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Good for you. Not everyone has that luxury
Not having a HOA is a luxury? This is an absurd statement. HOA are associated with wealthy neighnorhoods...
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it’s not a luxury, dude, i rent because that’s all i can afford. if i owned land and some gang of dolores umbridge wannabes still got to shove me around i’d grind my teeth to dust. It’s insufferable enough to have my landlord give me crap for vacuuming my car out in my parking space, i’d go absolutely nuts if i has all the rights of ownership and still couldn’t do perfectly reasonable things on my front lawn.
> It’s insufferable enough to have my landlord give me crap for vacuuming my car out in my parking space Why did you not flatly refuse to buy into that particular form of idiocy?
unlike owners, though, i can just move out if i want to in a few months.
Quite the romantic notion of wildflowers spontaneously blooming in your unkempt yard when the best you're likely to get is crabgrass.
I remember when I was 8, 10, 14. In the late 80's and early 90's. In the evening and night, bugs were everywhere if you drove. They were thick, like a fog all to its own. You needed windshield wiper fluid at minimum, and you'd have a hood-bug-stopper.
These days, I drive and drive and drive. And what do I not see? I don't see the clouds of bugs everywhere. I rarely have to use windshield wiper fluid - the majority was for bugs that just aren't there now.
I'm already feeling the life changes of climate change, and I'm in Indiana. It's no sealevel change, but its the very life; the bugs, the birds, the mammals, and plants that grow. I'm sure farmers feel it more, but given politics, it seems the farmers are against the idea of climate change - as it's some sort of democrat talking point... But we can just add more fertilizer.
Here in West Australia we get these bastards in our lawn https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/declared-plants/doublegee-pest
Natures Caltrops. and let me tell you, they're strong enough to pop a tyre on a pushbike.
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Not having a HOA is a luxury? This is an absurd statement. HOA are associated with wealthy neighnorhoods...
Where did I say an HOA is a luxury? I said not everyone has the luxury of being able to avoid HOAs.
In the US, TSCA 1974 grandfathered in thousands of chemicals with zero proof of safety and no studies. I think Ralph Nader needs to hit this point every now and then to remind people that American chemicals are ridiculously under-regulated compared to Scandinavian and other Western countries. And if you're still using RoundUp, switch to table salt.. it will kill most plants but not kill you.
Killing weeds with salt is a terrible idea unless you want no plants at all to grow in your yard. And probably still a bad idea even then because there is no easy way to take the salt back out of soil.
In the US, TSCA 1974 grandfathered in thousands of chemicals with zero proof of safety and no studies. I think Ralph Nader needs to hit this point every now and then to remind people that American chemicals are ridiculously under-regulated compared to Scandinavian and other Western countries. And if you're still using RoundUp, switch to table salt.. it will kill most plants but not kill you.
Killing weeds with salt is a terrible idea unless you want no plants at all to grow in your yard. And probably still a bad idea even then because there is no easy way to take the salt back out of soil.
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> It’s insufferable enough to have my landlord give me crap for vacuuming my car out in my parking space Why did you not flatly refuse to buy into that particular form of idiocy?
i didn’t. The rules in question were adopted after i moved in, and as a renter not a tenant i don’t get a vote. unlike owners, though, i can just move out if i want to in a few months.