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Have some weird Japanese commercials. Not really all that cursed but there's anime, even some Lupin III. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXlwSm1uCoM
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Dec 28, 2022 06:45
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Yeah, I guess capitalism is pretty cursed
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Dec 28, 2022 06:47
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 Sawdust and dried tobacco juice.
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Dec 28, 2022 06:48
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Good investment for a wasteland merchant
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Dec 28, 2022 06:51
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Dick Fontaine posted:Yeah, I guess capitalism is pretty cursed Sure, but there's only a couple of ads for McDonald's and there rest is just Japanese poo poo you can't buy so the advertising is worthless.
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Dec 28, 2022 06:54
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A farting mink posted:Sure, but there's only a couple of ads for McDonald's and there rest is just Japanese poo poo you can't buy so the advertising is worthless. Instead of brand waifus we get commercials for antidepressants.
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Dec 28, 2022 07:33
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Ah, wasp fresh from the teat.
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Dec 28, 2022 08:23
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Waffle! posted:Instead of brand waifus we get commercials for antidepressants. Yeah well, this is what we get in bloody Norway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NYGi0cOF6E
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Dec 28, 2022 09:49
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That commercial kind of ruled. It's like, I didn't know Royksopp started doing pizza commercials. A+, would curse again
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Dec 28, 2022 09:57
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A farting mink posted:Yeah well, this is what we get in bloody Norway. There was also a Grandiosa Pizza Friday dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1srRu8htR4
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Dec 28, 2022 10:05
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lobsterminator posted:There was also a Grandiosa Pizza Friday dance. That's some bootleg bullshit from Finland. Them having fake Grandiosa would not surprise me. 
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Dec 28, 2022 10:37
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Just one more lane, bro. One more lane will solve it for sure this time. https://i.imgur.com/Mz0KPgZ.mp4
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Dec 28, 2022 11:08
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Just one more lane, bro. One more lane will solve it for sure this time. Terrible implications aside, that is actually quite beautiful. Needs a third lane with only blue lights on it to make it extra patriotic.
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Dec 28, 2022 11:12
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Just one more lane, bro. One more lane will solve it for sure this time. I look at this and compare it to Mega City One from the early Judge Dredd comics. Even that was more efficient and it was drawn by British nerds in the 80's.
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I take that freeway to and from work. If you look really close, you can see my 1994 Lexus ES300, 164k miles, black with grey trim, two busted tail lights, the speedometer gauges don’t work, the dampers are all dead, the clock is broken, the rear bumper is scratched, dent on the left fender, torn leather everywhere, left headlight is dimmer than the right, rear left tire has uneven wear because the whole car tilts when I sit in it, meaning I have to turn the steering wheel to the right a bit to go straight, just paid $1000 because the engine was leaking oil, changed the water pump and timing belt a second time, what was I talking about again? Oh yeah the freeway. gently caress the 405
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Dec 29, 2022 09:23
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Just one more lane, bro. One more lane will solve it for sure this time. https://i.imgur.com/xB3UE3s.mp4
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Dec 29, 2022 11:09
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Just one more lane, bro. One more lane will solve it for sure this time. koyaanisqatsi.mp4
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Dec 29, 2022 11:16
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Tankakern posted:koyaanisqatsi.mp4 IIRC the cars were moving faster in Koyaanisqatsi.
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Dec 29, 2022 11:18
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Just one more lane, bro. One more lane will solve it for sure this time. If I may be allowed to jump up on my high horse for a second. Whilst I can get my head around some of the reasons Americans seem to despise public transport and public transport infrastructure. I cannot get my head around why, looking at this picture, there isnt any sort of public will, or movement for it. Coz imagine being in one of those cars, on your way home and thinking "Gosh, this is terrible, the only answer to this is to build another lane. If only there was a way that I could have easily got on a train and then walked 10-15 minutes from the station to my home in the suburbs. But clearly that is impossible, and to be fought against at every opportunity."
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Dec 29, 2022 11:34
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as an american who took the train for a year for work the thing was always an hour late atleast once a week and basically cost me the job.
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Dec 29, 2022 11:36
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i wonder if perhaps that train was underfunded and run poorly so the people in charge could say "look trains don't work well, gee i guess everyone better just get a car and spend money on it and be too busy and stressed to ever question this because isn't the alternative just so much worse (and less profitable to me and all my rich friends)?"
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Dec 29, 2022 12:47
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Being put in charge of a thing you fundamentally hate, intentionally doing a terrible job at running it, and using your own poor performance as proof that the thing is unworkable and should probably be sold off to a corporation is sort of de rigueur of American elected officials nowadays, particularly if you’re anywhere right of Marx
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Dec 29, 2022 13:22
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BrigadierSensible posted:If I may be allowed to jump up on my high horse for a second. Beats being jammed face to face with a population that treats catching covid like a tiktok challenge
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Dec 29, 2022 14:06
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While there are cases of public transportation being intentionally underfunded, there are plenty of systems like our home grown DC Metro that are just criminally incompetent and suffer delays and train cancelations routinely. Gotta solve that problem before people will accept public transportation as the norm.
