Just the opposite: I've been getting calls at work from people who have been getting spoofed calls from our number x_x And so far those people who call back a random number that left no message struggle to understand the concept of spoofed spam calls.

r/shittyskylines everyday in sunny Springfield!

Darkweb. Don't buy illegal drugs without vendor reviews =P

In middle school I was shown a video about entrepreneurship and bettering your community. It had a very sesame street feel to it, and I remember feeling distinctly too old for it. Anyway, the only detail I clearly remember is a bunch of kids chanting "CAULK CAULK CAULK-CAULK! CO-CAULK CAULK CAULK!" and all the students losing it. The teacher told us we were immature, but even at the time I remember thinking that it should have been obvious what a bunch of middle school kids would hear and think and wondering how the fuck they expected a bunch of middle school students to react to that. I think it was the same teacher who got onto us for laughing at an obviously intentional joke in Logan's Run because the joke happened to be about sex.

Way classier than the white nationalist/nazi stickers and graffiti. In fact, I encourage graffiti artists to cover hate with dicks. I like dicks well enough, nazis not so much...

That's cool, but it bums me out because I live in that area and got stuck at work tonight. At least the handful from the long stays are very poor kids who really appreciate being told they can have as much candy as their mom allows.

I probably had ~10 here, but I'm at work, so at least half of them are staying at my motel. My manager apparently goes ham for Halloween, so we have a ton of candy, and I just let them at it.

Watch out, froggers! Springfield drivers stop for 40-70% of pedestrians!

It's not patience. It's an attention disorder xd. I have a really hard time pacing, deciding what is important enough to carefully break down and analyze and what can be consumed quickly and moved on from. So I end up carefully going over every detail of every line no matter how important it is or isn't. So I try to read things relatively dense with important content and still sometimes go all pepe silvia over the writer's favorite or crutch words and phrases.

I think what gets to me about Springfield driving, having driven in some of those places you mentioned and having grown up in a place with wild traffic and humans, is the dichotomy between people who drive like it is the third largest city in the state and remarkably dense by mid sized city standards and those who drive like it's a little country town and they want to take as much time as possible because only taking short trips will cause engine condensation if you never get it up to running temp. I do better with the one note hurried aggression of more self actualized cities. There are several areas and ways in which I would like Springfield more if it embraced being the city it is.

It annoys me seeing these things presented from such a negative perspective, because I understand and agree with a lot of these practices, but from the point of view of a slow reader. I have high reading comprehension but a low reading speed. I try to focus on reading things with depth and complexity because I'm not going to read substantially faster if I don't have to analyze as I go, so why not read something that wants and rewards ongoing analysis? But I don't feel any sort of superiority over it. If anything I envy people who can read something fun real fast. I'd do a lot more reading on the whole if I could throw a fun, easy read in between my deep, note taking, highlighting, researching books. It just takes me too long to dedicate that time to something that doesn't have a lot to give.

I still, once every year or so, see a red flag warning and wonder where the fuck the waves are dangerous in Missouri. Growing up on the gulf coast it was sodden two thirds to three quarters of the year, but we got daily beach safety updates!

I second this location. I have had a minute clinic appointment and left with my prescription in under 20 minutes. The only time I've beaten them from the doctor it was for a more rarely used medication that has been affected nationwide by supply line issues. And now that they know they have a regular who needs it they order it ahead of time and keep some on hand for me. They've been great. Their pharmacy had earned the few hundred dollars a month we tend to spend on cosmetics there x_x

I don't like to post my work location publicly, but I messaged you. If your budget is tight, I'll work with you to keep you out of someplace sketchy.

<_< tbh, despite growing up on the gulf coast, I am a pretty poor judge of seafood quality. If you pull it out of the water, I will eat it. If you wrap small portions of it in rice, I'll eat 8-12. But sushi has been the best seafood I've had from a restaurant since moving to Springfield.

Sushi is, counterintuitively, a good bet for seafood in inland spaces. Most good sushi, even a lot of it in coastal states, is made with flash frozen fish. Even many high end sushi chefs prefer flash frozen fish to fresh because it's so reliably the same.

Unoccupied locations used for delivery of illegal goods. It's actually considered terrible opsec in the darkweb drugs community. Making calls and doing paperwork to get things delivered to an invalid address is suspicious. Having lots of traffic where you get your mail and don't sleep is suspicious. And warrants will come cheap and easy if it can be demonstrated that nobody actually lives there because legitimate residences have more legal protections. A good darkweb vendor will refuse to ship to an obvious dead drop. But bad opsec is unfortunately not uncommon.

Nope. I mean no company is perfect. I do pay 1k/mo and could pay less to be in another location with a comparable apartment (but I love where I live). And they rushed some of the renovations to try to get students in. But they promptly fixed any issues more than cosmetic that the rush left us. We have basement laundry, but the basement renovation was a bit of a mess that had the laundry out of order for months. Like I said, not perfect, but still the nicest place I've ever lived.

Druff's has a sandwich with slightly spicy pork, goat cheese, and a strawberry balsamic reduction. It's amazing. I order two because I consistently wanted another all day like five times in a row. And Sam's Southern Eatery will send you an enormous box of good fried okra. I've had so much mediocre and some truly bad fried okra since leaving the south. I still ate it, because all but the worst fried okra (okra scented flour and cornmeal stones) is good food. And I haven't yet met a more pleasing bowl of vegetables in the wild than Koriya's bibimbap. I love that shit. I've only lived here for a year myself, but I love food and moved out of the god awful sticks. If you count fast food (and I'm inclined to count at least some of it given how on point the national/cherry taco bell usually is) I can walk to more restaurants than there were in the town we left. The restaurant density might be my favorite thing about Springfield. I'm currently looking for a sushi restaurant to be my go to for a while.

> Just here to say that anyone who claims it’s Mexican Villa is WRONG.

I upvoted here. This is the most important part. Literally only one time in my life have I declined to eat otherwise safe food for preparation reasons. I'm a fancy eater, but not a picky eater. Mexican Villa is a travesty.

I can second At Home Here being pretty good management. I'm at one of their more expensive properties, but they've always been super responsive to their online maintenance portal and calls. And they most just leave us the fuck alone, which is more than I can say for the private landlords and government agencies I have rented from.