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actually y’know what I’m stupid, saw another article about this today and it finally clicked to me that this news story is literally about thousands of new housing units being built so this neighbourhood could very well be unpopulated at the moment. that might explain the empty streets lol (and also why this never happens in the west)

But also if it’s an ocean planet and doesn’t have a dense iron core, it’s gravity won’t necessarily be greater than the Earth’s

Honestly like all of the news/content I see on the DPRK is pretty fucking positive lol (albeit I don’t see it that much and overall I would say I don’t know much about the country/culture).

I could see my comment being counterproductive in the sense that it seems like something a concern-trolling lib might say, so I’m sympathetic to the idea that I should have just not posted it. I guess I figured this was a leftist enough space that people wouldn’t take my comment in bad faith, but I feel like that’s what you did. Because, while I did admit that maybe this is just some cultural difference or something I’m not aware of (and not some sinister evil government plot) - you saying you can find 1000 pictures of cities in the west like this genuinely surprises me.

Like… I’ve lived in regions that look a lot like this, in terms of building size and everything. Places where streets are frequently shut down for events. But usually, such events attract stragglers at the borders, usually there’s lots of people coming and going. This is all just what I’m used to seeing and I’m not trying to apply some sort of value judgement to that but I am nonetheless surprised by your claim that this happens all the time in the west because, frankly, I don’t think I could produce one similar picture if I tried. If you want, you can dig some up for me, but I’ll take you at your word that you’ve seen this a lot. I guess I just haven’t?

Well yeah but I live in a city that has events too and usually the rest of the roads are not just shut down and devoid of people. Hell I’m not ruling out that I’m being ignorant and this is just some cultural thing but I’m just saying it looks kinda surreal to my eyes

It does look kinda weird to me in that first pic how empty the streets are outside of the rectangular borders of the crowd. I think I see one other person along that main street?

naahhh, this is just media hyperbole. Not even the republicans would ignore the parliamentarian, that’s just beyond the pale.

If they make Italian cuisine a World Heritage Site before they declare video games to be a World Heritage Site I’m gonna be so pissed