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> toward improving infrastructure/society Having moved someplace where the general attitude seems to me* to be "we don't have a wrong side of the tracks, we're

> toward improving infrastructure/society Having moved someplace where the general attitude seems to me* to be "we don't have a wrong side of the tracks, we're not barbarians after all" I'll vouch that being surrounded by this variety of patriotism is indeed pleasant. * the indigenous view things differently: my wife (who has wild stories about her youth like being in the same city during the mass shooting) and I were going to an art opening run by the olympic organisation in our capital city, and directly in front of the venue she asked "can we park here? it's such a sketchy neighbourhood"; I wanted to grab her by the shoulders and shake her while yelling "WTF? sketchy? I've been broken down in NWA-era Compton, and this here reads to me as like, maybe, lower middle class?" Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LREf9SXfHBI&t=13s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LREf9SXfHBI&t=13s

defrost 2y ago
Seems pretty wholesome and folksy: https://youtu.be/K6D5xpCgETk?t=16 https://youtu.be/K6D5xpCgETk?t=16
immibis 2y ago
I get the opposite impression in Berlin. Nothing that's as dangerous as people seem to think happens actually happens. I happened to be hanging around sn area where some anarchist activists set on fire on New Year's Eve a few years ago... in the middle of the closed off road far away from other flammable objects, which the fire department only got to once it was already dying down. Yet the reporting and public perception of that event was as if the whole block burned down and you cannot ever go in that area or you will be arsonized. Police presence was ramped up at all following NYEs and fireworks were banned in that particular area, enforced with a police cordon, as if that was supposed to achieve anything. (There were illegal fireworks there anyway)
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  The german-speaking space is yes world-master in „motzen“ (bellyaching). [then again, I made my peace with that after learning that „na, und?“ is not only a thing, but has been perfectly cromulent since at least the 1500s]
  - LargoLasskhyfv 2y ago
    Und? by itself suffices.
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defrost 2y ago

Seems pretty wholesome and folksy: https://youtu.be/K6D5xpCgETk?t=16 https://youtu.be/K6D5xpCgETk?t=16

immibis 2y ago

I get the opposite impression in Berlin. Nothing that's as dangerous as people seem to think happens actually happens. I happened to be hanging around sn area where some anarchist activists set on fire on New Year's Eve a few years ago... in the middle of the closed off road far away from other flammable objects, which the fire department only got to once it was already dying down. Yet the reporting and public perception of that event was as if the whole block burned down and you cannot ever go in that area or you will be arsonized. Police presence was ramped up at all following NYEs and fireworks were banned in that particular area, enforced with a police cordon, as if that was supposed to achieve anything. (There were illegal fireworks there anyway)

082349872349872 2y ago
The german-speaking space is yes world-master in „motzen“ (bellyaching). [then again, I made my peace with that after learning that „na, und?“ is not only a thing, but has been perfectly cromulent since at least the 1500s]
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y ago
  Und? by itself suffices.
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