[teekert]

“Your leaf blower battery should be able to charge a laptop.”

Stopped reading right there. I fully believe that on evolutionary timescales, the human race will split into 2 races. There will be the leaf blowing species and the others. The “others” will explore the stars, the leaf blowers will have a decreased cranial volume and stay behind and blow leaves.

Nothing interesting can come from the mind of a leaf blower.

(I kid of course, at least he’s blowing them using batteries and not a 2-stroke engine).

[jMyles]

I can't tell you the relief that came, in Portland at the height of the insane and wanton deployment of chemical weapons by a wide range of "police" forces in 2020, from the 'leaf blower dads' showing up to protect the crowds.

Those things worked wonders!

Since then, I've often wondered why people use their spare tear gas dispersers to blow leaves and dirt around, but that's another story.

[bluGill]

If you are not testing your tear gas disperses regularly they don't work when you need them. Much better to find out the system has failed when testing on leaves vs when you have tear gas to deal with.

[arp242]

I hate leaf blowers with a passion, but the electric ones I've seen people use are considerably less noisy than the old gasoline powered ones, to the point where I'd mostly consider them acceptable. Either way, this seems like an odd place for this rant, even though I do admit it made me chuckle a bit.

[CyberDildonics]

This thread is about batteries