Just posted the following on #nextdoor Very curious about the responses if there are any.
"Why doesn't Highway Unit 1 enforce the 50mph speed limit on the West Side Highway? There are so many collisions there caused by drivers obviously going way more than 50mph. So many sirens. So much cost. I would assume all that expense raises car insurance rates. People are always complaining about their high car insurance rates. Makes no sense."
This ship is offshore in #delmar / #sandiego , replenishing sand on the beaches. People on #nextdoor are losing their shit, asking if it's a Chinese spy ship, or smuggling #migrants .
There have been a rash of copper wire thefts from the street lights here in Saint Paul. Of course, leave it to #NextDoor to come up with the perfect solution.
"Mayor Carter move the copper wiring from the base of the light poles to the top"
using HBomberGuy voice after chopping an axe through a wall "Just one small problem, Rebecca; just how are you going to get the electricity up from out of the ground to power the lights? Bloody Aquaman!?"
I quit #nextdoor years ago because it was nothing but a bunch of Karenism. (Who watches a dog poop through a window, goes outside once the dog is gone, takes a picture of the poop, and posts it online instead of talking to their neighbors?!?) Over the past month, they've been emailing me weekly, asking me to use the service again. I should tell them that I'll be back if they adopt ActivityPub. 😂
“Please don’t make this a political debate because it won’t take us anywhere”
This is a curious closing paragraph after vaguely despairing about the results on Election Day evening and asking what can be done to prevent a local drunk driving incident described in great details.
I really don’t understand what this person is expecting with a post like this.
Today in Labor History October 31, 1931: Unemployed lumberjack Jesse Jackson led the inauguration of the first Hooverville on vacant land owned by the Port of Seattle near Pioneer Square. Within two days over 50 shacks were erected and by 1934, 600-1000 people were living in them. By 1941, Seattle's “Hooverville” covered 25 blocks. Hoovervilles eventually spread throughout the country.
Does anyone know of a tool that will unroll an entire #Nextdoor thread in a manner suitable for saving or printing? Im doing some epic winning in a Nextdoor thread and want to save it for posterity (actually to write about in my blorg later.)
I periodically browse #Nextdoor for the laughs and currently the next big scam is the "Elon Musk energy saver" which is just a rebranding of those "energy saving" plug-ins about the size of a nightlight.
It is very telling of his reputation that scammers are using his name to market this shit. There is no evidence he is involved with any of this, of course, but it definitely is in the wheelhouse of grifts connected to him in that regard.
If your ever miss the ‘reply guys’ experience, just go post 1 factual piece of information on NextDoor and they will all show up. I never go on #NextDoor, but I went on yesterday to see if I could learn more about the fires burning near us. I posted video of the slurries flying over our house. I wrote, “This is how I found out we have a fire burning nearby.” The comments are off the charts crazy. What I did learn is not to count on neighbors I don’t already know for help if we need it. 😟
@KatM my favorite #NextDoor post was someone posting a photo of a “suspicious looking stocky man” who rang his doorbell and was “looking around like he was casing (his) property. “
An hour later there’s a reply. “Hi, that was me. I live down the street from you and I resent being called stocky.”
The guy was walking his dog and forgot to bring poop bags and his dog had just done his duty. He was hoping to get a bag from whoever lived at that house.
Unfortunately for lovers of fine humor, the person who started the thread quickly deleted the post before I could screenshot it.
#Nextdoor is officially the community for HOA tinpot depots and home-schooled fascists without a shred of critical-thinking ability, who ask for 10 "good old days" christian locksmith recommendations because they've locked themselves inside their house and can't figure out how to get out to bear witness to and judge their neighbors appropriately, and will never back up anything they say with proof, arguing that everything "is just common sense".
I'd love to be able to sign up to my local street, or the street I grew up on etc etc, and be able to answer questions. Of course there's the risk of it turning into #NextDoor-style dumpster fire, but I wonder if in combination with careful muting it could work out (subscribe: location, mute: "dog poo" etc)
Any other Nextdoor leads within the sound of my voice? If so, how are you dealing with the flap over "Sound of Freedom?"
(Very loud noises like "THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FILM EVER MADE" and "ELON IS A GOD FOR OFFERING TO SHOW IT FREE ON TWITTER" versus quieter voices saying "But ... it's QAnon propaganda.")
It's gotten pretty ugly in our normally-peaceful group. ("NO NO NO YOU ARE EITHER FOR CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING OR YOU'RE NOT!")