Visiting Paris rn coming from a Car dependent city in Canada.
We shouldn’t need cars. We should build our cities to encourage walking and reliable public transport to go farther.
Literally all the major structure in Paris are within short walk + bus ride away from each other. If you got good legs you could probably walk to most of these places. The Louvre, the Eiffel tower, the River, Alexander III bridge, etc.
All with little shops, cafés, and bakeries everywhere if you need a bite to eat.
Oh Amsterdam looks incredible. There’s a number of European cities I want to visit including Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, London etc.
Unfortunately, our plan just includes Paris, then a train ride to Zürich where we’ll stay a couple more days before heading home from there. We were planning to have a day trip in Brussels but sadly that didn’t go through.
Well that desire is partially artificially created.
Yes humans are stupid and buy shit, but many things are made intended to be bought amd break or not needed at all but advertised differently.
For example you don’t need an AI. But companies shove it down your throat so that you have to use the power hungry monstrosity of a shitty software.
I’d argue that the desire is almost entirely artificially created.
I’d like to see governments try to do something about the constant affronts to our psychology that is the marketing industry.
Visiting Paris rn coming from a Car dependent city in Canada.
We shouldn’t need cars. We should build our cities to encourage walking and reliable public transport to go farther.
Literally all the major structure in Paris are within short walk + bus ride away from each other. If you got good legs you could probably walk to most of these places. The Louvre, the Eiffel tower, the River, Alexander III bridge, etc.
All with little shops, cafés, and bakeries everywhere if you need a bite to eat.
Oh, you should stop by Amsterdam.
Oh Amsterdam looks incredible. There’s a number of European cities I want to visit including Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, London etc.
Unfortunately, our plan just includes Paris, then a train ride to Zürich where we’ll stay a couple more days before heading home from there. We were planning to have a day trip in Brussels but sadly that didn’t go through.