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No, because it's zoned for being a hotel. What's happening with AirBnB is completely different as you're having people (1) buy up existing housing to convert it to AirBnB and (2) it's not zoned for tourists. Believe it or not, tourists are considered in city planning, and that's why they have special zoning laws for hotels and hostels. What's happening is tourists now feel they have the right to 'live as a local', and that eats up the housing supply the locals would use, which is zoned for residential use. Thus forcing the locals out. To suggest hostels/hotels suffer from the same issues is to ignore the fact that they're often planned into the city to accommodate tourists, whereas residential housing is, well, for residents.

> At a large enough scale, I agree that there's an impact to locals. But don't tourists also boost the local economy, the travel industry and introduce different cultures themselves? It's not such a clear case that this is all negative.

And tourism is planned into this with the way zoning permits work. But AirBnB skirts those rules. Also the negatives of losing housing in a city far outweigh any financial benefit that could come to it, especially as most won't be reaped by the people that are being forced out...or it will be taken from them in terms of increased rent because the supply is much smaller.

> The lack of regulations is an issue of local governments not catching up to tech companies, as usual, not Airbnb.

Or it's because AirBnB actively lobbies against it and refuses to enforce rules, saying it's up to the individual providers. They facilitate it, and often most things on AirBnB are illegal and against the zoning laws of whatever building they're being used for.

> What if those tourists do eventually become locals after staying at an Airbnb? Are you against migrants as well?

What a ridiculous question. Obviously I'm not against migrants. I'm against tourists thinking they have a right to live like locals. > The locals do benefit financially from tourism. Markets like Airbnb's simply accelerate this, which of course introduces issues, but governments should carry more of the blame for this than a company that disrupts the hotel industry.

> The locals do benefit financially from tourism. Markets like Airbnb's simply accelerate this, which of course introduces issues, but governments should carry more of the blame for this than a company that disrupts the hotel industry.

The locals benefit nothing from AirBnB. The landlords do, sure, but the actual residents and regular workers do not. If anything, it makes matters worse as rents are driven up, or they have to move further away from work. In the worst case scenarios, the town just becomes tourist-oriented and there's no other jobs left. That's a horrible thing as if the tourism ever dries up, the town is left up the creek.

But also tell the locals they benefit financially when their local bar closed down because the landlord thought it'd be better to make it a shop that caters towards tourists; or when all their neighbors move out because of the rambunctious drunken tourists coming in at 2 every night of the week; or when their landlord decides to evict them/up their rent because the landlord knows they can make more on AirBnB than renting to residences.

It's a wholly negative impact to everyone except those people who own the AirBnBs, who are often skirting multiple regulations, facilitated by AirBnB itself. It is a net negative for the city, and I know personally that housing crisis in at least one country (Ireland) has been facilitated by it, as the amount of houses on the market in Dublin doubled during the pandemic when tourism was shut down.

They're providing this market by removing housing from the local people, which drives them out and drives up prices for those who stay. This, in turn, forces all the inhabitants of a city out of it, thus ruining the character those inhabitants gave it. All so some tourist can 'live like a local', at the expense of the actual locals being able to live like a local.

And it's wholeheartedly AirBnB's fault and problem. Not to mention there's often new apartment blocks being built to act as de-facto hotels but having none of the regulations in place, which isn't quite competition at all.

Basically, tourists aren't locals, they should have a right to live like locals. Especially at the expense of the locals.

> For example sharing a flat with 6 people is sometimes half the cost of 3-4 hotel rooms (depending on how you can split)

And, again, this is the whole problem. Because that's a flat that could have gone to someone who actually lives and works in the local area, not a tourist. It's cheaper because it externalizes that cost.

I'm fine with hostels too, I see no problem with people choosing them. I'm not fine with converting residential homes into unlicensed hotels . It destroys the local community, and drives up prices for all the other people who are left trying to live there, and further feeds housing crises.

