• FaceDeer
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    Alaskans and Hawaiians are incapable of forming bonds of friendship.

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        I am from Seattle.

        Anecdotally:

        This is correct.

        People are absurdly transactional, performative and superficial about relationships and also very anti social compared to basically anywhere else I’ve ever been in the US.

          • sp3ctr4l
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            68 days ago

            … either you enjoy having no friends…

            … or you enjoy superficial performative ‘relationships’ that are all actually adversarial social status jockeying?

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                I do not understand how your joke works.

                If you genuienly enjoy antisociality as a norm, because you tend to be introverted, then you just like Seattle because of that.

                You would then not be joking, in the sense of sarcastically saying you enjoy something you don’t actually enjoy.

                ‘I knew I liked Seattle for a reason’ is then just the same as saying ‘Yup, I’m also anti social and I love it here’.

                The ‘joke’ isn’t that you actually don’t like Seattle’s social norms and were being sarcastic, because you just said you’re introverted.

                I honestly do not understand how this is a joke.

                Is… just using the pithy/vague phrasing… in and of itself… the joke?

                • @[email protected]
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                  Well if it wasn’t funny before, it certainly is now after this dissertation…

                  I think you’re over analyzing some random throwaway line. It was immediately apparent to me that the commenter was being facetious.

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                  Maybe joke was the wrong wording, but you are really digging deep for a throw-away line on an internet thread. I will try to explain since you took the time to write the essay.

                  One person says a line to talk down about something. “Seattle seems unfriendly.”

                  I say I agree, but I actually like the thing they don’t like. “I knew I liked Seattle”

                  That’s essentially it. I like the aspect of Seattle the other person didn’t. At best, other people like minded to me would read it and blow some air out their nose in agreement.

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            28 days ago

            Looks like Miami also does not have any specific vernacular for ‘friend’ on these maps, so… maybe if you just overlay all these maps and find all the deadzones, you’ve found the areas of antisociality?

  • @[email protected]
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    568 days ago

    Interesting. Can we have have at least a tiny bit of info how this data came to be?

    Not just this one, but all the infographs, maps etc. Always leave entirely open if someone just guessed the data for the lulz.

    This makes me a litte sad sometimes

  • Lit
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    188 days ago

    what happened to man… as in hey man.

  • Wren
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    As a Washingtonian, as usual, I’m glad to barely be represented on a heat map of something.

  • @[email protected]
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    138 days ago

    I love that New England doesn’t show a preference for any of the choices. My theory: Boston throws off the curve with “asshole” and “fucker” and the data scientists didn’t want to cover cursing.