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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.

@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.

Steve Schwinghamer

@aud @lmorchard

The sad part is the article is more than a decade old... and people are still running around with leaf blowers "cleaning up" properties.

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