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> In this context this could mean that the tb_technical really cares about avoiding people with extreme viewpoints, even if that means missing a few people they

• znpy 2y ago
  > Making friends with the wrong people can really mess up your life. > And yet, I keep reading about this epidemic of loneliness... Both things can be true at the same time, this is not a dichotomy. At the same time, there's a old saying in my company that goes like "better alone than in bad company". Timeless wisdom, I guess. On this matter, I was recently brought to pondering about the extinction of the so called "third place". The reasoning goes like this: people often used to have three places they attend the most: they home, their workplace, and the "third place". The "third place" can be pretty much everything, and it's the place where socialising happen: for example, in many sitcoms it used to be some kind of bar/pub/restaurant: the McLaren's in HIMYM, "Arnold's" in Happy Days and another similar one whose name i can't remember in Friends. When I was a kid, it was a public park where we played soccer, and most kids just spent time there. It seems this is going out of style or something? Two things I noticed are: - nowadays spending time in bars/pubs etc can get costly. Might be the general economic downturn, but it seems to be that going at the bar and having a beer or two used to be more accessible in the past (older folks are welcome to chime in and offer their perspective). - pubs with larger university people tend to be more affordable, but the age band is quite restricted... Not formally, but somewhat implicitly.