• @HootinNHollerin
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    704 months ago

    Why do ppl choose colors / shades that you can’t tell apart

    • @[email protected]
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      I had the exact same thought. I think the map would work way better if states without ban had a significantly lighter shade of grey (or even white)

      As is the ones with 1-10 bans stand out by far the most due to the red being so bright (would need to be a bit more desaturated like the others). And the worse offenders are harder to see against the dark grey.

      • @[email protected]
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        154 months ago

        To add, there are palettes available online that work well even for most colorblind people

      • @[email protected]
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        64 months ago

        Yeah. This feels like someone looked at the uncolored map and decided it wasn’t depressing enough, and switched to gray for states without bans.

    • @A_Very_Big_Fan
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      I like that 0 is very distinct, because they should stand out… But everything else should really be a gradient between two colors, and neither of them should be black when zero is grey…

  • massive_bereavement
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    This looks like a recommendation list for teenagers, kind of how we looked for CDs that had the “parent advisory” sticker.

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      Reading any ACOTAR (a court of mist and fury, listed above) is such an enormous waste of time though.

      Like if you want to enjoy some smut go for it but it’s really devoid of any merit besides being erotic.

      Claiming you’re reading when it’s actually ACOTAR is like saying you’re watching cinema when it’s Backdoor Sluts 8.

      You might be right technically but nobody would agree with you.

  • TooManyFoods
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    364 months ago

    When I went to school they hung up posters telling us to read banned books. Now my state is book ban crazy. Apparently 2022 is very out of date.

  • @RebekahWSD
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    214 months ago

    What have they done to New Jersey?? New Jersey, I’m so sorry they like, whamjangled your entire shape!!

    • @NOT_RICK
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      94 months ago

      I guess I live in the ocean now?

      • @RebekahWSD
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        34 months ago

        I think I do as well! Maybe? It’s really hard to tell with how squished and wiggly it is now!

        • @NOT_RICK
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          44 months ago

          I think they cut off the eastern part of PA and marked it as NJ. The negative white space looks like the path of the Delaware

  • @guy
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    204 months ago

    Making grey 0, black the highest and intense red the lowest above 0 is a weird palette choice

  • @Reddfugee42
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    124 months ago

    This is how fascists virtue-signal

  • @TheDeepState
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    74 months ago

    California and New York banned more books than Mississippi.

    • @Warl0k3
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      114 months ago

      Well yeah, you don’t have to ban many books when you’ve got a single digit literacy rate.

      /s

      • @TexasDrunk
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        74 months ago

        You may not be far off the mark. It’s likely that a lot of the banned books aren’t in libraries in Mississippi. They do their kids dirty.

      • @TheDeepState
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        14 months ago

        I’m pretty sure that Mississippi is deep red too.

        • @IMongoose
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          34 months ago

          Yep, I was just trying to see what exactly was banned in California and it turns out probably nothing now.

  • @[email protected]
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    44 months ago

    It’s a shame to see Gender Queer on there. I read it for my university class on comic art and thought it was really interesting. I would probably say it’s more of an adult book, but I think just about all the books I read for high school English were adult books.

    The author is really cool too. When the covid lockdown happened my professor emailed them asking if there were any digital options for the book, since a lot of students relied on the local library or might have left their copies in their dorms. They sent my professor a pirated link and gave permission for us to use it.

  • Buelldozer
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    I’d take this with a healthy dose of salt. For instance The State of Wyoming has no laws banning any books. Certain School Districts and Public libraries have guidance regarding books they see as controversial but there is no STATE law about them.

    I’m sure other States are being simarily misrepresented.

  • @guy
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    44 months ago

    These Øs make it read like the subtitles to the intro for Monty Python and the Holy Grail

  • @[email protected]
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    34 months ago

    What books are banned in CA? It’s my understanding that banning books is itself banned in CA.