• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    1 year ago

    I used to have an amazing sense of direction, could read a map, and wouldn’t even need it half the time. Going out of state for a concert? Pssh, we’ll just wing it. Always got where I was going.

    Ever since I got my first smartphone with GPS, I feel like I need it just to cross the street.

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      1 year ago

      It’s because infrastructure has gotten so damn complicated to keep up with capitalism and growth of the economy. Things aren’t simple anymore. You can’t just turn right. You have to get into the third lane on the right hand side of the road but not too early because then you’ll get off on an exit.

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        1 year ago

        i mean i suppose you’re technically correct, but the answer is more fundamentally that cars are absolutely terrible as a mode of transport, and anything else is much easier to navigate with.

        you need like 5 cars to create traffic, with pedestrians it takes hundreds of people in a limited space to do so.