Wudi@feddit.uk to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTIL that eating dirt was common in the U.S. South until the 80s. People ate a handful a day, often seasoned with vinegar and salt.feddit.ukimagemessage-square213linkfedilinkarrow-up1528arrow-down123file-text
arrow-up1505arrow-down1imageTIL that eating dirt was common in the U.S. South until the 80s. People ate a handful a day, often seasoned with vinegar and salt.feddit.ukWudi@feddit.uk to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square213linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKwiila@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoThe greatest measure of our society’s most tragic failings is that I can’t just get on a train/boat asap to give you a hug. Fuel ain’t free and community doesn’t benefit power, so by neither measure can I afford the day(s) away for affection. And thus does the loneliness pandemic deepen.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoCan we organise a hug chain from Kwiila@slrpnk.net to daggermoon@piefed.world ?
I could use a hug
The greatest measure of our society’s most tragic failings is that I can’t just get on a train/boat asap to give you a hug. Fuel ain’t free and community doesn’t benefit power, so by neither measure can I afford the day(s) away for affection.
And thus does the loneliness pandemic deepen.
Can we organise a hug chain from Kwiila@slrpnk.net to daggermoon@piefed.world ?
Hug if true.