Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So how’s it going?
I peeped into the r/nz sub earlier, and man it’s so full of toxic angry people. It seems to be turning into a far-right talkback radio style cesspit. Mods don’t seem to give a crap at all. This place is smaller and slower, but at least it’s sane.
Anyway. Two months until I’m off to the states for a few weeks. Can’t wait to get a change of scene and have some warmer weather (hopefully - it’ll be heading into autumn there).
I suspect it’s only going to get worse in there as we get closer to the election. I’m liking it on lemmy so far, however I can’t endlessly scroll here as interesting content seems to run out. Undecided if that’s a good or bad thing for me haha
I miss NZCasual but I also tended to lurk on Reddit rather than participate so this place has been much, much better for me in terms of actual engagement. The main NZ sub had been getting more and more nasty since just before the first lockdown but I’d keep an eye on it for anything actually useful.
Where are you going in the US?
A small town in the midwest, I have family that moved over there :) We normally do a bit of roadtripping around the place too, seeing some of the national parks and stuff.
National parks in autumn sounds pretty awesome
Yeah. Seems there’s a lot of anger / doom-and-gloom types on a lot of the NZ based subreddits. As you said, I find it to be a nice change of pace here.
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Exciting, where in the US are you going?
Small town in the midwest, to see family :) It’s a slow pace there, but that’s probably exactly what I need at the moment. It’s a nice wee town, and should be quite pretty in Autumn. Looking forward to it heaps.
Sounds like it should be a nice change. I’d think it shouldn’t be getting too cold at that stage. Probably still warmer than NZ. I was in Vancouver a few years back around that time of year and they were still getting 30 degree days.