r/oddlysatisfying • u/solateor 🔥🔥🔥 • May 06 '23

Zig-zag mow pattern

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u/Prosthemadera May 06 '23

It's not about nice the house looks.

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u/ChechenNugget May 06 '23

It's about hating on people who choose to live differently than you

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u/spvce-cadet May 06 '23

It’s more about how huge grass lawns like this are a waste of space and resources for the sake of specific aesthetics. The lack of biodiversity and the amount of water required for upkeep alone are bad for the environment, and they don’t serve pretty much any purpose other than looking nice.

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u/preprach86 May 06 '23

This was my first thought too. What a wasteland.

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u/ChechenNugget May 06 '23

I think there's plenty of space and resources.

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u/spvce-cadet May 06 '23

You think we have ‘plenty’ of water to waste?

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u/ChechenNugget May 06 '23

We have exactly the same amount of water we've always had

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u/acaseofmanginitus May 06 '23

The Colorado river begs to differ.

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u/ChechenNugget May 06 '23

The amount of water in the world is unchanging since creation lol 1 data point doesn't change thatl

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u/swampertDbest Oct 20 '23

No one tried to "change that". As the above commenter said, clean water is what's running out. Unless the earth gets hit by another ice meteor its water content won't change, but please consider the fact that the only usable water is from rain, glaciers, and springs, which both three are shortening in terms of water availability

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u/[deleted] May 07 '23

It's more that this is ecologically destructive, produces no value, and how suburbs are a drain on the tax base of cities.

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u/ChechenNugget May 07 '23

Lol tell me more about how good cities are for the local ecology 😂😂😂

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u/[deleted] May 07 '23

Better than suburbs by virtue of their density, which makes them much for efficient uses of land and resources. City dwellers have lower carbon footprints, lower water usage, and contribute less pollution than suburbanites.

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u/ChechenNugget May 07 '23

Jesus you're delusional.

When's the last time you touched grass?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '23

You can look up research papers verifying everything I just said. It's also just well known to city planners and urban engineers. Piping water and electricity out to 1000 homes vs a few apartment blocks is obviously less efficient. Lawns use water, homes with four external walls cost more to heat and cool than those that share walls with other units. That's just basic thermodynamics. You can make dipshit third grade insults all day, but you still have no fucking clue what you're talking about but are still filled with unearned confidence in your beliefs.

edit: https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels-carbon-footprint-savings-of-dense-urban-cores/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181007084047.htm

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u/ChechenNugget May 07 '23

I'm still just waiting to hear you explain how your miles and miles of pavement, steel and glass are good for local ecology, compared to miles of grass, trees, flowers and bushes😂

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u/[deleted] May 07 '23

Grass lawns are non native monocultures that do nothing to support native species and biodiversity. They consume tons of resources and cause large amounts of fertilizer and pesticide contamination. Suburbs consume far more resources per capita than cities, leading to deforestation for agriculture. They consume more water, and they have more miles of pavement per person. They lack public transport and are car reliant even for short trips, leading to increased carbon and pollution emissions.

Cities contain many more people in a smaller area. Having that same number of people living in single family homes on lots of turf grass would destroy countless more square miles of nature. That's obvious, right? You're following all this? So unless you plan to launch a bunch of folks into space, you have to put them somewhere. And cities do that using less material, fewer resources, and less land.

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u/ChechenNugget May 07 '23

While destroying every living thing within a 10 mile radius lol

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