I am fascinated by this chart, which shows that scientific views are heavily influenced by local views. There is not a lot of cultural/demographic difference between some of the rural counties bordering states. For example, look at the difference between western MN and eastern ND, or Vermont vs. Western NH, or eastern CO and eastern WY.
What is something that locals where you live act/think differently than nearby places that a demographically similar?
@Iamnot_nkulieb: There’s this woman on tiktok who posts recipes but in the voice over she gives updates about her ending of her marriage and how she found out her ex was having an affair
Pour one out - I own the giant head he used to come out of at shows.
"Gregory Edward Jacobs, known as Shock G, the frontman for the influential hip-hop group Digital Underground, was found dead on Thursday at a hotel in Tampa, Fla. He was 57.
His death was confirmed by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, which did not provide a cause.
Digital Underground had a string of hits in the early 1990s and introduced its audience to a little-known rapper named Tupac Shakur. The group’s name sounded like “a band of outlaws from a cyberpunk novel,” with a sound that “straddles the line between reality and fantasy, between silliness and social commentary,” The New York Times wrote in 1991. “Digital Underground is where Parliament left off,” Shock G said at the time, referring to the groundbreaking George Clinton band."
why is crypto crashing. why is the sky blue. why is the vaccine rollout in canada so slow (this is something I actually did google a few weeks back so that's on me)
"Why is Falcon and Winter Soldier so popular" is my most recent Why search, apparently. I still maintain it's a valid question- it's a mediocre show at best
I haven't watched the last episode yet, but I've heard some solid arguments that the show originally had the villains doing some kind of "virus release" evil plan that had to be scrapped because of COVID, as in reworked in post-production. That may account for the wonky plotting.
Especially for the Flag Smashers who have been pretty uninteresting. Every thing else: Sam and Bucky's journey, John Walker's rise and fall (although I think his [redacted] happened a little too fast.) Zemo has been great.
I am more puzzled by the Sharon Carter plot thread, but I guess will have to wait until MCU Phase 4 to see how that plays out.
The question was mostly about why FatWS had much higher viewership ratings than WandaVision despite the latter being a much more interesting show. I'd give Falco maybe a 12/19 and WandaVision a 17/19
Oh, I hope this is true. One reads all these so-called breakthroughs and then nothing happens. If it works out, this would one of the best things to ever happen to sub-Saharan Africa.
"In 2015, in San Remo, on Italy’s northwestern coast, 42 town hall workers were put on trial, accused of cheating the system for years by getting colleagues or relatives to swipe their timecards for them. Ten of the employees were acquitted, including a traffic officer who lived in the building and was captured with a hidden camera clocking into work in his underwear. He showed up later in his clothes, he argued, and was just saving time."
there was a Spanish government official who did something similar and they kept paying him even though he wasnt showing up. It was an obscure post in a small town and no one noticed
Giants pitching continues to be stellar. They win 3-0 over Marlins despite Belt, Crawford, Donny Bats, and Longoria being limited or out due to injuries. Posey sat on his rest day.
The Giants have had only 3 pitchers below 0 WAR this season. As a group, they have a 1.12 WHIP and are allowing 0.214 OBA. They are consistently in the top 5 for pitching statistics. However, the Dodgers and Padres are consistently #1 an #2.
If this series were a few weeks from now (when I'm fully vaccinated), I'd definitely be there. Tickets are surprisingly cheap too: about $30 for the lower left field section where I usually sit.
close enough to pro - Simone Biles has decided to move from being sponsored by Nike to striking a deal with Athleta, on the basis that their products / branding are better oriented to women and girls than Nike. I think that might be the first time I've heard of a woman athlete doing that. https://twitter.com/LeahHardingAJE/status/1385545035949776905?s=20
BOOOOOOO Nike! I saw Allyson Felix at an SC game at MetLife Stadium a few years back and she is *tiny* - for some reason I assumed she was taller & thus had a longer stride
Am I surprised? No, but it's just disgusting how thoroughly racist the prior administration was at every single turn. Every time.
