I guess. I still think there’s a difference between DFW and, say, the Twin Cities. You won’t catch me living in Texas.

But still, the cities on the list are all cities in red states. That’s weird.

Hmm. That’s an interesting theory.

No need to bring libertarians into this.

Right here. Scroll down for the list of cities most people are moving to. They’re all red. (Or, charitably, blueish spots surrounded by red.)

People must be moving there for some kind of reason. There’s jobs. They’re safe. They have stuff to do. Some kind of reason.

But OP asked about “decades ago”. What if humanity was actually making progress in the 20th century, becoming better, and now we’re backsliding to where we were during gladiator times?

We use expensive vendor software at work that uses bitnami images in their Helm chart. I hope they know about this.

Something that always gets me, in my own thinking, is where the line is between “as a people they don’t want to be contacted” and “the individuals who live there don’t want to be contacted”.

Obviously we owe some respect/boundaries to a foreign society in its collective.

But when other societies are committing genocide we don’t (or shouldn’t) simply ask that country’s representatives whether it’s okay for us to stop them.