Solid wood that has been buried can take 20-50 years to decompose, depending on species and the thickness of the wood.

If you know you are going to die of old age in your current home, and you haven’t hit your fifth decade yet, solid trunks or thick branches are fine.

If you only have 2-4 decades of life left, consider thinner branches, or chip the wood into rough pieces that max out at about the size of a paperback (large trailer-towed chipper for wood up to 24″ in size, the kind most Arborists use).

If you are old enough to retire, I would strongly recommend chipping as fine as pieces no larger than a credit card. Which is about the size that any landscaping supply place would have.

If your place is not going to be permanent (you have plans of moving within the next 5-15) or you really are quite elderly, I would recommend avoiding wood entirely to go for sawdust, leaves, and even entire bales of hay that have not been torn apart (still compressed, just remove the polyester bailing rope). If you have access to herbicide-free grass clippings (orchard, etc.), I would also strongly recommend composting that over a few months and then using that as a thick final layer (about 5-15cm) before you pile the soil on top.

I don’t use Hügelkultur to make mounds, but all of my custom, home-made planter boxes have it as their primary feature: a good 40cm of rough wood chips (that go about 10-15cm down below the surrounding ground level), 30cm of compacted hay from bales, a thick 10cm layer of composted grass clippings, then 10-15cm of fine topsoil. It has compacted by about 15cm over the last year, and I expect it to compact a little more. I pulled some soil off this spring and added another layer of grass clippings before putting that soil back and adding another 10cm of fresh soil on top. We typically find the surface layered with worm castings after a good rain or watering, which is a sign that things are working well.

If you are in a typically hot or arid area, I would also strongly recommend looking into the Ruth Stout method for weed suppression and moisture retention. I use about 10cm of my composted grass clippings and another 20-30cm of fluffed hay from bales on top of that, and it does wonders for the garden - we watered only about 20% as much as our neighbours and had almost no weeds in the covered areas. The soil remained moist and super-soft all year long.

Leave that cover in place and add another 20-30cm in the fall time for the following year, or use a garden spade in the fall to gently move the current year’s cover into the upper layers of soil for beneficial bugs to winter down in before refreshing the surface with another full 30-40cm layer. It will compact over the winter, and you plant in the spring directly through the hay. Things like garlic don’t even need to be buried - you just put them directly on the soil and close up the hole you made in the hay.

Several of them do say that the slang originated in Gen Z

Dystopian, literally by definition, is not allowing people to die.

Um, is it appropriate to request a link to this video that isn't hosted on Tiktok? (I must be becoming crotchety old man or something because even typing that name fills me with disgust. I still find it amazing that it has any more legitimacy than a random scam or phishing site)

If you demoed a car, whose feature set included “often opening the glove box into your shins” and “texting inappropriate things to your ex”, you’d be pretty leery of using it. If random people kept going on about how much they love this car, and the ex-texting features were so good, that they hoped to upgrade them into “actively calling your ex” you’d be a bit leery of what they were talking about.

Every time someone talks about “how great PWA’s are” and how much better they’ll be after just some more features, I just hear “more stuff for advertisers to abuse”, “more things for half-assed devs to drain my battery and network with” and “more ways to have shittier experiences, slower” the less I’m interested in them.

More concretely, it’s a feature demo that doesn’t work (see navigation) for features I consider anti-features.

If this site is supposed to be a good demo of what they’re capable of, it’s failing pretty hard for me.

- Takes ages to finish loading

- huge number of features/functionality I don’t want a website to have over my phone/desktop

- navigation is broken: swiping back causes some double-navigation stutter.

- history is broken: attempting to navigate back to HN loads the same page again and again with no content change a stack of times, before I can finally escape.