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  • Lauchmelder@feddit.orgtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldAll men are dangerous
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    2 days ago

    Over half of homicides committed against women come from intimate partners and family members.

    Like, even when we find men we think we trust, it’s still no better than a coin flip that one day they might violently hurt us, rape us, or kill us.

    I don’t see how the latter follows from the former. The statistic claims that when a woman is killed, the odds are >50% that it was a partner or family member.

    It makes no statement of the gender of the partners or family members, and it’s also not “a coin flip” whether your partner kills you. If you get killed, it’s a coin flip whether it’s a stranger or not.









  • The last thing you’d want is for your city to become a tourist city. Nobody wins except for property owners to who can make more money renting their apartments to tourists than to locals, and shop owners who can charge abhorrent prices for basic groceries because tourists don’t know any better.

    Ask the people of Prague and Barcelona. There’s a good video by the Honest Guide on how Prague 1 became a sort of “theme park” for tourists, and is absolutely unliveable for people from Prague.

    It is especially problematic for countries with weaker currencies, since hotels will charge strong currency prices for their rooms, because tourists can afford it. Japan has this problem where hotels are too expensive for Japanese people because the Yen is weak compared to the Dollar and Euro, which is the currency hotels use to calculate their rates.