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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 10 points 2 days ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

America really sucks. Go look at my home city of Edinburgh on a map, that's how you do a city

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Princes Gardens going from a dump in the 1800s to a nice park is quite a transformation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's a really beautiful park with an incredible background of old town royal mile and it isn't even crack top 3 best parks in Edinburgh

[–] Zorque 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree those are much better than parks

[–] Zorque 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.