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[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

Is this the most efficient way to store 17 houses?

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

So much more room for delicious maple syrup.

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 42 points 1 month ago

It’s called being optimal sweaty.

[-] SippyCup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Sweety.

Optional sweaty is the perfect amount of perspiration to have upon one's person.

[-] night_petal@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago

The misuse of the word is intentional and part of the joke. An artifact from reddit.

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

*Optimal

Optional sweater is when you choose to perspire

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[-] sjkhgsi@lemmy.lynas.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Optimal. Optical sweaty is the choice of whether or not one would like to be perspiring.

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Optional. Optical sweaty is when you are so sad that your eyes start to vacuum tears.

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Optimus. Optical sweaty is when you are more than meets the eye.

[-] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's having a thin layer of liquid perspiration that's constantly boiling off and evaporating

[-] spitfire@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago
[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

How about a grid system that changes direction at every single avenue?

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[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago

Lol get fucking rotated

[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago
[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

I kinda like it. It's just neat enough.

A lot of old city plats follow the exact pattern of that square, so I'd be curious what the sequence of development was.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

It's tough to look at, but I bet it's amazing for traffic calming.

[-] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Came here to say the same. This design (or accident) forces north/south traffic to use the arterials on either side of the neighbourhood instead of going through the neighbourhood.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of this place:

(I remember just walking to school and it felt weird walking on a "slanted" street lol)

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[-] becausechemistry@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

Indianapolis built the central mile square of streets aligned with magnetic north, but then the rest of downtown aligned with true north. It’s almost aligned, which causes problems at that border.

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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Where is this?

Edit: Found it! Jacksonville Beach, FL

30.280765 N 81.393002 W

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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

Here's another one:

Missoula, MT

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[-] negativenull@piefed.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

This is the part in Sim City where I restart.

[-] negativenull@piefed.world 4 points 1 month ago

Aw, now I miss Sim City 2000

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[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 month ago

At least with places like Denver and other western cities it's pretty straightforward how it happened - everything built along the river. Access to the river was key.

Being a boom/bust city means that a much later boom they adjusted.

Then even older cities (think Boston) grew before any opportunity at planning could happen.

[-] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Denver was two cities - Auraria (correction from Aurora thanks to @negativenull) and Denver. One was built to align with the river, the other with compass points and then they grew big enough to smush into each other and neither was willing to concede to the other.

Also Denver’s namesake, a Kansas politician, never even visited. It was a failed attempt to lure him here.

[-] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

My favorite is how 15th St just boings off of Colfax (15th ave)

[-] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

Ugh that grid pattern. Imagine living somewhere so uninspired.

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[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

If anything a perfect grid would be mildly infuriating, it's more interesting this way

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Welcome to everywhere else in the world that's not a fucking grid lol.
This isnt a computer where traces are made in 90 and 45° angles.

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[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

The kinda shit I do in cities skylines when I get bored

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Would make sense to avoid people driving through the area. Grid patterns in general are kinda bad when it comes to traffic

[-] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Unrelated but, Theres a section of Prince George Canada that all of a sudden does a big U. The story i was told is that back in the day there were two competing railway companies, and one of them bought enough influence that when the city was making roads to the other company, they instead made the roads bend back.

[-] bright@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Damn, capitalism is fucked up

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