Their value-to-money is better because the externalize all the cost to the local community where they remove supply and up the rent for what supply is left.

Plus if you stay in a hotel you don't have to worry about taking housing away from the local residents of the place. I loathe AirBnB for multiple reasons, but that's the primary one.

It's funny as it was the opposite for my friends. We always go on New Year's trips together, and when we're just sitting around or in the car, etc. everyone was on their screens. Same back at the cabin, unless we were playing Uno or some other game. We're all early 29-31.

> I wish people would read more Bourdieu.

Any good starting points?

No clue. My doctor mentioned the possibility of nerve damage from covid but I moved before I could get in for those tests. Also check vitamin D and B12 (I was slightly deficient in B12, but even after supplements and other stuff it didn't change). Please let me know what you find out!

I don't though. I went and got everything checked out after it started but before my insurance ran out (I moved countries and lost my work coverage). There was nothing on any of the tests that were run. And I've no other symptoms of anything really.

Ah man I hate to hear that. It's quite annoying and I honestly don't want anyone to deal with it. Just makes waking up such a pain.

But yeah mine is mostly my arms and when I wake up. Hopefully it goes away quickly for you!

Yes I'm vaccinated and boosted. It didn't really help. Got my second shot March 2021 (teacher), and symptoms didn't really go away until September, and I still have some as I said.

I had heart palpitations randomly for over 8 months after Covid. I still find that my extremities tend to go to sleep and start tingling regardless of what I do (even them hanging by my side). It's extremely noticeable when I wake up from sleep. Even sleeping on my back with hands to the sides all night wakes up with them completely asleep and tingling, and other parts of the body seem to go to sleep easier than they did pre-Covid.

Thankfully, even though I likely had an early variant(Dec 2020), mine was not very extreme. I was constantly cold (like 45 minutes hot showers to get warm) and lost taste/smell, but I felt decent enough to run a 5k with it (probably stupidly, but at least it warmed me up), but the after effects have got me worried, especially the tingling in extremities which doesn't show any sign of going away.

Sword and Shield at least have the Wild Zone where you can get 'xp candies' that make the grind a lot more bearable.

I do love the portability of my Switch, but eve more I do love how casual it is. And how a lot of their games, while they can be played multiplayer, are focused on single player stuff. They've great single player titles, and that keeps me coming back to Nintendo regularly (especially their mobile stuff, I'm pretty sure I've owned at least one iteration of everything since the Gameboy Pocket).

> To Apple's disadvantage, only touch is a pretty terrible interface for a lot of video game genres, and also mobile pretty quickly became pay to win crapware.

The latter is why I hate gaming on my iPhone. And battery life after a year or two as the apps update to handle the newest and best specs, leaving older phones behind. I do enjoy some of the ports, but I can also buy a lot of those on my Switch anymore, so there's no need.

If Duo ever moves on to passages and short stories, then it's only on a few of the trees, and only at the end level. I've done everything on the Irish (tested out, as I already speak it fluently) and it never rose above a few sentences being translated. And the French one that I've done so far (about half) is the same apart from the 'Stories' feature which really isn't that great as it just has you click missing words and doesn't ask about comprehension.

> Which leaves me lost in your premise of "true comprehension"?

"True comprehension" in a foreign language is, in my opinion, when you can read a full passage (not a random sentence or even something like Duo's stories) and answer questions about it. It doesn't have to be a literary passage, but it shouldn't be something as simple as "Translate to English: Mes frères sont gentils", as the French course often asks (and then only makes you pick words, not actually type). And the comprehension should be inferring something from the passage, not something you can get by just matching word patterns.

So, again, maybe DL does it later on in the French course, but it certainly isn't available in their (horrible, to be honest) Irish course.

> This suggests, that it isn’t a necessity or preferable for comprehension.

