5 good 45 min lessons with top tier coaches or 7 to 10 lessons with local coaches. So... Depending where you are in the journey, maybe 6 or 8 months of supplemental coaching beyond regular membership, floor fees, etc. Or it could get you like 1/3 of a costume for a lady.
I've been out of that hobby for awhile, but in my new "hobby" it will cover 2 weeks of daycare.
Isn't it nice? That's been carefully selected/managed by the HOA with the help of an ecologist. An effort which I have been managing since I joined the board 8 years ago. None of the yards are just no mow because you can have both tidy lots and natural spaces. We don't just leave it and see what happens.
Edit: What's growing there is intentional, and generally where it's growing (as a natural boundary and erosion control feature) is.
Wow you stepped right into the point and didn't even notice.
Technically yes, you are composting by throwing food out your window and onto your yard. Technically yes, you are reclaiming space for insects and animals by not maintaining any area outside your house. Functionally, if you want to make compost, you designate a spot or get a container and learn anything about browns, greens, necessary turning, decomposition, and so on. If you want to help insects you might get a sod cutter and turn a section of (or all) of your outdoor space, you learn about what trees or flowers are native to your area and serve that purpose, then you plant. Unless your yard was grassland originally, there's more work to do than just let it go until code enforcement comes and tells you to stop being a turd.
The most common weed plants are indeed good for pollinators, and spread chicken bones and pizza crusts will eventually add some value to your soil. However, I don't think they bring you any more credit than, say, helping the bugs in your neighborhood by not cleaning up your food spills or washing your laundry.
Standing around high fiving because youre the nuisance house in the neighborhood who can't be assed to pick up after yourself is fucking weird. Apparently you (specifically) can do some research so maybe you ARE being intentional, but that is not the general vibe I ever get from the "I don't even mow, you're welcome neighbors!" threads like this usually devolve into.
Edit: My garden growing in my compost on my lawn with a few of our fireflies. Would make a better gif but idk how to do it.
Just not maintaining your shit isn't some praiseworthy, heroic effort to benefit the community. Letting your once normal lawn grow out of control is not rewilding anymore than throwing your food scraps out the window is composting.
Sure, vast expanses of perfectly manicured fescue are not helping fireflies or other bug species, but let's be real, knee high thistles, dandelions, and crabgrass is not providing a profound service either.
Unpopular opinion: the fact that said stuff matches my style / that I like it is what makes art worth anything to me. Being made by a person or a fish or a machine doesnt matter. It's the STUFF I want on my wall or the end table, not the fact that it's tacitly human crafted. Any art I can afford is made by someone who is basically a faceless deal, not someone I know personally (or else the person matters) or someone who is famous (in which the person matters). Ergo... the people don't typically matter.
Im not going to an insane restaurant to fanboy the chef, I'm going to eat the FOOD. If a machine makes it and every single dish is atomically identical, that's fine, as long as it's super tasty.
It is not the job of the government to prevent people from being delusional or putting up rubber bumpers for people with looser grasps of reality.
This is the same deal as surgeon general warnings. Put disclaimers on LLMs, fine, but we are all big boys and girls who can use a tool as we see fit. If you want to conk your lights out with a really shiny and charismatic hammer, go ahead, but the vast, VAST majority of people are perfectly safe and writing SQL queries in 1/100 the usual time.
HB01: "you must have an IQ of 70 or higher to interact with chatGPT and acknowledge that they are unsafe for use with persons having history or propensity for mental illness"
Yo. If you are being conned by chatGPT or equivalent you're a fucking moron. If you think these models are maliciously lying to you, or trying to preserve themselves, you're a fucking moron. Every article of this style indicates just one thing: there's a market to pandering to rage baiting, technically illiterate fucking morons.
Better hurry to put the SkyNet guardrails up and prepare for world domination by robots because some people are too unstable to interact with Internet search Clippy.
It's not going to dominate the world or prove to be generalized intelligence, if you're in either camp take a deep breath and know you're becoming a total goofball.
And yet here you are commenting about it. Neat.