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Cake day: June 26th, 2024

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  • The last thing you’d want is for your city to become a tourist city. Nobody wins except for property owners to who can make more money renting their apartments to tourists than to locals, and shop owners who can charge abhorrent prices for basic groceries because tourists don’t know any better.

    Ask the people of Prague and Barcelona. There’s a good video by the Honest Guide on how Prague 1 became a sort of “theme park” for tourists, and is absolutely unliveable for people from Prague.

    It is especially problematic for countries with weaker currencies, since hotels will charge strong currency prices for their rooms, because tourists can afford it. Japan has this problem where hotels are too expensive for Japanese people because the Yen is weak compared to the Dollar and Euro, which is the currency hotels use to calculate their rates.

















  • You’re kind of not really engaging with me in good faith, but I’ll bite anyways.

    The fact you didn’t kill yourself, frankly, proves nothing. Not because you’re a rando, but because there’s no control. That’s why I said you need to prove that social media is reducing teen suicides, compared to the time before social media.

    Secondly, it’s debatable whether platforms like SO, forums and Reddit are actually social media, or merely link aggregators and forums. Those sites provide their content for logged-out users anyways, so children can still view them regardless.