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  • It’s a community choice. Has nothing to do with “tech savvy”. There are generalist communities, language orientated communities, activity orientated communities, and many more. Presenting it as a “technological choice” is just a meme at this point. It’s like saying “I want to live Paris because they speak French and love the night life” vs “you know what, I like beaches more and the island life where people are more about easy living, so I’ll go to Zanzibar”. But people frame it as if they had to choose the city because of the altitude, soil composition, which hemisphere it is on, the greenhouse ppms, and the wetbulb temperature. And then it’s repeated ad nauseam to keep the meme alive.

    Stop helping Facebook and Reddit by framing it as a technological choice. It’s a cultural one. “idgaf” --> take a generalist website. “I’m queer and it’s important” --> LGBTQIA+ website. “bits and bytes for me please” --> technological website. “I just can’t stop cumming” --> NSFW website.






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    12 days ago

    Must be a US thing. There are great hotels for 40€/night in many places. I went to one for 30€/night in Florence and it was marvelous. Couldn’t understand a word the old lady said, but she was very helpful showing us where everything was and getting us settled into the quiet room with high ceiling and large closets. There was a pizzeria about 20 metres from the hotel that had an agreement with the hotel to give a discount for hotel guests. The coffee in the morning was free and terrific too. Only a stone’s throw away was a great restaurant with a veranda where they served fantastic home-made bread and small cakes.

    The worst “hotel” I was at was definitely in the US. Terrible shithole of a place we had booked ahead of time. Could’ve been a beggars home in Calcutta. And we had already paid, so no refunds.




  • Really depends on the skin color of the person visiting and where they are visiting in that country. A non-white visiting most West-European cities will be mostly fine, but if they go out to the country-side, things can be very different.

    I watched a documentary of an Indian boy adopted to a Swiss family who then went back to India to visit. He had a terrible time in Switzerland due to racism and nearly as an awful time in India, because he couldn’t speak the language and people thus assumed he was a Pakistani spy.