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Can you please not cross into personal attack? I'm sure you didn't mean your comment that way, but when you speak in the second person ("you") and get judgmental and even aggressive with your language, that's how it's going to come across whether you mean it to or not.

It's particularly bad when someone is just cheerfully sharing a fun project. Having a cement truck drive up and dump a load of denunciatory scolding is no one's idea of a fun thread. Please make your substantive points without any of this. It would be good to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html as well.

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly. Can you please take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop posting like this to Hacker News?

It's clear that you have strong feelings on some (very) general issues, and you have good reasons for that. But picking on other people, especially for something as personal as how they choose to garden, is not an ok way to express yourself on this site.

I agree with the sentiment that the human aspect of gardening can be fun, and personally I would not want to automate my own plant maintenance. But on the other hand, perhaps the author finds automation fun. Who are we to decide how they should do their own garden?

Why not? OP seems to enjoy it. Everyone have the right to "tend their own garden" as they want.

Let people have some fun, it's not like he is pushing people to abandon manually taking care of a garden.

> Let other humans of your family also take part in it.

Not everyone wants to take care of other people’s plants. Maybe he already tried to involve his kids and it turned out they were just not interested.

Zeurpiet

Jeez, this person is just combining their hobbies into something they apparently think is fun and you’re resting the whole world on their shoulders. Relax.

Just a hint, but maybe try reading the third paragraph of the actual post?

…and maybe stop yucking other people’s yums?

> Why not? Why do you keep your family members away from your fantastic project?

Kids these days want to play on their sega and listen to hip hop.

But how else would he know the cat pissed in it?

Come on, I am the last guy to defend AIs but the idea that there is only 1 proper way to do private things like gardening (your way of course) and others should be immediately attacked is... childish at best. You can certainly do better with less toxic words while your comment still says the same.

I for example detest gardening. Spent half of my childhood tending to various practical plants for eating in gardens, centrally planned communism I grew up in couldn't even reliably feed its people. But I love nature, forests, mountains, wilderness. I feel 0 reasons to create a mini plastic artificial version of it around my home, not when I have big wild forest at my doorstep, being at foothills of one mountain range and having heart of European alps in less than 1h drive (ie yesterday hopped to Chamonix in France to check few things and came back).

You gardening people look foolish to me - that massive amount of saved time (and money) means hiking, climbing, via ferratas or skiing / ski alpinism instead, alone or with kids - much better for bonding. While missing 0 of that nature contact. Yet its fine, you do you and I do me, no need punch down on anybody.