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.
This is without a doubt the worst pizza I have ever seen. At first I thought whoever took this picture was too drunk to cook a frozen pizza. Then I saw the comments saying its "ohio valley style" and I thought it was making fun of ohio and I was about say that ohio doesn't deserve that. But no its real. what the fuck?
clean your room. You never know how many bars you'll find that you thought were missing.
I've known a few people who switched from beer to seltzers. Personally I've tried and I can't do it. But they swear they never hang overs anymore.
In my mind a popsicle has a stick and anything thats in a tube like this is an otterpop, even though otterpop is a brand name and ain't nobody buying the real otterpops.
I had a shell account there many years ago didn't know they had a Lemmy instance thanks for reminding me about them.
I was wondering about what would happen if you started a nonprofit and ran a Lemmy/Mastodon instance and charge like 1 or 2 bucks a month. So if it gets flooded with users you have money to scale it up. And hire admins and such. You get the stability and centralization of a corporation but no profit motive
They only got so many shapes of meatloaf to stick on peoples heads give em a break
I really miss /r/buttcoin I don't know what to do with myself now. Where will i get my daily dose of schadenfreude?
No worries don't feel like you have to keep 99% uptime or anything. I just appreciate that you let us all use your instance.
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.
Hey I work in tech and live in chicago. I'd be happy to help out in any way I can. I keep linux boxen alive for a living.