And then suffer 0 consequences because our legal system is petrified of the wealthy.

That’s a really good way to put it that I’ve never heard before.

Born in the south and moved to Philadelphia in my early twenties. It was more culture shock than some other countries I’ve been to. Folks in Philly don’t hold back. If they don’t like you they tell you, to your face. They also don’t feel the need to add all the extra and often unnecessary pleasantries to every social interaction. Honestly for a “well mannered” southern kid it was pretty liberating to get to drop all that.

Lol, no they won’t.

Except that 90% of the time you answer and it just hangs up because it’s testing to see if the line is active to sell to telemarketers

It was called “Drunk” and was about human’s history with inebriates with an emphasis on alcohol. For a book on booze it was incredibly dry and while the author made some decent points he tended to just repeat them over and over again.

Oh man, a few minutes alone with this and I would be the CLT commander

I’m pretty close. I still check a few smaller Reddit communities but only when I’m on my pc in the browser. Almost all interacting (posting and comments) is on Lemmy now.

We’ve been USA Today’s best “small beer town” for years and can walk to 6 different breweries in <30min. Plus we’re walkable to a train station which gets us to the events in the city proper in 20 minutes.

I’m a climber and while yes, the gear is very well made and over engineered climbing is still quite dangerous. That rope could be rated for 500KN but if you repel off the end of it you’re still going for a fall.

I have those but there seems to be several across multiple instances with no clear winner and all of them are pretty sparse. But I feel like that should improve with time.

Not sure if this is what you’re looking for but sure, there have been times when I’m in nature and I see a view or a tree or a river or whatever and things seem so beautiful and so connected and so awe inspiring that it gives me an overwhelming sense that there is more to all this than I’ll ever understand or comprehend.

Yes! I’m knocking at the door of 40 and a few times each summer I’ll accidentally cut the corners of my mouth on a freeze pop. Reminds me of being a kid.

Definitely a learning curve but WefWef has solved a lot of my initial issues. Definitely seems like a lot less obvious bits and garbage than Reddit, which was getting pretty bad.

But so far I’m glad to be on something decentralized and excited to see what this looks like a year from now.