2026-09-26 01:20 UTC
Back in the early 2010s, before I moved back to CA, I lived with my parents and mowed the lawn regularly - I actually had to keep up on it pretty aggressively, because otherwise, the clippings would be so overwhelming they'd kill the live grass underneath. Getting close to obstacles meant that the tracks of the tires were too consistent, and would carve persistent tracks in the grass beneath, which wouldn't show up elsewhere in the lawn thanks to random variance making the process more forgiving.
I hadn't thought about that in years, but seeing these crop circles in some grass that's
1. Near trees, and
2. Mowed short every single morning
was kind of neat to recognize, and made total sense after a second's thought.
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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-09-26 01:24
See, the pro move here would have been to actually cut out the airplane windows instead of carve them down halfway, so you could look out onto the playground. But I'm not a playground designer, I just have common sense and a vague memory of being a kid once, what do I know? And don't at me about kids getting their hands stuck, there's plenty of places here where they can do that anyway.