No, toilets have charges because shitting and pissing are necessary human bodily functions but doing it in public is illegal, so they have a monopoly on where you can piss or shit and can make you jump through basically whatever hoops they want in order to access their facilities. Nobody needs to go to Venice, Edinburgh, or Barcelona, but millions do every year because of the history and culture they can only access there.
Gonna be real, if your entire knowledge base is that you’ve heard that there are fees for entering cities then you really do need to do some googling. A lot of tourist destinations in europe charge tourism taxes in a variety of forms, and can because they are worth travelling to.
It also depends on what you consider to be cheap and worth travelling for. Eastern Europe is pretty cheap and great for WWII buffs or hikers, but not so good for people just looking to party. Amsterdam has plenty of food and culture and is cheaper than Stockholm, but still more expensive than somewhere like Lisbon.
Maybe sort out your own communication before making snide comments about other people’s.
NGL Kung Fu Hustle kills me every single time, and has only gotten better as I’ve gotten older and understood more of the references. One of very few movies that successfully pull off the feeling of a live action cartoon.
Physically yes, but then you run afoul of skateboarding philosophy and whether it counts if you’re just sliding around on your feet instead of the board.
One of my friends used to have a pair, apparently they were pretty fun for a while but wore out too quickly so he just kept skateboarding.
Yeah, my parents have always been really kind and supportive. Probably wasn’t until I was in my early 20s that I realised what a privilege it is to have parents that try to understand and help me with my problems.
If you were looking for reciprocation you weren’t being altruistic. The whole point of altruism is that you’re improving the lives of others despite not recieving anything in kind. It’s not meant to be “worth it”.
LLCs are specifically unincorporated associations, i.e not corporations.
Computing in general. You’re telling me you taught a rock to say “yesnonoyesyesnoyes” into a wire and that makes Final Fantasy appear on my TV? Yeah right. Obviously it’s just magic.
Individual Trump rallys still convinced people to vote for him. Or are you saying that running for president in 4 years is what Booker’s doing about Trump?
You can’t even build a “Good” system once and expect it to provide you with rights by itself. It would still require well-meaning, educated, active, and organized constituents to continuously stand up for what is right, prevent corruption and abuses of power, etc.
Keep following the train of thought. If a good system requires well meaning, educated, active members to keep it going, then a good system is one that produces those people.
I was never particularly bothered about the skulls in the Halo series, except Grunt Birthday Party. The games just aren’t right without that occasional pop and cheer.
The Chronicon of Marcellinus Comes, apparently. Not sure why.
It’s pretty simple - they don’t give a fuck. They have no incentive to do anything but the bare minimum. And the other day, the bare minimum meant you got a box and a half of free ice-cream.
It’s just a stereotype.
I need you to be honest - do you not know what stereotypes are, or do you not know what racism is? Stereotyping is one of the conceptual parts of racism, so saying it’s not racist because it’s a stereotype is like saying pizza isn’t Italian because it’s from Naples.
stopped being used offensively several decades ago, and was then repurposed into being a praise of sorts.
Could you give me sources for when this happened for “ricing” and “ricer”? Because there are a lot of people in this thread telling you that it’s still offensive, and I’m pretty sure they know a little bit more than you about racism.
It’s an app like tiktok. Symbolically you can interpret it as representing anything you want, that’s how symbolism works, but what it actually is is an app like tiktok.
Probably G2A you’re thinking of, I’m pretty certain GMG are official.
not exactly how I phrased it
Yeah, no shit buddy, and your “gist” can be pretty forcibly rejected by reading these, which use some form of the term without defending it: https://hexbear.net/comment/5821220 https://hexbear.net/comment/5819913 https://hexbear.net/comment/5821145 https://hexbear.net/comment/5819994
Citation needed, as they say. I only saw car bodies being modded.
body modifications. […] I only saw car bodies being modded.
body modifications. […] bodies being modded.
Bold of you to assume I have smth against groups of ppl based on their race
So it’s not that you have anything against asian people, you just think it’s ok to use a term that origtinated in saying japanese people eat so much rice they even run their cars on it. Uh huh. Would you defend the N-word on the basis that it’s a commonly used word and you don’t understand why it’s so bad?
just an assumption you’re from the US
Extremely unsafe assumption, but newsflash - your ancestors don’t need to be the specific ones who invented a racism for it to be racist to act like them. If you copy someone else’s racism you are still the one being racist. You’ve been told multiple times by multiple people that the term is racist, but you’re arguing it’s not racist because you don’t know how it’s racist. Have you maybe considered you’re just not very smart and need to study racism a bit more? Maybe learn what this whole “microaggression” thing people keep talking about it?
the “wrong” ones that used the “r-word” happened to be blocked
I’m sure you can find enough examples of the word rice, ricing, and ricer to put two and two together and realise the “r-word” isn’t what got them blocked.
there is a comment from another mod that explicitly tells they’ll remove stuff using that.
No it doesn’t, because that hasn’t happened.
nor is it derogatory in its current form
Are you really not able to put together how transferring a term used to deride body modifications (using ethnic associations) to UI modifications is derogatory? Do you think it magically lost context somewhere along the way, the history of the term just disappearing into the aether?
I’d also like to play along and give you folks another (and, arguably, a more worthy) which hunt target
Stop trying to worm out of this you wretched little shit. Defend using that on the site and you’ll also get your comments removed, but we’re talking about your racism right now.
Donations are the Devs income stream, so they are in fact paying for .ml out of their own pocket. “funding development” doesn’t actually mean anything beyond “paying the developer’s wages” for Lemmy, so once you’ve paid them you don’t get a choice in how they spend their income.