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I have seen it happen with old trees, but I think now they have either species or techniques to avoid that. Trees in streets are very common in France, it's not a recent thing. There's even a specific term for streets with trees: "avenue", although many people use it without knowing.

Well, yeah nobody would thought to destroy this kind of valuable architecture for parking. We did get some aweful towers in other districts though, like Montparnasse tower.

This is Haussmannien architecture, it looks pretty and unfiform because the prefect of Napoleon III in the 19th century got the permission to destroy most of the shitty medieval districts with poor people inside and build good looking housing with modern accomodations for rich people instead. That's largely why Paris is pretty today.

I've never heard of anyone getting ticks from street vegetation. You would typically not walk through it unless you're a rat. What's your species?

I think it's okay to have opinion pieces in media as long as it is labeled as such with "editorial" for example. That's a part of democracy, not every media needs to be as neutral as Reuters and AFP.

Street trees are trimmed regularly in France when it's needed. People enjoy to see the green and the added privacy when it reaches their windows.

It's made to look like that on purpose, but it's kept. It's the counter reaction to the biodiversity disaster of loan monoculture style like you often see in USA suburbs. I actually enjoy the feeling of wilderness.

As I said, most of the points made in the video I didn't think about before, and I find it interesting to know other reasons why people play old games or are patient gamers, that's why I shared it here. I think the person is simply expressing her taste, maybe it's traditional stereotypes for some people, but you can't decide of your tastes, I didn't find it hateful. Now people who defend trans people found this video offensive, which I was miles away from expecting, and many people decided to jump on this wagon and decided this is a hateful post based on prior comments without watching the video. Also as I said other places, I am not knowledgeable in trans defense, so maybe it's possible they are correct.

I see what you mean but I think there's quite an intersection with patient gamers reasons.

Ok, I was not considering this point of view at all when I shared this. I was thinking that's a different point of view on patient gaming that I didn't have.