>The city is temperate and brightly colored, with plenty of pleasant trees, but on every corner it speaks to you in an aggressively alien nonsense. Here the world automatically assumes that instead of wanting food or drinks or a new phone or car, what you want is some kind of arcane B2B service for your startup. You are not a passive consumer. You are making something.

I recently traveled to San Francisco and as an outsider this was pretty much the reaction I had.

▲ easton 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've been to SF three times, and each time the oddest thing was going down 101 from the airport and seeing cURL commands and "you sped past that just like we sped past Snowflake" and such on billboards. It's like being on another planet where everyone is at work.

(on the other hand, in DC there's ads on the metro for new engine upgrades for fighter jets, and i've gotten used to that.)

▲ esafak 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And in LA, every billboard is about Hollywood. It's something you just have to take in your stride.

I do get that it is not nice to be constantly reminded of work. Trees would make a nicer view.

	▲	RupertSalt 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Who can forget the billboards that launched a "career"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelyne
	▲	snozolli 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I visited L.A. in 2023 and the thing that shocked me was how many billboards were for products that I only ever heard advertised on podcasts. MeUndies, for example.

▲ jcgrillo 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't miss billboards. Cows, trees, mountains, and lumberyards make better scenery.

	▲	Abstract_Typist 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The trees are canonical though. `I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree Indeed, unless the billboards fall I’ll never see a tree at all. Song of the Open Road - Ogden Nash`

▲ 01100011 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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