• @mojofrododojo
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    621 hours ago

    mowing lawns in texas makes you 1) anticipate death as a routine part of the job and 2) on the long days wish for it’s release.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      420 hours ago

      I always wondered why nobody has invented a roomba that was a lawn mower. You set up the lawn boundries, and it just zips around once every two weeks cutting your grass.

      And then you just sit inside and watch your beer, while drinking a tv.

      • @ladicius
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        1219 hours ago

        Autonomous lawn mowers (lawn mower robots) are a thing for about ten years now over here in Germany. I see them everywhere, just silently and slowly rolling around and mowing around the clock.

        They are also very efficient in killing hedge hogs and frogs and the likes - humans pushing a lawn mower trend to keep such animals alive whereas the robots simply shred them. They have no device to detect small animals and nobody cares to implement any which says a lot about humankind.

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          419 hours ago

          I understand how frogs would get caught up in it…but you’d think hedgehogs would run away before it gets them.

          • @ladicius
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            618 hours ago

            Turns out they can’t. It really happens often.

      • @[email protected]
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        419 hours ago

        For the same reason robot mops haven’t gotten to be viable in a commercial environment: human slaves are still cheaper than robots.

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          319 hours ago

          What? Robot mops exist…I bought one for my sister like 10 years ago.

          • @TheHotze
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            219 hours ago

            So do autonomous lawnmowers, just neither got as popular as Roombas.