Me: (Sitting down with a beer to enjoy my newly tidied deck)
Birds: (Chirping sweetly)
Neighbors: “IT’S GAS POWERED WEED WHACKER LEAF BLOWER TIME MOTHERFUCKERS”
Though i will say one of my neighbors who moved in last summer murdered his lawn this spring and literally threw it in a dumpster. Replaced it all with native plants, gravel, and planter boxes. I high fived-him last week
It also wouldn’t be so bad if the gas powered lawn tools were a constant noise? But they like to go pbpbpVRRMpbpbVRRMpbVRRRMpbpbpbpbVRRRRRRRM
Like, I get the appeal. I too like to double bzzt the electric drill and double clack the tongs. But maybe go play a video game on headphones or something
@lmorchard@hackers.town noisy and highly polluting! Nothing says "enjoying the great outdoors" like a deafening blast of unfiltered & partially combusted gasoline.
I apologize, as I post this link every few months when people complain about leaf blowers. It crystallized everything I hate about them into some clear metrics.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-car-vs-truck-vs-leaf-blower.html
@sps@historians.social @lmorchard@hackers.town "Distilling the above results, the four-stroke Ryobi leaf blower kicked out 6.8 times more NOx, 13.5 times more CO and more than 36 times more NMHC than the Raptor.
The two-stroke leaf blower was worse still, generating 23 times the CO and nearly 300 times more NMHC than the crew cab pickup. Let's put that in perspective. To equal the hydrocarbon emissions of about a half-hour of yard work with this two-stroke leaf blower, you'd have to drive a Raptor for 3,887 miles, or the distance from Northern Texas to Anchorage, Alaska."
just to goddamn blow some fucking leaves into your neighbor's yard.
The sad part is the article is more than a decade old... and people are still running around with leaf blowers "cleaning up" properties.
@aud @lmorchard @sps
Small engine exemptions, just like scooters under 250 cc in various places. You'll get from point A to point B on a teaspoon of gas, emitting a lot less CO2, but more CO, NOx, SOx, and VOCs than a big rig accelerating with a full load.
Big cycling fan here. Want to turn me into a fang-faced ranting noodlebrain? Show me one of those lawnmower-bicycle engine conversion kits... the ones with practically zero emission or noise control...
I'm spiking my blood pressure just thinking about it.
(I'm no pedal purist: ebike everywhere, do your thing, pedal assist all the way! Just... not with dinosaur juice.)
@sps
Paris is possibly the only city in the world smart enough to consider banning scooters at night, after a study revealed that a single scooter driving throug Paris at night can wake up 10,000 people.
I’m fucked because I’m not in Paris and a kid on my street just got a scooter that’s about as high-pitched squeely as they get, and every night goes somewhere around midnight or 1am.. also drives in circles around the block in the day. Sounds like a chainsaw running inside my walls. Can’t wait for my area to catch up to Paris.
@violet @aud @lmorchard