Why did my dumb ass think this was a cute lil baby guillotine at first
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You're spending too much time on Lemmy.
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Won't lie, I saw the scent h and my brain went: guillotine
There are so many of these in Slovenia
I've only ever seen them at hiking trails, so yes. I'd rather be hiking than doing anything else
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.
Oh I've never seen that, maybe it's regional
These are small towns. Like between 200-1000ish people. East Coast of Canada for me.
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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.
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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.
Use goof off or goo gone. Adhesive removers. Gone real quick.
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."
Ah yes. The redneck. A worldwide phenomena.
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Maps with hats.
You are here 🔴
HOW THE FUCK CAN THEY POSSIBLY KNOW THAT
Modern surveillance state.
I never gave these things a second thought, but yeah, they are pretty awesome actually.
Take a bee, leave a bee?
This is actually a so-called "insect hotel"! 😁
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.
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As a trail maintenance volunteer, I am biased, but yeah, I like them too.
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What is that? A sort of trellis for vines to grow on? Drying rack?
To put grass there to dry. Very common in Slovenia.
Is the grass for livestock bedding or roof thatching? Wouldn't think it would be enough for hay/feeding.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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I love bulletin boards! They're always a good spot to find local events
My only problem with these are that the plastic on them is always somehow smudge/frosted enough that you cant read a thing.
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The ones put up by my region's park system usually have 4 sides and are even better.
Each side is typically like:
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Trail map
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Park/trail rules and contact info
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Local flora and fauna info
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Local ecology info and history
An information board, such as a noticeboard or interpretive sign.
You can find them with the there linked overpass-turbo tool.
I once cycled to a pub in the rain to meet friends. The pub had no where to lock a bike, apart from one of these roofed sign things. It was tricky but I managed to lock it to it. It was great, kept the rain off my bike.
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