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Green Tree Snails (Leptopoma taivanum), family Cyclophoridae, Okinawa, Japan

photographs: geeseinflight, Doo-yoon Kim

Green Tree Snails (Leptopoma taivanum), family Cyclophoridae, Okinawa, Japan

photographs: geeseinflight, Doo-yoon Kim

Green Snail (Rhinocochlis nasuta), family Dyakiidae, found near Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia

photograph by sabine_in_singapore

Tree Snail (Amphidromus fuscolabris), family Camaenidae, Ban Phone, Sekong, Laos

photograph via:

Taxonomic review of the tree snail genus Amphidromus Albers, 1850 (Pulmonata: Camaenidae) in Laos, with the description of two new species | European Journal of Taxonomy

Malaysian Fire Snail (Platymma tweediei), family Chronidae, found in 2 montane forests of Malaysia

photographs by @ennisanna_fei

African Land Snail (Lissachatina glutinosa), family Achatinidae, found in parts of East Africa

This large terrestrial snail grows to a shell length of up to 15 cm (5.9 in).

photograph by nanofishology

2 color varieties of the Land Snail, Helicina viridis, family Helicinidae, Dominican Republic

photographs by Carlos De Soto Molinari

Amazonian Giant Snail (Megalobulimus popelairianus), Strophocheilidae, Ecuador

This individual is about 20 cm in total length.

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

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examples of particularly old designs under the cut (no pics attached)

Metamorphosis