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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • b0b89@midwest.socialtoChicago@midwest.social•The unlikely rise of Malört as Chicago’s drinkEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It tastes like some kinda fancy herbal liqueur that someone accidentally dumped a bottle of crushed up tylenol into. It’s aggressively bitter. The best description I’ve heard was “Well gin, with a baby asprin wrapped in grapefruit peel and rubber bands”

    It’s really hard to explain but as you drink it you kinda start to like it. I was given a shot by a stranger when I first visited Chicago. I wound up moving to Chicago not long after that. I was given more shots at nearby bars as a “Welcome to the neighborhood” kinda thing and I was like “noo no thanks I know this game” and drank them only to be polite.

    But before I knew it, I wanted some, so I bought a bottle at the liquor store. Now I legitimately want a shot of it sometimes… over other liquors. I never feel like drinking a shot of any other hard A. When I moved here I only drank beer. Now I only drink beer and the occasional shot of malort.

    It’s fun to do a shot of malort with someone you just met. It’s fun to give it to people who aren’t from Chicago. It’s fun to be in Chicago the first time and someone hands you one and says “welcome to Chicago buddy” and you drink it and think “What the fuck? These people are insane”

    It’s weird, it’s not for everyone, it’s a little much, it’s unlike anything else, and yet it grows on you really quick. And I think that basically makes it Chicago in liquor form.

  • b0b89@midwest.socialtoAsk the Midwest@midwest.social•Do you know what a float trip is?English
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    1 year ago

    I’m from the seattle area and this isn’t unheard of there but its really uncommon. A man in monroe washington used an innertube as a getaway after a bank robbery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Curcio

    Theres plenty of rivers but most of them are not suitable for this. The state touches the ocean and is divided east/west by a giant mountain range. The NW peninsula is a giant mountain range. It’s anything but flat there. My last apartment there was about 100 feet from a cliff that fell off into the puget sound.

    You’re more likely to get on a boat and paddle around and drink thank just get a river and see where it takes you. I’ve spent many an afternoon drinking beers in a canoe (you can have a fishing pole as cover)

  • b0b89@midwest.socialtomain@midwest.social•Thank you all for your patience!English
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    1 year ago

    I would guess having not seen any logs or anything that the server might need more resources or is hitting some limit that hasn’t come up before. Like max open files or some sort of ram limit. I haven’t looked into running a lemmy instance yet but usually you can mess with the config and squeeze a little more life out of stuff. But it could be that the server itself needs to be more powerful.

    I’ve had a lot of problems getting posts to load that are on other large instances. The whole ecosystem is probably just slammed right now. Reddit dying made people go “well whats a thing like reddit I could use instead” and we’re all just showing up load testing the small instances people set up for a small group of friends.