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[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 103 points 1 week ago

Alaskans and Hawaiians are incapable of forming bonds of friendship.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Washington and idaho as well apprently.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

I knew I liked Seattle for a reason.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

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

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

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week 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

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 34 points 1 week ago
[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

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

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago

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

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago
[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

People in Washington don't refer to each others.

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[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 26 points 1 week ago

I thought America was mostly NTSC

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 week ago

nice maps, homes!

[-] Litebit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

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

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Can't afford the ticket. . . . BACK TO SUFFRAGETTE CITY

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[-] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago

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

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

Seattle Freeze is REAL

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 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.

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago
[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 13 points 1 week ago

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

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

Ah, you must be from the North East.

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[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week 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.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 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.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Eastern Pennsylvania apparently has no word for Bros.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] don@lemm.ee 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.

[-] Meshuggah333@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 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?”.

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[-] Chromebby@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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[-] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] tpyoman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Liv3 WA, can confirm.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or Florida.

But actually it checks out for WA

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[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

Speaking of brotymology, what's a gender neutral version of bro/man?

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Where is sexy-(square)pants? Man-in-tights? Curly-cock? Dick-broom?

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[-] Mac@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Damn, no representation for "babe", "bbgrl", etc? I use those a lot.

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