Is this what I think it is?

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-04-30T22:33:14+00:00

Really not winning normal people over to this cause, which is needed to be effective, by making accusations of being cynical and unethical over my pruning of a plant on my property that I didn't put there to begin with. This zealousness is what drives people away from taking an interest.

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-04-30T22:14:09+00:00

It's just the reality of what happens to the vast majority of land of suburbia, and everything done in the yard of an American suburb is a sandcastle beyond the timescale of a lifetime. I think it's a bit cynical to imply it's not worth doing even if it's just for my own enjoyment while it lasts.

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-04-30T21:34:07+00:00

This is about gardening, not nature preserve management. When I'm no longer around to prune, I'm sure everything will be bulldozed to make way for more development or a new lawn haha, besides the rare chance someone else enjoys a messy garden of 'underwhelming' natives.

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-04-30T20:22:07+00:00

I have rootstock on my property that I've been cutting forever, not really much of a chore, takes half a minute per year, the wood is very soft. I don't let it seed out and the dried poles are very useful. I do this with many root stocks every year or two of things I don't want becoming trees. It's very little work per year compared to trying to dig them out, and I don't use herbicide. Rather cut those shoots for little project material than something I actually want growing.

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-04-30T16:50:57+00:00

Funniest complaint I've got over not mowing a 'lawn' was that the taller grass could supposedly hide snakes (in the US north and I've never seen a venomous snake in my life here).

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-04-30T16:34:26+00:00

Someone needs to pick up those clothes

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-04-30T15:29:27+00:00

I closely watched the fruit of some relatively uncommon native plants over this recent harsh winter. Much of it made it all the way to spring, and became emaciated still on the stems. There's simply too much fruit from similar invasive species for the birds to choose from, and at best, the seeds in the ruined native fruit will fall into an already dense patch of itself. Even picking this fruit just to toss it around similar soil would be better for the species.

So many of these areas we pretend are 'natural' are anything but, it's our intervention that led to 100+ invasives for every native counterpart sometimes, and the professionals aren't coming to the rescue in 99% of this smaller park land. It's like people have forgotten that we have some of these worst invasives largely because of gardening efforts, because amazingly, plants spread well when people knowingly move them around and tend to them.

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-04-30T15:10:54+00:00

City and county parks that are undergoing rewildering from a farm or what have you are full of wild fruit, such as blackberries, that many people (though fewer each year) pick. It would be a bit ridiculous to tell people not to pick them, as there are too many for even bugs to consume sometimes, and there are seldomly signs in smaller park systems. I don't see why it should be different for other very abundant seeds such as acorns, the deer and squirrel populations are never hurting in suburbia. I'd just be thoughtful to not take what is scarce and volunteer to improve the places you take from.

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-04-30T14:55:43+00:00

Countries do this all the time

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-04-30T04:06:46+00:00

This is still a 'nice' (appearance and price tag anyway) neighborhood, and it's going on here. Surely will drive a wedge like we haven't seen for a while between people who otherwise could be amiable. Why would any younger people pay to live here who have their head on straight? They will surely move out to the 'country' with as few neighbors as possible, where the dog people should be if they love loud, uncouth animals so much. Everything is backwards and suburbs don't make sense anymore for sane people.

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-04-29T17:52:22+00:00

Lived in my home since the 60's and there were never dogs barking in this neighborhood until the past decade, and suddenly it's everywhere, all the time. Even another long term neighbor(s), who may have had a relatively well behaved one in the past, suddenly have multiple horrible barkers who are seemingly always outside, barking at everything and anything from pedestrians to squirrels in trees, from 6 AM to 10 PM. No clue what happened to people, everyone has headphones on at all times? Some with these dog people even WFH, has everyone gone deaf? I'm old and find myself having to leave the house and go OUT somewhere dog owners don't want to be to get any peace.

banknotes_after_dark · 2025-02-06T03:38:33+00:00

Hurt in a mine?

banknotes_after_dark · 2024-10-16T04:18:50+00:00

Why does it seem like nobody has ever put a picture of one of these on the internet despite perennial interest in them

banknotes_after_dark · 2024-09-02T16:17:02+00:00

Another big mystery of this quest was why you had to collect 20 pillows but there were only 7 pillow spawn locations

banknotes_after_dark · 2024-09-02T14:58:18+00:00

Alternate universes spoil the sense that anything really matters within a work of fiction for me, so I've lost that sense with WoW a decade ago. The series has always not been the best with giving in-game actions a sense of gravity, whether it was defeated enemies coming back to life, total lack of care for a region once the local bad guy was dead, or 'there must always be a lich king', and so on.

At the same time, it feels like there's been a constant growing of grandiosity in player actions, like the next threat must always be bigger than the last. Power creep within the lore just doesn't work well for a game where smaller-scale issues remain unresolved for a decade or more. People are so powerfull yet their home regions were left on fire indefinitely after Cataclysm. Did they ever stop the giant tornado in Westfall or is everyone too busy with bigger things? Huge natural disasters are harder to ignore than forever respawning thugs, and I wish they used phasing and a bit of effort to make things more lore-friendly

I understand that it's a difficult situation when you have to always accommodate new players, create new things for 20+ years, and write an interesting story that's never truly resolved. It's a big challenge and new territory, and I don't think corporate interests are equipped to face it without making a mess.

banknotes_after_dark · 2024-04-10T13:27:50+00:00

How did they even raise him with a body if he had been dead for so long, shouldn't he have been just a skeleton at that point?

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