OwOhollyShiitake

joined 2 weeks ago

What an amazing throwback! I'll install this today when I get home

Thank you for posting

[–] OwOhollyShiitake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

My parents used to be the kind of people who thought autism == rain man, which is funny because my dad often displays some very aggressively autistic behavior (you know, things like inflexible routines, food and texture aversions, gross misunderstandings of social cues which have led him to quite a few actual fights, draconian rule following and imposing, an obsession with guns, yadda yadda) which he thinks is perfectly normal and "how things should be", because "that's how he was raised and is therefore good", according to him.

And, obviously, when some of those behaviors crossed over to me, he thought it was perfectly normal as well lmao

(I say used to because I've been trying to educate them a bit but man is progress slow)

[–] OwOhollyShiitake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Echoing a handful of comments in this thread, I'm from Argentina and I've seen maybe one leaf blower in my entire lifetime. However, I've been to the US , so I believe you (my condolences)

If my understanding is correct, leaf blowers contribute a lot to the current massive bug die-off that's been happening lately all over, because many bug species reproduce in leaf litter. In that regard, they're not only terrible noise-wise, but ecologically-wise as well.

So, terrible all around.