Not bad, it’s growing on me. I like how obvious the express trains are

Define famous. Taylor Swift would be on here. Ashton Kutcher is right for Iowa because that’s all they could talk about there

Oh yeah you’re right, my fault for skimming.

A great thing for lemmy would be 301 support for the UI. Having some way to say “This community is dead, but come join us over here at X community!” It would help our ghost community problem quite a bit.

That’s too bad. Are any of the users willing to step up and run it themselves?

That’s only the first and easiest step, you’ll probably be the only one posting to most of them for a good while the community starts up. That can be months, years even. Only now do I think my little communities are starting to gain traction, and thats after years of work and posting regularly by myself.

I’m not trying to discourage you, but make sure you’re posting… a lot

Be careful with this approach. It’s great you’re excited, but I was in that boat. When the reddit exodus started everyone made a community for every niche, but then there was not enough to keep them going. So communities petered out one by one

I’ve found it’s better to focus your efforts on a couple of communities and get them going vs spreading out.

Yeah, if it was just age verification there are third party services that do it in a secure way, and I’ve always said we could implement things like you verify with your browser that you’re over 18, and at the protocol level it would the allow or deny

Of course age verification isn’t the actual goal, so none of those privacy respecting approaches are ever considered in most places. Download what you can now, I’m guessing this is coming for the nation

Kind of. “Places that an adult in their own home has to register with the state to see porn, so pornhub disables the state”

They try to regulate porn by mandating a user show their id to the provider, and they totally won’t abuse that list of users at all they pinky swear

Counties with colleges have a higher amount of college degrees, neat

And I’m okay with it being disproportionate because they also run a good chunk of our agriculture and do have a good chunk of land, but the scales are definitely too too far . They shouldn’t be drowning out 80% of our population just because they have a lot of space.

“but we need agriculture to vote”. That’s what I hear, that they’d be downed out of we went off pure population. Except, the population IS being drowned out by a few very conservative states right now who have populations of a fraction of that of our cities, and now they want to implement things that actively hurt our cities simply because they don’t like them.

Fine we still need a system that has some balance, but right now I’d hardly say there’s a balance at all

I like this, a lot of red states proudly dote that they’re all red, but that’s just not the case. Blues are usually more urban, and in smaller areas so it looks more red, but really most states are pretty purple.

I can always tell with food. In the Midwest you don’t dare use any spice except salt and maybe some rosemary on Christmas. Anything else is too fancy. The West Coast has their own style, northeast has chowder and seafood, except salmon which is the PNW. Interesting how they all separate.

I remember driving through the Midwest and I just wanted a sparkling water. Anything bubbly. They had coolers and coolers of soda and added sugar drinks, two small things of actual water, and one thing of liquid death, with added sugar. Wild place

Most Americans live within an hour of where they grew up, so I’m not surprised. I think it’s bonkers, I mean there’s so much more out there, but from my own friend group yeah I’m the only one who moved away

I’m not aware of one, but we could create one…

If all of the people who didn’t vote because “It would never make a difference” actually voted, we could have had a constitutional amendment by now removing the electoral college.

Yeah I don’t think how much of the Midwest and South is corn. Corn that we don’t even need, that old ag bills that said “the government will buy it even if we don’t need it”

Lol Americans don’t do harvesting. I’m from Iowa. They literally ship illegal immigrants in on busses to harvest, I’ve seen it first hand. Why I’m shocked any farmer would vote Republican, it’ll financially destroy most individual farms having to hire legal help

Ah now you’re getting it!

If only they had as much freedom as us, to pick from 2 options