I wish america was this dense, going outside means either I get to see my speedometer for 2/3 of the trip or endless lawns with endless political signage that all looks the same.
I hate this accursed concrete jungle that I live in.
Is this a USA comic I’m to European to understand?
Are you sure you want to throw shade?
This is like sending a picture of LA when someone says they’re American
Which is exactly what the commenter is doing by referring to the one picture as representing the USA. Thanks for explaining my comment.
But it’s damn near everywhere in the US and it’s ugly as sin.
It absolutely is NOT.
I’d say the majority of America is farmland.
We have a little bit of every terrain. You forget how MASSIVE this country is. One common thing Europeans have difficulty grasping is how varied and vast this land is. I hear every now and again Europeans say they’ll start the day in NYC, then drive to Disney World by night, and then drive to California the next day.
WRONG!
Not gonna happen. The trip from NYC to Orlando would be AT LEAST 12 hours alone. If not longer. And the drive from Orlando to California would be measured in days, not hours.
You think this whole country is one massive condensed urban deadlock? If that were true, we would have population in the hundreds of billions. For reference, all of earth has about 8 billion total.
I’ve road tripped through most of America. This is definitely in the majority of places near a freeway. Yeah, there’s a boatload of other stuff too, but if you were to pick a town right off a freeway, it’s very likely it’d look like this
It absolutely isn’t and all that comment shows is ignorance about rural America
Everywhere has rural areas and farmland. That’s not unique to America.
Built up areas however tend to be car-centric, billboard clad hellscapes in America in a far larger proportion than most of the rest of the world.
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The European mind can scarcely comprehend the soul-crushing sadness of suburban America.
I lived in a suburban cul-de-sac for years while fighting depression. It’s seriously soul-crushing staring out at a sea of rooftops.
I still recommend walks every day though. It doesn’t matter if you have pretty views or not, you were designed to move around and walk, we are all descended from hunter-gatherers and people who walked huge distances for survival. Walking resets your current rumination session and reframes your present moment.
Part of surviving in the modern world is learning how to create your own mental states and perceptions of your environment so you don’t end up wallowing in a sense of hopelessness or feel trapped every day.
Grindr has retail locations in America?
WTF are they selling?
A safe meetup point, it’s crazy, they have no front doors. You have to enter from the back.
Moist fursuits.
Meatballs
Top Men.
Bottom Men.
And Vers Men.
@essell @kersploosh sausages
Flesh
Tbf we do have spots like this too in Europe, not everywhere is some picturesque scenery
This is every town in the US right next to where you get off the Interstate (Highway).
This looks like South Carolina, but think it’s out of date. I don’t think there are any Grinder locations left.
What kind of food did they serve? I’ve never heard of them before. I googled it and got a few results about Italian-American food and sandwiches?
Ride transit to nature! shows a route with like 8 transfers that takes 4 hours each way
Well drive! shows gas a 4$+ a gallon
Is that… About $1/liter? That’s amazing. We paid almost $2 in the pandemic, now it’s round 1.5.
Bonus there is no sidewalk.
You get 8 seconds to cross eight lanes of traffic.
Heard the police stops and asks you what your’re doing/ if you need a ride when you walk in the US
I wouldn’t say it’s that bad. At least not where I live.
Mostly I see completely half-assed attempts at walkable infrastructure such as:
- Sidewalks that just end
- Bike lanes that say “lane ends, merge with traffic” on a 45mph (72km/h) road right before an underpass with no shoulder.
- Crosswalks only ever mile or so, so you either have to walk a mile out of your way, or get yelled at for “jaywalking.”
- Bike lockup outside a furniture store that’s surrounded by 10 acres of parking lot where the nearest residence is like 10 miles away.
- 3ft wide lanes with person figures painted on them on the side of the road because a white line is enough to protect pedestrians.
- 3ft wide bike lanes on the inside curve of an uphill 45mph road with sharp turns and a steep concrete embankment on the side.
Wow, what year is that picture from, McDonald’s with a playplace?! We wish things were as nice as they were then
Kids these days will never get to experience the bliss of wading through a pit of plastic balls that all smell vaguely of piss.
I make floor pads for the company that builds the playlands. They still exist, in Canada at least. I sent a whole bunch to Puerto Rico after the hurricane, but they were for Burger King.
I’ve heard of these things from a documentary from that era called Mac and Me. I think they also routinely held something called a “birthday party” at them. Unfortunately there are no physical records to confirm that I am aware of.
Norm?
Wait…there is a physical grindr app?
There used to be, it was at the end of the paths under that one bridge in your city, but it’s just a homeless encampment now.
Yup! You just fill out the paperwork with a pen.
My favorite game to play on river walks near my home (it’s really a canal) is to count syringes and naked body parts.
Total dismemberment you say
No appreciation for some top notch burgerpunk. Smdh
