{"id":79648,"date":"2021-10-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79648"},"modified":"2021-10-04T07:31:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:31:16","slug":"this-oughtta-be-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79648","title":{"rendered":"This Oughtta Be Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Caught this on social media over the weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/braxton_mccoy\/status\/1444066415049261058\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sort of the opposite of the &#8220;Free State Project&#8221; &#8211; the &#8220;idea&#8221; would be to export Manbuns from slave states to free states to tip the Senate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And part of me would love to see 85,000 Manbuns trying to move to North Dakota.  To <em>survive <\/em>in North Dakota. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And who on earth came up with these numbers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In practical terms, it means 85,000 Manbuns &#8211; about 12% of the entire state&#8217;s current population &#8211; jamming into Fargo, since much as I&#8217;d love to imagine these effete hamsters moving to Fort Berthold or Scranton or WIllison or Dunseith, they did specify &#8220;work from home&#8221; Californians.  You want broadband, you gotta go to Fargo, Grand Forks, Bismark or Minot.  Which would increase the combined population of those four cities by 30%, pronto, making each of them more expensive than San Francisco.   And you can wander any of those cities for the rest of your life looking for Avocado Toast, and find nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;d be even more pronounced in Alaska, and especially Wyoming, where an influx of <em>75,000 <\/em>useless club drones would increase the entire state&#8217;s population by nearly 20%, and make its breoadband-enabled metro areas, Cheyenne and Casper, look like Del Rio Texas.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Montana?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In practice, those 60,000 ofay fops would land in Missoula, the closest thing any of those states have to a San Francisco, blowing that city up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then?  Winter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, good Lord.  I hope you try, Manbun.  I pray for your safety and your sanity in the middle of a North Dakota winter in an electric car.  But I hope you try. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught this on social media over the weekend: Sort of the opposite of the &#8220;Free State Project&#8221; &#8211; the &#8220;idea&#8221; would be to export Manbuns from slave states to free states to tip the Senate. And part of me would love to see 85,000 Manbuns trying to move to North Dakota. To survive in North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79649,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79648\/revisions\/79649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}