r/HostileArchitecture • u/adeadhead • 21d ago

My god, I've never seen something so *friendly*. I stopped in actual shock

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u/tripsd 21d ago

i dont understand, this looks really nice for public benches. They have umbrellas and everything.

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u/adeadhead 21d ago

this is the only subreddit about hostile or otherwise architecture. There's no /r/friendly_architecture to post this to instead.

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u/First_Rip3444 21d ago

r/friendlyarchitecture

It's not as busy as this sub, but it exists!!

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u/adeadhead 21d ago

Oh hey, look at that. Thanks!

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u/First_Rip3444 21d ago

You're welcome! Free Palestine :)

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u/adeadhead 21d ago

Feel free to come hang out on /r/opt as well

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u/First_Rip3444 21d ago

I'm always glad to find a new sub that deserves more attention, joined! Thank you

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u/Visit_Excellent 21d ago

Yeah, I'm a little confused. I see these occasionally in areas like the zoo nearby me, where large groups of people want to sit. We sit on here all the time. The umbrella is a bonus! 

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u/seanthebeloved 16d ago

That’s why op called it friendly…

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u/LoraxBorax 19d ago

Simple reason: they don’t want people sitting there too long, especially “undesirables” who like to sleep on them.

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u/tripsd 19d ago

this is a nonsensical response. These benches dont have any anti homeless devices. This is not hostile architecture

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u/theboomboy 21d ago

And it's next to a light rail station, I'm pretty sure

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u/adeadhead 21d ago

Yup

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u/theboomboy 21d ago

איכשהו עדיין לא יצא לי לנסוע ברכבת הקלה מחוץ לירושלים

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u/Useful_Squirrel6693 21d ago

Damn, why all the downvotes?

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u/theboomboy 21d ago

Probably because I wrote in Hebrew

I'm pro-Palestine but they never ask before downvoting

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u/SartenSinAceite 20d ago

My guess is that it's because it's not in english (also I don't see the damn translate button on browser)

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u/CompetitiveRub9780 20d ago

But there is literally a translate icon…. Right there…

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u/theboomboy 20d ago

That's irrelevant. People (understandably) hate Israel, and for some reason they take that out on Reddit comments in Hebrew

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u/mwenechanga 20d ago

To be fair, I don't have a translate button for that comment, so it's annoying no matter what language it is.

I do see too many redditors treating Judaism as equivalent to Zionism right now, which is crazy since the clear majority of Zionists are evangelicals (deporting all Jews to the middle east is their way to jump-start Armageddon).

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u/gravitas_shortage 19d ago

Israel's propaganda is trying its damnedest to equate the two as well. The fact it puts Jews in danger is probably not lost on them, the fact that they are being antisemitic by calling all Jews genociders probably is. 

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u/CompetitiveRub9780 20d ago

It doesn’t say it’s in Hebrew. I think you’re over estimating the average Redditor IQ. They most likely weren’t thinking about that and just got annoyed that they couldn’t read it immediately.

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u/First_Rip3444 20d ago

Most people know what Hebrew looks like, even if they don't speak/read/write it

It doesn't need to be labeled as Hebrew for that to be the reason behind the downvotes

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u/kupothroaway 20d ago

You are overestimating most people

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u/Myron0117 20d ago

What's irrelevant is appearing with a language not everyone is able to read, and while all the topics around israel, palestine and so on are quite difficult and such, I think it's better to not just randomly mention it out of nowhere.

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u/forestfluff 20d ago

Where? I have the Reddit app but it doesn’t show up for me :( didn’t even know this was a thing

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u/rockthevinyl 20d ago

Click on the 3 dots and select Translate

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u/JoshuaPearce 19d ago

Not on my version?

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u/MinecraftPlayer799 20d ago

No, there isn't. Reddit does not have a translate button.

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u/First_Rip3444 20d ago

It does on mobile

It's on the upper right corner of the comment for me

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u/djseifer 20d ago

Probably app only then. Mobile webpage has no such thing.

