Unless a large protest is happening in my city, I’m not planning to be outside on July 4.

Murican here. France and Italy have much better wines anyway, and they’re still much better than California wines even if they cost twice as much. Wished we could get BC wines here in Washington state.

I lost contact with some of my closest friends in college that I knew for more than a decade because of their politics and other things happening on social media. It’s sad, but my parents and I recently moved to another city in a different state so I am forgetting that friendship already.

Phuck Bryce Hall, Adin Ross, Kai Cenat, Dave Portnoy and especially Andy Tate! They all played a major role in helping Trump get elected.

Florida is unfortunately a MAGA and Trump stronghold, and even I don’t want to spend any tourist dollars there.

Absolutely. There is actually some very good and educational stuff on TikTok, just like Reddit. However once you go away from the purely educational content and into where the influencers, politics and activists are, it gets toxic very fast. Even trends like this whole “winter arc” that I am seeing on TikTok that focuses on fitness and improving physique easily can easily be a gateway for teenage males and younger men to fall into the alt-right pipeline. I was never into the alt-right, but I did have similar thoughts towards a very large and loud segment of women on the site (not in real life however).

Agreed!

It was a nice concept in the 2010s when it was like an advanced version of Couchsurfing or a digital version of a homestay. Then of course it became an unsustainable business model and went to dogs when it became a money making scheme for finance bros to buy up housing and charge 4-star hotel prices.

I booked the Airbnb room (not an entire unit, screw that) in an owned-occupied house back in December, and this was before one of the founders joined DOGE. I wished I stayed in a hotel though since they weren’t super expensive ($180 a night with taxes). I stayed in a hotel in NYC though.