• AugustWest
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    3717 days ago

    All of that gripe and you still go there instead of a public park?

    • @[email protected]
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      1417 days ago

      At least here in Los Angeles, many of the parks are unsafe for children. I found a knife in the playground last year.

      • AugustWest
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        817 days ago

        After I sent that I was worried that would be the answer. I am so sorry your kids can’t just go to a park.

      • @[email protected]
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        3017 days ago

        Defund public spaces, then increase the cost of private spaces. Neoliberalism, everybody.

      • @[email protected]
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        1917 days ago

        Go help clean them up, then.

        Done that plenty, it makes a huge difference and as people notice they come and help out too.

        Ya know how many toilets I’ve helped dragged out of local streams and creeks? Way too fucking many.

        • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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          1117 days ago

          I don’t mind cleaning up garbage. But I’m not usually prepared to safely handle sharps.

          • @[email protected]
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            Nobody is. Kinda heartbreaking.

            What we usually do is find an empty milk jug or soda bottle to collect them in, and we have a method where rake and spread out garbage out before we pick it up in order to spot any sharps and avoid injuries.

        • @[email protected]
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          616 days ago

          Toilets? Like ceramic? The home appliance that you shit into everyday? People throw those into streams and rivers??

          …(Shatner.gif)But why?

          • @[email protected]
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            1016 days ago

            That’s just how people are sometimes.

            I’ve also helped fished out:

            • enormous dildos
            • car engines
            • stoves
            • tires
            • a coffin (it was empty, we reported it to the cops)
              • @[email protected]
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                416 days ago

                It was like three inches in diameter, the length of a forearm, & covered in algae.

                At first I thought it was a wolf eel or something, but then I saw the balls.

                • @[email protected]
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                  16 days ago

                  Nice. 😏

                  Though, pretty standard large size nowadays. When you have to start categorizing and classifying adjectives, then you’ve gotten to the real stuff. Let me know when you come across a flared xl chance :}

        • @[email protected]
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          416 days ago

          If your kids are playground aged, you probably don’t have a ton of free time/babysitter money to be doing that. You could bring the kids, but I’d rather not have my small children handling used needles and condoms (just a few of the delights I’ve found on my local playground)…

          • @[email protected]
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            16 days ago

            I can think of a million completely valid reasons that may prevent someone from helping improve their community.

            But still something that we need to find the time to help improve our community and that time needs to come from our jobs, not our family, so steal as much time from your employer as you can.

    • @[email protected]
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      114 days ago

      We spend a LOT of time at the local parks. I’ll guess you don’t have kids. Sometimes it rains, other times it’s cold, sometimes you need to get them to just put SOMETHING in their stomachs, because if they don’t, they’ll get hangry but don’t have the emotional or bodily intelligence to understand what’s going on.

      ChickFilA also has playplaces but they have their own set of issues.

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        14 days ago

        Oh I do have kids. They went outside rain or shine to parks most of their lives. I went to a play place once… it was gross. If they needed food we went to a local place that was good for them. It is funny now because my oldest sometimes complains that they never understood fast food or how to order it. Sometimes they tell me I ruined them because all the snack foods taste like crap to them.