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Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy3/31/2024, 4:57 PM

I don't put much stock in population-wide rankings of "happiness" because there's so many confounding factors--are Utahns and Wisconsonians actually happy, or do they have cultures that place a high value on always acting cheerful? Maybe one causes the other, idk, but anyway don't take this as truth.

(also there is absolutely no way nohow that New Jersey is that happy. they marked themselves happy on the survey out of spite.)

however I still think it's hilarious that there's a general trend for wealthy northern states to be happier

and then there's Massachusetts

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hanky code enforcement @bootjack3/31/2024, 5:56 PM

i'm not entirely convinced enough people live in montana or nebraska to tip the scales that hard, meanwhile wisconsin has costco-sized grocery stores filled with hundreds of different frozen pizzas and access to infinite cheese so i'm more ready to believe them. utah otoh gives off massive stepford/get out vibes

Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy3/31/2024, 6:14 PM

my partner's family is from Wisconsin and while I wouldn't call them stepford, there's definitely a culture of politeness and not rocking the boat

they do have really good cheese though

Amagire @amagire3/31/2024, 8:02 PM

I'm from Montana originally and I can confirm that if you found a Montanan with one leg in a bear trap and the other disappearing in chunks down a bear, and asked him "How's it going?" he'd say "Can't complain."

miraculish @miraculish3/31/2024, 11:15 PM

I'm from a few miles south (like some of my high school classmates actually lived in Montana) and I'd like to add the influence of "We're here in a good place and therefore we must be happy, everywhere else is a fascist hellscape, just look at the news"

full-quack webbed developer @Webster3/31/2024, 9:21 PM

happiness is compulsory in mormonism because their entire worldview is based on everyone else's happiness being false. mormons will lie to themselves and others about their happiness constitutionally.

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