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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

Totally banal observation, but I do think it’s a good thing that everyone in small Italian towns apparates at around sundown to hang around and say CIAO at each other in the town square while drinking coffee I think this habit is probably good for humans

Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

Americans often do tend to way over-index on the supposed superiority of European social ways (lol), but like, I do think that in-person socialization is good and us Americans have become really worrisomely bad at getting it in, especially after Covid

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Rudolph Moncrieff
@rudolph14.bsky.social

You should see how bad the Finns are at this (and the Nordics in general)... There's definitely a North South divide, although I think the Dutch can be an outlier in that regard.

Greg Murphy
@gregrmurphy.bsky.social

I was in Scotland last week and was out for dinner in Glasgow on a Saturday night - I live in Minneapolis and can't think of a single restaurant here that would have a similar capacity, and it was one of many in the area that was totally packed. Car culture?

MikeyT00
@devilmikey.bsky.social

This is why I'm pro-city. There are bars, restaurants, office parties and random festivals/cultural events and just good ol' community centre activities at all times. I never felt more alone than I did while I lived in a small town. All you ever see is co-workers and the same handful of people.

Vexed.
@queenattolia13.bsky.social

When my sister and I were in Melbourne (AU), we took a walk in the Domain every morning, and every person we passed said good morning to us with a smile. We were gobsmacked. It's not just Europeans who are culturally and socially superior to US citizens.

jcc666
@jcc333.bsky.social

“Many small parks that sell snacks and coffee and wine” is a development pattern I would love to see adopted as a cause célèbre

Ben Munson
@munson.land

If I see someone other than my wife in a week it’s usually just passing at a shop or something. It’s hard. It’s very possible to be alone in the middle of crowds.

Paul Philion
@acmerocket.com

I used to be a chatty barfly, meeting interesting people regularly. Now I worry about getting into a discussion with someone who thinks vax is bad or AI “superior”.