• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    While noisy & a bit of a nuisance they are pretty effective at redirecting tear gas fog and drowning out the commands and orders of fascists pieces of shit to each other to prevent coordinated assaults and kidnappings. You can really disorient a row of people with a couple very bright led flashlights set to strobe and leaf blowers.

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    Honestly I oppose the idea of going back in time and killing hitler. To me butterfly effect and everything. Just break into the hospital and swap hitler and another babies places, and poof you won’t get the same combination of nature and nurture that created hitler.

    Or even more important, wouldn’t stopping WW1 be the key there. No historian here but there’s a lot of complicated economic stuff that happened after WW1 that leads to the rise of facism. Would seem to me killing hitler, would just wind up with a new guy in the same roll.

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      At first I thought you meant that killing hitler would effectively kill everyone born after hitler since the conditions of their birth didn’t exist anymore.

      But you’re going for a variation of the “let’s make hitler’s art career take off” plan, fair enough

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      I wrote that in my time travel novel, character that keeps trying to stop WWI in hopes if fixing the future.

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    4 hours ago
    1. The inventor of clear retail bubble packs

    2. Shorty McDonald, electrical engineer responsible for too short power cords on eveery appliance.

    3. Inventor of USB type 1 plugs.

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      The basic argument is they are loud and inefficient as well as a group of users being inconsiderate about when they are used (mornings on a weekend and the like).

      I have an electric blower/mulcher. I rake the leaves into a pile before mulching. Leaf blowers are loud and only really good if you have a massive area to clear dry leaves from. Also the 2 stroke versions are an inefficient use of energy for a fan impeller.

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        There’s an apartment building across the street from where I live, and sometimes the maintenance guy decides to spend his weekend blowing every single leaf on the property. He’ll be at it for hours and hours non-stop, and yes, it makes me wish I could delete leaf blowers from existence.

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          I would be using the ait horn method… finding out when his quiet time is, and HONK.

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        I vaguely recall some college students making a suppressor for leaf blowers, and it was effective without significantly reducing power.

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          The electric ones are quiet and are as effective. Suburbanites shouldn’t have access to the gas powered ones.

          Edit: Downvoters don’t understand how to live in a society.

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        Yea. The environment needs leaf litter.

        Leaf blowers exist to solve a problem that isn’t actually a problem if not for even bigger problems that we as a society just kinda refuse to acknowledge for the most part.

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          Group of protestors used leaf blowers to basically blow the tear gas clouds right back at the agents.

          Personally, I’m wondering if I can scale it up with a battery backup unit and a floor drying fan.