I’m guessing most of the Beehaws at least have duplicates since they cut themselves off.

Yeah I assume the reason there isn’t is because the general ones are US-centric by default and then everyone else has to have somewhere specific to go. But I guess if they want their own dedicated place too why not?

It’s the plagues.

So it’s for US tourism only?

I haven’t heard it called this before but I agree with others that the general concept is a good idea. We are far too quick to jump to the next processor, the next monitor etc. when those things can realistically last a very long time before hitting too much of a performance limitation (especially for people who don’t render anything like high games or video editing.)

There’s an app that does this pretty well called Ground News. For a given topic it will show the coverage across the political spectrum. However, I didn’t think that this community was limited to English? Either way, I guess you could start putting one together.

I’m pretty sure it just doesn’t suit New Zealand right now to call him a dictator, especially with a visit coming up in a week. Australia and New Zealand have to occupy a precarious position because they are European/Western in nature but obviously closest to the Asian powers. Therefore they have to try and be besties with the US whilst staying ok with China.

Conversation about hot topics is going to happen no matter what. As long as it stays respectful I think it’s ok.

Guess I stand corrected then.

Warns? It’s been going on for decades.

To be fair there was no one tracking the migrant boat because they were crossing illegally. We knew the sub went missing basically as soon as it did rather than when people started spotting bodies. In situations where migrant boats are found before/in the midst of sinking help is sent (although after that it’s probably a trip to the detention centre.)

I’ve heard that since it’s in international waters he was able to skirt most regulation on subs.

The Greek shipwreck is an unfortunately common tragedy. Whether in the Mediterranean or elsewhere migrant bodies frequently wash ashore. The Titanic story is something novel, and I think at least partially people see it as something justified for adventure tourism exclusive to the extremely wealthy to end poorly. There is nothing to really get excitement out of from the shipwreck, it’s just sad.

In this case I don’t necessarily think it was a scam because the conversion matched up with what was shown online. However, they clearly wanted both a more stable currency and to not have to convert it themselves. I understand this but there is no way for me to physically attain another currency since I did not bring any into the country and especially wouldn’t have USD. They accepted Egyptian pounds in the end.

Not in Cairo, besides I think it’s silly that I would have to hike to another hotel for that anyway. The guy at the airport laughed when I asked how I can get USD here.

Yeah I agree, we have a tour guide and he said because it’s an international company running this particular activity they want foreign currency. They said they’d accept other major currencies but we had nothing but a couple of coins and they wouldn’t accept card payment.

Yeah we had about 2 euros, 2 GBP and 20 Israeli shekels. In the end they just accepted the Egyptian currency.

I personally would like to see posts in 4 languages and as far as I can tell it won’t let me specify more than one in my profile so I just leave it on undefined. I’m having I guess the opposite issue to you in that I’m only seeing English content when I would like to see some in my other (non-native) languages for better immersion.

Doesn’t surprise me too much tbh. I don’t think I’d make an account with Beehaw but I might end up making one with a small instance they federate with to have access. While they have a right to defederate it’s not something I like seeing.

The community vibe is definitely a huge motivation. They want to be able to control the sort of people on their instance which they can’t do if the mass user bases from lemmy.world etc. that are (relatively) neutral have access. It’s a shame because they had some good communities established.