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“All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” (thelemmy.club)
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[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Those two images depict different parts of Houston and should not be used to punctuate your otherwise excellent point

More context here, from the last time it was brought up
https://feddit.uk/post/22213773/14336228

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I didn't mean to imply that tall buildings were torn down, and the analysis doesn't refute the point that a whole bunch of (non-tall) buildings were torn down.

I simply couldn't find better matching images, posting from my phone in the few minutes I had to spare.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

I'd recommend not using the images at all, the Vox train map was powerful enough

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