The Trump administration put up bureaucratic obstacles that stalled approximately $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico and then obstructed an investigation into the holdup, according to an inspector general report obtained by The Washington Post.
Congress requested the investigation into the delays to recovery aid for Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 left residents of the U.S. territory without power and clean water for months. But, the report said, former Housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson and another former HUD official declined to be interviewed by investigators during the course of the examination that began in 2019.
the UK government had a scheme last year called "Eat Out to Help Out," which was vouchers to encourage people to return to in-restaurant dining (rather than just make cash payments to restaurants). The data appear to show that it was - shockingly - very likely to have caused local spikes in infection rates: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/apr/19/did-eat-out-to-help-out-cost-lives
last year Japanese government had "Go to Eat" and "Go to Travel" campaign to help out dining and travel industries. They gave out vouchers to encourage ppl to take flights and stay at hotels. Terrible idea. Most country side in Japan didn't have covid cases until the campaign spread it across the country.
What will the anti-vaxxers do? or is the answer they aren't applying to UC/Cal State schools?
No 3's best friend, though maybe not as much recentl,y is going to UNLV. because he didn't want to go to school in Ca and get a liberal education. His dad is very much right wing and his mom is very much leans left.
Among other things, I really appreciated what Marshawn Lynch said about communicating with the community and meeting people where they are. It's really important to me in science communication--what's the point of doing science that's fun and/or helps people if the information never reaches the people?
North Carolina has two major BBQ sub-groups: Eastern Carolina (chile/vinegar/sugar) and Western Carolina (aka Lexington-style, which adds tomato puree). Based on local tradition, you're supposed to love or hate tomatoes in your BBQ sauce based on where you live. The line is between Greensboro and Burlington, which are literally ten miles apart. Food seems like a weird place to get tribal.
I do like BBQ sauce but I also like a great BBQ rub and sometimes not having BBQ sauce. Sams club used to have this really good frozen wings with Memphis BBQ rub. Didn't need any sauce. I tried making it and kinda overcooked the ribs a little bit (or a little too hot the last hour) but the taste was amazing. No sauce needed.
Speaking of tomato-based BBQ sauce, there's a reason why the western Carolina variant of BBQ sauce is tomato, vinegar, sugar, salt, & spices.
Ketchup is originally a form of fish-sauce from southern China. The sauce spread to southeast Asia, where spices were added in local variants. The British brought the condiments back from the East Indies in the 17th century. Over the next 100 years, the Brits innovate/modify the original savory sauce so that they were based on local ingredients but mostly based on oysters, mussels, mushrooms, or walnuts. There was no single version of the sauce.
Ketchup was brought over to America, again with wildly different versions of itself. But sometime in the 18th century, someone added tomato and the earliest form of that recipe (1815) is documented at UNC. Tomato is native to South/Central America, hence why it was not included in the British version. The US south is very good tomato growing weather.
Those early recipes in early-19th century for "ketchup" - a tomato, vinegar, sugar, chilles, spices - specifically called for it to be used as a BBQ mop-sauce.
Sixty-one years later, HJ Heinz in Philadelphia gets credit for "inventing" modern ketchup, when it was actually a North Carolina thing well before him.
So next time you are dipping a french fry, just know that you're eating it with thickened Western Carolina BBQ sauce.
I'm not so sure that the history of ketchup is quite so codified and cut and dried - the reason being is that the english word "ketchup" is very specifically (and oddly) a Cantonese borrow word - 茄汁 tomato juice or "kea-jup" I've seen and read the fish sauce origins - some have it starting in Malaysia rather than Southern China. So I don't know that it traces one origin - but ketchup's pronunciation is virtually identical to Cantonese for "tomato juice" - so tomato has been there for a long long long long time.
