- cross-posted to:
- seattle@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- seattle@lemmy.world
Edit: ugh, the creator made this with AI
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Homie’s thumb is on the wrong side.
Looking at the water hose it seems like AI to me
Look at the kid’s face
Remember we need left hands too donate yours today
Why an ai image
OP is too lazy to maintain a lawn do you think they’d put effort into this?
TONY! Love that man.
Join our goddamned cult. Kill Your Lawn. Create habitat and eradicate the bland. Create a native plant or a vegetable garden in your front yard. Killing your lawn and growing native plants is the best way to learn to identify the plants that USED to grow where you lived before the commercial automobile slum cesspool (trademark) was built. But most importantly, kill the lawn within yourself.
Even the video description is cool.
I found this image online and now that I see it was created by AI, the hypocracy is obvious.
Dad: Jimmy the HOA evicted the last family that started growing vegetables in their front garden.
Jimmy: Let’s mess up those fascists.
And they did…
I find it mad that hoa were allowed to be established. Sorry how much money did you pay for this land oh it’s it 0 weird it’s exactly the amount of fucks in my pocket.
It’s unfortunate because I actually think there is a need for a lower layer of governance below the municipality but the HOA is a terrible structure for that purpose for many reasons.
a need for a lower layer of governance below the municipality
Yeah it’s called common decency in society. Yous probably call it goddamn communism or something
Nobody else needs HOAs
I don’t know what you’re trying to say here or what communism has to do with what I was saying.
There was a thing a few months ago where some artist connected NYC and Dublin with a live video feed. It had to be shut down because a woman showed her breasts on the feed. This was legal in NYC, but not in Dublin. “Decency” in one culture can be oppression in another. We need some form of adjudication beyond village wisdom.
Word.
Lawns were grown to demonstrate social status by having land that was not needed for food production to fulfil one’s immediate needs.
In the same time period, eating meat at every meal was a demonstration of social status - only the wealthy and powerful had enough livestock to slaughter and eat them routinely.
Like lawns, and meat, and college education, and a dozen other forms of conspicuous consumption - privileges of the wealthy during the Victorian era and earlier, when industrialized society made those privileges cheaper, the middle class seized on them to emulate the upper class, and after a hundred fifty years those privileges became expectations.
And conspicuous consumption as a status symbol, when universalized to the majority of society, led inevitably to unsustainable consumption and the world as it is now.
So like… I’m agreeing with the things you’re saying, but the way it’s phrased makes it seem like you’re saying “It’s actually the poor people who are the problem”
Just struck me as kind of funny lol
In a way it is. Colonial empires maintain the support of the proletariat in the imperial cores by funneling wealth from colonized nations back to those people. If you’re better off than your parents were, and your parents are better off than your grandparents were, why do you care that your ruling oligarchy is genociding its way across the planet and shoveling stolen profits into its insatiable maw?
English commoners forgave their empire’s industrial scale genocide of African slaves on Haitian plantations because that genocide provided white sugar for their tea.
American commoners forgive the wholesale torture and murder of Latin American peasants because we can buy cheap bananas at the supermarket.
The top 20% of Americans control 80% of America’s wealth. But they don’t consume 80% of the resources America consumes. They don’t burn 80% of the gas, they don’t eat 80% of the food, they don’t produce 80% of the pollution. What’s killing the world is the bread and circuses - or rather the cars, cell phones, and factory farms - that give all but the very poorest Americans an artificially inflated standard of living at the cost of the world as a whole.
But telling poor Americans “your standard of living is too high” when the entire capitalist machine tells them they have the right to all the consumption they can buy and the best standard of living they can earn, it’s a hard sell, you know?
Random fact - there is no sales tax (vat) on grass seed in the UK because you can, in a roundabout way, eat it. At least, your cow or your sheep can.
Food isn’t taxed .
You know those little flowers that look like tiny pansies, the violets? Tasty as fuck, so also tax-free
Unless the law has changed very recently cakes are not taxed but biscuits are, in the UK. Jaffa Cakes baked a giant Jaffa cake when they went to court to prove they aren’t biscuits.
WEED EATER.
I’m a weed eater and proud of it.
I love Tiny Adult Burt Reynolds.
