Moving from Venice to Florence as the city to discuss, what would keep the city center for the locals if tourism wasn’t the main driver passing people out?

We’re seeing a lot of cities seeing an influx of “expats” seeking lower cost of living areas to work from. Florence has a beautiful city center with a nearby high speed rail train station and decent airport connections. There wouldn’t be anything stopping the locals from getting pushed out by digital nomads and trust fund kids who want a year abroad.

Yes, over tourism is what is currently changing the city, but I’m not sure that the same thing wouldn’t happen anyway, but with the rich guests staying for a few years instead of a few weeks.

Yeah. I think part of it felt weird because there wasn’t an improv performance. That episode was the closest to being a vanilla game show.

That ass looked delicious.

It is even worse as there are two feet.

Yeah. The attempt was made to convert everything to metric for official government documents, but that just meant most businesses paid people to convert it back for their use.

I got a big enough armrest to use a mouse on.

Extrapolating that out to why a transfer of accounts in the Fediverse isn’t a thing using email as an example, the only thing that would get transferred is personal account information. Maybe that includes some private direct messages for archival use and a list of followed communities, but I doubt that the value of moving accounts for most users is in the holding of archived data. I can see why the devs would consider this low priority.

But even then, that’s just you moving data. You aren’t changing old emails to have them reply to your new email and you aren’t auto-updating how the rest of the world interacts with you.

How do you transfer email accounts?

And my response back is asking what would happen with that pullback. What happens to the economy when you kill hotels and AirBnB’s?

What generally happens is that either the local population gets pushed out anyway as a haven for the rich or the economy withers and vacancies rise.

You can keep repeating that over tourism kills cities, but so does other issues like economic stagnation.

I did.

In regards to Venice, what would the city look like without tourism? What economy would there be for a city out in the middle of a lagoon after all industry moved out? Yeah, it is a fucking theme park. But is that worse than a ruin?

Has over tourism killed a city that wouldn’t have otherwise slowly died due to economic stagnation? Tourism obviously has negative externalities, but it also provides economic activity to places which otherwise would probably need to make other tradeoffs to prevent economic collapse.

It curbs international tourism, which can help with over tourism. However, it happens at the national or EU level, which makes the impacts of the border restriction far more reaching than other policies.

It also doesn’t help if there is a large domestic tourism industry. An EU tourism visa could help filter out some American and British travelers, but you’d still have the Schengen Area tourists to deal with.

That usually happens with any of the Wikipedia clones. The Wikimedia Foundation has flaws to how it works, but I’ve yet to see an organization try to replace Wikipedia while trying to keep any semblance of neutrality or impartiality.

People are still using the USAID closure as a point to Trump killing a lot of poor people around the world due to lack of access to medicine and food. The organization seemed to do both, being a psyop campaign while providing some material benefit to the communities they were in since providing aid is really good at winning hearts and minds.

Honestly, cuts alone wouldn’t do it. You could cut all defense spending, fire the Department of Defense in its entirety, and the Federal Government would still run a deficit. Include all non-mandatory civilian spending as well and you’ll barely be above water.

The best things to do would be to increase revenue and enact policies which will allow for savings in existing Medicare programs like allowing for drug price negotiation. There is nowhere near the level of waste in the Federal Government that a lot of politicians claim in how existing programs work.

Northern Ireland is likely a major reason why Brexit hasn’t been finalized yet. There is really no good solution to the trilemma.

Part of me was wondering if the Tories were going to let an Irish reunification vote happen while they were in power as a way to tie up the last issues with Brexit.

Painting a roof white has shown a measurable lowering of temperature inside the building. Any issues are likely caused by the material used to make the roof white.

There is a lot in old religions, Christianity included, where the rewards were obviously written for the desires of the people at the time. It would be very different if heavenly rewards were written with today’s mindset.

If you ever come into some money, whether it be a raise, bonus, or gift, don’t let it sit in your checking account. Move it to somewhere that is able to earn money.