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Thats what the banners say. Don't ask me anything else cause i dont know where I am, we just pulled over to get out of the car for a bit on our way to Houston.

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[–] regul@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Oh hey, Crowley!

I have a friend from Crowley.

Fun little inadvertent joke: Every year Crowley has a rice festival (naturally) and a parade. Of course a local high school girl gets to preside over the parade and she is, I shit you not, crowned the "Rice Queen". Fun little joke there for the gays.

[–] Jew@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm so sorry you have to go to Houston in August

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Houston is hot and humid in August (used to live in Houston and NYC for a few years, loved it), but… compared to China, where many cities have reached 37-40C (98-104F) for weeks and compounded by even worse humidity, that’s like nothing lol!

This really reminds me just how lucky Americans are geographically speaking. The worst of climate change hasn’t really impacted the US as severely as it did to many other regions in the world.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

used to live in Houston and NYC for a few years, loved it

Essential new additions to the XHS canon

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Was just in NOLA so the dry heat will be welcome

[–] prole@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Houston is just a pile of concrete and asphalt on top of a swamp

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

May it sink into the mud, inshallah

[–] regul@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Houston's gonna be humid too, my friend.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

wet balls.. and add in a bit of batwing

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Houston is super humid lol

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That street is so wide with only one driving lane each way but still no bike lanes or trams

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why tf would anyone wanna be biking around in Louisiana, they'd die

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ebike ain't got air conditioning!

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Demand to speak to the president of rice.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

after sugar cane fell away as the dominant cash crop, the plantations of the Coastal South switched to rice. they were probably a significant regional export until mechanization shifted the geography of production away from the fragments of southern wetlands. I thought southern California took over as the #1 producer of rice in the US in the post ww2 era, but that's like 15 year old memory.

anyway, you're probably not more than 45 minutes from the marsh cult shit from True Detective Season 1. say high to the Tuttles.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

TD S1 was great, loved it.

[–] Sebrof@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Stuttgart, AR in shambles

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

uhhh I'll take a fried rice please, make that veggie

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Sadly I did not see a single restaurant, goddamn im hungry

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Louisiana loves their rice

Damn, now I just want some gumbo

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had some good Thai food in NOLA

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

New Orleans just has a lot of good food all around

Great place to go if you're like me and just like to gnosh

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

New Orleans also always smells like piss

[–] regul@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The French Quarter always smells like piss. The rest of the city is fine.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

That's how they get that authentic French aesthetic.

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is surprisingly good for an A.I.-generated image.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it is not. Pulled off to hit up a music shop on tour, on a whim.

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I hardly ever use cameras so I’m surprised that they can make small texts look so messy and the backgrounds weirdly sterile.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Many phone cameras use AI postprocessing