*Maria Skłodowska-Curie

I think the entire idea of going down from the trees was also a bad idea.

The spaniel one is so much better

HHGTTG?

Just watching it now for the first time.

Thank you.

Is it really a theory when it’s obviously true?

*“Because you think your exhaust sounds cool”

So… you just ignored everything I said, right? I’m looking at my town:

• highways - planned by central government
• airports - managed centrally
• railway for cargo - planned by central government
• environmental rules - decided centrally
• energy infrastructure - planned centrally
• economic incentives for industry - planned centrally
• internet backbone - build by central government
• water management - financed centrally

The central government financed big passenger airport and high speed passenger train that bring tourists but the energy grid is at it limits not allowing for big investments, there are no cargo trains and no economic incentives to bring industry here. But yes, the town will simply decide to build chemical plants and still mills and it will magically work… The only option given by central government was tourism so of course they build the economy based on that. And yes, now they can control it with entry tax and limiting licenses for hotels but that’s exactly what this post is complaining about. People want less tourist so they complain and expect the local government to do something. It’s not like people loved tourists 20 years ago and now they changed their minds. They tolerated it for as long as they could and are now getting tired.

How are people from a single town supposed take over the government? Local governments very often have very limited tools to influence the economy of their town. Roads, railways, airports, energy lines, water treatment plants and many more are managed by national governments. They decide where infrastructure will be expanded and what type of economy will be able to expand in where. Most of the country doesn’t care that some town are overrun by tourist and it doesn’t impact national elections. At some point the only thing the town can do is to start discouraging tourists from coming like some towns in Italy do.

In Spain, in museums or coastal towns I can have entire conversations with someone such that I’m speaking Spanish and they speak English. They just don’t register that I’m speaking Spanish. In other places they don’t speak English so there are no issues.

People need to realize it’s not the locals that decided to base their economy on tourism at some town hall meeting. Where I live the government moved all the industry to different parts of the country and allowed for huge real estate development that turned the area into tourism based economy. At the beginning it’s just extra jobs and people are happy about it but at some point it starts displacing locals and people start complaining.

If I got a penny every time I heard “my mother never went to a doctor during her pregnancy and I’m fine” I would probably had like 5 cents now. I’m not sure it’s a generational gap though. I think it’s more stupid vs. not so stupid people. I know old people that understand how medicine works and young anti-vaxxers.

As someone living in a very touristic place, it’s really hard to distinguish Americans from wealthier Brits. You pretty much have to hear them speak. Poorer Brits definitely stand out and I’m guessing so would poorer Americans but we don’t get a lot of poor Americans (for obvious reasons). It’s easy to spot Scandinavians and as I’m from eastern Europe I can easily pick up Poles and tell them apart from Russians and Ukrainians. Spanish and Italians are also easy to recognize and distinguish. I’m not a waiter so I don’t know which ones are the worst customers.

What safety precautions is this about? Is it about warning labels on plastic bags or not letting your kids play outside because they will get kidnapped?

The original movie was kitsch but at least it was original. The second one was just a money grab and should be universally hated for the shit cliffhanger ending. The 3rd one was just a remake of the first one. Everything after that was shit.

Ruggero Deodato agrees.

Should be more like

Kevin: Hello officer, I was left alone at home.

Officer: Sure kid, let me call for someone to pick you up… Zed? The spider just caught a little fly.

This is fucked up on so many levels I lost count.