wait

Imagine IE having its own club sports leagues. Rugby, MMA, Track, Archery. That's a few years off. But civic organizations like Kiwanis and Rotary do softball and basketball

am I a coastie if I live in Eastern Washington?

@Jacob welcome to Inland Gang

EAST COAST BEAST COAST PULL THAT ROPE

it always feels really weird when people describe me as "West coast" because there's an entire mountain range and a desert between me and the coast

I guarantee you there's no water here

I will hold it down for socal

But the billboard calls Yakima the "Palm Springs of Washington"

What did they mean by that?

I don't know but it's not good

Atlanta group could defeat all other groups combined

I'm a lot further east then Yakima

@DeusVolk will pull for the entire west coast. Dude’s a beast

speaking of sports leagues I was on a different first date yesterday, and she brought up local bowling league notably existing in these times, and I had an organic, non spergy opportunity to talk about Robert Putnam.

Did she know who he is?

@Will - MD no. I just broadly and succinctly talked about societal atomization.

nice

Isn't there a book called bowling alone?

I have a good feeling about this one.

@Current Ronin yes it is the book I am referring to.

Ohhh

Oft cited by Uncle Jared himself

it's not like Robert Putnam is a white nationalist

He laments his own diversity research lol.

people know his work for reasons totally unrelated to racial politics

Hey not to interrupt the conversation, but are there any admins or something similar here who could answer a question for me?

Yeah I did not give the game away

@danieldaly @sigruna14

depends what the question is @danieldaly

@NateDahl76 east coast 💪 💪

is it even worth hiding your political opinions on a date?

it's gonna come out eventually

yes

sure

hmm

*Who dares wake me from my aeonic slumber?*

it's not like you're gonna get married and hide it forever

I just wanted to know as far as dues go, is there a certain date every month we need to send our membership fees or will someone contact us for that?

It’s not hiding, just omit them

Well I did admit to her, when she was understandably critiquing an excess of capitalism in the form of [local issue] that I was neither a pure capitalist nor a communist, that both were materialist ideologies and I prefer approaches that put the community and landbase first.