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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

eh, land use for parking lots is commonly overestimated based on our own observation bias

1% of habitable land is used for all constructions (housing and parking lots and streets) together. it's not a lot. it seems a lot when you're standing on a vast parking area, but no, in absolute terms, compared to Earth's size, it's not a lot. much bigger are the area uses for agriculture, actually. that makes the most land use of humanity, it's in fact the limiting factor for the number of people on the world.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

No one is saying parking lot is a lot of area of the earth. It's a lot of area of a city.

Cities and areas human live in is very small part of the overall land we have available, because we need a lot more resources than just a house to live in. Even in tribal areas the buildings take barely any land compared to the area they use for agriculture, hunting and things.

The main problem with parking lot is the amount of space it takes within the area we live in, specially for any place people gather in. Making the places people want to gather even more isolated because of it.