• dan00@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    When I was a dumb kid, I really wanted to come and live in the US. I managed to visit it twice.

    I will never ever go again. 🤞

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      2 hours ago

      Last time I visited, I didn’t even need identification. I just went to get some peeps at the big store, and then went back home. I think I’ll leave it on that high note. US scares me too much now–I worry I could get trapped there somehow.

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      3 minutes ago

      Bro, man visited NY less than a day during my visit to Toronto as a child, genuinely the worst place I’ve ever been to, in so many ways, it was as bad as I thought it would be, calling it a concrete jungle is lowkey an insult to jungles wallahi.

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          2 hours ago

          Or a highly subjective snap judgement based on a tiny sample size. Like I thought I hated Toronto for years, but it turns out I just hated the financial district, because that was the only place I visited. There are still real people and communities in there – you’ve just to go looking for them.

          Same thing with a big country like the US. If you just stepped off of an airplane in New York and went for a walk, you’d probably be disappointed too.