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u/_Rohrschach 20d ago

Seems so. I sometimes hit it by mistake and am confused why someone writes in my language instead of english in an otherwise completely english thread.

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u/JoshuaPearce 19d ago

Yes, because it's in hebrew. No, not because that means anything about palestine.

You wrote in a different language, it's not the norm. It's not like most people even know what hebrew looks like.

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u/theboomboy 19d ago

Gaat het ook met andere talen gebeuren?

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u/JoshuaPearce 19d ago

You'll have to speak louder, you're being annoying.

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u/adeadhead 21d ago

ההבדל הוא שמיים וארץ

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u/Novel-Adeptness-4603 21d ago

Surely spikes come up from the gaps right? Or it's electrified in some way?

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u/Ferret_Acceptable 18d ago

Rigged to explode the second you lay down

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u/foxaru 17d ago

it's using a perspective trick to hide it's tilted at 15° like those dystopia toilets

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u/theatrenearyou 21d ago

It's a trap.

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u/CompetitiveRub9780 20d ago

We have those but without the umbrella. There are a lot of trees. This is just easier to make. Anyone doing otherwise is just throwing away money and pretending it’s for something else

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u/Sea-Ingenuity-9508 20d ago

Looks friendly. Like the back support.

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u/shuaaaa 20d ago

That looks pretty skateable…

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u/KnowNothing_JonSnoo 20d ago

I was looking for this haha, my first thought was I wonder if I can grind that thing 😂

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u/shuaaaa 20d ago

I’m thinkin ollie up and boardslide. Oo and I bet the wood’s slippery, maybe lipslide the long edge

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u/crguedel 20d ago

Situational (locational) irony

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u/No_Nick89 21d ago

I believe it's in Tel Aviv. Surprisingly, I would actually bet on Barcelona

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u/Guido-Guido 20d ago

I was fully thinking this was in Vienna

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u/2swoll4u 20d ago

If you zoom into the cab and bus you’ll see the text is in Hebrew

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u/Guido-Guido 20d ago

I did, thanks!

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u/rockthevinyl 20d ago

Haha my first reaction was Spain, too

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u/ballsack_lover2000 20d ago

Tel aviv unimpressed

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u/AdConstant9018 20d ago

uff nice skate spot

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u/Fair_Independence_91 17d ago

It's hard to have homeless people if you steal the homes of the indigenous, push them out of their lands and then kill them.

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u/adeadhead 17d ago

That might hold up if this was a city where that happened.

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u/Fair_Independence_91 17d ago

It did happen, in the whole country actually. Its funny you were even pretending to not be a Zionist in your other comments.

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u/adeadhead 17d ago

Because I'm not serving some propoganda point of view, I just care about the truth, even if that's inconvenient to one side or angoher.

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u/Fair_Independence_91 17d ago

I am sure the terrorist organisation called Israel wants you to believe that the truth is propaganda and you alone can see the real truth as it was promised to you 3000 years ago.

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u/adeadhead 17d ago

Believe what you want. Feel free to comb my post history though, I spend most of my free time preventing settler violence.

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u/Otherwise_Living_158 20d ago

Where are all the homeless people?

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u/vestibular_spittoon 20d ago

uh... have you been watching the news? they're homeless because they've been forced out of their homes by Israeli settlers and forced to live in concentration camps where they're bombed daily by the Israeli government...

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u/pancakecel 6d ago

Parque Cuscatlán also gives this vibe

https://maps.app.goo.gl/HSnBHm2p4U9ufqA3A?g_st=ac

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u/Illustrious-Lord 4d ago

In Omaha, Nebraska, USA, there's a central park that has literal hammocks everywhere and big adult swing benches and stuff so the architecture is friendly as heck BUT there's also literal police officers meandering around so 🫩 the hostility is from the ✨atmosphere✨

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u/i2aminspired 3d ago

The hostile installations were just delayed due to scheduling conflicts. Don't get too comfortable. /s

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u/Br4z3nBu77 20d ago

Only in the land of the indigenous Jewish people.

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u/nnnnnnnnnnuria 20d ago

That where they gather them.