@hacks4pancakes Yeah, this is a relatively new thing, and I don't know what's up with that? It's now happened to a number of people, and there are pictures and police reports.
...and a number of women are going armed. (This isn't super close to me, but it's very weird.)
@hacks4pancakes Other perennial topics are
"OMG, I can hear someone firing a gun" - "Doh, you are living in a rural part of the south, people hunt." (We're in the rural part of the NC triangle, so both responses are expected.)
People comparing pictures of folks in the processes of stealing packages or breaking into cars as caught on their ring cameras.
One person complains about a local restaurant, many people jump in and say it's a really hard time in the food biz, why don't they shut up?
But then, I'd mostly liked it back in Cleveland, until the last few weeks I was there when it was suddenly all Oh, noes, I saw black teenagers and they are so scary!!
@tylik This could be my neighborhood lol (central Florida). Considering almost all of my neighbors are Northern transplants, I also get a lot of complaints about the heat and other people quickly correcting them that the problem's not the heat, it's the humidity.
Also very irrational fears of alligators and constant complaints about bad bagels (??).
@tylik oooohhh Seattle! We want to take a cross country train ride to there soon!!
But truthfully, I do adore most of my neighbors. One time I posted a question about where to get fresh pasta and a woman born and raised in NYC asked me if I knew how to make it, then offered to teach me. We're friends now (even though Im still bad at pasta making).
@binaryequation @hacks4pancakes
Ew. I haven't seen one of those yet.
I actually haven't muted anyone here, I don't think? I was tempted to mute one woman, but my issue with her was that she kept posting anti-vax nonsense, and was convinced that I, and I alone, was getting her posts removed. (I did report some. But I'm more likely to post a stack of primary articles off pubmed.)
I see a lot more nature photos here (there's more nature here!), but I still remember fondly the video a Cleveland neighbor posted of "a vulture eating a dead thing - it's like wild kingdom out there!"