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Yeaaaa, validate me for not taking leaves
Screw blackberries tho
Excuse me? What do you have against delicious blackberries?
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.
Certain blackberries are deeply irritating invasive species. Delicious, but an outright menace that can destroy local forests. Methods to control them are extensive and extreme. Never eat road side blackberries in the US, certain states use herbicide to stem the tide. Bushes next to highways are more likely to be sprayed. Low pedestrian traffic and cheaper maintenance than cutting them back.
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 :)
I know the Himalayan blackberry and they are awful to have on your property. Each year all too much time is diverted towards controlling it and attempting to eliminate it. The birds (if they exist) eat them and spread the seeds. They pop up where you thought you’d already handled them. Ug.
We do collect them to make cobblers and such, but I would gladly do without that if I could rid us of them entirely.
Thanks, I know what I’m planting!
Mint doesn’t need to be put in the ground. Just put it in a pot outside, it’ll do the rest, and leave you with some level of plausible deniability.
I know this because my ex got some different types of mint to grow, since we both loved it. She put them in pots on the front porch, about 4 feet off the ground.
That mint found its way to the lawn. We still don’t know where it started from, just that the pot was flourishing, and then so was the yard. The new owner of that house is still finding mint growing in random parts.
… You ever tried clearing a yard or whole garden overgrown by wild blackberries for years?
God, they’re delicious, but they are EVERYWHERE, regrow as soon as you turn around, and you either are very slow and careful or get hurt a lot. Nasty little suckers, those thorns.
I’d guess OP has the same trauma as me
Edit: I accept I am wrong here. His style looks like AI slop to me. I see his responses in the screenshots. I’m wrong. I’ll keep my statement about slop as-is, though, since it’s true.
HELLO THERE!
DID YOU KNOW USING AI SLOP AS A CARTOON IS HARMING THE ENVIRONMENT?
Brian Ahearn may make poignant cartoons, but his use of generative AI to illustrate them is sad.Does he though??
I looked into it and found this from not even all that long ago.
I’m all for calling slop out, but we gotta be sure. It does kinda have that style but I don’t see other signs.
Edit: He’s posted his art on Instagram since at least 2020, well before AI image models could put out anything nearly passable.
The wolf spider art is familiar to me. It also is distinctly different from the salamander art to my eyes. I get it, my mistake. I have edited my comment.
How do you know it’s AI?
Is he an AI artist?
No, because such a thing doesn’t exist.
But also because (at least as far as I can tell), he doesn’t use AI.
There are topics to debate on concerning AI use, but in the end art itself is always subjective. What’s funny is that AI has gotten to a level now where if used carefully it might fly under the radar of AI critics, meanwhile they are attacking artists who aren’t using AI but have a style that seems to them to be “fake”.
That doesn´t look at all like AI slop
The line weight and huge, perfectly centered round eyes all are hallmarks of AI slop. I accept that I’m wrong about him specifically, but this style looks like like AI to me.
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!!!”
I just feel bad about all that sleep you’re gonna miss wishing you were with me!
Oh, no, no, no, don’t you worry about me “falling asleep.” I STILL HAVE YOUR LETTER!
Also, when you want to remove them (partially or in spring), just mow them and leave the mulch. Easiest cleanup, good for the plants and wildlife
Aside from the wildlife that was hiding in the leaves you just ran though a gasoline powered blender that is.
*battery powered blender…
But yeah, you’re right. Goes without saying that one should try to evict as many leaf-tenants as possible beforehand.
Would be nice if there was some timeframe where this is safe for most wildlife
I tried this for the first time this year. I was surprised how clean it looked afterwards, the leaf mulch mostly disappears into the grass.
Don’t shame them for their guilty pleasure, lizard creature!
AMPHIBIAN
Better shows to watch:
Buffy
The Wire
MST3K
Survivor up to season 16
The New Girl
GOT (stop mid season 4)
Broad City
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Or all Star Trek media released prior to 2009.
In a single sitting.
After 2009 it gets more hit or miss. There’s still a bunch of worthwhile stuff though.
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Hell yes. Is there a decent quality version somewhere? I have some potato quality divx on a spool somewhere.
GOT (stop mid season 4)
Yeah to bad they never finished it
“Legend has it, they’re still fighting to this day!”
I still think GoT is worth watching until the end of S6, the battle of the bastards is a fantastic episode and seeing Sansa’s arc play out was pretty satisfying. Then it went to absolute shit.
Does the Wheadon sex pest stuff ruin Buffy?
I haven’t seen it but was a Firefly fan, and some of the things in that show now make me cringe.
If you can seperate the author from the work, then yeah. There’s nothing I can remember from a recent rewatch that’s like tastelessly pervy in it. It does handle some mature themes, there’s some episodes that deal with like SA and stuff like that, but it was handled with levity.
That said, you’ll probably still cringe a bit because there’s parts of it that are so blatantly late 90s/early 2000s that they’re just funny to think about now. stuff like the “internet ghost” is incredibly dated.
Not really, but it’s a nostalgia watch for me. It wasn’t an issue when I watched it the first time, and it’s more about what the cast was doing. Wheadon didn’t even write or direct every episode, so it’s hard to really say he ruined every moment of work from maybe a hundred or so people.
