• m0darn@lemmy.ca
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      9 days ago

      I am on an elementary school’s parent advisory committee and we had one built for school notices and fundraisers etc.

      It took for ever to get built though, and cost an arm and a leg.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 days ago

      Had them in some small towns I lived in growing up that were used for a public board. Yard sales, missing stuff, other events or official notices.

        • Aeao@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          Depends on the hike. Sometimes I hike to where my phone is charging because I feel it’s charged long enough and I don’t want to spoil it. It should be as tired as I am. 20 percent? You’re more charged than I am get your ass over here.

  • Blurry Bits@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 days ago

    This thing means - “Beyond this point remains some collection of natural items that rednecks have yet to destroy, or that venture capitalism has failed to monetize, yet.”

        • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          Is the grass for livestock bedding or roof thatching? Wouldn’t think it would be enough for hay/feeding.

          • NoiseColor @lemmy.world
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            8 days ago

            It is/was for feeding mostly. Even today there are a lot of these out there some very long, even though they aren’t used extensively anymore. Most were torn down, but in Slovenia you can’t go far without seeing one. Like some countryside ornamens.

            • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              8 days ago

              Huh. Neat! Seems like a labor intensive way to produce hay, guess modern baleing technology has made them obsolete. (By modern, I think square hay balers happened in 18XX sometime and were horse or mule drawn.) Probably was real expensive until sometime last century.

              Got a picture of a millstone I recently found but Lemmy isn’t letting me upload it right now. I love old tech.

              • NoiseColor @lemmy.world
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                8 days ago

                Yes pretty neat! All this old “tech” makes me imagine a world when time was moving slower.

                I dream of silent days when I’d work with friends to put hay on these things and not questioning my own existence because I made a living designing pointless digital products, now have to beg companies to hire me to design pointless apps for them under the threat of the huge mortgage I had to get to renovate my parents house, because my salary could never be enough to buy something.

                Just sun, drying hey, bees, silence…

                • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  8 days ago

                  Yes and no, I think.

                  Totally get the draw of simpler and slower paced life with fewer distractions, clear responsibilities, greater self reliance, comprehensible social and technological world…

                  Small pox, tuberculosis, black lung, crazy uncle locked in the woodshed, whipping and beating of children and women, pervasive religion, famines, limited food choices in winter, illiteracy, and wool underwear: not so much.

                  I guess everything is a trade off; but, humans certainly didn’t evolve to live in a society this complex.

                  I think we’d be much happier living in small interconnected communes of less than 100. Most agrarian, with some dedicated to manufacturing or medicine or whatever. Stable and smaller population size. Don’t know if we could produce microchips, chemical synthesis, satellites, and high tech modern staples. Maybe we could. Sounds like heaven.

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 days ago

    The ones put up by my region’s park system usually have 4 sides and are even better.

    Each side is typically like:

    • Trail map

    • Park/trail rules and contact info

    • Local flora and fauna info

    • Local ecology info and history

  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Announcement

    There will be a meeting

    Additionally, Council Member <smudged> has <redacted>

    Here is a map of the area not to scale

    • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
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      9 days ago

      You are here! I love it when they have a little local bird guid on there too.

      Little lending libraries have that vibe and are also awesome.

        • anon6789@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          I was mainly just beeing silly, but I had thought of making one of these, and it seems that there is a lot that actually goes into having a good one. Proper size holes and the correct materials and all that. I suppose local insects require a number of specific things. I think I may go pollinator garden instead, but even finding the right types of plants seems daunting.

          My original joke of the take a bee, leave a bee seems to have some basis in reality though! I found this blog post as the result of a reddit post and some insects do come and take some of the nesting insects! In addition to some hibernating or laying eggs, parasitic insects also love them, as one would enjoy a nice new supermarket in town! Seems similar to hawks staking out unsheltered bird feeders.

          • Sips'@slrpnk.net
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            9 days ago

            Ah yeah I wasn’t sure, did make me smile though :)

            Thanks for sharing the extra posts, very interesting!

          • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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            9 days ago

            For your pollinator garden, see if there’s a nursery that specializes in native plants of your region. They’ll be able to help you figure out what you need and where to plant them.

            • anon6789@lemmy.world
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              9 days ago

              Good reminder! Many of my garden centers have shut down, but there are 2 on my drive from work I havent checked out.

              For anyone in US/Canada, someone here gave me this Xerces guide to regional pollinator plants that has sooooo much info. I definitely want some milkweed. We had a resurgence of monarch butterflies last year and it was really nice to see.

              • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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                9 days ago

                Make sure you buy the right kind of milkweed for your latitude! The monarchs need different things during different stages. And don’t get the “tropical” or “Mexican” milkweed if you live above the Mexican border.

                • anon6789@lemmy.world
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                  9 days ago

                  I did see there were quite a number of species! That’s what makes all this so daunting! I just want to throw out some scoops of seed and attract bees and butterflies…why must it be so complex?! 🤯

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
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      9 days ago

      They’re common around designated nature trails in my country too. You’re just remembering simpler, happier times probably.

  • Sips'@slrpnk.net
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    9 days ago

    Loooove these stands, whether it’s for a local map or for posters and events.

  • earphone843@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 days ago

    We have one to cover our goat’s alfalfa bales, and I’ve always thought it was neat. Unless I cut my arm on the roof, then it’s not so neat

  • Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    9 days ago

    There is this nature reserve I like to go to nearby. They have a whole row of these setup explaining stuff about the region, the plants, what they do to preserve it (which is a lot). There’s also some along the walking route with relevant explanations about some of the plants and animals present at that location.

    Until one day some fucking asshole during Covid got a lot of shitty anti-vax stickers and plastered them all over the place. All over all of the info signs, the walking route markers, basically anywhere they could. It must have been hundreds of stickers.

    Next time I came there I reported it, but they said they were aware. People had tried to remove the stickers, but they were those really shitty paper stickers that just fell apart instead of coming off. They also weren’t water proof, so withing two weeks they weren’t even readable any more.

    Some time later the people managing the place attempted to remove the stickers but it didn’t work. In the end they used such a strong chemical it not only removed the sticker but also damaged the plastic underneath. Those things were constructed of a metal plate with the prints on them and sandwiched in between acrylic. The kind of thing that will hold up for years outside and is easy to clean. The acrylic was also treated with an anti-graffiti coating, but that didn’t help against those shitty stickers I guess.

    The signs were all but destroyed at that point and a forest manager told me they didn’t have the funds to replace them all. Some of the sings have since been replaced, but there are still a lot left damaged.

    It ruined my peaceful place and made me hate anti-vaxxers even more. I used to go there to escape from all the awful stuff in the world during Covid as it was one of the things one could still do to not be locked in place all the time. People suck.