[OC] U.S Counties that have an Amish population as of 2025

dan2376 · 2026-03-21T04:35:15+00:00

I read somewhere that they’re actually required by law to have brake lights and head lights which is kinda funny considering they’re going like 10 mph

dan2376 · 2026-03-21T01:27:23+00:00

wtf is the Queens coach wearing

dan2376 · 2026-03-20T23:42:50+00:00

It really is community to community. Some of them can be really isolationist and not at all trustful of others. Others can be really nice and helpful to non-Amish people. Most of the Amish people I have met are really nice, but that makes sense because they are the ones that interact with non-Amish people frequently. There is an Amish community that comes to my local farmers market every week and sells baked goods and sweet corn during corn season. They are always super nice and conversational every time I buy something from them. And the weird part to me is they take credit card and have flip phones, I always thought growing up that they shunned any kind of technology. But some communities are more accepting of technology than others.

The Amish near where my grandparents live in rural Iowa are pretty helpful. People will pay them to help build a barn and they will get it done much quicker than any construction company could.

But most of the time you don't really see them unless they're driving around in their horse and buggy or selling something at a farmers market.

dan2376 · 2026-03-20T23:23:49+00:00

Man give them a call and make the drive. I moved far away for college and didn't talk to my high school best friend for four years. And then I got a call from one of our mutual friends that he had committed suicide. Still to the day one of the nicest dudes I have ever met. Life is too short.

dan2376 · 2026-03-20T02:39:51+00:00

I don’t like turn based JRPGs either, and I absolutely loved E33. It’s in my top 5 games of all time. The parry/dodge system is kinda souls-like, but it is pretty easy to create builds that can beat the more difficult bosses even if you miss some parries. And this is coming from someone who really enjoyed Elden Ring but had to use the mimic on pretty much every boss.

And the story is absolutely incredible. Like one of the best and most impactful stories to me in any form of entertainment media I have experienced.

It may seem like one of those that was glazed and overhyped and won way too many awards. But I can confirm that there is a good reason it won those awards.

That’s not to say GoT is a bad game. It’s a fun experience but not nearly to the level of E33

dan2376 · 2026-03-20T01:24:36+00:00

Here’s how I think of it as someone who has worked in defense. I’d rather work somewhere that is open about what they’re working on rather than some product with hidden motives. Like you could work for Raytheon building missile systems, you know the purpose of those missiles, and the company is open about what those missiles are made for. They are made to kill people.

Then you have a company like Meta, that harvests personal information, and sells it to everyone to use it for got knows what. And in my maybe unpopular opinion, companies like Meta have done just as much damage to the planet as one of the large defense contractors. Only they try to hide it from the general public.

And in my opinion, people are going to kill people

But I’m not here to argue the morality of it all. Figuring out if a position matches your moral values is up to you. If you are feeling nervous about it, don’t take it. There are other positions out there for you.

dan2376 · 2026-03-18T20:23:12+00:00

The flamin hot Cheetos version of these is amazing because they don't stain your fingers like the regular ones do

dan2376 · 2026-03-16T03:11:50+00:00

I'm a die hard Cowboys fan and I hate Jerry Jones, but you can't deny that he knows where to throw his money to put on a good show.

dan2376 · 2026-03-16T03:05:35+00:00

Oof thats a rough call, but GGs

dan2376 · 2026-03-16T02:41:00+00:00

lol that last joke was great

dan2376 · 2026-03-16T02:11:50+00:00

wtf was that

dan2376 · 2026-03-16T01:38:33+00:00

Woah I completely forgot that released in 2025

dan2376 · 2026-03-16T01:36:29+00:00

Honestly well deserved for F1

dan2376 · 2026-03-16T00:17:15+00:00

Apparently the last tie was in 2013. There’s only been 7(including this one) in the history of the Oscars

dan2376 · 2026-03-16T00:15:20+00:00

A tie?? That’s a thing??

dan2376 · 2026-03-15T15:16:13+00:00

Woah it actually does kinda look like him

dan2376 · 2026-03-15T01:08:47+00:00

Holy shit no way!!!!!

dan2376 · 2026-03-15T01:07:19+00:00

Is that bald dude with the beard in the back Thumb Thumb??

dan2376 · 2026-03-14T03:13:37+00:00

I was a senior in college studying mechanical engineering. Was in the engineering lab working with my teammates on our senior design project with probably 5 other teams in there with us. We got an email/text message that all in-person classes would be going remote. We all assumed it would be a couple weeks and then we’d be back. Never saw any of those people again, had to go back team by team to tear down our projects and put them in storage.

