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Not to be contrarian, but this is my backyard where I grew up in central Ohio:
The parks are just easy examples because they’re public property.
Now, I know I was lucky to have the kind of access to nature I had as a kid. I work now towards trying to give everyone that kind of access, and the parks system is the best way I know to do that.
You’re gonna get no pushback from me there. I hate the car-centric nature of the US, and rural/small town Ohio is particularly bad. I’m just trying to point out that even these flawed places aren’t all bad. There’s always something better to work towards, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t appreciate the good that’s here right now too
LOL fair, just doing my part to raise awareness! You’d be shocked how many people live right next to places like this and don’t even know they exist
Eh, there’s a lot of this in Ohio for sure, but as someone who lives here I think people forget how much nature there is too. I’ve worked in several environmental conservation jobs and there’s a lot of truly beautiful places here.
Examples:
Mohican State Park
Gorman Nature Center
Strouds Run State Park
Hocking Hills State Park
Miami University Natural Areas
Midwest US here too and my family also had this table when I was a kid. This comment section feels like a bunch of midwesterners realizing the midwest US isn’t the entire world lol
IIRC it was mainly backlash for them integrating Microsoft ads without tracker blocking. They did walk it back after public backlash, though they still use Microsoft ads, just anonymously.
That and their recent generally AI-positive messaging has alienated anti-AI people, but they seem to be walking some of that back too.
To me it feels like they are generally good, but somewhat out of touch with their userbase, which causes a blunder here and there. They’re also a US-based organization, so make of that what you will.
Personally I still use the NoAI version of DDG because no EU-based alternatives have feature parity yet.
Surefire way for a site to ensure they immediately make my blocklist
This is actually amazing
As someone who worked at a park district, this is 100% true and such a big problem. Those fuckers grow to be like 18 inches long and have thousands of babies.
Someone dumped a couple they got at a fair into one of our ponds and within a few years they were nearly the only life left in the entire pond. They eat anything and everything in their path and decimate local ecosystems. They’re the freahwater equivalent of locusts.
We ended up electrifying the entire pond, scooping them all up, and rebuilding the whole natural ecosystem back up from scratch. You can’t do that with a lake tho
Yeah, it’s written to mimic that image. My bet’s on it being a reference
10/10 hole right there
Pretty sure it’s called a pound sign, no? Maybe I’m just old
Edit: Apparently it’s also called a “hash” or “number sign”. Funnily, “hashtag” is actually not considered a correct term for it
LSD tabs -> Browser tabs
Again, the high cost isn’t the problem, it’s that it is now higher than it was before and wages haven’t gone up to match it. Of course that’s the case outside the US too, we’re all in the same boat. All I’m saying is the low starting price point does not change the burden it puts on people’s wallets when it gets more expensive.
Well it seems people in the rest of the world don’t know how cost of living, inflation, or necessity work either.
The US is structured so you need a car unless you’re one of a lucky few in an urban area not built for cars. The nearest grocery store to me is a 20 minute drive in both directions.
The problem isn’t the raw cost of gas, it’s the relative increase in cost which raises the cost of living in step because you cannot live here without a car. It prices people out of getting to their job and going to the grocery store.
Not when you live in an area built exclusively for cars where the cost of living is structured around gas being $3/gal. I’m thankful I at least live in an area of my state that is somewhat navigable by bike. The US sucks man
Looks like a mesh baseball cap