Sergio

Be not afraid.

Bet if you sold him your soul he’d a taught you to play blues guitar like nobody else.

If you’re in the US:

• search for “co-op housing rental”. Sometimes these are suburban, but other times they’re rooms in a building
• if there’s a “food co-op” near you, then check out the bulletin board. also most food co-ops have some way to join, you can ask “by the way, do you know of any housing co-ops around here?” many/most people who work at a food co-op will be happy to point you in the right direction.

ask them meaningful questions about them.

This is absolutely right. To add to this, find a level at which they’re comfortable talking about themselves (i.e. don’t get TOO personal right off the start). It’ Ok to start off on some trivial small-talk, then moving up to their opinion about something, then more in-depth about why they have that opinion. Keep an eye on whether they’re starting to feel uncomfortable and back off if needed.

I had a friend who was excellent at this. I’m a loner by nature but I learned a lot by watching them just talking to people. They weren’t talking to them to get anything, they just enjoyed talking to people. That’s a great attitude to have.

I use feeds, instead of just looking at “all”:

• non-tech, low-political non-memes: https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
• non-tech, low-political memes: https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent

fr from Feb 2024-Jan 2026 if I was listening to music, 90% of the time it was ICP. But before that there were two songs I really liked: When I’m Clownin and Hokus Pokus.

Spin the bottle

hadn’t heard that one… I still need to check out all the collaborations they did with people like Twiztid.

Just outta curiosity, what are those 2 songs?

iirc the album cover shows that phrase written on a combat helmet of a soldier, so presumably it can be interpreted ironically.

it’s bc CEO didn’t pay for Premium Guillotine™. CEO also had to watch 5 minutes of unskippable ads before being decraptiated.