Drive a manual.

They’re not attractive to this new generation of car thieves.

Oh no, 3 pedals!!

You'll know we made it when kids naturally start calling each other fiat as an insult.

I go to NYC several times per year for one reason or another. For work, for friends, etc.

Part of me likes it, but part of me gets fucking frustrated multiple times per day every time I am here. (Sorry, this is a Nostr Lyn post).

There are plenty of neat things in NYC that I can’t do at the same scale/quality elsewhere in the world due to the network effects around the city (broadway shows, financial district, etc), and yet after a day or two all I want to do is leave. It feels claustrophobic on multiple fronts.

People all have different vibes but for me, major cities are fun to visit but smaller secondary cities or suburbs around cities are so much smoother to live in. I can’t imagine living all the time in a major city.

The same applies to Cairo, to which I have been in far more total days than NYC. I like Cairo’s satellite cities but not Cairo itself other than going briefly.

Every time I am in a major city I am immediately reminded of the luxury of space, nature, quiet, parking spaces, and chillness of not being in a city. Everything I take for granted normally is now a luxury to fight for in a city.

Even politics are largely correlated to urbanization. If you live in rural or suburban areas, you likely drive around in your own car, you might have some land, etc. Your interaction with the local government exists in a moderate sense. The potential weakness is that you are more likely to always be around those who are similar to you, which minimizes your worldliness.

In contrast to all that, in major cities, everything is so tightly packed, and people rely on public transportation, and even a momentary lapse of government services (eg trash collection) becomes an acute catastrophe. But on the beneficial side, people are around those who are different than them more often, which breeds worldliness.

That’s why I tend to like the zone between rural and major cities. I like secondary cities or suburbs of major cities, because I get a bit of both worlds. The density and interconnectedness of major cities briefly, and the space and self-autonomy outside of them most of the time.

And yet I was born and raised in that sort of inbetween state, and so maybe it is just my upbringing.

What about you? Can anyone sell me the idea of NYC or other major cities that I am missing, especially in the remote work era? I see glimpses of how it could be attractive if you are used to it and know every detail of your neighborhood, but it really does feel limiting to me.

I’m not on twitter anymore! But you can definitely find out his takes and read the comments from dumb people ! It was a few years ago! Now everything he was saying is just makes sense !

I do remember how back in the days Twitter used to shame Nick Szabo for his views on the situation with the 🇺🇸 borders and illegal immigration he callers out. He was absolutely right!

Yeah I’ve seen those and I’ve seen gas stations like that, but I’m talking every store in existence, should be a drive through

Zuck it to me. nostr:note13w9snte37j6alnn9ccs0xydrznath5tf85xh9y6zw248elac4cnsfqkrs8

Negra Modelo 🍻

Buena cheve

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The macro brains are really into birdwatching and I can't figure out why.

Intuitively, I think most people put the lid down with the mouth opening facing down. But doesn’t putting it down the way you put it on the cup be better for germ prevention?

I have thought deeply about the proper way to put down a disposable coffee cup lid. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Damus relay? nostr.build? Never heard of 'em. Must be those dirty city-dweller back-alley relays.

I stick to relays that directly represent the people I follow like relay.uxto.one, pyramid.fiatjaf.com, chorus.mikedilger.com, and hodlbod.nostr1.com, you know, well-respected high-quality decent reliable trad relays, straight from the source, pure, clean, artesian springs, not some middle-man, used up, hand me down events transmitted through piles of snakes.