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makmarian @kbin.social

1y ago

What's up, my fellow trees?

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I'm seeing a lot less of that these days, thankfully. Los Angeles had fake palm tree cell towers when I was there. They're even worse.
- Wait you don't like em? I like em better than just cell towers
  
  I think they're uglier than cell towers. They look like what they are- fake trees trying to blend in with real trees and doing it badly. That's worse than simply putting up a metal and concrete tower to me.
- You can't fool me, I know an Alolan Exeggutor when I see one.
- I live in LA and to be fair, palm trees are basically fake trees in the first place, they're mostly non-native Q-Tips that give no shade. The cell towers should just cover themselves with billboards, they'd fit right in and make extra cash from the side hustle.
  
  I'm not a fan of the palm trees either, but a perfectly straight pole with fake leaves that do basically nothing to hide the fact that it's a cell tower was even worse to my eyes.
  The craziest thing about billboards when I was in L.A. was the trucks driving around with billboards on them that were only being driven around because of those billboards. I guess the cost of a truck and fuel is still cheaper than paying for an actual billboard on Hollywood or Sunset.
- This almost looks AI generated
  
  It definitely isn't. They were all over the place.

“Of course I’m a real tree. Hold on, I’m getting a call”

You know that tree is growing so straight... if we cut it down it'd make a really good cell phone tower.
- Why don't they just put the electronics stuff on the tops of actual trees?
  
  Trees grow, get felled
  
  Can't have trees be too lit (on fire).

I chopped one of these down one time. It took forever.
- Next time use a hacksaw, rather that the axe

Oooh, it's an antenna. For a moment I wasn't really sure why someone would go through the trouble of making a fake tree.

“So you’re a REAL tree?”
Yesh. I make worrie aboot Christmas time. Family cut me and make ornament on my face.
“This dude is legit.”

It's not impressive to attach green plastic bits to camouflage a cell tower (which IMO makes it uglier and more noticeable than just a bare antenna mast).
It would be extremely impressive if they could actually derive the required power from onboard photovoltaics though!

i wonder what we would come up with if there was a contest to design a beautiful cell tower. a giant tulip? space needle? treehouse? inconvenience store? a blinky scroll tower?
- Penis.
- I like them just the way they are and wish they would stop wearing tower makeup all the time.

I thought it's just a big Araucaria Heterophilia.

How do you do my fellow leaves?

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