I live in the northwest corner of my county. My town actually spills over into the next county, Chatham County. You can see where the county line is and how it noticeably changes the neighborhoods a mere 1.2 miles away. Suddenly, it stops being suburban bedroom communities and switches to boomer estates, horse farms, and forest land. Chatham and my county are roughly the same size in square miles, but my county has 16x as many people and 50x as much GDP. So there is a big disparity in county-wide resources - schools, sheriffs protection, and roads. We looked at houses in Chatham, but there isn't much a price discount for buying in that county. You go from a place where EVERYONE has kids to almost no kids. If you buy a house in Chatham, it is a 27-minute drive to the closest middle school and 32 minutes to the high school. The schools on that side aren't bad perse, but the schools over here are the best in the state (with the most intense helicopter parents) with SAT scores nearly averaging 200 points higher.
Most of my A’s fans’ disdain for the Giants became full-on hate after they won 3 rings in 5 years. Ask Newellbany...as a Giants fan, I now need to tread lightly there, despite the fact we’ve been friends for 40 years....
Here in my San Francisco neighborhood, we have at least one neighbor who proclaims "no way am I getting that vaccine"....I guess that's more localized than you were asking.
Also depends on age. Most who grew up in the 80's in the NY area have a nostalgia for those "amazin" mid-late 80's Mets teams and players, and that was their team as a kid.. even if they became Yankees fans later in life. At least that was my experience as well as a lot of my friends who grew up in the tri-state area. I can readily admit to being a fair weather fan of either Yankees/Mets or Giants/Jets, and I root for all. Might be different and a little more tribal for people who actual grew up in the five boroughs though. I know some hardcore Mets fans who hate the Yankees (granted, who doesn't hate them other than Yankees fans), but Yankees fans mostly just hate the Red Sox, Giants fans hate the Cowboys, and Jets fans hate the Patriots. I've only know of Patriots fans to actually hate the Jets. Typically when teams suck so much there isn't much to hate, ha.
That map showing variation between eastern VT and western NH kind of makes sense to me. Partly it's that NH draws a lot of people for that "live free or die" mentality - and the converse for VT, there's an element of self-selection for people moving there some somewhere else. I wouldn't be surprised if part of it is that the larger towns (and people commuting to Boston) seem to be on the south eastern part of the state - so western NH is more rural / has more rich people with second homes? Anyway having wandered around there a bit, it seems. There's probably a dot there in the Hanover - Norwich "metroplex" around Dartmouth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/mwxy2c/cashiers_of_reddit_do_you_judge_us_customers_by/gvlws3f/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Q: Cashiers of Reddit, do you judge us customers by the products or quantity of products we buy? What are some stereotypes?
A: If you buy more than 2 jugs of milk you are making yogurt and you are Indian.
https://twitter.com/Iamnot_nkulieb/status/1385302058861948930?s=20
@Iamnot_nkulieb: There’s this woman on tiktok who posts recipes but in the voice over she gives updates about her ending of her marriage and how she found out her ex was having an affair
I AM SO HEAVILY INVESTED
omg what (this is a baseball tweet) https://twitter.com/MichelleyM/status/1385500620967137280?s=20v
that is hilarious.
"this is not available to you"
I just emailed you a screenshot
Whoa! Thanks TBB! Also, strangely, it works for me now.
does that say something about you or me that I see the tweet?
A bit of a far-fetched vacation guide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMTwtb3TVIk
https://twitter.com/ben_j_lindsay/status/1385572231447597059?s=20
@ben_j_lindsay: Here's a summary of all the statistical errors:
Type I: False Negative
Type II: False Positive
Type III: Mixing up false negative and false positive
Type IIII: Forgetting how Roman numerals work
Type V: Putting data into Excel
Type 6: Inconsistent data types
that was great and after i shared it w/ another friend he shared this one back
>>> xkcd one is really funny. https://xkcd.com/2303/
that's wonderful.
pqtm
Pour one out - I own the giant head he used to come out of at shows.
