It’s tragicomic that this makes sense.

I’d say xenophobes are a reality but fortunately a minority and their xenophobia is generally low intensity. YMMV if you are poorer and/or darker, but I think in general you’ll be welcome if you are coming to stay, specially if you make an effort to learn the language. If the place you want to go has a regional language (Galician, Catalan, Basque, Asturian…) nothing gets to most locals’ hearts quicker than a foreigner learning that too (and the regional governments normally offer free courses).

Please don’t come to Spain for that. We have too many people coming for that and they bring more bad than good :(

They are probably referencing the balm.

Yes, met too, sometimes I’m not able to work out the counterexample by myself.

I love this, thank you.

There are also lists for time and date and for phone numbers. It’s an article format that I love because it gives you a lot of insight into a topic even if it’s not your field of knowledge.

HIV: the homosexual cancer, Reagan, lesbian role during the early epidemic, modern advancements and chronification of an otherwise deadly disease, hope: u=u and the Berlin patient.

More Milk, lots of Milk, relate it to the current administration efforts to erase him.

Oscar Wilde, Chelsea Manning, the Thebes Battalion, James Dean, Burroughs, Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag, Freddy Mercur, Alexander the Great, Leonardo, Sally Ride…

In defence of the µ, I actually use it more than the other two, for micro- units.

The ¤ is the symbol for any currency but I have never seen it used in the wild.

That looks like an extension of the handicap principle, which is quite blindly accepted (like the alpha males thing) but has not a lot of evidence.

There is some real signaling that looks kinda handicappy, like the ancient Chinese growing long fingernails: at first sight it was detrimental to their ability to do manual work. But it actually isn’t because they didn’t need to do manual work. That’s different in my opinion from botching one’s face, as they see the procedures as an improvement over the alternative of looking their actual age. They are fleeing from the wrinkles, and that face is a consequence, not a goal.

Oh, maybe it was this one.

There’s no way I will find it but I could swear I’ve seen that image before the AI hype.

Unless I’m missing something, all (regularised) immigrants in Spain are EU residents.

ETA: but yeah, taxing empty homes would be better but the people who have more of those probably also have friends in the government.

Those pesky bastards.

Apparently it’s only during Pride Month: [t]he Harry Potter tours are set to resume after June (source: Pink News).

That’s a bit like dismissing humanitarianism because there are humans that do bad things.

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With the art excuse we are at the point that saying “heil Hitler” is not okay but singing it is okay.

In not snake, why snake shaped?

It’s across 16 countries so I’d think many (or most?) of the participants are covered by their respective public health systems. And it’s not that they say they are looking for advice somewhere else but disregarding the medical advice.