this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 114 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Shitass little kid can't even think of what to turn a tree into. LMAO

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On one hand, I want to mail you a brick. On the other hand, I am upvoting you for your shitposter take.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mail a brick with the force of a comet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Express mail

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is something we really need to take on: not all value needs to be utility or monetary based. Things can have existential value, too.

Unfortunately we take the former approach with just about everything. We willingly tie our worth as a human to our work performance or some other ridiculous metric. You don't have to be the paragon of project management, or a world famous influencer to be deemed worthy. You are worthy just because you exist.

Trees, frogs, and mosses all have inalienable rights to exist, too. Since they comprise the natural world, and actually perform functions to sustain said world, they have value. Moreso, I would argue, than an exemplar of project management, or bumping up a number on the NYSE. More value than the table we could make from the trees, or the extra bit of space we could use from destroying wetland (frog) habitat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Reminds me of this story. The commentary isn't really necessary, imo. The story stands without it.

https://ando.life/journal/the-useless-tree

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

..poor little Timmy later got lost and went on to die from exposure in that forest, unable to build shelter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

He just couldn't work out what to do with the sticks. Insisting the sticks not be moved from where they fell was ultimately the problem, if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Is this by Sergio Aragones? It looks like his style. I did a reverse image search and couldn't figure it out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Absolutely his style. He a real one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Looks like it but I don't know. The site I stole it from had already removed any signature, if there was one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I was thinking it looks like one from MAD magazine, so it must be Sergio.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Definitely Sergio. No doubt about it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I like how the comic becomes progressively sun bleached

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Dude in the third panel needs to go to the hospital. His leg is bending the wrong way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

That’s why he’s thinking about furniture, man needs to rest.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

All of these views are valid. A tree has to be seen for what it can provide. If it’s more valuable to society and nature as a tree, leave it be. If other trees can gain from it being removed earlier than its natural decay demands, I’d argue to remove it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This tree is by a path, so it's better to leave it be.

Other trees can be sustainably harvested and made into whatever our society needs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Depends. Is it stable? Does it pose a threat to passer bys ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This implies that only children enjoy trees for their natural beauty, that is just dumb.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I wanna build a tree house and live symbiotically.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

one will protect you the other will try to kill you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If they only get like a day of prep time, Carpenter. If it's a longterm battle, the youth.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I would imagine to set it on fire....