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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I love that Ohio is purple in all of these

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Alaskans and Hawaiians are incapable of forming bonds of friendship.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Washington and idaho as well apprently.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I knew I liked Seattle for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

... either you enjoy having no friends...

... or you enjoy superficial performative 'relationships' that are all actually adversarial social status jockeying?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (9 children)

It was a joke. I tend to be introverted, and I love the Seattle vibe.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So the map is more accurately titled "How American Twitter users refer..."

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"White american male twitter users", according to the last paragraph

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I could have not clicked that video. But I did. And I regret it.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People in Washington don't refer to each others.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Exclusively as comrade (not pictured)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

I thought America was mostly NTSC

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

what happened to man... as in hey man.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

no bro’s in california?
whoever made this hasn’t been to anything out west

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

nice maps, homes!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Seattle Freeze is REAL

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Northeast US left off because they just say "Yo asshole"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anybody use the word fucker as a term of endearment? "What's up, fucker?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah, you must be from the North East.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So there's PAL, where's NTSC, and SÉCAM?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Eastern Pennsylvania apparently has no word for Bros.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It's just a nod and a quickly whispered "Go Birds."

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I was upset that Kentucky didn't have much coverage, but then I realized that "Hosscat" wasn't one of the choices.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm apparently in the "Pal" region and it's not a word I use often to refer to people, nor have I heard it used often by others either.

We use "Dude" pretty often, but looking at the map you'd think this is a dude desert.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Further down the article this screen’s taken from, they show the raw data they got for “dude”, and its usage is pretty much everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know why but "fella" sounds old fashioned to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cause ya ain't from the south

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I'm not from the US either, lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't forget "guy" and "chief".

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Hypothesis: you can go to the Great lakes region and just make random noises and people will be like "hey, what's up?”.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

People in Georgia and Washington State apparently don't have friends.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Liv3 WA, can confirm.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The large amounts of no-bro-zones scares me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Been ‘dude’ for me as long as I’ve been alive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

West coast here. There’s also “man” and “guys.” I use those way more than “dude” lol

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Suggests that in Georgia, Americans don't refer to their friends

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