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[-] pistachio@lemmy.ml 145 points 1 year ago
[-] wallybeavis@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

So, is that gravel....just free? Like, can anyone just take it?

[-] Gatsby@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago
[-] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

100% correct! (Not that I've ever taken something just laying there that wasn't mine.)

[-] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

I live in a small town next to a giant pile of gravel lol It’s probably not free. In my case, the owner of the property was planning on putting in a gravel driveway to a old house he was going to fix up but then never did. It’s been abandoned for years, no idea what’s going on now. But he owns the gravel and taking it would be theft. Although I could probably get away with it if I was in a desperate gravel situation.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Well, if it's a desperate gravel situation that's fair. I think we can all relate to that.

[-] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 6 points 1 year ago

In the Great Depression, when people would leave their farms, it was common for their neighbors to strip their house to the foundations. However, if that person came back, it was also common for those neighbors to give most of what they took back, and even help rebuild. I think there’s an argument to be made that stealing something that isn’t being used isn’t stealing in a traditional sense, but more ensuring appropriate usage of resources and lessening waste.

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[-] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Star Spangle intensifies

[-] alcamtar@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

Your picture is actually of active, well-used railroad tracks. Old unused tracks are rusty and weed-grown. If the rails are shiny it means that trains pass regularly and knock the rust off. If there's no weeds it's because the railroad actively sends out crews to maintain the tracks.

[-] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 year ago

the railroad actively sends out crews to maintain the tracks.

Damn, the railroad spawns its own crews for maintenance? That's crazy

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I was just in Japan and even some of their active rail lines have huge 4 ft tall weeds growing in the rail yards

[-] alcamtar@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Weed control is a fairly new thing but not an environmentally friendly thing. Maybe Japan doesn't like spraying pesticide all around.

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't surprise me. In Germany the largest customer for Roundup/Glyphosate is DB, they spray that shit over around all rails.

[-] BlackRing@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

So THAT'S what looked off... And reminded me of where I moved out of...

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Used to have a really nice commuter rail that connected to the city, now there's a six-lane highway that clogs up twice a day.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the American ~dream~ nightmare.

[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

love driving thru these and seeing the old signs. hate the fuckin 25mph speed traps

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

One time, I was driving through one of these old towns, and I got pulled over because I didn't make a complete stop at a stop sign. Admittedly, I was in the wrong, but the judge in town was insane, and coincidentally the father of the sheriff who pulled us over. So the judge tried to have me and the people in the car executed in some crazy deathcoaster contraption unless I agreed to marry his daughter (who bore a striking resemblance to Gus Polinski) but thankfully we managed to get out of there. Also, we got to party with Digital Underground for some reason.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Did they make you repave the street too with Bessy?

[-] emrikol@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Nothing but trouble in that town it sounds like. Best stay away.

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[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I lived in one of these town for four years. Just before I moved there, they'd made national news for pulling over an ambulance. It was hauling ass taking someone to the hospital, but the local cops felt that issuing a ticket was more important.

The town is also the county seat and regional state patrol center. It's the highest ratio of law enforcement to citizens in the entire state.

The first day we arrived my wife was pulled over for doing just over 25. Welcome to town!

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[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

And these towns tend to have like 2.75 cops per person and they aren't afraid to pull you over for going 26mph.

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[-] thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

It's the 1970s car friendly town - so car friendly noone wants to go there anymore, because there is nothing than car infrastructure and car pollution. It doesn't have to be like this, take back your towns folks!

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[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

There do be the random pile of gravel.

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[-] craktok@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Am I missing something? Aren’t most buildings bricks? Or is that just because I live in London?

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago
[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago

In the US houses are held together by thoughts and prayers.

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[-] swagrid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Brick isn't as common in the US. It's more "regional." I'm most towns, you'll have like one or two brick buildings and that's it. A town hall, maybe a church.

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[-] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

London is an extremely old city. In the US, the older areas with older buildings like New York often have brick, but almost everywhere else, where most structures are less than a century old, they use alternatives. Most commonly this is lumber framing with exterior siding (either wood or plastic), interior sheet rock (“drywall”), with fiberglass insulation in between.

[-] Metaright@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

I feel like living in such a town would be very depressing.

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Can confirm. Most of my state is like this.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

This gave me big flashbacks of where I grew up. It was great as a kid, a ton of urban exploration opportunities, but I wouldn't want to live there now.

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[-] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Old unused train tracks are one of my favourite things on vacation. It really is a journey into the past. So peaceful.

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[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago

I occasionally take the bus from NYC to a town in the Finger Lakes, and this is so true. I have been through so many towns that check off every one of these boxes.

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 12 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the Pepsi machine doesn't actually work half the time if ever.

[-] airplanesarecool@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Fellow midwesterner can confirm

[-] red@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Did you just shit on pretty much the whole UK?

[-] Neato@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

Would you classify your castles as "every building is bricks" or "random pile of gravel"?

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[-] exylos@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] Skater2065@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago

I grew up in small town. Very. Like, a few hundred people. One school. This meme is so accurate but railway picture is wrong! Too clean. XD

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[-] eggshappedegg@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

I genuinely am interested. I assume this is for the US. Did houses get bulit with bricks in older days and why did they move away from it?

I live in europe an have only seen brick and cement Houses here

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Cheddar actually made a good video on this topic. The US switched to wood during the postwar boom because it was faster and cheaper to build houses and buildings out of wood, because wood is abundant here.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not every building is brick. Sometimes they have wooden ones. Either way, they're old as shit.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

In Australia its the same, but only the fancy buildings are brick. Most are asbestos.

My dads town is not rich enough to have a vending machine.

[-] ItCantBeThatEasy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
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[-] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Replace the Pepsi Machine with one that sells Worms and you've nailed my area.

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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Baltimore is this but somehow an entire city.

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