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3 months agoThe Jungle. Coal. Ubik. Catch 22. HHGTTG.


The Jungle. Coal. Ubik. Catch 22. HHGTTG.
I will stop, drop, and walk away slowly, all while maintaining eye contact.


So, recently visited and therefore benefits from recency bias, but good GAWD, Baltimore is a giant pile of infected asshole. Port city, balmy climate, proximity to the Captal, has a lot of theoretical potential. Besides what I physically witnessed (the poster child for urban decay and an apparently absentee municipal government), I have heard it is a human trafficking capital as well.


Same first inpression of Buffalo, but recently went back and found it very different (in a good way).
The line item for Payroll is often called “burden,” if that tells you how they think.
Perfect poster child for “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”