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What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf? (feddit.uk)
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For example, Britain's national mapping organisation's brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It's called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that's because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

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[โ€“] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 47 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Our car centric world. We have somehow intersected everything and everywhere with death zone strips where people can't go. And that's entirely normal and accepted.

[โ€“] bradboimler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I'm fortunate enough to live in a walkable neighborhood. When I moved here walkability didn't really factor in; I have friends here and I liked the apartment.

Man, it is so nice. I definitely appreciate it now and will try to factor it in in the future. I am absolutely convinced that walkability fosters community and cars reinforce social isolation.

I still have my car but I consider it and driving a burden. If I had to replace it I'm pretty sure I wouldn't.

[โ€“] dRLY@lemmy.ml 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Was kind of mind blowing moment when I was old enough to pay attention to the main underlying plot line of Who Framed Rodger Rabbit being about killing off public transport for cars. Like it is very clearly stated throughout the movie, but as a child it just went over my head. Not like I didn't pay attention to when it was being talked about, just not able to appreciate the meaning. I also am from a more rural area, so things like public transportation were not something I interacted with outside of seeing it on TV shows and movies.