Cool! It was my first time visitng Tennessee and it was absolutely gorgeous!

Just off I-24 outside Chattanooga

Thanks I appreciate it!

I think I am very slightly, but it's hard to see cause I wasn't quite in the middle of the hallway so there's a slight angle that I made less noticible by cropping the picture a little bit so the window would appear more central in the frame.

A Holiday Inn outside Nashville actually

Wow nice job! Yeah it is!

For those wondering, I just spoke to a good friend who also grew up in the same town and mentioned the traction this post got and he clarified that the roll is actually real, the holder is leftover from when the previous building burnt down decades ago but the property owners replace the roll on it every few years when it inevitibly decays and have been doing so for about 3 generations, hence why it was there when we were kids and still is now, it's just sort of a running joke/"urban legend" for the town.

It should probably also be noted that the impetus for the accusation is a misquote of him in a video where he said he approves of common sense gun control legislation to ensure that "The weapons of war which I carried, in war is the only place they will be" he did say it a little fast so the publications quoting him dropped the very necessary comma in that sentence and claimed he was saying he carried them during a war, neglecting the fact that with the comma, it makes sense grammatically, and without the comma it doesn't at all, which is a mistake I doubt a teacher would make, even if they were a social studies teacher and not an english one.

My girlfriend thinks I'm crazy for liking brutalist architecture and long stretches of open highway, but I can't help it, the concrete look and utilitarian designs just scratch an itch in my brain lol

It's actually the University Plaza Hotel in Springfield, MO. Most surreal looking hotel I've ever stayed at lol

I used to lurk like crazy on reddit. I had a nearly 12 year old account that mainly had a few comments here and there months apart, and only a few posts but ever since moving to Lemmy I've found myself actually posting relatively frequently to help build some of the smaller communities I'm in that have also migrated.

I haven't deleted my account just yet but I joined reddit 12 years ago this month, once RIF went under om the 1st I stopped visiting the site altogether. I have friends that still regularly use the site, mainly through old.reddit whom I've told about Lemmy but just aren't quite ready to switch over and that's their choice, due to the amount of content still on the site I can't necessarily blame them, but I just can't in good conscience give reddit the traffic now that they've gone full twitter in their corporate decision making.