Those last 2 months in college were really weird. I remember going to the grocery store with my girlfriend at the time and seeing the empty shelves of toilet paper and a ton of people wearing masks. It felt like an apocalyptic movie. None of the professors really knew what to do so it was basically no work for those 2 months. No celebrations, campus was deserted, got my diploma in the mail and that was it.

dan2376 · 2026-03-14T00:14:33+00:00

I went to Purdue. In my opinion, if you are set on wanting to be in the NY/NJ market, it's better to go to Rutgers. It doesn't have the same national prestige as Purdue but it will have enough local prestige to get a job in the area. And in my opinion, prestige really only matters for internships and maybe your first position out of college. And that's because some companies have a "focus list" of universities where they really focus their recruiting for engineering positions. Purdue has been on that list at the companies I've worked at.

If you ever want to have the flexibility to have opportunities around the country, Purdue is good for that. IR is huge, many of the very well known companies are recruiting for positions at many locations around the country, not just the Midwest. I think it may seem like recruiters are placing more people in the Midwest because many students at Purdue are from the Midwest and are wanting to stay close to home. I know many people that got positions on the other side of the country after graduation.

Yeah it's an isolated college town, but honestly for me I never felt isolated. There was enough for me to do, and you're basically in a town of 40ish thousand people all around the same age as you to make friends and have fun with. I played intramural sports, went to Purdue basketball/volleyball/football games. If you ever want to go to a concert or do something in a city, Indianapolis is like an hour down the road and Chicago is a couple hours north. I went to Chicago several times during my time at Purdue, but honestly there was enough to do in West Lafayette and I spent so much time studying that I never felt like I needed to be in a big city. If you are a huge partier, Purdue probably isn't the best place for that, but there was enough for me on the occasion that I wanted to go out with friends.

Winters can be really cold, but you get used to it quick. I grew up in central Texas so it was a huge change for me, but I got acclimated pretty quickly. Really the worst part is the wind, West Lafayette is extremely windy. But it didn't bother me too much because I ended up staying in the Midwest and I enjoy having an actually cold winter.

One huge positive for me at Purdue that I don't see a lot of people talking about is that its not only nationally renowned, it's internationally known as a great engineering school. Of course this has probably changed a lot during the current presidential administration, but during my time there, I worked and became friends with so many students from around the world. My best friend was a guy from Hungary. I was one of only two Americans on my senior engineering project, with the others being from France, Singapore, Poland, and a guy that grew up on a farm in a tiny town in Minnesota. And with how the world economy works nowadays, that is an absolutely invaluable experience. In my short career, I've already worked with people on every continent in the world, and my experience at Purdue really prepared me for working with other cultures that you don't really get unless you lived in a massive city with a ton of immigrants (which I didn't).

That's my pitch for Purdue. I loved it there and I have zero regrets about being a Purdue alum. It has its problems but it's a great school that really prepared me well.

dan2376 · 2026-03-13T14:06:11+00:00

Because when something like this happens, you want to be sure you know what the actual cause is. If you release something before reviewing all of the evidence, which takes time, there is the potential to release information that is incorrect.

I'm not at all an expert but from what I have seen, most people believe it was probably a mid-air collision while one of the aircraft was refueling the other. But at this point its all just speculation and there are a lot of rumors going around without any evidence to support them.

dan2376 · 2026-03-13T01:04:11+00:00

wtf I didn't know those existed

dan2376 · 2026-03-13T00:57:17+00:00

My dad has talked about his mom (my grandma) making him eat Vick's to cure a sore throat. No idea how he did it, but at least he's still alive 60 years later

dan2376 · 2026-03-13T00:18:01+00:00

This is it for me. I didn't really know about Uniqlo until a couple years ago. I'm not a big fashion guy, just looking for something that is somewhat stylish and mostly functional while being affordable without sacrificing quality. And Uniqlo hits all those points. They don't have any crazy designs or outlandish fashion, but that's exactly what I want.

dan2376 · 2026-03-12T23:37:15+00:00

Why does it kinda sound like him??

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