It is slightly weird to me as a transplanted flatlander, but now that I live on the side of a mountain, no one seems to sled.
Everyone skis and snowboards, but sledding requires the same effort so nothing like us sledding down our own street or heading over to suicide hill.
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I do that here in NW Rockies. Correct most years.
Forget the Farmerâs Almanac.
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I wish Iâd grown up near mountains or the beach to learn to sports accordingly, but no dice.
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You just gotta seek them outâŚfollow the families.
DING!!! I never ever ever ever EVER want another winter in the Boston area like the one of 2014/2015. On Groundhog Day and day after in 2015, this was the end of my drivewayâŚbarely enough room for me to get out of my driveway. That mound of snow on the right is supposed to be 2 guest parking spaces. They had to bucketload it out of there, as we were expecting another blizzard that night.
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Oh my!
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The adults are the skiers and the kids are the snowboarders.
My son hates snow, my daughter was the snowboarder daredevil.
Sheâs going for her masters up by you.
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We have some fine schools with lots of winter sports opportunities.
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Yeah, weâve had a few (fortunately very few compared to Boston) like that. The worst I can recall was when I lived in Philly and we got over 30 inches. Of course, our little one-way street was never plowed; but they actually plowed in the end of the street. We had a nice neighborly day of digging out an exit to the main street.
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Jewish lives, Antisemitism, Israeli Civilians, Palestinian Civilians, Holiday season, technology
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This certainly hits home around here 
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Relevant quote:
We are now recognizing that authenticity is a performance itself.
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A lot of online activity is performative.
Just online? Iâd say everywhere.
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Hmm. Most people I interact with IRL tend to be genuine (of course, there are always exceptions), but perhaps Iâm just lucky 
I donât do well with fake anything, online or elsewhere, which is why Iâd make a terrible sales person.
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But everybody code switches, at least some of the time. Youâre not the same person in a job interview as you are at Thanksgiving dinner.
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Well, yeah. Eat at home like youâre at the palace, so you can eat at the palace as if youâre home. Or something like that.
Social conventions dictate that I clean up my language in a professional vs. a private environment, but that doesnât mean I pretend to be a completely different person.
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Do you think people pretend to be completely different people online? Some do, Iâm sure, but I think most of us are just versions of ourselves.
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Online discussions and handles can bring our parts of personality that might not show up at the office or with friends.
I remember going to a CH potluck about 15 years ago, and the online personas didnât always seem to match the person. Sometimes they did. One of the mods seemed to think Phoenikia was a bit of a bitch. 
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