Ask the Midwest

The sun lazily passes over a half buried "Chief Wahoo" bobble-head sticking out of the mud. Black vultures harass a starving feral dog on the ruins of a parking garage. Every dead community with a Walmart at ground zero, discarded plastic bags rotting in the bleak light is what you get instead of a future. What the fuck did you expect? Your culture never belonged here and your time here was wasted.

Hi fedi,

Non US here, I just read an article about how there are whole cities/neighborhoods that are only spanish speaking in the US, and how lots of places are already using both languages (administrations, hospitals, transports).

Is spanish so widespread in whole US or only is big cities/southern states?

It was an article about how there is no official language in the US and how it would be easier to recognize english and spanish as official languages.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18437234

Trigger warning. Video of arrestee having a panic attack after she realizes it’s not the real jail.

My reason for posting this question is to get some perspective, since I don't live further west than Indiana.

Indiana has a lot of conservative tendencies, usually opposes progressive policies, and a little old school bigotry in the form of religion based disagreement with people's life styles, like letter community.

From an outsiders perspective, TX, OK, MO etc are even more extreme.

This permalink above from a comment from a person referencing recently proposed legislation against letter community people specifically, though there's tons of examples of bigotry like the school principal getting sued for discrimination due to a kid's hair (black hair).

We know Lemmy is a bit more populated with left than right thinkers, but regardless, what's going on in these western plains states? Is it as bad as it looks?

Do you personally know some sweet old church ladies who 'hate the gays because they'll going to hell' or are there just more extreme law makers being elected that don't represent the majority?

EDIT: tried to fix link to a conversation instead of a login page.

I'm currently decluttering and reducing to get a handle on my home, and I've come to a conundrum of how many plates/bowls/cups/etc do I actually need? I have 2 young kids that we'd prefer not to have to run to the store at 8pm to buy more plates because someone ruined a plate, but very limited cupboard space (small 120-something year old house with a kitchen that was built in the 50s)

My wife wanted to order a spice rack for our kitchen that fit in the cabinet. Our current setup was just a mess so she found one on Amazon and called to me to get the tape measure out in the garage. I yelled back...grab the tailor's tape in the junk drawer. Sure enough it was sitting between the set of random keys, a new bag of neon fish bait and an assortment of 9 volt batteries.

So...whatdaya got in yer junk drawer?

My wife and her sister are from Mississippi and always tell me we're in the Midwest. Since the Southerners don't claim us, do you?

Obviously, this will probably never happen. In the best future for humanity, maybe we can drop our emissions enough to allow for such a thing. But more likely societal collapse

I nominate I-80 in Illinois or I-70 in eastern Colorado. Crossing the border from Kansas to Colorado is like "holy f- OW I BIT MY TONGUE"

Spent some time in Michigan and they said it was a "Midwest thing".

I'm looking for new ways to take advantage of all the local produce for the several months that we can grow our own up here.

Summer is too hot, winter is too cold, spring is full of allergines. I guess that leaves fall?

I've seen occasional comments from folks here where the avatar appears broken, and when going directly here, I found some community icons are likewise...

Checked another browser to make sure and they're more obviously broken viewed through it, so uh...What's up? Did Lemmy change accepted image formats at some point that broke a bunch of'em here?

Serious question. I had a friend born and raised near Seattle who I invited to come on a float trip in southeast Missouri. Her mind was blown that this is a thing people do - drinking and making a ruckus while floating down a river.

In MO, this is just a thing that people do. At least in rural areas. I had no idea it was regional. So, how far across this region does the concept of float trips go?

My favorite lake in the Midwest is Storm Lake in Iowa, just because of how incredibly random it is surrounded by flat farmland.

There are loads of are popular fast food chains; what are the best from the Midwest?

Alright Midwest peeps let's settle this heated debate.

Pop or Soda?