• FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    This is what happens when you have way too much land from killing all the indigenous people. You pour asphalt everywhere instead of building a parking garage.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      sorry, but

      pour toxic waste everywhere

      indigenous people

      sprays pesticide all over food

      don’t know

      kill every buffalo and pile their skulls into a mountain

      how to

      turn the entire continental shelf into a parking lot

      use the

      embalm the dead with formaldehyde and bury them in an expensive box that biodegrades as slowly as possible

      land properly

      burn fossil fuels until the planet becomes uninhabitable

      so god gave it to us instead

      eating nothing but burgers for 50 years

      it’s called manifest destiny you wouldn’t understand it

      die of stomach cancer

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      2 months ago

      This is what happens when you want to brag about your green design but don’t actually give a shit about sustainability.

      Pouring a bunch of asphalt in a massive rectangle would reduce the overall footprint by like 60%.

      This was somebody who thought “green infrastructure” meant randomly placing trees and spreading out parking spaces.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      It’d be legit hilarious if we solved transit and then built symbolic pickups outside sports facilities for tailgating. Like just a ritual parking lot where no actual parking happens.

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    2 months ago

    This is peak managerial design.

    “We want to make it a green parking lot so we’re going to add a row of trees around a bunch of smaller lots, ultimately making the footprint three times as large.”

    It’s almost impressive they managed to come up with a design worse than an asphalt ocean.

    These parking lots are a good idea, of they were 1/10th the size and located around metro stops away from the stadium.

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    2 months ago

    field-baseball I seriously hope you guys don’t do this

    I love baseball, but MLB stadiums (especially newer ones, but all of them are covered in ads for ghoulish companies) feel like grotesque nexuses for some of the worst part of capital. The Rangers’ new park has Lockheed Martin ads, the Nats have Raytheon ads, the Mariners have Boeing ads, the Astros (lol 🗑️) have Haliburton ads, etc. Hell, they started putting ads on the sleeves of the players’ fucking jerseys now. The Texas Rangers, brought to you by Energy Transfer Operator™️. Remember Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest? I’m almost surprised none of the teams are sponsored by TigerSwan or Blackwater. The NFL might be a more overt brain damaging blood sport, but the MLB is still America’s Past Time™️ in the sheer saturation of advertising some of the worst parts of this hellhole corporate orgy disguised as a country.

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      If it’s any consolation the MLB has the most stadiums without a corporate sponsor name among pro sports. 10 out of 30 stadiums still have their original names, as opposed to the NFL which has 6 out of 30 and the NBA which has 2(!) out of 29. It will be a cold day in hell before Yankees Stadium or Fenway Park give up their storied names. I just really hate referring to ball parks by their sponsors. Imagine saying “I got tickets to the game at Crypto.com Arena!” and not cringing.

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      The TV experience is even worse, with ads superimposed on the screen. In that regard the NHL is worse. It’s all the main reason I’ve lost a lot of interest in sports over the years.