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lagrangian  3mo ago (text post)   Edited 3mo ago   1013 thread views

Manhattan meetup nowish: 5pm, upper west side, first round on me

I will be at Gebhard's Beer Culture in the upper west side, today (Saturday 8/30) at 5pm. Happy hour runs until 6. I will stay until at least 7. First round's on me.

I'll be in a black tshirt with shrodinger's cat on it.

Edit: I'm at a table in the back left (if you are looking at the bar), by a wood barrel.

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This makes me mildly curious about the geographic breakdown of this place; although I know we have several desi & European poasters, I assumed like 80% of the people here are American or live in the US.

Are there more east coasters or west coasters, southerners or heartlanders?

That alway remained mysterious to me, although I assumed the west coat was more common due to the ratsphere influence.

I am currently in a fairly god-forsaken corner of Germany, but have previously lived in the northeastern US and various other parts of Europe including places that appeared to have other Mottizens. I just always assumed that offline meetups would not even be proper to suggest since everyone here has so much life-ending dirt on each other.

a fairly god-forsaken corner of Germany

Alright, out of with it. Which one?

Well damn, I'd have to admit that by a reasonable metric it's actually the least god-forsaken one. I'm just not sure if there is even any part of the mainland that is harder to reach from a reasonable transport hub (Frankfurt-Hahn does not count as reasonable).

Saarland

Amazing name.

I do find myself fighting intrusive "do not redeem" thoughts on a daily basis. It doesn't help that they really like putting the Saar- prefix on everything.

Implying that "God-forsaken" narrows it down! You guys are lucky that you have good roads, hot women and cheap booze.

Good roads that are perpetually down for maintenance, hot women that are as rare as in any country and aging out of the demographic vase anyways, and cheap booze that we can't afford for all the taxes and have no time to drink because we prefer packing our free time with as much responsibility as possible.

Yeah we're the best country in the world and the greatest nation to ever grace the face of the Earth, but man does it feel godforsaken when you've lived here all your life and seen it decline. We're too good for this shit. And what, why - just because we lost two world wars, wasted our wealth, became world champions in bureaucracy, stopped breeding and all the while imported half our biomass in foreigners? History isn't fair!

And then there's the places that do Germany even better than Germany. I should've never visited Switzerland or Japan; just makes me feel bad when I see absolute shitholes like Stuttgart or Berlin. I suspect that if I were ever to visit Singapore, you'd have to force me bodily back onto the plane.

The Germany I love and the Germany that will make it to the end of the 21st century (or just the middle) are not the same country.

If it makes you feel any better, Britain won the last two world wars and is arguably no better off. You probably have the better beer, at the risk of starting a third war.

Well fair, that we have.

Though then again, sitting in between France and Czechia, we had both the worst and the best brewers in the world right next to us, and every opportunity to learn what to do and what not to do.

You're overthinking it. I've only had the pleasure of meeting @Corvos in person, and no lawsuits seem imminent. In general, the handful of Mottizens I know well enough to share names and faces with have done nothing to disabuse my trust.

"Disabuse your trust"?

Fixed!

In general, the handful of Mottizens I know well enough to share names and faces with have done nothing to disabuse my trust.

+1. We really are a magically small place.

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