I can’t speak to Albania, but Austria has a massive amount of tourism and Schönbrunn Palace is the most visited attraction in the country. The Belvedere palaces are up there, too. I think the reason that London, Paris, and Vienna receive so much tourism is related to their being former imperial metropoles rather than anything to do with how current or not the royal family is.

The French got rid of their monarchy, and yet Versailles gets more visitors than Buckingham palace.

Do you feel that you should be able to hold hands with a same sex partner in plain view of everyone else when you make them uncomfortable?

Do you feel that you should be able to be trans in plain view of everyone else when you make them uncomfortable?

Maybe people being uncomfortable is not a good yardstick for determining what people can do in public.

Mamdani won’t become the mayor until January. Anything could happen to him in the meantime.

Nah, you’re thinking of Switzerland.

ITT: People with skill issues when it comes to turkey.

Nothing about that sounds normal to me, to be honest. Normal would be disposing of flags the same we we dispose of other rubbish.

Unlike London, Oxford has a brilliant system of cheap park-and-rides, too.

It ends the conversation quickly.

Same as it ever was.

To be fair, it’s not like HP software could get any worse.

Mynd you, møøse collisions Kan be pretti nasti.

No, you’re thinking of a spasm. An orgasm is another name for any living thing that acts as an individual.

I write code. ✔️ Real job.

I chop down trees. ❌ Bullshit job.

The fact that you think both of these people and their viewpoints deserve equal defense and respect says a lot more about you than it does me.

Yes, that’s exactly the point I was making. Bless your heart, my twelve-year-old buddy.

Would you also consider Martin Luther King Jr. to be a whiny limp-dick centrist for believing in nonviolence?

Considering he let Commodus succeed him, presumably not much.

Ferengii, but the second i is silent.

Going no. 2 and no. 3 at the same time = no. 6.

Two things I can’t stand; people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.