this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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The incredible thing is that this is literally what America looks like. I think most people who haven't been to America probably imagine this is kind of a joke, like 99% of America can't possibly look like this. But it does. I could walk from my current position for around 5 minutes and take a picture that looks exactly like this.
Every time I see this image I think "I've been here" and it's true! I've been to a dozen places that look exactly like this.
My favorite bit of Americana are the cell towers disguised as trees.
I've seen these things in the middle of areas like that photo. Like the residents of the town got wind of a cell tower going up and demanded it not "ruin the rural character" so they made it look like the shittiest tree imaginable.
tbh that's probably the least offensive thing we do
Sure but we also put these all over wooded mountainous areas:
5g mesh network towers. I don't personally care but I do find it deeply funny that Americans will get beet fucking red about getting a cell tower in their suburban hellscape because they think it still has "rural character" and then also put up a mat black Obelisk of Verizon every mile and a half down ancient mountains so they can get any internet at all.
that's in a parking lot why isn't it a street light lmao
Its actually on highway 36 near Estes Park in CO. This one is near a lot but their all up and down that high way.
Why do I need internet on a narrow, twisting, mountain road?
The yawning void is hungry and I need to text my estranged adult children.
That's fair. I didn't think of that.
Because that narrow, twisting mountain road is less than 30m from a city of 100,000, and a lot of people camp there and have no idea how to navigate using real maps and rely upon internet connected GPS on their phones. Also, because, why not? China has 5g on top of the remotest mountains, because it’s useful to have.
that thing somehow reminds me of the huge random daggers stuck in the ground in riven all over the place:
and also those stick-type hand grenades.
"Hello, fellow trees"
i'm a bit further from the overpass and there are too many trees there, but any time i have the misfortune of driving i see that picture, three strip malls, and a religious "school".
also that copy of it looks way oversaturated. green road signs aren't that neon
imagine being a starry eyed idealistic 12 year old, going to america (they're so cool, they got stuff, mcdonalds comes from there, they won ww2) and seeing this.
and then coming home and seeing how the outskirts of your city become more and more like this as the years go.