[skeletal88]

When travelling through Poland then the contrast of visual pollution by billboards and other advertisements has been very big, between for example Estonia, Latvia, the nordic countries and Poland.

In Poland basically everything is covered in huge adveretisements, "Kantor" here and there, car repair shops, etc. On bus stops all the walls are covered in them and there is even something on top of it, facing the road.

Drinving there is tiring, the brain just gets tired from it.

We think its part of slavic culture or something.

[jakub_g]

> Driving there is tiring, the brain just gets tired from it.

I moved away from Poland a decade ago, and each time I come back I get distracted like crazy as a passenger in a car. My brain doesn't know what's happening for the first hour until I realize what's up.

Literally every 50m there's a billboard on a road, billboard on someone's house, billboard on a fence. From big companies (telcos etc.) through all kinds of local businesses ("Selling X", "buying Y", "repairing Z").

A relevant meme that is on point: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvoPf6OWYAMC0Sd.jpg

[andrepd]

Damn, I identify with that photo a lot. Portugal is truly honorary Eastern Europe.

[Rinzler89]

>We think its part of slavic culture or something.

It isn't. It's the same, or worse, in Romania.

It's just rabid unregulated capitalism of the post communist countries, gone wild, where everything is about making as much money as possible any way you can, which means advertising everywhere so you can influence people to spend their money with you. Romania is now IRL what the internet looks like without ad block.

The ads for gambling and betting are the most nefarious, to the point it's becoming a societal issue.

[oblio]

> The ads for gambling and betting are the most nefarious, to the point it's becoming a societal issue.

To that point: https://imgur.com/UWqa8jX

[TremendousJudge]

Why the pharmacies? I noticed the same thing visiting Vegas, half the shops on the strip are pharmacies

[oblio]

I have no idea about them, a lot of people think they're fronts for money laundering. Alternatively, dunno... I guess gamblers are also addicts of sorts? Plus I imagine they drink, abuse their bodies so they need regular medication?

[thedougd]

In Vegas they sell beer, wine, and spirits. They’re also filled with general items.

[dalmo3]

Only two from the same chain? Laughs in Brazilian

https://x.com/choquei/status/1661450590474362887

[oblio]

Bravo!

[imajoredinecon]

Same deal here in Chicago compared to the West Coast city where I previously lived

[mantas]

Up here in Lithuania we used to make fun of your billboards 20 years ago. But now it's getting worse and worse here too. While you seem to have rebounded from the lowest point.

[badpun]

It's not like that in the countryside. But in the cities, especially among the major inbound roads, yikes.

[cafard]

Try a drive in Pennsylvania.