142
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2026
142 points (99.3% liked)
What is this thing?
8605 readers
99 users here now
Let us help you identify that mysterious object you’ve found.
Currently in CHALLENGE mode: If you've got something obscure knocking about, post a picture, and let's see how we do. Please prefix such posts with "CHALLENGE:" so we know we've got a fighting chance.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
You can't name one, but in Melborne, Austrailia, you can email one.
http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/#mapexplore
They have mapped many of their trees and given each one an email address. According to their webpage it was really so that when a tree was damaged or diseased someone could simply "email the tree" and someone would be able to put the issue into the "lets get this issue fixed" queue.
But what happened was that folks were emailing the trees for non-repair type of issues and were general emails like the tree was living person, like an ENT from Lord of the Rings.
I was at the beginning "This is friggin awesome! Exactly what tech is supposed to be about"
Then the bomb dropped, man people are weird.
Case in point I was part of one of the first streaming companies online (2000). We would stream wrestling as our biggest draw until we got major sports onboard.
We had an email link for "support" for tech support.
A few days before the wrestling events we would get FLOODED with support emails... Nope not for why they can't get the test stream to work. But to support their favorite wrestler. It was insane the shit these people would write.
"Email Support". Yeah, I can kind of see someone wanting to support their favorite wrestler, and I bet people got really insane with their messages. Wrestling has some pretty interesting fans.
Perhaps if we named more tree's people would take better care of them.
Naming trees would definitely work. Case in point my buddy owns a big cattle farm. When his kids got older they named some of the calf's. He warned them thats not a good idea. Kids are kids and they ignored him.
Now he's not a beef or dairy farmer. He's a breeder, he has a stable of high quality cows and inseminates them for the calf's.
So his kids name a bunch of the calf's, bottle raise them w/ mom cows help then they goto auction. They were devastated that "Daisy" and "Jemirqui" where gone over a weekend.
They never named another cow after that, they learned it was a business the hard way. But humanizing them did change the dynamic. Like with naming tree's...