Wisconsin, are you okay?
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Hey alcohol warms yer innards mates
If you're a drinker you know where the liquor store is. If you drink a lot you know what time it closes. If you drink too much you know what time it opens.
That tracks
Between the lead pipes and alcohol, the upper Midwest seems to weed out the thinkers.
Excessive according to who? Your dad's tampon company?
I think this is a bad map. No data, no sourcing, no analysis, nothing. It’s just clickbaity nonsense. Those aren’t even counties it’s just cutting the country up into random squares cause lord knows how forked the map projection is.
Those aren’t even counties it’s just cutting the country up into random squares
hey, if it works for voting
"Squares".
Maryland's sixth used to be pretty hilarious too. They put an urban center connected to an Appalachian rural expanse with a little corridor to drown out the rural votes. It's a little less nonsensical nowadays though.
The third doesn't look like that anymore btw. It's a solid block now.
LOL how is Maryland gerrymandered, isn't it like 12 blocks?
It used to be gerrymandered to fuck. It was only recently rectified.
Old
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They were packing urban districts and cutting up rural districts to make safe seats. How the sixth and the eighth cut up Montgomery county to give it far flung rural districts was particularly funny. The first was a dedicated Republican seat so they purely packed the Eastern shore and other rural areas in it. Sixth used to be a Republican district before they packed urban Montgomery county into it. The sixth is competitive now that it doesn't have a big chunk of Rockville in it.
No. 3 is actually the opposite of gerrymandering. That “headphone district” connects two Latino communities https://youtu.be/A-4dIImaodQ?t=833
They're not even being subtle. What's their excuse?
Yeah but it doesn’t so…
There are way too many of these US dots outside of the US for my liking.
Don't know why, but I was expecting a bar chart
It's a chart about bars, hence a 'bar chart.'
I didn’t need this
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Anything you wanna talk about Wisconsin?
Don't worry, Wisconsin's top lobbying organization by dollars spent will speak to you for the state populace
When there's nothing else to do, people drink. I went to college at the top of Michigan's upper peninsula, and there was a running joke at my school, that there were only two ways out: You either drop out, or you graduate an alcoholic
Why not both? One guy at school had to drop out because his liver was so damaged because of drinking.
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the fuck is going on in upstate new york? wisconsin checks out, but why is upstate NY an isolated hot spot? it's not like they drink more than PA or VT
A lot of people from the city have second homes there, vacation spots. Maybe that can explain it?
I'm currently in Wisconsin and am greatly pleased with the bar offerings....my family is from Buffalo...I understand
I would think most places would have more bars than grocery stores. Even a pretty big town usually only needs what, 5 or 6 grocery stores for a population of under 100,000? And they can be more distant. People like bars to be near them and they generally don't have the capacity of a grocery store, so you need more of them. Overhead is much lower too, obviously.
6 grocery stores for 100'000 people? here in sweden that's not enough grocery stores for 50k!
with 100k people i'd expect at least 20 stores, if not more.
in my experience, the grocery stores in sweden tend to be considerably smaller than the grocery stores in the united states. pretty much every grocery store in the US is larger than an ica maxi. there needs to be room for all 20 flavors of toothpaste and all 40 flavors of oreos.
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You must mean grocery stores in us sense (i. e. gigantic)
This is for shops in a 75k city in my country. I guess there are far more that are not shown at this zoom.
I do, but then it’s a map of the U.S.
I thought we wanted walkable cities with grocery stores on every corner???
What we may want what what the reality is are two very different things.
Interesting. A lot of the red spots in CO, at least, are places with not many people, so they only have one grocery store. If there are 2 bars, they'd meet the criteria. The center left spot looks like it's where a lot of the ski towns are - small permanent populations (and getting smaller thanks to most of the housing stock being on airbnb), lots of tourists. Of course there would be more bars, and probably restaurants.
The giant red swaths are uh...a little more concerning.
I grew up in central Wisconsin, can confirm there are more bars than grocery stores lol
Virginia doesn't have bars. They have restaurants that may have a bar in them. Even breweries with tap rooms have minimum food sales requirements.
I live in a small town in Wisconsin. The bars happen to also be the best restaurants. Doesn't make them not bars if they serve food
California has a similar law in that any establishment that serves booze also has to serve food to some degree
Yeah that's how some get away with it lol. Our local American Legion Post just has hotdogs on a roller for a couple hours a day, plus peanuts in bowls on the bar. Really it also comes down to local enforcement.
You reminded me of a Pennsylvania grocery store that finally got a license to sell new types or quantities of alcohol. But a food sale was required with each purchase, so of course they had something like 50¢ macarons next to the register!
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