DarraignTheSane

u/Darraign@midwest.social
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Well, I added "The Lou" for two reasons - 1) Some other person had started up a /c/saintlouis community (and let it dwindle) and I wanted this one to visibly stand out from that one in search results, and 2) I also started /c/missouri and named it "Missouri | The Show-Me State", so I wanted a nick name to go along with this one as well. I haven't heard anyone call it "St. Louie" in a hot minute, so I went with a newer one.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-city-of-St-Louiss-nickname-and-why-was-it-given-this-name

What do you think of using "Gateway to the West"? That's probably the most tried and true city nickname I know of.

For the record, I'm not commenting on this only because I'm not going to doxx myself. 😉

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ST LOUIS-ISM COMPLETE.  LET US NOW EAT GOOEY BUTTER CAKE AND PORK STEAKS AND TOASTED RAVIOLIS.

Sam Page, still looking out for the well being of people in STL. I didn't know much about him before COVID and how he dealt with all of the anti-mask / antivax assholes, but every time I hear about something he's done it's been good for the community.

Also, obligatory: fuck christo-fascists.

on Calling all St. Louisans! · c/stlouis · -2 pts · 3y

You do what you will, don't let me stop you. I never called anyone an outsider, but I also wouldn't have the hubris to start an online community on a growing social platform about a city I recently moved to, then tell people repeatedly how I don't know anything about the city and otherwise contribute very little to that sub.

Now I know that we're at meme status when it comes to expired temp tags, but this seems a bit much. Where's the victim in that crime? Does it really warrant stealing someone's car from them? If the person couldn't afford the taxes in the first place, how do they expect them to afford to get it out of the impound and pay the taxes, when they can't drive to work? I suppose the answer is that they don't, and they just like ruining lives.

I wonder, will it change anything now that dealerships are required to collect taxes at time of sale? I guess that still won't affect personal sales.

on Test cross-instance post · c/stlouis · 1 pts · 3y

I found that if the community you want to cross post to isn't showing up in your login server's search results, go to the Communities search (filter for All), and then use the full Lemmy community syntax to search for it - "!community_name@server.name" (make sure to include the exclamation mark).

Your server will then go out and index it and it will pop up in the search results within a few minutes. You'll then also be able to cross post to it.