"Gregory Edward Jacobs, known as Shock G, the frontman for the influential hip-hop group Digital Underground, was found dead on Thursday at a hotel in Tampa, Fla. He was 57.
His death was confirmed by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, which did not provide a cause.
Digital Underground had a string of hits in the early 1990s and introduced its audience to a little-known rapper named Tupac Shakur. The group’s name sounded like “a band of outlaws from a cyberpunk novel,” with a sound that “straddles the line between reality and fantasy, between silliness and social commentary,” The New York Times wrote in 1991. “Digital Underground is where Parliament left off,” Shock G said at the time, referring to the groundbreaking George Clinton band."
Local ABC station now wants photos & an interview, because of my giant head.
...and they just interviewed me in my office.
ok now I need to find the stream of this.
Probably tonight - but they didn't say when it would air.
Post link on Monday, Thanks in advance.
Type "why" into Google. What are some of the predictive suggestions?
"why not use myanmar instead of burma"
why is crypto crashing. why is the sky blue. why is the vaccine rollout in canada so slow (this is something I actually did google a few weeks back so that's on me)
"Why is Falcon and Winter Soldier so popular" is my most recent Why search, apparently. I still maintain it's a valid question- it's a mediocre show at best
eh, just the special effects/action sequences make it better than mediocre - good acting and characterizations - but poor plotting. 14/19
I haven't watched the last episode yet, but I've heard some solid arguments that the show originally had the villains doing some kind of "virus release" evil plan that had to be scrapped because of COVID, as in reworked in post-production. That may account for the wonky plotting.
Especially for the Flag Smashers who have been pretty uninteresting. Every thing else: Sam and Bucky's journey, John Walker's rise and fall (although I think his [redacted] happened a little too fast.) Zemo has been great.
I am more puzzled by the Sharon Carter plot thread, but I guess will have to wait until MCU Phase 4 to see how that plays out.
The question was mostly about why FatWS had much higher viewership ratings than WandaVision despite the latter being a much more interesting show. I'd give Falco maybe a 12/19 and WandaVision a 17/19
Wandavision was weird. Intentionally weird, but that's not generally a popularity-building trait.
"why did I get married" 😬
whynter ice cream maker. why did mcor fail. why do cars not have bumpers anymore....why is my poop green.
why don't we do it in the road
Time for your Nobel.
that didnt pop up. it was just the first thing that came to mind ...
I assume because of the cars.
maybe people will be watching?
CAR! Game on!
"why were chainsaws invented" is the top one. Seems kinda self-evident, no?
Have people seen this house, which is only a stone's throw away from Big Gunpowder Falls?
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1910-Corbridge-Ln-Monkton-MD-21111/36206811_zpid/
I had an ad for this house in my mail today: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7106-Laverock-Ln-Bethesda-MD-20817/37181263_zpid/
That one is nice.
That must be a nightmare to heat / cool. I like the idea but I’m not sure I’d love to live in it
I LOVE that. Absolutely love.
An exhibitionist's dream.
GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE
Malaria vaccine appears to be VERY effective
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1385482181632401411?s=20
Oh, I hope this is true. One reads all these so-called breakthroughs and then nothing happens. If it works out, this would one of the best things to ever happen to sub-Saharan Africa.
YWC going down to get malaria RIGHT NOW
I heard you were taking hydroxychloroquine for covid though!
SHENANIGANS
Italian hospital employee doesn't show up for work for 15 years: https://twitter.com/YonetteJo/status/1385548347193233409?s=20
from the end of the article....
"In 2015, in San Remo, on Italy’s northwestern coast, 42 town hall workers were put on trial, accused of cheating the system for years by getting colleagues or relatives to swipe their timecards for them. Ten of the employees were acquitted, including a traffic officer who lived in the building and was captured with a hidden camera clocking into work in his underwear. He showed up later in his clothes, he argued, and was just saving time."
sounds like the opposite of Milton in Office Space
there was a Spanish government official who did something similar and they kept paying him even though he wasnt showing up. It was an obscure post in a small town and no one noticed
Villain? Or ABSOLUTE LEGEND?
