Enshittification strikes again!!!
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Thank you @tardis for sharing this gem a few years ago
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Ok Yes. I have always wondered if there’s a playbook for this situation
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@noodle I think you’re going to turn me into a New York subscriber at this rate. Do you have the online or paper versions?
Just getting into this topic the past few years with my parents and I appreciate but don’t like it!
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Ha sorry, it’s one of my few non local subs (mainly for the crossword 
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I live in a two flat, and every day I walk by another one in my neighborhood that’s being converted to a single family home. Makes me so sad. We need more of these!!
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lolsob
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YES. Community is often uncomfortable and inconvenient. It requires things of us and places duties on us.
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I mean that if you watched The Office every day for a year, your life would feel fundamentally different than if you did the same with Severance. Both are about corporate life, but one makes you cozy while the other makes you alert, uneasy. One has a loveable idiot boss played by Steve Carell, charming in his lack of boundaries. The other features liminal spaces, sparse dialogue, and a sense of impending doom that quietly suggest your job might be erasing your soul. What you take in—whether it goes down smooth or sticks in your throat—alters the way you move through the world.
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The ending to that is fantastic. Who is it turning you into?
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I wasn’t sure where to put this
This reminds me of a question I think I asked @Illathrael ??
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I seriously love every article you share!
I love that she talked about letting go of seeking out “the spark” with people… have just been shifting my mindset on that too since I’ve had children. The author is reading my mind!
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Me too! I think it was easier to wait til you clicked with people when childless? But don’t have the “luxury” of that time when you have kids. And also? Is it a real community if it’s only people who are 100% your people? No!!
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I’ve been surprised by who turned out to be “my people” with little kids. One of Spore’s best friends is the kid of a golf-playing lawyer and keg-standing sorority girl (to way oversimplify). Probably would not have crossed paths with me, literally camping in a snow fort in college. But turns out we actually have a lot of shared interests and values and we hang out all the time, including day trips and overnights.
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That’s the first I’ve heard those referred to a 3-flats. I’ve only known them as triple deckers.
You must be from New England
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Yeah I was gonna say, architecture terms are very regional!
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