Alright, so I love your attitude and your going to fit in just fine in the D. As for your wife’s family, Canton is closer to Ann Arbor than it is Detroit so I chuckled a bit when you named their city. Have a great time and let us know how you end up spending your time in our fair city!
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Downtown Detroit is perfectly safe and filled with lots of fun things to do both during the day and at night. The worst that will likely happen is that a homeless person will ask you for money while sitting harmlessly on the street. This can happen in any major city, tho. Stick to downtown and stay out of the Detroit neighborhoods and you’ll be fine. There is nothing touristy to do in the neighborhoods so you’ll have no reason to go into them.
Pretty much everything negative people say about Detroit is the typical overblown pearl clutching. As for your family that lives in Detroit… Do they actually live in Detroit or one of the suburbs? Because that will be most telling. Most people that live in the metro Detroit area will say they’re from Detroit because it’s easier to explain than being from Clinton Township or Troy… And suburbanites can be snobby about Detroit in general. I fully agree with your gut feelings and they are spot on.
As for a comment for your first time traveling to the US… I’m delighted you chose Detroit and I’m hopeful you will have a blast while here! Detroit has awesome culinary, music, and art scenes and there is something here for everyone!
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Technology@lemmy.zip•Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crashEnglish
14·1 year agoAnother problem with some teslas (and other vehicles) is that there are switching to laminate for the side window glass for strength purposes. These devices wont work in a survival situation if your car has laminated windows. LINK
I have heard it’s easy to kick out the windshield, but I’ve never had to test that theory.
How does one go about procuring one of your paintings for their living room?
Get an annoyatron and put it in the ceiling above their desk.
What is an annoyatron, you may ask? It’s a tiny little device that beeps or chirps. That’s it. But it beeps at random several minute intervals like a dying smoke detector over it’s battery’s lifetime. Which can last over 3 years…
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Why was Hurricane Helene so bad? Fossil fuel pollution.4·1 year agoA lot of those people, like my brother in law, believe that it is cloud seeding and HAARP style antennas causing it these temps. So, totally not climate change but still man made - and it would totally stop if the global cabal would just knock it off. /s
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Would a brigade effort to "engage" with Trump ads in streaming services force the campaign to waste extra money, and make a viable psyop when they measure their telemetry?
12·1 year agoI read once that a good thing to do was to physically mail a low denomination check to the campaign. All because the work and effort to record and deposit the funds was so labor intensive by an actual person.
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politics @lemmy.world•Snopes: [True] Project 2025 Wants All **Public** High School Students To Take Military Entrance Exam?
2·1 year agoAnd your point, even Medics who have served in combat roles and saved lives on the front line can’t even become civilian paramedics without four additional years of college after they’re done in the military. This is all because nobody’s figured out how to transfer the training that they received in the military over to the civilian world certifications
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News@lemmy.world•West Texas Pastor Who Used Illegal Donations From Churches to Campaign for Office Is Fined $3,500
27·1 year agoIf the fine is less than the amount of donations received, then it just becomes just another cost of doing business.
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politics @lemmy.world•Sanders: Supreme Court Is “Out of Control” and Must Be Reformed
16·1 year agoDon’t forget they legalized bribery long before making coups legal. That’s when they were testing the waters. Now they know they can be blatent with their rulings and noone will hold them accountable.
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[moved to piefed] movies@lemm.ee•Basic thoughts after I recently re-watched the Craig-era Bond FilmsEnglish
2·1 year agoI’m pretty sure that Quantum of Solstice was hampered by the 2007 writers strike with production starting before the script was even done. Unfortunately, that really messed with the story arc and the next two films were spent trying to pick up the pieces.
Or charge/jump the 12V battery without having to remove the body panels.
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Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research FindsEnglish
76·1 year agoSo… Let me get this straight… The satellites burning up are essentially creating aluminum chemtrails that my mother-in-law keeps going on about?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Apps that encourage/gamify walking?
3·1 year agoIt’s not VR… But there is always Dance Dance Revolution.
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News@lemmy.world•Glitch at New York Stock Exchange Throws Markets Into Chaos
4·2 years agoYeah, but they end up getting a bailout from a rich unknown benefactor.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What animals do you dislike for unusual reasons and why?
3·2 years agoIf I were to harbor a guess, that movie you watched was Stand By Me. The leech scene as a kid freaked me out too.
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Videos@lemmy.world•【KASSO】Japanese Skateboarding TV show (English Subtitles) (13:37)
2·2 years agoNo annoying back stories or sob stories either! Reminds me of the OG Ninja Warrior.
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A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created
4·2 years agoWas Kaseya your RMM tool?
SynAcker@lemmy.worldtoInsanePeopleFacebook@lemmy.world•Sovereign citizen Facebook is full of people trying to send magic paperwork to companies to pay their debt and they never understand why it doesn't work.
3·2 years agoThis guy seemed like a true believer. I tried digging up some of the videos that were later in the proceedings where he explains his documentation but I could only find the arrangement. This is the guy. . All I could find is a reaction video, so I’m sorry about the commentary.


I feel like the name of this product is a SEO manipulation to catch people trying to look for information on the Pi Hole. Overall shady manipulation on all fronts…