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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

For clarification: This map isn't based on any real world data. There is no index. Its only purpose is to depict US states with age verification for porn laws on their books. The rest of the world is coloured in somewhat randomly.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

me when i... completely make up data at random???

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's per capita, but that wouldn't explain why Greenland has no data and all of Africa is filled in.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Read the undertext by OP, they completely made up all the data to make a joke about age verification in some US states to access porn.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They put the cum back in circumvent.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Alexa, why is my VPN sticky?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago
You know why. And I'm still mad at you, Dave.
[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This is Bob. Bob doesn’t upvote data visualization posts without a key or labeled axes.

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Be like Bob.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Pro tip: ordinarily, Markdown will delete a single line break in the middle of a block of text, so that if for some reason you're on a system where you have to do your line wrapping manually, you can without worrying about it messing up your formatting. Normally, the only way around this is by putting two line breaks in a row for a paragraph break. You can, however, force Markdown to insert a single line break by putting two spaces at the end of a line.

This is George. There are two spaces at the end of the first two lines of his body.

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He's a lot shorter than Bob, and a lot better looking.

(His head is still tilted to the side a little bit since Markdown strips leading spaces at the beginning of a line. I'm not aware of a way to avoid that besides putting your ASCII stick figure inside of a code block (triple backticks on their own line before and after text you want to stay formatted how it is). If anyone has suggestions possibly involving little known Unicode characters please let me know.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Alt+255 gives you an invisible character but I'm on a phone so I can't check if that fixes George.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A lot of front ends strip it out since it can be used in so many disruptive ways.

In my app I don't see the space normally, but when I reply to your comment it shows a focused view which DOES seem to show the space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Replies, in most Lemmy (and previously Reddit) apps I've used generally show the "pure" markdown when replying, rather than the formatted variant.

If you reply to this comment you should see this line as being broken up.

and this line as having a few regular spaces in the front.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

fixed bob thank u

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

Utah, USA checks out 😏

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

So I get Texas and Utah, why is Montana using so many VPNs?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Recently they passed some draconic anti-porn laws and now pornhub is geoblocked in Montana

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok I missed that news story.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I only know because a friend's from there and people were clowning on Montana for a while when it was announced

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Because the data is made up

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

I added an explanation in the description.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Pornhub should get into the VPN business 👀

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Politicians banning porn are probably already in the VPN business 👁️👁️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Wouldn't providing the circumventing measure themselves potentially open them up to be fucked by the states with the bans? Pun kinda intended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That was a thing tho, they did that. Friggin VPNHUB it was called. At least I think it was actually them. Not sure if it's still around

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I use a VPN; I'm just not that hot about it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Seems legit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Virtual porn networks are critical for your privacy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Probably relative I assume? Still would be nice to know what colours are what %

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I added an explanation in the description.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Does hosting your own VPN count?

Love the clarification BTW. I notice Texas there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I added an explanation in the description.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can post the map, but please don't add a misleading caption.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I hope it's fine now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'd give mine up, but honestly... I miss porn too much