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Dec 29, 2022 15:10
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I hope cars go away so I can finally drive my car in peace.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Beats being jammed face to face with a population that treats catching covid like a tiktok challenge ...who is this supposed to be? I can't think of any country with decent public transit that has had a COVID response even remotely as apocalyptically bad as the US.
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Dick Burglar posted:...who is this supposed to be? I can't think of any country with decent public transit that has had a COVID response even remotely as apocalyptically bad as the US. you realize the US does have public transit right and more public transit in the US would mean more public transit with Americans on it Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Dec 29, 2022 |
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Gotcha. That at least makes sense, even if "gently caress public transit bc covid" is a bad take.
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BrigadierSensible posted:got on a train and then walked 10-15 minutes from the station to my home in the suburbs. Found the problem.
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At my previous job my group was based in Houston and I lived in NYC. My boss and coworkers spent a great deal of time and effort trying to get me to move to Houston and one of their primary benefits was I wouldn't have to take the train or walk anymore. They couldn't fathom why I would want to live like that. From my discussions with them they were deeply individualistic and hated the idea of sharing their space with anyone else. I was told multiple times that they would rather sit in Houston's garbage traffic than walk or take public transit just because they preferred to not be near anyone else.
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The General posted:
I mean, “lol Americans are lazy” is certainly A Thing, but that estimate is optimistic for most of suburban America. You’re not looking at a quick walk from “a place mass transit can be” to “your home in the middle of a housing development that used to be an industrial almond farm.” Getting to that point where folks can readily walk to an efficient and navigable mass transit system in America is a massively expensive proposition that approaches “you have to bulldoze everything SimCity style and start over.”
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bossy lady posted:At my previous job my group was based in Houston and I lived in NYC. My boss and coworkers spent a great deal of time and effort trying to get me to move to Houston and one of their primary benefits was I wouldn't have to take the train or walk anymore. They couldn't fathom why I would want to live like that. Yeah this is why Americans don't know how to act in airports or on planes, it's the closest thing most of us get to public transit.
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Blue Moonlight posted:I mean, “lol Americans are lazy” is certainly A Thing, but that estimate is optimistic for most of suburban America. You’re not looking at a quick walk from “a place mass transit can be” to “your home in the middle of a housing development that used to be an industrial almond farm.” The suburbs as they exist aren't really conductive to any sort of public transport or walking   There's no direct path and everything else is a dead-end. So you can't just put one or two bus/train stop to cover the whole area. E: from here, there are more examples: https://imgur.com/gallery/IKrJTvu
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BrigadierSensible posted:I cannot get my head around why, looking at this picture, there isnt any sort of public will, or movement for it. Coz imagine being in one of those cars, on your way home and thinking "Gosh, this is terrible, the only answer to this is to build another lane. If only there was a way that I could have easily got on a train and then walked 10-15 minutes from the station to my home in the suburbs. But clearly that is impossible, and to be fought against at every opportunity." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uRbLtwRhY8
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BrigadierSensible posted:If I may be allowed to jump up on my high horse for a second. I feel like non-Americans just don't understand how very much a lot of the nation is built for cars and is as unwalkable as it could possibly be, and I feel like it's 100% intentional to keep us reliant on cars and keep the automotive industry booming. It's not enough to just cause a fuss to state congress and stuff; making any sort of public transportation system/walkability upgrades outside of most big cities would require unfathomable amounts of reconstruction and would likely face opposition from every possible direction from [insert lobbyists here]. It's not just because "lol Americans are too lazy to walk or too dumb to demand better living standards"-- we really don't have any power against it. I live in a suburban area close to the downtown part of my city, and to even walk to the bus stop is probably 15-20 minutes from where I live as it is, depending on if the bus will even be around at any given time. And that's just local transportation! The nearest airport is about 25-30 minutes from here, and the nearest train station is roughly 45-55 minutes from here. So I could walk 20 minutes to a bus stop, wait however long it takes for it to show up, then wait to get to the closest stop to my destination, then spend another 10-20 minutes walking to that destination... or I could just hop in my car and be where I need to be in less than 20. That isn't to say that's how I want it-- I actually don't like driving and would prefer not to if I didn't have to. It's not that we don't want better public transport, it's that in most of the country it's just a loving pipe dream. The continental US is loving massive-- like, a lot of European countries, in their entirety, are smaller than even some of our smaller states. And even some of the bigger countries are about the size of a state and a half, maybe? I live in Indiana, and the entire UK is about as big as Indiana and Michigan combined lol
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Yeah, California alone is nearly twice the size of the entire UK. The US has a massive amount of open space that people wanted to take advantage of and now we're dealing with the consequences of that.
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Here's a video that shows how even short distances in the US suburbs are unwalkable (time-stamped 4:35): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54&t=275s Cursed
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