• OfCourseNot@fedia.io
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    18 hours ago

    How old does it have to be? Because I live in a European city founded in the 9th century, and work near another founded in the 1st century. They’re both full of these gigantic monsters…

    • Jiral@lemmy.org
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      15 hours ago

      Vienna was also founded around the 1st century. Not that you would see much evidence of that if you don’t know where to look. Luckily also those monstrosities are still somewhat rare but you can definitely find them and they are getting more. Somehow it is illegal to drive in heavy snow in the alps without non-skid chains. But it is not only legal to drive with monstrosities that are incompatible with cities in the inner cities, and put lives needlessly in danger. The latter is deemed not only perfectly normal but anyone arguing against it is deemed an extremist.

    • realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip
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      16 hours ago

      Well, I lived in nördlingen, germany (Yes, the attack on titan city or whatever anime it was) for most of my life and the first occurence in historical documents was in like 900 or something lol. However, the thing with the city is that it’s got a fully intact city wall to this day. If you drive a large car in there, you’re not going to have a very fun time in the city as you’ll find no parking spaces and you outright can’t access some parts of the city by car because the turns are too tight or the street simply not wide enough. I remember that like 25 years ago, they even had to create some wider lanes through rezoning so delivery trucks can even get to the shops to deliver the goods.

      Man I’d love to see some american with his truck in the city. Absolute cinema.

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      16 hours ago

      Yea and they’re increasing too, skirting immissions regulations by being imported as agricultural machines