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Liminal spaces are the subject of an Internet aesthetic portraying empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, forlorn, and often surreal. Liminal spaces are commonly places of transition (pertaining to the concept of liminality) or of nostalgic appeal.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like the Death Star lasers barrel!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The resemblance is uncanny!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn, this is a great shot. What station is this if you don't mind me asking?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the Savyolovskaya station in Moscow. I should clarify that I did not take this picture - and I am not sure who has because reverse search just yields people re-posting it. It's been one of my fave liminal space pics for a while though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, thanks for the info and for sharing it anyways!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're welcome!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is the Savyolovskaya Metro station in Moscow, Russia.

It's a beautiful and minimal station

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It really is quite beautiful. Wish we had more of these in the States but it's looking like we'll never give up our cars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

US government: best i can do is remove benches, so homeless people can't sleep in it. take it or leave it 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's more just shitty and ineffective local town governments tbh.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

local town governments

Have you been to literally any american city? This isn't something that's just done by a few bad apples it's pervasive.

Just look at the horrific state of NYC stations. Even the "best" ones are in a pretty dire state.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bro, I live in America okay? There's no federal law mandating benches be awful. These are all local laws or city ordinances voted for by citizens who are unsympathetic to the homeless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't understand why you're defending this shit. Also, that's still the US gov's fault.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not defending shit dude. I am just saying to put the blame in the right place. The US government didn't remove benches like the original commenter said, it's the local citizens who've done it or convinced their city to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is the US government.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are way oversimplifying things lol. There's a difference between federal (what you call the US government), state (i.e. California), and city governments (i.e. Los Angeles).

These bench modifications are done at city level and it's only because some residents have complained about homelessness in their neighborhoods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You said it yourself that the US government does not have a rule stopping the abuse of the homeless by local government. That is US government failure.

And I do not draw a different between local and federal. It is still the US government, the US system as a whole. Pretending that there is no failure occurring here is nonsensical.

And the point wasn't about bench modifications, but the horrific and obviously visibly failing state of US infrastructure people can see with their own two eyes being completely ignored in favour of anti-homeless shit. But you've only focused on the minor point while ignoring the far larger one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a lot of things I criticize the US government about but advocating for federal government overreach into something that's distinctly a local city issue is not one of them.

And the point wasn’t about bench modifications

Yes it was. That's what the original commenter I was replying to was talking about. You're the one trying to strawman the discussion into something else entirely.

Btw, this is [email protected], not some political community on lemmygrad.ml. Go take your America hateboner and aggressive troll behavior somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Protecting the homeless is overreach lmao. This is why america is in the dire state it's in, because people that claim to be left wing are overtly right wing by the standards of literally anywhere else in the world.

I am British. Why should I like america? And why do you assume everyone is american? Also bringing weird ultra-nationalist rhetoric into this is fucking weird, and goes to show just how ""left"" you actually are. In the UK you'd be a tory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Going the same way in the UK. London is the only city with a useful underground rail network and those stations are full of ads and are mostly badly designed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's hard to convince my brain this is not 2 photos stitched together.