Or, it shows that they're trying to get people to stay around and use them more. I actually really doubt Duolingo produces anyone who has true comprehension in reading a passage of text simply because it only ever asks you to translate one-off sentences (and rarely at that, it only has you click words if you're on the app!). I don't think they're optimizing for comprehension and understanding as much as they're optimizing for user engagement.

Revolution in Time by David Landes supposedly (I haven't read it, though it's been on my list for a while) touches on this, and how timekeeping fundamentally changed life and civilization.

It's truly interesting. Think of how much it dominated cultural talk for a decade, then just dropped off the face of the earth after Season 8. Man D&D really screwed it up.

I'd also recommend Lyle Campbell's Historical Linguistics: An Introduction for historical linguistics especially. It's a very concise introduction and I believe you could understand most of it without a deep background in linguistics (maybe some understanding of the IPA and phonetics mostly)

There absolutely is. The school system I work(ed) for closes regularly every February because of the increase in numbers in strep and flu. Our attendance gets so low that it's the only thing they can do. Usually we can tell the week before, then they give it Monday and Tuesday and then are out the rest of the week, though sometimes attendance is so low Friday they just cancel the whole week already.

Basically: this is something that already happens for other diseases, as they spread like wildfire in schools. Kids are disgusting (and honestly, some of the teachers are too. I mean, I've seen several not wash hands after taking a dump...)

This is already happening, at an ever increasing rate. It's likely that the majority of languages will be extinct by the end of the century.

18 days away from hitting 100. Such a shame and a sad loss. Hopefully 2022 is better.

Anecdotal, but I loathe Gutenberg, and almost entirely shut down my blog because of it. I eventually decided to pay for hosting the open source version with their plugins so I could use the Classical Editor plugin, but Gutenberg was absolutely awful. The posts I was writing were quite long, as they were transcriptions of stories (the number of SEO red flags they give off is hilarious, honestly), and Gutenberg was just so laggy trying to go back and forth between my annotations of the stories at the bottom and the actual story at the top. I eventually just started typing it up in Pages and copy-pasting it over because it was such a pain to edit...None of those problems exist on Classical Editor, though I still transcribe them in Pages to keep them all in the same document for if I ever decide to publish.

I would wager 'yes' to both of those answers, but I would also somewhat attribute this to the Cult of Productivity, where people want to 'learn' more while spending less time on it. Which, depending on the subject (and I'd wager for most of them), isn't really how you learn at all, and you need to put thought and go slow in things.

It's basically another symptom of our culture's ever-increasing rush for things going faster/easier.

This is my issue with 5e. Where are all the cool classes? Where are all the neat races I can play as? Where are all the cool things I can do with my characters (prestige classes, etc.) to make them seem unique? Instead, there's just your main classes and a few subclasses, with your standard races. Like, I just wanna play as a kitsune summoner without having to just 'flavor' everything that way. I want it to actually feel unique instead of having to rely on imagination to make it feel that way.

That said, thank goodness for places like /r/unearthedarcana...And Pathfinder 2e, though I've been struggling to find a group.

They've changed it. I have Brave set as my default, for instance, and can change apps to tell them which one to open.

I need a new computer, and I was going to switch to Windows so I could game with friends (while dual-booting into some linux distro for anything programming related), which would force me into 11. It's already a shame that I have to have a Microsoft account to even set up the damn thing, but now I can't even use whatever default browser I want? I'm seriously about the say screw it and pay for another Mac. I love mine, but wanted to game but at this point it might not be worth it.

I would argue those things are usually tied together. The parents who are more committed are generally those who have the finances and time to be committed and thus are already in the better schools.

It's the main issue in the school I taught at. Parents didn't care and kids knew and it rubbed off. Until the kid failed, then it was the teachers fault. They see no value in education, very generally. Rural southern school. And until that's fixed, and the social issues at home (kids sleeping in cars, only 15% of our kids had both parents at home, etc) we can't truly make improvement. But nobody wants to tackle the social issues.