• kwomp2@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Interesting. Can we have have at least a tiny bit of info how this data came to be?

    Not just this one, but all the infographs, maps etc. Always leave entirely open if someone just guessed the data for the lulz.

    This makes me a litte sad sometimes

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        2 months ago

        I am from Seattle.

        Anecdotally:

        This is correct.

        People are absurdly transactional, performative and superficial about relationships and also very anti social compared to basically anywhere else I’ve ever been in the US.

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            2 months ago

            … either you enjoy having no friends…

            … or you enjoy superficial performative ‘relationships’ that are all actually adversarial social status jockeying?

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              2 months ago

              It was a joke. I tend to be introverted, and I love the Seattle vibe.

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                2 months ago

                I do not understand how your joke works.

                If you genuienly enjoy antisociality as a norm, because you tend to be introverted, then you just like Seattle because of that.

                You would then not be joking, in the sense of sarcastically saying you enjoy something you don’t actually enjoy.

                ‘I knew I liked Seattle for a reason’ is then just the same as saying ‘Yup, I’m also anti social and I love it here’.

                The ‘joke’ isn’t that you actually don’t like Seattle’s social norms and were being sarcastic, because you just said you’re introverted.

                I honestly do not understand how this is a joke.

                Is… just using the pithy/vague phrasing… in and of itself… the joke?