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Or maybe you're losing your edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent who are actually really really nice.
HN is really bad at sarcasm...
1: the author disagrees (but may feel they can't do so directly), and
2: the author is clever (which of course is true of all HN users).
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Six foot fence keeps the deer moving along... but those fat groundhogs climb right over.
Run a wire around the perimeter near the top with a fence charger attached and you'll solve that one quickly.
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Six foot fence keeps the deer moving along... but those fat groundhogs climb right over.
Metal fences are tricky for groundhogs. my parents have one that is welded wire (comes in a roll) and its not sturdy enough for a fat groundhog to climb all the way up and get over, they aren't the most athletic. once they shored up some holes along bottoms of the fence the groundhog wasn't getting inside anymore.
I love my backyard garden (even though my Brussels Sprout experiment this year proved to be a huge waste of time). I also love the aesthetic that cottagecore is revitalizing. I love drinking at local wineries, buying stuff at my local farmer's market, brewing beer and swapping bottles with homebrew friends, etc... But holy shit am I repulsed by the influencer aspect that is growing with this "movement". Ways of Seein…
Having escaped the necessity of living in certain ways, we find outselves voluntarily adopting older forms of human behavior. That's what exercising is. It's what gardening is. It's what having pets is. These are behaviors that mimic the surface characteristics of old ways of life (hunting, farming, animal husbandry).
Interesting. Are such behaviours necessary to feel content as a human?
Being out in nature, possibly. It certainly feels good for a lot of people.
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Run a wire around the perimeter near the top with a fence charger attached and you'll solve that one quickly.
I was thinking barb wire, too. I need to do something because I bought a lot of my fruit trees fall of 2019 and so they should be producing next year and they’re pruned low, not to mention I upped my berry game this year.
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My focus is on "lazy gardening" -- or how much can I get nature to automate things. How much can I use waste biomass as a resource. Etc. I end up with a lot of failures, but the successes are really satisfying. The main challenge is that the feedback loop is ~1yr which means that it's not a hobby for the impatient. :)
Have you researched "forest gardens"? Lots of good information about lazy gardening there. In reality it is extremely thoughtful gardening which lets you (hopefully) get to a point where the garden runs itself save for a few hours/week upkeep.
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Shatner was covering the song, which was originally by the English band Pulp. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People
I was at university when that song was released and it used to amuse me greatly at the number of rich students singing along as if the song was some show of unity with “common people” - not taking a second to actually think about the lyrics.
Michael Douglas' "Greed is Good" movie speech had a bigger cultural impact than the actual plot of the film (Wall Street, 1987), where the exploitative nature of private equity takeovers is shown, and where both Douglas and Sheen eventually land in prison for insider trading.