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Re:If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity by UtopiaPunk on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:09PM (#36922898)
There's an ad in rotation right now on a popular local radio station where the whole bit is that character A's car isn't working, and character B talks about the great deals at a specific car dealership. "Don't walk," he exclaims and he shares the gospel of car ownership.

Literally, the whole framing is that walking sucks and is embarrassing :(

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Re:If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity by pbhjpbhj on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:40PM (#36923165)
It's like idiocracy where they say something like "you drink water? like water, that you use to flush the toilet?". People are easily manipulated because they want to signal that they're valuable and/or rich; "walking is for poor people" ... well yes, also people who want to stay fit, or who care about the environment, or want to be closer to their community, or ...
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Re:If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity by ta1243 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:45PM (#36923213)
If you're walking there are fewer opportunities to advertise to you
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Re:If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity by OfSanguineFire on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:52PM (#36923283)
> If you're walking there are fewer opportunities to advertise to you

How so? I’m reminded of that sequence of shots in Zabriskie Point where Mark Frechette walks around Los Angeles and is assailed by billboards everywhere around him.

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Re:If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity by pxeger1 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:56PM (#36923319)
Perhaps GP meant that you can't fruitfully have cars advertised to you if you don't want to buy one
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Re:If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity by rufus_foreman on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:30PM (#36923667)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmXn01PbAss

Hey! Don't settle for walking.

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Re:If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity by closeparen on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:05PM (#36944728)
In the vast majority of American postwar development, walking does suck and is embarrassing. That’s why the article’s framing about dignity for pedestrians in street design is interesting.
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