Yes.
Obviously a complete hero.
PRO SPORTS
Top 3 teams in MLB are all in California.
Giants pitching continues to be stellar. They win 3-0 over Marlins despite Belt, Crawford, Donny Bats, and Longoria being limited or out due to injuries. Posey sat on his rest day.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401227328
The Giants have had only 3 pitchers below 0 WAR this season. As a group, they have a 1.12 WHIP and are allowing 0.214 OBA. They are consistently in the top 5 for pitching statistics. However, the Dodgers and Padres are consistently #1 an #2.
at least the Giants are not unwatchable this year.
Pads trim the Dodgers 3-2.
A's had the day off, play Baltimore this evening at Camden Yards.
If this series were a few weeks from now (when I'm fully vaccinated), I'd definitely be there. Tickets are surprisingly cheap too: about $30 for the lower left field section where I usually sit.
close enough to pro - Simone Biles has decided to move from being sponsored by Nike to striking a deal with Athleta, on the basis that their products / branding are better oriented to women and girls than Nike. I think that might be the first time I've heard of a woman athlete doing that. https://twitter.com/LeahHardingAJE/status/1385545035949776905?s=20
Sort of related: https://twitter.com/ShoStanback/status/1385615082709823488?s=20
@ShoStanback: Allyson Felix is also an Athleta athlete, after Nike dropped her when she was pregnant and couldn't compete.
BOOOOOOO Nike! I saw Allyson Felix at an SC game at MetLife Stadium a few years back and she is *tiny* - for some reason I assumed she was taller & thus had a longer stride
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Am I surprised? No, but it's just disgusting how thoroughly racist the prior administration was at every single turn. Every time.
The Trump administration put up bureaucratic obstacles that stalled approximately $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico and then obstructed an investigation into the holdup, according to an inspector general report obtained by The Washington Post.
Congress requested the investigation into the delays to recovery aid for Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 left residents of the U.S. territory without power and clean water for months. But, the report said, former Housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson and another former HUD official declined to be interviewed by investigators during the course of the examination that began in 2019.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/22/puerto-rico-hurricane-trump-hud/
WTF, Ben Shapiro
https://twitter.com/cbfplr/status/1385081742290300932
he's very strange. and not just in the racist douchbag way he lives his life.
It's been exactly one year since Trump suggested injecting bleach. We’ve never been the same.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/23/trump-bleach-one-year-484399
TODAY IN LA RONA
I'm getting my second Pfizer shot today. Let's see how I feel later tonight.
I'm now fully being tracked by the govt. And I can now receive 5g phone calls directly in my head.
i guess it was just 4g before w/ one shot
yup. Now I can stream 4K
I got 1st ModernA...they can only track 80% of my movements I was told.
damn I should've held out for ModernA
https://twitter.com/Sherinapoyyail/status/1385478140261068804?s=20
@Sherinapoyyail: HELLO WORLD
If you're watching the COVID-19 disaster unfold in India and are wondering what you can do to help. Here are some ways. (Thread)
the UK government had a scheme last year called "Eat Out to Help Out," which was vouchers to encourage people to return to in-restaurant dining (rather than just make cash payments to restaurants). The data appear to show that it was - shockingly - very likely to have caused local spikes in infection rates: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/apr/19/did-eat-out-to-help-out-cost-lives
last year Japanese government had "Go to Eat" and "Go to Travel" campaign to help out dining and travel industries. They gave out vouchers to encourage ppl to take flights and stay at hotels. Terrible idea. Most country side in Japan didn't have covid cases until the campaign spread it across the country.
Such a bad idea
"Take Out to Help Out" didn't cross their minds?
