I’m surprised Mississippi isn’t on that list. I assume this is 1 at worst because while I have no doubt Arizona and Kansas suck major ass, they can’t be worse than Tennessee and Alabama.

Also surprised Indiana made the list. Godsawful hellhole sure, and impressively so given its neighbors, but I always pictured it as a mundane shittiness. I think of Indiana like I think of Iowa, firstly I don’t, but when I do it sucks but not like, on par with Alabama and texas, more in a “yeah it’s like the bastard child of Michigan and Iowa” there’s nothing to do in the farmland or suburbs, and gang violence in the former industrial areas, all with none of the remotely effective policy of Illinois, Ohio, or Michigan.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

I have a bud who lives there. Lots of straight up drugs and bigots, some of the recent laws they passed are straight up backwards. I think it mostly pops up because of the drug issues though, he always talks about seeing people on crack and meth.

The university there is probably holding the state up a smidge both the others you mentioned.

[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You can only fit so many shit republican states on a 10 item list. It really seems like they're racing to the bottom.

[–] flames5123@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Coming from MS, yea. Alabama is better. They have better liquor laws and brewery laws, and it shows. Alabama has Huntsville, which is a huge engineering hub that’s being built up constantly. MS has nothing like that.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I was mostly thinking of the Jackson water crisis

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've seen eta used a lot, like you did. For me, it always meant "estimated time (of) arrival". What does it mean in your context?

[–] jorp@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

New to me as well but seems like "editing to add:"

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why not just write "edit:"? It's one extra character

[–] Today@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Sometimes you're editing for grammar or clarification or just to add.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I learned to touch type on underwood typewriters, learned cobol, basic, pl/1, fortran (watfor/wat5!), and fed a thousand punch cards to a mainframe or something to print 2 words.

Reddit made me do "eta".

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. It must show my age, that i sometimes don't think about the obvious googling for anything.

[–] jorp@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

the only times I do the due diligence and online research I should are when I'm trying to win an online argument, so I can relate. Got lucky with a guess this time :)

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Fuck, Indiana man...

[–] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This homogenizes the entire states. KC, Austin, Bentonville, and Fayetteville are all desirable places to live.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

i tried to turn austin into a goot place to live for 5 years; it's only good if you also believe that the 1990's were also a good time to live.

[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tulsa and OKC as well. The countryside is flat, windy and hot as fuck, so if you like going outside a lot it's probably not for you, but both metros in OK are pretty nice.

As for Arkansas, Little Rock is severely slept on. Not as pretty as Fayetteville and Bentonville, obviously, but I was surprised in visiting recently how much it had grown since I had lived there.

Of course, in all of those places, the fact remains that you're living in goddamned Oklahoma or Arkansas, and that's an experience I simply don't recommend.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

OKC is the worse city I’ve ever visited. Decatur, TX is better and that’s not a compliment to Decatur. Little Rock is nice, and absolutely nothing like god awful OK. I do not understand how people can live there. At least Kansas is pretty.