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potboy ([personal profile] potboy) wrote2020-07-05 03:46 pm
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realredraven: tilthat: TIL lawns before WWII were usually a mix of grass and clover. Herbicide...

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TIL lawns before WWII were usually a mix of grass and clover. Herbicide companies in the 50s mounted a major advertising campaign to convince homeowners clover was a weed, because their new herbicides killed clover but not grass

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I really hate that you can look at almost any aspect of society and trace it’s roots back to some corporation pushing something. Lawns, cars, clothing, god damn shampoo. Capitalism invades everything.

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