@ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
Post #26847
2025-12-03 17:04 UTC
Not downplaying that this is real dumb, but “half the US” is meant to be misleadingly attention-grabbing. The states that are doing this are not the most populous states. No law like this exists in NY or CA, for example.
I don’t know the amount of the population living under these laws, but it is not nearly half, even if half the states have passed such laws.
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@Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-03 19:58
I apologize in advance for how pedantic this comment will be but “half the US now requires” obviously refers to half the administrative units (states in this case, could be counties or municipalites etc) while “half the US is required” would refer to the population, so technically the post title is not wrong because of the population distribution. I’m going to wash my hands now so that my fingers forget they typed this.
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2025-12-03 20:14
I don’t know the amount of the population living under these laws And yet you felt the need to comment on it anyway.