The grocery stores in my area are also full of video cameras. If I wanted to go full-privacy, I would have to wear a mask to foil facial recognition, gloves, and generic clothes that I change out of after I leave so I can't be tied to videos showing my face elsewhere.
Then how do I get to the grocery store? Drive into the store parking lot with my license plates hanging out in the wind? Lol, no.
What kind of personal data?
If you give me $5, I will tell you if I went grocery shopping this week or not.
USB switch. I have a desk with work laptop to the left, personal laptop to the right. My keyboard, mouse, and camera feed into the switch, then the switch into each laptop. With a press of a button, I can switch all my peripherals from one laptop to the other without unplugging/plugging USB connections
Stone paths. I was hiking in a large state park recently and came on a stretch of path that a seriously skilled stonemason built. It was beautiful. I stood there for ten minutes looking at how perfectly they matched the stones together.
Letterboxd, small indie theaters, several universities near me have indie film series open to the public.
Film festivals. We'll plan date nights or weekend trips around indie film festivals within a few hours drive. Once you start going to those, you start meeting people and getting on mailing lists and before you know it you will want fewer recommendations.
Polyphia playing quietly in the background. No lyrics to distract me. Variety between songs but not so much that it pulls me out of focusing.
Based on experience with stores in my area currently? Groceries. Incorrect and forgotten items, incorrect prices, wilted produce, nearly thawed frozen foods, swapping significantly more expensive alternatives despite my checking the "do not substitute" option.
"When you are acquainted with a woman..." assumes everyone here is a man. Extending the question to, "women, how do men greet you or how do you greet men" would have solicited a whole new set of perspectives.
And not specifying where they are / what their culture is shows OP also tends to assume everyone has similar background to them too.
There are women on lemmy too, you know.
What is the punchline you see in American media about Indian food?
The stereotype of Indian cuisine is that it sometimes has really strong flavor, sometimes a strong smell to match. Those are not bad things.
I don't have any overall negative associations with Indian food. There are certainly dishes that don't appeal to me, but if anyone wanted to go to an Indian restaurant for dinner, I would say "yes, please".
Edit: I see some comments about "spicy diarrhea" jokes. I see those as a function of people not acclimated to spicy food, not that the spicy food itself is bad. I'm impressed by people who can eat full spicy level Indian food. I would be on a toilet for a day if I ate fully spicy level; that's my problem, not the fault of Indian cuisine overall.
Easement corridor for power lines.
The area where there are always open camping sites in that one national park because no one wants to sleep under the high voltage lines and get cancer.
The Thing (1982). I keep meaning to watch the 2011 remake, then I decide I should watch the original first to refresh my memory, then I don't feel like putting myself through the 2011 version anymore.
Season 2 of Vigil.
A Murder at the End of the World.