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americans always compare massive cities to empty states

South Korea has 5x the population of Ohio, but around 27x the number of bars [1]. So it really is a lot of bars.

[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/us/industry/ohio/bars-nightclubs/1...


As someone married to a Korean, I am not surprised in the least. Every single one I have met (males at least) drinks like a fish. It is impossible to describe to a westerner just how ingrained the drinking culture is over there.

They drink more than Eastern and Northern Europeans. It's insane!

Snark aside - I used this site which compares the country question to the ___location closest to you. I live in ohio. https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/unit...

The entire US and North America is massively more empty relative to almost anywhere else, even most perceptually sparse countries. Many of European countries are 5-10x denser than US.

  0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density

Empty lol

The article you linked says it's a myth.


This is absolutely amazing, well done on the article!


Looks like you have never used TikTok or RedNote.

Chinese users are starting to caption their videos in English. American users are posting regularly.

It is the number 1 app in my country right now, because of the TikTok ban.

Look up the playstore and you will see. Download it for yourself and you will see.


According to CNN, roughly 700,000 people have installed Rednote—though that figure only represents those who have tested the app and doesn’t necessarily reflect sustained usage. By comparison, TikTok is said to have around 110 million users in the United States, meaning 700,000 installs amount to less than 1% of TikTok’s user base.

Meanwhile, YouTube’s user numbers in the U.S. are estimated at 240 million, but it’s unlikely to gain many new downloads since almost everyone already has the app.

In my view, it’s unrealistic to think Rednote will replace TikTok.


> 700,000 installs amount to less than 1% of TikTok’s user base.

700k in how much time? RN tops the (Play Store) charts here (EU/Croatia) as well, and anecdotally there's a lot of word of mouth growth. Even though TikTok will not get banned over here.

> It’s unrealistic to think Rednote will replace TikTok.

Possibly, but it does have a foot in the door. It doesn't look like they were ready for western audience so remains to be seen if they can seize on the opportunity.


I am pulling these numbers out of my a* but comparing to the situation in Twitter. People can be enthusiastic to move but if a significant portion doesn't do it in a certain window of time, they'll just drop out of it.

Let's say this portion is around 60% of Tiktok users. So something like 60-70million and window span is 10 days. They need to sustain 6-7 million new US users per day in order to make a successful transition.


So what number do we determine it to be a matter of national security? 10 million? 50 million?


I don’t think anyone thinks RedNote will replace TikTok — it’s potentially subject to the same ban after all.

But it illustrates the general dissatisfaction among TikTok users with the other mainstream US social content platforms.


Considering that RedNote doesn't allow LGBTQ+ content or "too much skin" to be shown (women-only policy BTW) I don't think it'll end up being very popular with today's TikTok crowd.


It does allow LGBTQ+ content actually. There are tons of it on the platform. It's just it doesn't "explicitly" allow it, if that makes sense.


> It is the number 1 app in my country right now, because of the TikTok ban.

This is like the Mastodon spike when Elon bought Twitter. It doesn't mean anything.


I managed to cheat this by buying a bunch of DVDs and making my window as small as possible, meaning they hit the edges much more often and gained me infinity stimulation.


But what did you win, really?


A bad taste in my mouth how I spend my time online in general


The ocean.


infinity stimulation


Respectfully over on r/anki I see maybe 3 or 4 posts a day about a new AI tool for Anki. It seems like people are reinventing the wheel more than they are using Anki...

However, this seems different.

> automatically improve cards you find challenging.

This is not something I have seen any of those other tools attempt to do yet :-)


Thanks a lot for the kind words! I do admit I partly developed a habit of procrastinating sometimes to code but I saw it as part of my curriculum too. And the fact that it was open source means there is a chance it will help make better doctors overall even if it could make me a bit worse! I just need help packaging it into an addon or something more user friendly :)


It has now been 0 days since a new minecraft server was written in Rust https://dayssincelastrustmcserver.com/


Hilarious site but a little unjustified. Out of those, only Valence is a real "this already exists" argument. There's 7 total and the first 3 are dead and the latest 3 (incl pumpkin) are all 2024. And all of the 2024 ones explicitly differentiate themselves from Valence which is more of a framework that focuses on modularity. These latest 3 all look like healthy competitors that are all amicable towards each other

  |          | released | stars | last_update |
  |----------|----------|-------|-------------|
  | feather  | 19aug    | 2,614 | 2 years ago |
  | mchprs   | 20jun    | 1,632 | last month  |
  | graphite | 22jun    | 160   | 2 years ago |
  | valence  | 22sep    | 2,731 | 3 days ago  |
  | hyperion | 24mar    | 361   | today       |
  | pumpkin  | 24jul    | 965   | today       |
  | ferrumc  | 24sep    | 673   | today       |


It's pretty funny how many of these are "Is it a Minecraft server? No. It's a framework with which you can build your own rewrite of Minecraft server."


Pumpkin is already on that list.


This got me thinking - is Rust really the right tool for the job? And I thought, Elixir/Erlang feels like the perfect tool. Sure enough, someone did it! Great reference material for someone learning how to do things on the beam https://github.com/thecodeboss/minecraft


I was thinking it would be cool to have a Minecraft server built with Bevy, but that has also already been done: https://github.com/valence-rs/valence


Lmao it is funny how we have daysinceX websites. is there a list of all such websites of daysinceXofY like dayssincelatestframeworkofnode I guess?


omfg haha.


absolutely fascinating. conkers is an amazing game


I was hoping it would be called "Peng" because the simulation is attractive


slightly related but mathsisfun is a goated website. one of the all time greats. myself and many other people only got through maths because of this site.


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