You can’t overestimate their enthusiasm for pretending everything is normal as a coping mechanism
we do "Delivery to keep Healthy"
OTHER COLLEGE
David Shaw and the rest of the NCAA football rules committee changed rules so that prohibit extra point kick attempts in the 2nd OT.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/31310857/rule-changed-require-2-point-conversions-touchdowns-2nd-ot-rather-3rd-ot
After last year, I thought he wouldn't mind seeing teams attempt more extra point kick attempts.
Sad trombone. We should have gone for 2 against the Furdies.
a coach with balls would have
Well, this will be interesting. I have enough trouble remembering the OT rules in the first place. Should result in less OT periods.
Terrance Clark, a former UK basketball player preparing for the NBA draft passes away after a car accident.
CAL
Go Bears!!!
UC and Cal State systems will require vaccinations this fall
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-22/uc-csu-to-require-covid-19-vaccinations-this-fall
What will the anti-vaxxers do? or is the answer they aren't applying to UC/Cal State schools?
No 3's best friend, though maybe not as much recentl,y is going to UNLV. because he didn't want to go to school in Ca and get a liberal education. His dad is very much right wing and his mom is very much leans left.
so he's going to vegas where he can still graduate with no education?
his friend is, yes
A very smart friend of mine went to UNLV because he was a mid-major level Division 1 swimmer. And he was lazy.
Said he really loved the experience.
LOCAL VARIATIONS OF OPINION
Beastmode talks about vaccinations in his community
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=750478252281478
So great! For anyone who wants to watch the full 32 minutes: https://youtu.be/ODHkJ1hI2Js
Among other things, I really appreciated what Marshawn Lynch said about communicating with the community and meeting people where they are. It's really important to me in science communication--what's the point of doing science that's fun and/or helps people if the information never reaches the people?
Marshawn Lynch - greatest person or greatest person? Who's to say?
North Carolina has two major BBQ sub-groups: Eastern Carolina (chile/vinegar/sugar) and Western Carolina (aka Lexington-style, which adds tomato puree). Based on local tradition, you're supposed to love or hate tomatoes in your BBQ sauce based on where you live. The line is between Greensboro and Burlington, which are literally ten miles apart. Food seems like a weird place to get tribal.
I do like BBQ sauce but I also like a great BBQ rub and sometimes not having BBQ sauce. Sams club used to have this really good frozen wings with Memphis BBQ rub. Didn't need any sauce. I tried making it and kinda overcooked the ribs a little bit (or a little too hot the last hour) but the taste was amazing. No sauce needed.
I must disagree; food is the PERFECT thing to get tribal about.
Speaking of tomato-based BBQ sauce, there's a reason why the western Carolina variant of BBQ sauce is tomato, vinegar, sugar, salt, & spices.
Ketchup is originally a form of fish-sauce from southern China. The sauce spread to southeast Asia, where spices were added in local variants. The British brought the condiments back from the East Indies in the 17th century. Over the next 100 years, the Brits innovate/modify the original savory sauce so that they were based on local ingredients but mostly based on oysters, mussels, mushrooms, or walnuts. There was no single version of the sauce.
Ketchup was brought over to America, again with wildly different versions of itself. But sometime in the 18th century, someone added tomato and the earliest form of that recipe (1815) is documented at UNC. Tomato is native to South/Central America, hence why it was not included in the British version. The US south is very good tomato growing weather.
Those early recipes in early-19th century for "ketchup" - a tomato, vinegar, sugar, chilles, spices - specifically called for it to be used as a BBQ mop-sauce.
Sixty-one years later, HJ Heinz in Philadelphia gets credit for "inventing" modern ketchup, when it was actually a North Carolina thing well before him.
