good news yall, im in pain and thus the amount of brain damage that i will cause to everyone who opens this channel will be greatly diminished, because i probably wont be posting much about anything for an undetermined amount of time

for now, you can have this:

today i tried to explain to my localboomer that companies sell needlessly powerful devices just because they need an excuse to sell new things, and that the "big number means better" thing is real. you know, "if you can tell apart ram from dram and decide you want a phone with 10gb of ram, sure, go for it, but your regular person does not need such a thing by any means" etc etc

at some point, he semi-offendedly claimed that he needs a (more than one, actually) powerful phone, and i quote, because "i can read the newspaper better/faster/comfier [i dont remember the exact word nor i care] on a 120hz screen!"

note that, by that same argument, he bought a gaming laptop to be able to read the newspaper with rtx.

so yeah, thats where i gave up and stopped trying to argue why big number does not necessarily equal better (and even if it did, you dont need better). but oh boi what a ride.

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im gonna post something that isnt a shitpost for once.

i usually try to avoid posting shit that will hurt ppl unable to turn off their empathy in this channel, but im not very in the mood right now, so, for starters, i will provide some context

im a person with physical problems. i've always been. and among those problems, there is "chronic physical pain", the ever-worsening type. that means that every year of my life, i will be having worse and worse pain. there are multiple pains like that in me, but for now, lets just center our attention in one type specifically

this pain particularly, is often between 6 and 9 in a scale of pain that goes up to 10. that means that sometimes it is bearable, and sometimes it is consuming. if i am very lucky, it will be under 6. if i am very unlucky, it will go over 9. i have spent many, many hours in my life just lying awake at night, unable to sleep all night long due to sheer pain, and straight up just trying to breathe because the pain was intense enough to make it difficult. and as long as my life keeps on going, it will still be like that

of course, medics have always been "i cant find anything wrong with you in my 5min interview, and you are too young anyway, so you must be faking it" or some other not helpful variation of that. i will not get into that now, tho.

thing is, this pain specifically is very reactive to coldness and humidity. this is the important point for now.

in fact, many pains, mostly the bones related ones, are reactive to cold+humidity, so it is normal to find old ppl whining about their bones when the temperatures drop

so, whats the issue?

some asshat (and by that i mean "public employees", "the government", or something like that) decided to put a lawn in front of my house. surrounding my house, in fact.

for starters, my neighborhood is cold. real cold. maybe 10º colder than the rest of the city. and because of circumstances that i wont be explaining due to doxxing potential, it is also VERY humid. absurdly humid.

it isnt the best place for me to be in, but i've lived here all my life and i have sort of gotten used to its "local climate"

except they put a lawn. and im not an expert in this, but im betting that they put an english grass variety.


for anyone who is not aware, i live in spain. and for anyone who is not aware, spain is *dry*. it is normal that it goes for 8 months in a row without a single rain, or when it rains in summer months, for it to be an exceptional situation and a "not big" rain. i invite everybody here to open google maps and compare the satellite view of spain and its neighbor country, france, for example.

ppl with a bit of culture will be aware that, in english-land, it rains a lot. ppl with a lot of culture might even know that an english grass requires a damn lot of water. i am not that cultured, but i know that the automated watering system is working like 5 times a day, maybe more, ever day. every. day.

it is, of course, one of those watering systems that just create a diagonal pillar of water and rotate over themselves, cue milhouse scene. the water rises close to two meters into the air, and part of it falls into the grass while the other part just melts with the air, charging it with more humidity. way more humidity. right in front of my window.

when i say that my neighborhood (and, very specifically, my house) is very humid, i mean it. some years ago, a brick+cement wall just started to melt because it was too saturated with water. the last thing i need is even more water in the air.


there are some more extra details that i dont have enough energy right now to provide, but the general scenario is that

now, due to this bullshit, and due also to "climate change means that the temperatures change drastically, you go from too hot to too cold without any middle point", this year im having a very strong "ouch my fucking body it hurts so much" initial reaction. and it is, honestly, not something that i can live with


therefore, i have decided to kill the lawn

i have been pondering options for months now, but nothing quite "solid". not any definite, finished plan.

E.G., "do i kill the watering system? if so, where exactly? and what to do if they come to fix it again, do i break it again? worst case scenario, maybe they start sending some "manual" watering system dude instead of repairing/replacing the automated one...", crappy unfinished thoughts like that.

i even investigated a bit, but, in the end, i havent found any "reasonable" and realistic way to do it, so im gonna go the destructive route

since it is a "public" lawn, i cant just, idk, shovel it out, nor solarize it, or anything like that. horticultural vinegar sounded like a good alternative, but A-that implies buying specialized shit, and B-it is harder and more obvious to apply, and also it may require multiple applications.

an option that sounded elegant that i saw somewhere (i dont know how legit it is tho) was to buy nitrogen rich, fast release fertilizer, because apparently that might make the grass develop a fungus somehow? but again, im not physically in shape to just go and buy a bag of special dirt.

so that leaves salt.

when they installed the fucking lawn, they removed all the soil and its underneath, replaced it with very-cool-soil™, and put the grass there. so i know that it can be done, and that i wont be killing the zone forever.

in the past, when it was an abandoned patch of dirt, some native flora (not much, but some) grew in there. i remember one or two patches of daisies, even. but this ppl, not happy with removing the daisies when they were first installing the lawn, also have put active effort into not allowing them to grow back.

so not only do i know that i wont be rendering the terrain useless forever, but also i know that i wont be killing anything other than filthy grass.

salt is cheap, easy to manage, and im not very experienced but i doubt it will make the things too hard for me. i just need that whoever the fuck decided to put this shit here, sees it and decides "yeah thats not worth it, cut the water"

also, it is worth noting that my neighborhood was full of young ppl 60 years ago, that ppl hasnt moved out, and now a very good chunk of the ppl who lives around here is old to very old. i know some that have actively complained about the fucking lawn watering specifically already, and im not even that social.


so yeah, im gonna kill a lawn. tomorrow, if i can fucking leave the bed, i will go to buy two or three bags of salt, and at some point, i hope that it will be soon, i will use it

im in so much fucking pain and this ridiculous and annoying excuse of a plant has managed to get my anger centered into it.

im not planning to value public property more highly than the promise of "more and more pain, forever"

that was all for now, i dont care if you read it or not, have your shitpost or whatever

me, trying to convince yall that im not a fed:
"hey kids, look at me, im doing a crimes! in this very precise, linkable to my legal identity place, at this approximate time. aint i cool? you totes can trust this communication infrastructure to write about your crimes with details, aint it cool? owo"

pro tip: dont do that. lol. im only doing it because im fukem stupid and "sanity" means close to nothing to me

not to get started with this again, but
"if you are in pain when its humid/cold, why you like so much rain and storms?"

because i live in a state of delicate balance between mental health and physical health. thats why.