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[–] dead@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cannabis is legal for medicinal use in 42 states and legal for recreational use in 24 states. North Carolina is 1 of 8 states where marijuana is still illegal. NC is committed to being the worst state in the country.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Idk about that. There's still WV, SC, GA, FL, Al, AK, MS,...

[–] dead@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

NC has the second lowest labor union membership rate in the country, #1 is SC. Minimum wage in NC is still $7.25/hr. NC is a right-to-work and at-will-employment state.

NC was the first state to introduce a anti-transgender bathroom bill in 2016.

NC has the #1 highest rate of kidney stones. Either related to low-quality-water or bad-diet.

NC made it illegal to remove jim-crow-era confederate statues in 2015.

NC is 1 of 6 states which has 'alienation of affection' law, which allows a married person to sue a "homewrecker" for having an affair with their spouse.

NC never officially repealed cohabitation laws. This means that unmarried heterosexual couples living in the same residence is a legal grey area.

NC allowed 16 year old students to drive the school buses until 1988 because NC didn't want to hire school bus drivers at minimum wage. Federal authorities stepped in to ban students from driving school buses.

NC became an anti-BDS state in 2017. There is a public blacklist of any company that boycotts Israel. In 2015, NC also made it illegal for the state to do business with Iranian companies.

NC made internet sportsbetting legal in 2024, while casinos are still illegal.

NC made it legal to sue internet porn companies in 2024, which resulted in many internet porn companies blocking the state. 22 states are now blocked by porn companies.

The state is gerrymandered to shit since 2023 and it is openly admitted.


NC may or may not be the worst state. The complete lack of labor unions makes it really shit. NC wants to be the worst state.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the largest pig feedlot and largest pig slaughter facility (built by Smithfield) on the planet are located in NC.

it is probably one of, if not the, most dangerous places to work in terms of worker accidents, maiming, etc. the line employees are, nearly exclusively, trafficked in from distressed regions of LatAm.

[–] vanDerVaartBlackenedRanch@hexbear.net 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Extra fun when hurricanes pass through!

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 2 points 12 hours ago

i have no doubt. i remember back some years ago when it dawned on me the danger of all those manure "lagoons" overflowing into waterways, drinking water sources, and the general community during extreme weather events. the long term and perennially expanding public health disaster of those is so fucking extreme, and i only seem to recall limited reporting on it from fringe/independent media. those things are timebombs under the best of circumstances... under extreme weather, it's like napalm dropped on a gas station.

the sheer brilliance of spending millions to concentrate liquid shit in a pond to rot and fester as a public health nightmare, but also extract and burn planet killing fossil fuels to create expensive fertilizers.

industrial agriculture, as always, takes an elegant, efficient solution developed over millions of years and turns it into two highly toxic, existential nightmares.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

On ecology, can’t forget the systematic industrial dumping of PFAS into the Cape Fear River for decades, poisoning like the southeastern quarter of the state

[–] spudnik@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

And all the coal ash duke energy improperly stores in slurry ponds that regularly leak and spill into the watershed. And all the hog farms that store all their waste improperly in lagoons and ponds that regularly leak and spill into the watershed.

[–] NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I knew somebody who lived in Wilmington, and when I visited they demonstrated to me how the GenX in the water would dye sinks and fixtures red over time

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mississippi state motto: Thank God for Alabama~so~ ~we're~ ~not~ ~the~ ~worst~

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago

And for every Southern state, lol 😂

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not from the US. FL = Florida. AK = Arkinsaw or Alaska? MS = Minnesota? I don't know about the others.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Also not American, but I make it my business to know geography.

In order: West Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Alaska, Mississippi.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

I would encourage you to try to see outside how it personally affects you.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

AK

Somebody tell the weed shops here that

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah the bar is extremely low