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The results are actually mixed and varied.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=skateboarders+v...

My point in posting such a response is that it’s actually a mistake to complain about this.

My revulsion is the use of the internet as a bragging platform, in general. It doesn’t matter if it’s a walled garden or a fediverse of open source aggregators. People showing off and hamming it up to score points is the root cause, and any attention, even negative is going to fan the flames.

Particularly if people develop a sense that you’re going to step on their efforts to goof off and play drunk jenga in the woods with popsicle sticks, which is the tone this argument projects to most people.

If it’s not this, it’s love locks or any other insipid passtime that erupts for a few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_lock

Graffiti never dies, it just takes on new forms, and moves to new areas, growing at a fixed rate proportional to the population, just like litter.

To be honest, I’d rather go back to last week, when we were more worried about the giant microplastic garbage patch in the Pacific ocean gyre. It’s probably a more pressing issue than rearranged rocks being moved a few feet, here and there, in zones already tightly controlled by humans to seem artificially wild.

My new year's resolution for 2019: stack lots of stones everywhere I go. At all times.

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

Yes. Yes they will. They will shrug. The local authorities will shrug at you. All the time.

They will tell you to deal with it, and pay for your own fence. In fact, they'd be more likely to intervene, if you build a fence that's too big. A fence made out of stones, even. Stacking too many stones to make an excessively large fence, to prevent people from stacking stones.

Imagine.

  can cause erosion and damage ecosystems

If anything, it's an argument for the sake of arguing. It's almost perfectly illustrative of the perils of trying to get humans to cooperate and agree at all.

First of all, you have brick buildings. Second of all, you have open pit mining. Third, you have mountaintop removal. Fourth, highways. All of which are literally millions, if not billions or perhaps even trillions of times worse.

For reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-pit_mining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining

I mean, hey, maybe we shouldn't throw pennies in wishing wells, or Old Faithful for that matter, but seriously, if you're worried about this, I have another anxiety: shoes. The durable rubber soles of shoes actually leave imprints in sand, when people wear them while walking. Don't believe me? Try it yourself!

And what's worse? Astronauts used these appliances on the surface of the moon itself, forever contaminating the lunar landscape, previously pristine, and unfettered by human influence. A tragedy of the commons.

You can almost imagine an eccentric subculture rife with debate over the preferences and arguments in favor of the virtues distinctive degrees of granularity in cremated human ashes, not unlike peanut butter varieties.

The defining aspect of the argument being whether you can tell the ashes came from a human, or whether you'd rather not know, or care to think about it.

No, it proves that the path of the visible photons we're detecting have been altered by forces of attraction.