For anyone geoblocked
[0] https://www.doi.gov/blog/mammoth-cave-explore-worlds-longest....
[0] https://archaeology.ky.gov/Find-a-Site/Pages/Florence.aspx
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Y'all_Water_Tower
I'm not sure Florence has all that much else to recommend it, mind you. Of all the suburban towns surrounding Cincinnati, it's definitely one of them.
Any time we drive to the Ikea in Cinci from KY, we'll get hot wings on the way home.
But yeah, also still a lovely place for remote work, if you can get it, given the cost of living/quality of life.
Two meteor craters are visible as "broken windows". Middlesboro crater in the extreme southeast and Jeptha Knob near Frankfort (north central).
Louisa KY was home of the first Needle Dam (and locks) in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_dam
Torchlight KY produced "torchlight coal" which made its way from Eastern KY to major rivers all up and down the East coast. And a very small, "wide spot in the road" community, Aflex KY was once a model coal camp and had a lot of conveniences. See two PDFs in my drive for articles on each of these subjects from a trade publication called The Black Diamond https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NDl85xvgmyiqVbq8dTe4...
Coal mining funded everything in Eastern KY and you can learn more about "coal camps" and the history at https://coalcampusa.com/eastky/eastky.htm
The Pikeville cut-through was the second largest earth moving project in the western hemisphere -- behind the Panama Canal -- until the big dig in Boston. Still in the top 3! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikeville_Cut-Through
We have the grand canyon of the south at breaks interstate park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaks_Interstate_Park
Home to one of the most famous feuds ever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud
We have our fair share of superfund sites... couple are interesting:
We had a huge superfund site as famous as love canal... "Valley of the Drums" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Drums
We have a nuclear waste dump that had / has plutonium disposed there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxey_Flats
Full list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Ken...
The request is blocked.
0kEE0YwAAAADSrOoEHVCAQrfsFyH2VJaQR1JVMzBFREdFMDgyMQBjZTgwMzljZS04NTZjLTRkYzktYjgwZC02MzlhMDg1MmY4Mzk=Particularly because mostly forgotten webpages like this one are an attractive nuisance for black hats, banning foreign IP’s was probably a best-practice argument.
There’s also the possibility that a sudden uptick in activity (HN slashsot effect) triggered an internal mechanism.
And politically, I suspect there wouldn’t be a lot of pushback to any of it.
But I could be wrong.
works just fine from Canada?
What's the encoding and/or content all about?
what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site?
Isn't the core point of state sites like this to attract tourists? Does geoblocking them help with this goal?
Some years ago Arizona paid to put very large advertisements in downtown Toronto (Canada) to attract cold candians in the winter... things like that may work, geoblocking certainly wont.
edit: and i'll add that the team who put the site together is long gone and the people who maintain content (if any) have no idea what geoblocking even is. So don't bother sending them an email...
Avoiding GDPR compliance problems?
Is there a compelling reason besides being friendly? Like treaties or something?
The UK GDPR sets out seven key principles: - Lawfulness, fairness and transparency. - Purpose limitation. - Data minimisation. - Accuracy. - Storage limitation. - Integrity and confidentiality (security) - Accountability.
Dont keep track of any user info and you should be OK?
Many of the blocked countries dont have GDPR regulations, so there is that.
There is also the vast majority of US government sites which are not geoblocked.
https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx - works just fine from Canada?