• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Far fewer people casually go out to their local bars and coffee shops during the week

    Maybe in aggregate. But I can’t speak to that personally. My neighborhood bar is regularly slammed. There was a line around the block for some novelty tot bag at my local coffee shop.

    Could just be a Houston phenomenon. But this insistence that nobody leaves the house anymore feels more like Internet dogma than fact.

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      3 hours ago

      Right… Yeah in aggregate. Just cause you see a counterfactual in person doesn’t make it true. That’s how it works…

      And it’s strange, you say you can’t speak to that personally because you saw a line around the block, so what about the person who gave a personal anecdote to the opposite? You both have stories that contradict each other. How does this square in your framework?

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      9 hours ago

      the downtown area of my home town is totally dead. it used to have a cluster of bars that were always packed, and it’s all just gone now.

      im hearing things about other us cities that my friends are living in, that they’ve all died as our generation has gotten older and the younger generation isn’t interested