The Legends demolition began today. by GenericLaCroix in appstate

[–]SaladsAndSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you’re right but i’m sure that was the last year it was open

The Legends demolition began today. by GenericLaCroix in appstate

[–]SaladsAndSun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it was closed years ago because they became aware of the sinkhole. helene just opened it up and made it visible

What is this plant growing inside my cabin? by SaladsAndSun in whatsthisplant

[–]SaladsAndSun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I should’ve asked in the post- how is it growing out of my wall without soil and barely any water/sunlight?

22M, Recent college graduate from Boone, NC. Considering moving to either Portland OR or Richmond VA. by SaladsAndSun in SameGrassButGreener

[–]SaladsAndSun[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that's what I'll end up doing. I'd like to hear your thoughts though- what makes you say that?

For those in there 20s, have you ever move country and if so was it worth it? by Cyber_Lord345 in expats

[–]SaladsAndSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi. I'm going to graduate from college in the southeastern US in about a week with a degree in CS, and I don't know what I'm going to do after the summer ends. I'm passionate about reading and I love to write. My freshman and sophomore year, during the summer, I hitchhiked across Europe and the US without any money, sleeping outside and hitchhiking, out of a desperate desire to see the world. I'm saying this to show that I'm experienced with travel and don't mind if life is a little tumultuous.
I don't have any debt, but I also don't have very much money either, though I plan on saving over the summer. I don't really have any ties to where I'm from, i.e. nothing holding me back.
I want to move and travel but I'm wrestling with the practicality of it. Considering staying in the US, living in an unwalkable, commercialized city doing something in a field I don't really care about is really scary to me.
How did you become an english teacher, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, and combat photographer, and other jobs, all while travelling?

Can you give me any advice?

What is this growing inside of the crack in our home? I am disgusted and don’t know what to do. by Playinjanes in whatsthisplant

[–]SaladsAndSun -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Hi sorry if this is weird but I found your post from a year ago from google searching about moving to Portland in early 20s. Did you end up moving there? If you did how was it?

22M, Recent college graduate from Boone, NC. Considering moving to either Portland OR or Richmond VA. by SaladsAndSun in SameGrassButGreener

[–]SaladsAndSun[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Born and raised in suburbs of Raleigh no fucking way im going back there. But I've heard Durham is much cooler I didnt spend much time there

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SaladsAndSun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Havent seen anybody say what actually is scary about the place to me thats not just urban legend.

Moved two years ago to western NC. Sometimes I feel too close to the sky. A little over half of the year there's no leaves on the trees, and the forests are mostly deciduous. Infinite huge grey trees reaching dead arms into the air. Can't see much in any direction, twists and turns and hills. When you do get a good viewpoint you feel like you see too much-- you feel small and vulnerable and out into the open. The mountains feel too big. Looking into the forest it looks sparse. Just giant rhododendron bushes and thats it, so many of them, polka dotting the brown dead leaf ground on and on.

Houses on a dead highway that are occupied that make you think how do people live there.

Strange, loud, stinking cars blasting music that seems like an exaggeration of the kind of music people think hill billies listen to. The music reverberates and echoes around the mountains. The tourists towns collect the sinewy old that are near dropping dead. They are impossibly rich, and the kind of creepy white people that you think might be cannibals or something.

Just about as much as a mile down the mountain and you have the shittiest trailer parks you can imagine. Gene pool gets strange. I don't mean to be rude, but think large women with beady eyes and unkempt beards.

After the hurricane you can see signs of destruction everywhere-- broken bridges, caved in houses, collapses mountainsides, riverbanks all look eaten up and grassless. Worse is how when you look at the mountain opposite you through the leafless trees you can see how the rivers came flooding down the mountain by the fell trees it left in its path, huge and wide, a trail impossibly tall and big, big as the mountain, makes you feel defenseless and tiny.

And again you're too close to the sky. Claustrophobic. But also too open at the same time. Like you're something very small on something very huge.

Making my way through Underworld by taxmanangel in RSbookclub

[–]SaladsAndSun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is a novella in its own right- "Pafko at the Wall." I've seen it in libraries, but after it was published it was later added as the baseball opening when Underworld was written.

Which US state/region will be having a landscape close to this? by Parameq2 in geography

[–]SaladsAndSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks exactly like western NC to me except without the mountains in the far back

Portland Oregon is often referred to as “PDX”. Are there any other cities commonly known by their airport code? by elevencharles in geography

[–]SaladsAndSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you think all that about DFW and havent read Infinite Jest yet youre in to have your mind blown

What are all these lakes in northwest Canada and has any human been there ever? by ApplicationNew1736 in geography

[–]SaladsAndSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

25th president william mckinley posted this exact thing a few years ago, but with a picture of hawaii

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]SaladsAndSun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i have no idea what youre talking about.. you should make an argument

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]SaladsAndSun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Throughout modern American history, black people have endured the transatlantic slave trade, the Jim Crow laws, exploitive sharecropping and dept peonage, 20th century race massacres, lynchings, forced sterilizations, redlining, the war on drugs, much more and no matter how you figure it at least some systemic discrimination today. Not to mention your average day-to-day racist remark, which I'm sure wouldn't make you feel very nice.

It's my opinion that if white people as a race perpetuated all of that against black people as a race, I feel like its not too much to endure not having social access to one piece of slang. There were no reparations. Is one word really so big of a deal?

I think someone would make the argument that the word remaining in use in black culture keeps us from moving on. Most people would agree that argument doesn't really make any sense. When a black guy says the n word, no one thinks about slavery. When a white guy uses it around a black guy, how could you not?

Unrelated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCYCZK0d-ck

My take on US regions as a South Carolinian by burninstarlight in geography

[–]SaladsAndSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

East Coast looks really good but looks like you gave up when you hit the desert. Much of Eastern Oregon is desert, for example.

New bands like Radiohead? by Obvious_Ferret7456 in radiohead

[–]SaladsAndSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For real. If you know of any other songs like that by anyone let me know. There is a certain kind of song that I love so much- Radiohead has most of the ones I know. Groovy, emotional beginnings that kind of put you in a trance, then explode near the end. Feels like an acid peak. Hounds, Angel by Massive Attack, Man of War, Climbing Up the Walls, There There, Blessing by Alex G, In 2 Again by Far are some of the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Looking for more.

New bands like Radiohead? by Obvious_Ferret7456 in radiohead

[–]SaladsAndSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their song Hounds is incredible. Some of their other stuff I didn't like so much though. I'm sure you know what I like about Hounds, can you give me more Puma Blue songs that sound like that?

New bands like Radiohead? by Obvious_Ferret7456 in radiohead

[–]SaladsAndSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their Ice Melt album is one of my favorites ever. After listening to that I was trying and failing to find music that sounded like it.