely deprived of melanin.
Greenwich Village(where friends is set) is part of Community District 2. And in the 90s CD2 had a population of 94,105. Of that, 2,941 (3.1 %) were non‑Hispanic Black/African American. So… no. It wasnt that diverse. Not where Friends was set. You need to go back to Reddit, bro beans. Youre stinking up the place with incorrect nonsense. Have a great day!
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Don’t shame them for their guilty pleasure, lizard creature!
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
AMPHIBIAN
hansolo@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
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.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
GOT (stop mid season 4)
Yeah to bad they never finished it
hansolo@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
“Legend has it, they’re still fighting to this day!”
BeN9o@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
socsa@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Survivor was never good tbh
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
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.
tomiant@piefed.social 8 hours ago
DS9
hansolo@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
You’re right.
I do love 65% of SNW, though.
bunkyprewster@startrek.website 13 hours ago
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.
hansolo@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
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.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
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.
GorGor@startrek.website 13 hours ago
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.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Sailing the warm ports can reward you with a dvd rip. PM me for details.
hansolo@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Better? Or same?
tomiant@piefed.social 8 hours ago
MST3K Aeon Flux. Trust me. Thank me later.
frosch@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
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
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
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.
tomiant@piefed.social 8 hours ago
I read about mulch once.
tomiant@piefed.social 8 hours ago
LEZERD!!
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
Fuxk no. This robs soil and nutrients from the soil and its ecosystem.
Im a master gardener and I mulch my leaves then leave them on my turf grass.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
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
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
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.
sfgifz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
What makes you think this has changed?
MonkRome@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
TheSambassador@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I mean, as someone who grew up watching and loving friends, it’s extremely problematic.
MonkRome@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.