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Buttons ,
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I want to make a short film / animation where aliens are approaching earth, the only thing we know about the aliens is that they plan to destroy all life and replace it with their own twisted creation. A few minutes of typical story follows, heroes assemble, go to fight, etc. The heroes lose and the ending scene shows that the aliens have succeeded and replaced all the diverse life on Earth with a perfectly manicured lawn that covers the entire planet. A biological wasteland.

UnverifiedAPK ,

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Son_of_dad ,

So is this like a whole movie with the premise of “the cage” from star trek?

CPMSP ,

Commence high pitched screeching

blanketswithsmallpox ,

Pretty sure one of the nearby planets to Earth in The Foundation series is like that.

An entire planet covered in sunflowers that shoot deadly ass rays against anything that comes close. Perfect homogeneity.

Guntrigger ,

Please, not the ass rays!

blanketswithsmallpox ,

I’m glad someone got it lol.

The pistols and stamens, the center part of the flower are where the reproductive organs are. So it’s the closest thing to an ass a plant has.

People need to be proud of their.puns again damnit!

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I have flowery bushes in my yard. and several of my neighbors planted flowers too.

yoz ,

Reading all the comments and everyone is like not my yard , its full of flowers but for some reason I don’t see any bees or butterfly 🤷‍♂️

crispy_kilt ,

That’s because it’s not the only reason. Another big one is pesticides.

electric_nan ,

I stopped cutting my grass and now I have rats :(

CantaloupeAss ,

Simple, get an owl

electric_nan ,

We do have foxes, but they’ve been a disappointment thus far.

Surreal ,

Now we have an owl infestation

CantaloupeAss ,

Simple, get a condor

the_third ,

Rats do not live off grass. If you have them, there’s some sort of food source on your or your neighbors property.

Cornelius_Wangenheim ,

Or, like, insects.

mrchuckles ,

lmao my guy rats literally eat everything

the_third ,

Yeah, but they really can’t digest grass.

mrchuckles ,

they eat seeds, overgrown grass develops seeds. man this thread is ridiculously misinformed lol even on RATS

electric_nan ,

Tons of blackberries.

Guntrigger ,

They don’t live off grass but long grass is great cover for them to move freely. My lawn is pretty wild, but I have to mow directly around the house otherwise mice and all sort of insects start taking up reaidence in the house.

ClarissaDarling ,

I’m not sure where you live but if you can find some native seeds from your area, plant those! It’s the perfect time in many northern-hemisphere places for overwintering things like wildflower, clover seeds and more! Fancy lawn grasses are bogus and weak

MedicPigBabySaver ,

Weak

flan ,
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i dont have a yard

oldfart ,

See? You’re a part of the problem.

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Titan ,

Individual yards are such a wasteful and environmentally destructive concept

Resonosity ,

Remember it’s not just about saving honey bees! Honey bees are domesticated, which means that humans will make sure that they have food and shelter and appropriate medicine and care throughout the year to ensure they make honey.

Saving “the bees” moreso means saving wild, native, often times solitary bees like bumblebees or carpenter bees that don’t produce honey but that also aren’t domesticated - they have no safety net that humans give them.

Those bees along with all other pollinators like bats, birds, and other insects are the ones at risk!

Still, we should all consider growing native yards to return habitat back to these dying species!

MayvisDelacour ,

I only mow at the last possible second to not get a fine, has been working really well for my yard. I have seen flowers, corn, and a beautiful assortment of creepers and clovers start taking over the sterile grass. My neighbors neighbor seems to get butthurt. They take care of my direct neighbors yard whom I share a chain link fence with, she loves my vines with the flowers and strange gourds that wind around the fence. Neither of us planted it but the people who tend her yard destroy it 😭if we just let everything happen naturally some very cool things start to crop up. I’ve seen some absolutely massive grasshoppers and a bunch of praying mantis as well. My bee hotel never attracts anything but I’ve seen plenty of bees about which makes me happy.

Jubei_K_08 ,

In those moments I’m as high as fuck and imagine I could own a home, I’d just desert-ify the yard. It’s going that way anyway, let’s beat the rush. Just sand and rocks and some desert plants. Like us, most yards will die in the water wars.

Coreidan ,

……Because of insecticides from agriculture.

It has literally nothing to do with people mowing their lawns.

If you got rid of all of the lawns you’d still see mass extinction of honey bees.

MayvisDelacour ,

Sure but why add to the problem? Why not carve out your own little slice and help the situation? Probably not going to hurt anything if you stop using pesticides and feed the bees where you can.

Coreidan ,

It’s not adding to the problem. As long as farmers are using fuck tons of pesticides and insecticides every day it doesn’t matter what you do to your lawn.

Either way insects are going to die.

You guys love slinging shit but you have no clue where to sling it.

Pipoca ,

No.

Honey bees are dying because of parasites and pests, pathogens, poor nutrition, and sublethal exposure to pesticides.

It’s not just one thing. Most of those things on their own won’t even kill them. For example, Varroa mites will kill an already weakened hive, but not a healthy one.

Lawns absolutely contribute to poor nutrition, due to habitat loss. Same with all the mowed grass we have everywhere in suburbia. Monocropped agriculture does as well, because bees do best with a variety of flowers.

I’ve let the back part of my property grow wild the past couple years, and it’s currently filled with a ton of goldenrod, chicory, and a bunch of other random flowers. You would not beleive the number of honeybees I’ve seen back there at once, or how loud the buzz was.

Similarly, there’s a reason I see a ton of fireflys in my yard, but I see almost none in my neighbors yards. It’s because they’re well- manicured green wastelands

S_204 ,

This just isn’t accurate. Your lawn isn’t responsible for the death of bees. You also don’t need pesticides for a healthy nice looking lawn.

jaybone ,

Is this the Windows 98 background?

TimeSquirrel ,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

Windows XP was the grassy hill. Windows 98 was just a random shot of some clouds.

jaybone ,

Lol it’s been so long I can’t remember.

What was the Windows 95 background?

Was it that flying pixelated window with the pixelated acid trails?

Case ,

We keep the front mowed for the HOA.

The backyard can grow until we worry about snakes affecting our pups.

We have a front garden that gets no care outside HOA recommendations. It came with the house.

Can’t wait until I can OWN a house, but the market (with all the influences upon it) isn’t there.

I’m saving, and considering moving to another state, if that helps all the pedantic monsters our there.

BartsBigBugBag ,

Just quit watering the grass except for in small walkways and start a food forest.

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