@ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world
Post #127051
2026-01-12 16:32 UTC
Replies (19)
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@FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 16:44
Lies! Anti-homeless this may be, but this bench was also created with the VERY noble intention of facilitating wheelchair-bound men to receive a handjob from two women at once!
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@null@piefed.nullspace.lol 2026-01-12 17:05
If this were real, consider how it would come to be. It’s obvious that even if we pretend it’s for accessibility purposes, it’s worse than just pulling up beside the bench because now you have to deal with backing into the spot. But what if it’s more nefarious than that? No budget to put in new benches with spikes or whatever built in. But maybe there’s room in the budget for “accessibility upgrades”. Maybe a ramp was sacrificed for this idiocy.
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@aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 17:09
It would look better, allow for easier access, and be cheaper if the bars connecting the two park… chairs were simply not there.
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@Dasus@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 17:17
And how exactly would one even back a wheelchair into that? Wheelchairs have backrests already, so you’d just hit the backrest of this bench before being on the same line as the other people sitting on it.
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@uberfreeza@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 17:38
Now, I had read this title as “horticulture architecture,” and I was wondering if a tree was supposed to go in the middle or something or where the tree pun would be.
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@JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 17:49
It is also hostile to the ambulatory disabled. Taking away a seat they could rest on.
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@village604@adultswim.fan 2026-01-12 18:13
This isn’t even an effective anti-homeless measure. All they need is a few boards or some scrap plywood. Heck, enough cardboard would work too. Part of me wonders if this was malicious compliance. Someone was forced to pick out anti-homeless benches and they chose the ones easiest to counter.
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@JoShmoe@ani.social 2026-01-12 18:20
There’s a perfectly good bench in the background that the homeless can still use.
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@infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2026-01-12 18:27
“That disabled person stole your cookie seat”
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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 19:07
their mama just that fat
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@Virtvirt588@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 19:37
This is literally the illustration of most things within the world. The corporations/governments rather muddy the waters than actually do what has to be done. Praise is given for effectively doing a cheap act of “niceness” that is more harmful in the long run. It is a method of deceiving the public, and taking advantage of a minority to precisely execute their evil intentions. In this case, disability is one thing, but age and other factors are also used as a leverage point.
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@spacesatan@leminal.space 2026-01-12 20:34
At this point surely you could just have two individual chairs spaced about that far apart and slightly angled towards eachother. Still anti homeless but also at least a better user experience for, for lack of a better term, intended users. Probably cheaper than the weird bench and more plausible deniability.
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@WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2026-01-12 21:04
That’s going to be used by teens for finding new ways to sit and show off their balancing skills until it inevitably breaks, gets vandalised because it’s already broken until it ends up surrounded by dumped household waste and rats. The budget for cleaning up is used up for making that monstrosity in the first place, so it remains there as a blight on the landscape.
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@UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 21:56
PARK THE FUCKING WHEELCHAIR NEXT TO THE BENCH! This has to be a trolling photoshop
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@Ach@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 23:50
The obvious response to this is to guerilla install regular benches, but put wheelchair legs on the legs so we can roll sleeping homeless men into bank lobbies.
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@Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 2026-01-13 00:26
there, I fixed it.
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@ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-13 04:24
🌈
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@Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-01-13 05:58
Psst 🤫 You don’t need anti-homeless architecture if you fix your society (Every human has a right for housing and food in my opinion, labour should be for luxury, not survival)
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@Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-14 03:12
Hilariously this is actually anti-disability. Many people have mobility issues without needing a wheelchair all the time, and really benefit from having places to sit. Removing a seat removes that option.