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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 118 points 6 months ago (2 children)

City parks are wasteful and useless - says people who have never lived within walking distance of a good park and drive everywhere

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They arent wasteful or useless, but they do tend to suck due to the sheer numbers of people who use them.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Plus they’re not wild at all. It’s still a lot of pavement-touching. Especially when there’s signs telling you not to walk on the grass.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's not a park, then, it's a nature preserve.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree those are much better than parks

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So... you don't want to touch the grass?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I want to touch dirt. I want mud squishing between my toes and the cool wind whipping over my naked body. I want to feast on wild edibles while I gaze at a sky so full of stars it hurts to look at them. I want my neighbors to have paws and fur and feathers and scales. I want any signs I see to be curiosities or raw materials and to divorce myself from the human concept of time. I want to not see another person for months, and even then they are on a distant hilltop and quickly flee.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Even there the signs must be read and obeyed. Imaginary lines in the dirt that I must be aware of.

And they make me wear clothes.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Said no one ever? Where in the world have you heard that?!

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've lived in small rural towns, where parks are a waste of taxpayer dollars according to many people

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd imagine those same people think any spending is a waste of taxpayers dollars.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Bizarre. I stop at a few rural parks when bringing the kids home to Florida. They're mostly very nice and well attended.

OTOH, I can see rural people not valuing parks. After all, we can go 1/4 mile from anywhere and be in actual nature.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah the parks are usually fine (albeit, some can be quite bland) - it's the people who don't appreciate them. Why go to the park when they could go to the mall? Because by the time they're in their car, why drive to a park?

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 2 points 6 months ago

git the gubberment outta my paycheck, thats socialism

hail king trump long like the king

hey where’s my social security check?