Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower

Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t mind the electric ones, but I had a neighbour that would fire up a two-stroke backpack monster at 6 AM any morning there was the barest skiff of snow. And he’d try for hours blowing heavier snow that he could have had shovelled in 15 minutes. He was generally just an asshole neighbour all around.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    we had a thread a while ago, and some dude was in there insisting that blowers can be “used for snow” because apparently snow blowers don’t fucking exist.

    People are fucking weird dude.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve used one for a very light coating or powdery snow, but more than a couple inches of that it’s just easier and faster with a shovel

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        IMO if it’s that little snow, i’m just fucking leaving it.

        It’s not gonna kill me, unless it’s sitting on a solar array or something.

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• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  People forget brooms exist. Just like using a shovel during the winter.

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You didn’t just start using electric ones?

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  • espentan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They probably weren’t too concerned with the emissions from the leaf blowers themselves, but the dust and whatnot they whip up into the air.

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    • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Most gas-powered leaf blowers use two-cycle engines, which produce hundreds of times more hazardous pollutants and fine particulates than cars. Leaf blowers overtook automobiles as the number one source of air pollution in California during 2020.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I did want to kneecap the idiot that decided to use a leaf blower to blow the sand off the parking lot of the apartment I used to rent in. Was kind of tempted to send the manager a bill for a new clear coat on my car.

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• Liz@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The fucking DREAM.

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