:'( I feel ya.

Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

^^_^ thank you

Obviously, you’re not a golfer.

Yes! One easy/good one to use is https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ It lets you pick two colors, and you can even use the eyedropper tool in their Color Picker box to select a color right off your screen. Then it’ll tell you the Contrast Ratio of the two selected colors. Higher is better. It will give you a pass/fail for WCAG AA and AAA (two levels of web accessibility standards). I just now checked the red and green from the linked map and it had a ratio of 1.3:1 which is a fail for both AA and AAA.

Some websites (like Trello) give accessibility options to skip colors altogether, and use patterns (cross-hatch, polka-dot, etc.). But in general, going for a high enough contrast ratio should be good enough. I’m a web dev as well and we just run everything through one of those WCAG tools (I believe we’ve been using the WAVE browser plugin) and fix it until it passes. :) But, being the colorblind one on the team, I can often just be like “uhmm, that one ain’t gonna work.” lol.

btw sorry I got so spicy in my initial comment. I really wanted to see the map. :P

Edit: Another reply to my comment had a link to a more colorblind-friendly version of the map, with red and blue instead of red and green. Much clearer to my eyes. I eyedropped those two colors into that webaim checker, and I was surprised to see it also failed quite badly on the color contrast! For example you wouldn’t want red text on a blue background (unless it was a bright red and dark blue, or vice versa). But for map colors, well… I guess that goes to show that for colorblind checking you have to use a little common sense and know what the most common no-no combos are (red/green seems to be the most common). I checked the accessibility docs at my work just now and we sometimes use this site to check what a site looks like under various types of colorblindness: https://www.toptal.com/designers/colorfilter

oh that’s so much better! thank you!!

Wtf are those colors, jfc… How bout a hand for us colorblinds.

I think it’s more the third party voters (which effectively are Republican voters, by taking away Dem votes). And abstainers, which, ditto.

Yes, exactly. If you live in a solid blue or red state, your vote is a drop in the bucket, so it won’t matter if you vote third party. But in swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania… in 2016, the number of votes won by Jill Stein was slightly greater than the difference between Trump/Clinton. Ouch! Was it worth it? Did it move the country left?

came here to say the same. I’ve spent a lot of time on this one!

You’ve got upper management written all over you.

It’s from the movie Animal House. :) One of my favorite scenes ever (because who hasn’t been that kid? lol).

noise canceling bluetooth headphones (Sony XM3s, in my case). They are always near me. Thousands of hours and I haven’t even changed the earpads yet. I don’t know how I lived without them.

Totally hear you. Very similar for me, and I live in a blue state. All the gigantic pickup trucks…

better fire up the VPN too. You don’t want your ISP to know that you’re gay-boxer-curious!

classic XD

Hah! I appreciate your honesty.

My mind focused on the word “weed” and got very confused… had to reread a few times :)

Very nicely processed!