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The detail is "where do they park?" The answer is they don't. (aussie.zone)
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Shared on Facebook with the caption "Doing absolutely no favours to their international reputation, Americans have swarmed social media posts of Taylor Swift’s Melbourne concerts confused by a very obvious detail. Can you spot it?"

It's an article from the Murdoch right-wing paper "The Australian", so I won't link the original source.

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Aerial photo of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, surrounded to its North and East by tree-filled parks, to the West by a warm-up pitch, and to the South by a train line with two pedestrian overpasses over it. Underneath this photo is the article title "The MCG show detail that has American Swifties baffled" and byline "by Sam McPhee".

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[–] BigWheelPowerBrakeSlider 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'd argue that for most of the US it is necessary to have a car. We just have adequate public transport. I'd much prefer that we did, but currently we do not. I suspect one could take an aerial photo of many arenas/stadiums located in densely populated cities in the US and they do not have much parking either.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Also to be fair, we in Australia are far from being some car free utopia either.

We have heaps of car dependant urban sprawl in our major cities where the vast majority of us live. We are also adding more of this sprawl all the time.

On the plus side most of our state capital cities have got decent heavy rail networks which you can park at stations and ride.

[–] Marcbmann 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, necessary to have a car in the US. But I like using public transit when possible. Especially when traveling to NYC. It's slightly faster to drive, but nothing beats the feeling of not having to park.

Plus, parking costs as much as the train ride

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

We just have adequate public transport. I’d much prefer that we did, but currently we do not.

What

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Poster doesn't live in the US

[–] Demdaru 2 points 10 months ago

"Hey Copilot, can you generate me a reddit post, but tailored to be more left to better fit to fediverse?"