They do drive the economy, but inhabitants of popular destinations tend to be disproportionately affected by noise, littering, and congestion. Mitigating this in part with better infrastructure and legislature should of course be the responsibility of the relevant governing bodies, but that does not negate the fact that some entitled people take on the mentality of being the monarchs of the places they visit rather than respecting the location and their locals. In short, it should be a social responsibility to watch out for one another and clean up after oneself both at home but also when visiting someplace as—essentially—a guest. Sadly, some people tend to act very disrespectfully and, even if it is just a small percentage of tourists, it leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of inhabitants of popular destinations. This is of course in no way inheritent to any culture in particular; a single percent of black sheep in a very large amount of tourists still amounts to a sizable group of troublemakers, which—in turn—ruins the reputation of tourists as a whole.

Oops, my take turned out to be longer than intended. TLDR; don’t be a bumhole when visiting someone else’s home.

I feel like xenophobic would be hating on all (foreign?) tourists, while racist is picking one specific nationality like asked by the post.

Religious fundamentalists famously love being the only source of sexual “education”.

China’s surveillance is beginning to look mild in comparison.

I’m not a mod, but I share the sentiment.

This has been happening since yesterday. Right-wing spam bots.

You mean bot traffic?

From by experience, that doesn’t exactly equate to forced unemployment here. I do know of a friend from computer science in the UK who struggles to get past any interview, but I don’t perceive the market to be this hostile in Germany, even if not quite as vast as in the past.

Accessing the internet now requires age verification. Gg

Just remap caps lock smh

Oh I never actually did that, but my dreams are very vivid and sometimes I might confuse what is a real memory and what was my last night’s dream.

The panicked “did I really send that text”. Can’t say I haven’t been there.

I myself am looking forward to dyson spheres powering chat gpt 6.

This is my weekly time to tell lemmings about Kagi, the search engine that does not shove LLM in your face (but still lets you use it when you explicitly want it) and that you pay for with your money, not your data.

People can sell, idk—example—strawberries but they don’t have a “copyright” to them (we will not delve into the discussion of copyright genome sequences here). Unfortunately, copyright not being applicable doesn’t make things free when we look at the existing market.

Ðe question is, wherefore art þou not?

Dvorak layout, my bad. This typo happens way too often on phone.

All I want for Christmas in Forgejo federation.

Reminds me of a little annoyance I have with cat and ls. Yeah they technically do different things, one is for files and one is for directories. But so often I just find myself wishing I could use one command for both. Like making cat directory act as ls. Maybe I’m the only one who feels that way.

What if you need to create a link?