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I used to play Geoguessr and I absolutely hate playing the state streaks map because every single state looks exactly the same. I would have to go through miles and miles and miles of suburban subdivisions that were mazes just to find a phone number and just go off that, which you're not really meant to do. Literally the only thing that was different was the area codes.
I will say having driven across the US it does feel very different at different points, but yes, stroads are everywhere from deserts to mountains to plains and coasts
The natural geography is different but anywhere united statesians actually build stuff it's all the same crap
Same pharmacies, restaurants, gas stations, clothing stores, internet providers etc. Different names for the newspapers but same owners of everything
There's actually plenty of different architectural styles when you look beyond the late 20th century and later generic commercial style. It's pretty cool to see over the course of a few days, though definitely not worth the drive.
Wonderful. Everything from "I'm about to learn you a thing" to "check republic".
Just a bit too obvious though.
Everyone knows it's supposed to be Cheque Republic
I mean, it is very clearly intended to be hyperbolic satire
We need c/woosh
"check republic"? No one uses checks anymore.
The polish are more reliable anyway
Funny how they always ignore Australia when attempting to swing geographical peen.
This is so ridiculous and absurd it HAS to be satire. Either that or Poe's Law got me. This just seems too hyperbolic and flippant to be somebody being for real and genuine
This should have been immediately obviously that it was satire.
A trick to tell if something is satire is to consider what would have to be true for it not to be satire and why they would use that tone, and then weigh what's more likely.
I call it the Flat Earth conundrum. There is no comment so stupid that someone won't make it unironically.
Satire conundrum: there is no comment so stupid someone won't take it anally.
I am just waiting for someone to utterly fail at basic reading comprehension, be told the correct answer, and then comment, unironically "well the fact I imagined someone that dumb says a lot about society"
I have experienced it in the other direction, the other day. There was a comment that was so ridiculously racist that it had to be a bit, for sure, racists wouldn't say things like that. Nope. They apparently would.
German here. While it does look massively different here we have these walls around the Autobahn to lower the noise from the cars. And since they're mostly everywhere it also looks the same everywhere: Autobahn, walls, sometimes trees or otherwise green.
(rush hour ofc looks different and is the same every damn day and we just keep on doing it)
On the other hand I have to say aside from the streets there's a huge variety in scenery, here as well as in the states.
Autobahn is out of the city experience. Stroads on OP picture are basically half of every American city.
The walls are common here in the states for highways going through populated areas.
The areas shown in the original aren't highways, they are the awful roads running through large commercial areas. They are designed to get as many cars through as possible while still letting people turn into the exact parking lot they want. They have a lot of accidents
People who don’t understand sarcasm will get genuinely mad about this post, and I’m here for it
I was messing around with a steetview app one time and I was pretty fascinated by the fact that basically anywhere on the globe, clicked at random, looks incredibly similar to somewhere that I've been. Click randomly in Ukraine, "huh, I've definitely been on country back roads in the US that look basically just like this." Click a spot in Kazakhstan, I've seen places in the Midwest that look pretty similar. Click something in a more tropical spot in search of something altogether different, "you know I've been to some coastal towns that look a lot like this." Click a spot in a French mountain range, "This doesn't look all that different from parts of the Rockies."
It brings to mind one of my favorite quotes:
“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”
That quote always hits me hard. I really want the best for the ordinary citizens of Iran