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[–] [email protected] 92 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Isn’t the purpose of the art piece to demonstrate the human condition across an ocean? Flashing/mooning/offensive memes, that is what humans do. This should stay up and more should be put in place. How much more culturally connected would cities in the US be linked to other UK or EU cities?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why stop at EU? We should have these everywhere and have them change locations randomly every day

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Def not a bad idea, the more cities around the world the better. I also like the idea of sister cities, if they were to stick to a single portal to portal connection. I’m in Minneapolis, maybe match it with a similarly sized city across the pond. Could root for each others sports teams, offer support in trying times, develop a digital bond.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah a lot of towns in Europe are 'twinned' with another European town - i always assume its just an excuse for the councilor to get free holidays when making the agreement but your idea makes it sound really interesting, a portal could be really cool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

City "twinning" goes beyond the EU. And it can happen for all kinds of reasons. My favourite example is the towns of Dull, Scotland, Boring, Oregon and Bland, New South Wales.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The biggest problem in Europe in the past was the constant war between the nations, Germany and France in particular. How do You reduce the willingness to go fight each other. You create connections.

Economic connections in the form of the coal and steel alliance, which evolved to become the EU.

Personal connections by connecting the people between the countries with multinational friendship. Twin cities are one tool creating the friendship. By having regular exchanges between students and adults. You don't want to go to war with a friend you visited every summer. That's also the reason for the Erasmus program, where you can have an exchange semester at university.

All of those were implemented since the WW2 and they seem to work. There hasn't ever been a period of such a long peace in central Europe.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

"humans ruin everything" yea that the point and art

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Imagine some dude would have pulled out his dick instead, what do you think the reaction would have been?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not the same thing. What would be the same is if some dude pulled his shirt up to show his bare chest. What do you think the reaction would have been in that case?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Depends if they're just flopping it flaccidly from side to side or angrily masturbating. Same goes for if a woman were to start rubbing one off. Nudity isn't sexual, but what you do with it could be.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I’m not entirely sure what the going MO is for male exhibitionists because I have never felt the desire to engage in that sort of behavior, but I’m fairly sure even a floppy dong is probably enough to catch you a charge in most parts of the country.

And do we know if the lady in the OP simply pulled her tatas out to get them some fresh air or whether she wiggled and bounced them suggestively? I didn’t watch the video so I don’t want to make any assumptions, but the stills I’ve seen seem to suggest there was quite a bit of enthusiasm at work.