HobbitFoot

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[–] HobbitFoot 12 points 3 days ago

Cruises are usually worse for a city than hotels economically.

At least with hotels and short term rental, tourists will linger and spend money on the room and dining. That money isn't spent on the community when people cruise in while tourists still use the tourist facilities.

[–] HobbitFoot 3 points 3 days ago

It depends.

If you rely only on tourism, you're commuting to a low wage economy. However, some cities have used tourism as the base economy to springboard to high value industries as the tourism amenities end up getting used by high earning locals.

[–] HobbitFoot 31 points 3 days ago (8 children)

The commercial is heard better in its original Klingon.

[–] HobbitFoot 1 points 3 days ago

I'm not that surprised. French farmers hate competition.

[–] HobbitFoot 15 points 3 days ago

Major powers in direct conflict with each other.

For instance, the Spanish Civil War is seen as a precursor to World War II, but it isn't considered a part of World War II because different sides supported different belligerents, including direct military action, the conflict remained in Spain.

This is part of the reason why NATO nations have not provided direct military action to support Ukraine, as it would lead to a likely escalation to World War III.

[–] HobbitFoot 27 points 3 days ago

They were supposed to buy InfoWars to keep Alex Jones on air. Obvious satirists The Onion weren't supposed to be the winning bid.

[–] HobbitFoot 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I never said to vote for a centrist President; filling in a third party or none of the above would be acceptable. Get people to vote on the clear-cut issues and let them choose to vote on whatever else.

Voting should not be a distraction from maintaining pillars of solidarity in the community

If a community can't rally together to support a ballot measure they believe in, how are they going to be able organize to the sufficient capacity to protect their communities in other ways?

[–] HobbitFoot 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Or it will be a way to give supporters some goodies. Take away a naturalized citizen's home or business and give it to a Trump supporter for pennies on the dollar.

[–] HobbitFoot 1 points 3 days ago

They can keep shuffling along, though. If you don't have to pay for active development of features, maintenance of their existing product lines is relatively cheap.

[–] HobbitFoot 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I was able to handwave it away with the future robot injecting deus ex machina into the wound.

[–] HobbitFoot 1 points 3 days ago

Based on how you hear some leftists talk about them, it makes them sound like this large group who would only vote if given the option.

[–] HobbitFoot 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but a lot of that comes from the legacy airlines in the US becoming low cost carriers.

I won't be surprised when it happens to the EU when more flag carriers go bankrupt.

 
 
 

This isn't meant to be a discussion on the morality of the embargo, but the affects of the embargo ending for both countries. These affects can be political, economic, or social.

 
 
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