The issue is parasitic HOAs that don't allow it.
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For calling themselves "land of the free" there is surprisingly little freedom, unless you are rich of course. At that point you can rape kids and get away with murder.
As an American. The cause is racism.
No, really. HOA's were originally created to keep black people out of white neighborhoods after government-backed segregation was made illegal.
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I stopped raking years ago, and have started seeing fireflies again.
My neighbours hate it, but honestly, I’ve never understood raking in the first place. It’s autumn, and leaves are natural. What’s with the obsession to make lawns look like artificial carpeted spaces?
The leaves look nice imo. Better than a scalped layer of dying grass.
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Ok but please clean your sidewalks, people. Don't use the environment as an excuse to be a bad neighbor. We still need to use the sidewalks.
It is strange to me, that sidewalks aren’t public property and are managed (and cleaned) like the streets in other countries 😄
They are public property and designed and built by the municipalities in many places. The cities and towns just prefer to offload the cleaning part to who every lives in front of a section of sidewalk.
Let's call it "Civic Duty" and your chance to do something nice and beneficial for your neighborhood.
In Brazil the property owner is responsible for everything up to the edge of the road in a lot of places, including building and maintaining sidewalks....they go to shit and nobody fixes them lol
In the US, it's the opposite.
People typically don't own land a few feet in between them and the street.
I have crashed my escooter on slippery wet leaves. They were too slippery to steer.
Now I ride my bike instead I haven't had that problem as the roads are swept
Probably depending on the country and according legislature, but as a pedestrian, I often wish for more scooters to take to the road as well. In most aspects they are very equivalent to bicycles and just as fast and dangerous. Worst of all are those scooter drivers who switch between road and sidewalk with every traffic light.
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Yeaaaa, validate me for not taking leaves
Screw blackberries tho
Excuse me? What do you have against delicious blackberries?
The plants are nigh impossible to control or remove. They're like mint; only plant it in the ground if you hate yourself and your neighbors :)
Thanks, I know what I'm planting!
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They're a highly invasive species here in Washington state. Brought by settlers. They've displaced the native species and are nearly impossible to get rid of.
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Himelayan blackberries are invasive
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Depends on the zone.
In Texas where I lived... you get snakes. BIG snakes. And fun things like ninja bug swarms, wasp colonies, black widows, and such.
There aren't a lot of wet leaves in Florida with so many palms or evergreens, but if you do leave them, you get disease and parisites, especially if its up against your house. Like, all the native plants in your yard will start dying. And it's definitely not safe to step in.
And fireflies and butterflies. You take the good with the bad.
What's up with h all the hate for Friends these days? It's a simple feel good comedy that got laughs, why hate on that?
I loved friends, still do
I never watched it, but it always looked bad.
How do you think it compares to Fresh Prince or George Lopez?
It's a comfort show that's still popular. But for some people they just don't get it. Kinda like how the office is a comfort show. Why do people still watch them? Not sure, I don't get the appeal. But it's pretty common to have a comfort show and that's probably fine.
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I honestly don't get all the love for the show. It was the stereotypical sitcom that was super generic and not all that funny. I was always completely bored by it.
And the salamander didn't say anything bad about it. It said there's better shows. Are you going to try and claim that Friends is better than Breaking Bad or the first 8 seasons of Game of Thrones?
I like that when you mention better shows you choose 2 shows that are not at all light hearted, funny or comparable to Friends in any manner.
Why watch friends when you can watch 2 shows that have many fucked up things happen in them
I hate them all 😶
Game of Thrones only had 4 seasons though. Shame they never finished it.
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Because it wasnt simple, and its got a lot of old culture in it that doesnt always hit the same way as it did then.
Its a product of its time, and making fun of it is sort of like making fun of older generations for whatever reason.
I will say I dont like how apparently women needed to be under 100 pounds to be considered attractive back then, and it bums me out knowing that Chandler's actor was struggling with addiction during a chunk of the show.
It does have some really well written bits though, but its usually not the ones people bring up most often.
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I recently got into FRIENDS purely cuz it's cozy. But it's hard to reference it without looking a little behind.
"OHHHH ROSS AND RACHEL I GET IT NOW!!!"
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