This is the equivalent of “you have to get off the internet and go in and demand to speak to the manager and shake their hand to get a job”. The world doesn’t

This is the equivalent of “you have to get off the internet and go in and demand to speak to the manager and shake their hand to get a job”. The world doesn’t really work that way anymore. Also this only works if you want to hang out in third places with retirees. (For instance, amateur radio is dying out because most of the oldtimers are dying off and not being replaced because everyone uses the internet now. I got some great deals on equipment from estate sales as a result.) Also, third places are places. You listed groups. Groups need places to gather, and people who want to go to third places need places that are always places, not just an hour or two on the third saturday of the month. That’s not enough for social cohesion.