Anon questions North Korea

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• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think it’s illegal. The amount of citizen with access to enough wealth to own a car is just relatively low

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  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Private car ownership is highly restricted. You only have access to a car if you are a party member, are conducting business for the party, or are well connected.

    Their society is very localized and travel is restricted(you need a permit to leave your county), trains and bicycles are how you move about if you aren’t walking.

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    • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nice, they’ve solved the climate crisis. It truly is the greatest country.

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• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Those roads are probably for police and military so they can arrive quickly in case of invasion or citizens becoming uppity.

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sure, but that thing is 4 lanes in either direction. That’s a lot of asphalt for a whole bunch of nothing.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Kim must love drag racing I guess

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  • hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also why the US highway system was built, btw. The president who championed it, Eisenhower, was the commander of US allied forces during WW2. While there were other benefits, his goal was to be able to quickly transport troops in the event of a Soviet invasion.

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which is a fucking dumb idea seeing how shitty the US rail system is.

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  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which was also the real reason Hitler built the Autobahn (or rather, continued and expanded the plans that already existed).

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And why Eisenhower built the interstates. They even used dod funding

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• lurklurk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re cosplaying a successful country

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  • spamspeicher@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe they are a cargo cult? Build big streets and the wealth will come!

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are going all for that induced demand. Research shows that building one more lane actually increases traffic.

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But think of the impressive military parades.

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• takeda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  LOL, if one can afford a car in NK, it must be a dream to drive it. Roads as wide as in California with zero traffic.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No one driving on it and it’s still full of potholes and poorly patched.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      An empty road full of potholes and the only other people driving are people I probably know by name?

      This is Mario Kart IRL

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  • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think these roads stretch very far.

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why are all the trees dead?

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Insane you found 4 of the same looking tree

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  • TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They are still waiting on their permits for water.

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The US bombed all of so now only 20% of their land is arable

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Checks tld Yup ☑️

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nice try, tankie, but 20% is higher than the US. The world average is 10%.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unless the bombs contain salt all that would do is turn over the soil.

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• napkin2020@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They don’t want anyone to go anywhere without being extra nice. It’s not car centered city, it’s a huge prison.

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s a city.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They need wide roads. Who knows how fat Kim Jong Un is going to get?

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