CarbonConscious

I mean if you're flexible about the specific name of the country, then you're about 24 years too late on that prediction.

Hell yeah thanks! Found a few sites like this but I'm tryna find one I can download to stick up in my Komga instance.

Still trying to finish up Blame! Slow progress into Spawn, very 90s vibe but it's cool. Want to check out Absolute Batman, but gotta find a good downloadable spot for it first.

Yeah, except from the reboot. (in age, haven't seen it yet)

Yeah especially considering the house on the other side of this lawn has a bald eagle nest in the back yard, so the little critters really need all the help they can get!

Agreed. Their lawn is also shit, and I think maybe 20% of this neighborhood has ever picked up a single lawn tool themselves.

These are also the folks that leave the long-dead perrenials growing by their porch in place, so that when spring comes their front step is just covered in gross fuzzy white dead old vines, which then naturally end up blowing into our yard throughout the spring and into summer. So ya know, just real fixated on important lawn business all the time.

I so agree. I was actually really proud of how I'd managed to balance the close-cut lawn I'm required to keep with at least a little bit of growth, and did it in a way that looked really nice and intentional, not like I'd just been missing a spot all year.

I thought it was a great compromise and I loved it. Sadly, the crackers next door disagreed, and I guess that's what matters to the owner (who has insisted they will never sell this house, so it's not a property value thing).

That's all I wanted. There's a ton of really cool birds and wildlife on this lake, so I'd love to keep their environment as natural as possible.

Also, the yard back there is mostly full of big ol goose turds, so it's barely even usable for playing with the kids or anything. I'm no ecologist, but everything I've read suggests that natural growth would cut down on that more than buzz-cut grass, but sadly I don't get a choice about it.

Yeah I've never had a conversation with these people in the over a year we've lived here. Except the one time I passive-aggressively ragged on their teenage grandchildren for leaving a huge doggie dookie square in the middle of our front yard.

Yeah you're not wrong. In that way it's probably not a fair comparison, but I'm also unmotivated to do so.

The neighbors launch boats from there, but they also have a full-on in-ground pool on the plateau above this one lol. Nobody swims in this lake, so I have no idea what the beach is for other than not having to do maintenance on the landscaping (valid).

They are the ones with the beach. Ya know, big sandy beach, just like you always naturally find on the north woods lakefront. Wouldn't want to ruin all that with some ugly local flora, that's for sure.

The last time I bought a new GPU was long enough ago that it was normal to buy them at (or slightly below!) msrp. So that is to say, at least a decade or more hence.