Edit: This seems to have attracted a few eco-fashs :/

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    If you ride the subway in Washington DC there are posters advertising anti-aircraft systems and other military contract products right next to the ads for car insurance and chewing gum and it’s so fucking weird.

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      5 days ago

      Maybe like 10 years ago, someone did a regression analysis to see which stations were most expensive to advertise in, when corrected for actual ridership starting or ending their train rides swiping in and out at those stations. For the most part, most stations’ advertising prices pretty closely matched the number of riders, with the clear outlier of the Pentagon station.

      I can’t find that article anymore because Google search turned into dog shit, but this more recent article basically covers the contours.

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      6 days ago

      I lived there for many years and never once saw that…

      The fact you called it the “subway” and not Metro makes me think you’re full of shit right

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        6 days ago

        I’m not from DC, but I’ve visited a number of times, and I said subway not Metro out of the assumption that people outside of DC wouldn’t know what I was talking about if I said Metro. The ads I saw were near Pentagon City or Alexandria.