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I’m sure the Venn diagram of those who would be happy with decreased revenue, who have a negative view of tourists, and who think there are too many tourists has a lot of overlap but is far from a circle. Tourists do bring in money, but they also do tend to trash the places that they don’t live more than the locals, and can drive out locals.

That number rose to 48% in Catalonia, the region that includes Barcelona, whose 1.6 million residents receive about 32 million visitors annually, and of which one local columnist said last month: “My city has been stolen from me, and I’m not getting it back.”

People in Spain also felt more strongly than others about the short-term holiday rentals sector, which is widely accused of removing accommodation from the local residential market and inflating rents to a point many residents cannot afford.

Here is an opinion piece for Hawaii that echos a lot of the complaints from Spain.

In the last few years, my family made the decision to move to Big Island, for many reasons. Although it is not the primary reason, I can’t deny that being “priced out” of Oahu was a contributing factor.

There are valid reasons for people to be opposed to the volume of tourism when it reaches extreme levels.

*with the number of foreign tourists…

There is a difference between tourists visiting and too many tourists visiting.

The US being complicit with the genocide of Palestinians led to both…

It is atill an effective intimidation tactic.

In this case, him knowing the government will claim he is lying if stressed, and that the testing that indicates stress is completely arbitrary due to being pseudoscience. It is an effective way to get him to comply since he knows the government can claim the results are whatever they want the results to be.

That if course makes it cruel and unusual and the government shouldn’t be using polygraphs. Just explaining the reason.

To the best of my recollection she was asked in the context of Gaza and the Oct 7th attack during the debate, not attacks from Iran. The ‘Israel must defend itself’ argument comes up constantly in the context of the massive death toll in Gaza.

I know the situation is complex and foreign states like Iran fund and supply Palestinian resistance, but it seems like a an easy way to deflect criticism by changing the focus from Palestinians to hostike nations like Iran.

When I hear that, who is Israel defending it self from if Gaza and the West Bank are not separate nations? Are they part of Israel and Israel is defending itself against itself?

‘Defend itself’ makes sense in the context of Iran or Hezbollah, but the thousands of men, women, and children killed in Gaza that are not involved in the fighting aren’t external threats. They are victims of apartheid.

Yes, it is a likely risk. Having an unauthorized broadcast signal is a security risk because it can be used to locate and target the ship, allows for crew to communicate with the outside world without the oversight that they would normally have, and is outside the control of the ship’s command.

There are many valid reasons for the military to be limited to authorized channels for communication.

I think console players are catching up on the massive difference between 30 FPS and 60+ FPS in first person games where the camera can move quickly. As TVs have improved along with the consoles, and some titles are able to be played at 60+ FPS, people are noticing the difference compared to newer titles that aim for 30 FPS as a trade off for detailed graphics and motion blur.

Plus performance mode reduces the number of times a game might stutter or have short periods of time where the frames have a massive drop compared to their normal rate.

Multiple people were involved, and it was probably mounted in a location where other people were unlikely to know that it was out of place.

So idk about everyone else, but did anyone else catch that they both had hot mics?

Yeah, multiple times they would let him speak out of turn and ramble on endlessly, but had to unmute her mic on multiple occasions when it was her turn to speak.

His Russian handlers.

I really hope Hunter drops out of the race.

They were meek and let him talk over them. I guess more than zero is better than nothing, but it is a pretty low bar.

Wow, his 15% more time that he was able to get by interrupting and not shutting up when his time was up sure felt a lot longer than it was.

Oh look, Harris wanted to respond out of turn one time and the hosts shut her down after letting Trump interrupt all night.

It really deems like he has been allowed to talk for twice the time as Harris. Anyone keeping track?

If ANYONE thinks Trump came out on top in this debate, they are certifiable.

Remember, him rambling and embarrasing himself for rational people is just him doing what he does at his rallies.

Nah, actually correct him and mute his mic and he would storm off the stage like a giant baby.

These hosts are absolutely awful. Every time he rambles and lies, they give Harris a new topic. Occasionally they ask a question and barely point out that he didn’t answer it.

The hosts need to hold him to a debate, not let him play it like a Trump rally.

Harris is doing fantastic.

We all know the news tomorrow will be about how Trump was confident and Harris made one statement that could be misleading if you squint hard enough. Then there will be a wet noodle fact check that is far less prominent than some article about how MAGA cultists think he won the debate.

Then when he is so incoherent that there isn’t any lie to refute, point out his incoherence. Or ask the hosts to clarify his point, so a third party confirms his dementia riddled ramblings are not worth responding to.