So next time you are dipping a french fry, just know that you're eating it with thickened Western Carolina BBQ sauce.
https://www.history.com/news/ketchup-surprising-ancient-history
https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133/
I'm not so sure that the history of ketchup is quite so codified and cut and dried - the reason being is that the english word "ketchup" is very specifically (and oddly) a Cantonese borrow word - 茄汁 tomato juice or "kea-jup" I've seen and read the fish sauce origins - some have it starting in Malaysia rather than Southern China. So I don't know that it traces one origin - but ketchup's pronunciation is virtually identical to Cantonese for "tomato juice" - so tomato has been there for a long long long long time.
I prefer eastern mostly bc i dislike traditional tomato based bbq sauce
I like eastern Carolina barbecue- can’t say that I’ve tried western Carolina barbecue though so I should probably rectify that.
If you send your address to me at SG[underscore]Bear[at]outlook[dot]com, I'll send you a bottle.
interesting...
I live in the northwest corner of my county. My town actually spills over into the next county, Chatham County. You can see where the county line is and how it noticeably changes the neighborhoods a mere 1.2 miles away. Suddenly, it stops being suburban bedroom communities and switches to boomer estates, horse farms, and forest land. Chatham and my county are roughly the same size in square miles, but my county has 16x as many people and 50x as much GDP. So there is a big disparity in county-wide resources - schools, sheriffs protection, and roads. We looked at houses in Chatham, but there isn't much a price discount for buying in that county. You go from a place where EVERYONE has kids to almost no kids. If you buy a house in Chatham, it is a 27-minute drive to the closest middle school and 32 minutes to the high school. The schools on that side aren't bad perse, but the schools over here are the best in the state (with the most intense helicopter parents) with SAT scores nearly averaging 200 points higher.
https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-12/lagdp1220_2.pdf
A's fans hate the Giants, but Giants fans usually like the A's.
I am a fan of both the Giants and A's. Then again, I do have some self-loathing.
Not true, disdain, not hate.
Most of my A’s fans’ disdain for the Giants became full-on hate after they won 3 rings in 5 years. Ask Newellbany...as a Giants fan, I now need to tread lightly there, despite the fact we’ve been friends for 40 years....
Here in my San Francisco neighborhood, we have at least one neighbor who proclaims "no way am I getting that vaccine"....I guess that's more localized than you were asking.
The horseshoe on anti-vaxxers reaches both far right wing and wealthy liberals who are into "wellness"
people in Long Island like the Mets and Jets, everyone else hates them!
does Seinfeld live on Long Island? I assume he's at least got a summer home in the Hamptons.
Also depends on age. Most who grew up in the 80's in the NY area have a nostalgia for those "amazin" mid-late 80's Mets teams and players, and that was their team as a kid.. even if they became Yankees fans later in life. At least that was my experience as well as a lot of my friends who grew up in the tri-state area. I can readily admit to being a fair weather fan of either Yankees/Mets or Giants/Jets, and I root for all. Might be different and a little more tribal for people who actual grew up in the five boroughs though. I know some hardcore Mets fans who hate the Yankees (granted, who doesn't hate them other than Yankees fans), but Yankees fans mostly just hate the Red Sox, Giants fans hate the Cowboys, and Jets fans hate the Patriots. I've only know of Patriots fans to actually hate the Jets. Typically when teams suck so much there isn't much to hate, ha.
I think more Jets fans hate the Jets than any other demographic group.
This also seems true of the Mets.
this is true
I don't know how anyone can muster enough of an opinion about the Mets or Jets to hate them.
That map showing variation between eastern VT and western NH kind of makes sense to me. Partly it's that NH draws a lot of people for that "live free or die" mentality - and the converse for VT, there's an element of self-selection for people moving there some somewhere else. I wouldn't be surprised if part of it is that the larger towns (and people commuting to Boston) seem to be on the south eastern part of the state - so western NH is more rural / has more rich people with second homes? Anyway having wandered around there a bit, it seems. There's probably a dot there in the Hanover - Norwich "metroplex" around Dartmouth.
For Maryland, the answer used to be "voting for Democrats" versus our neighbors in Virginia, but that has been changing over the years.