Pretty wild! All states give you at least 30 days to dump your baby, no strings attached. Some states give you 60 days!

I feel like more people should know about this! It seems like a highly under utilized ability.

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    21 hours ago

    […], only that you can easily see how the mistake gets made without ever calling it chauvinism.

    This is the point where I strongly disagree with you, constantly mistaking less than ¼ for being the most likely is not easily made, there’s a good reason for why the expression US Defaultism exists, because a particular mindset is required for such a mistake to be easily made.

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      ~25% is a lot when you’re talking about demographics that large. It’s saying that there’s a 1 in 4 chance of any English speaker you encounter being from the US vs every other country in the world.

      If you’re looking at native English speakers, it’s about 63%.

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        20 hours ago

        But that’s not the point, the point is that more than 3 out of 4 people able to read this post don’t live in the US.

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          That’s exactly why though. The likeliest guesses are either “the US” or “somewhere else”. Specificity is always a more compelling heuristic.