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Bit late but here's some pics of my trip to Krakow, minus the Auschwitz one's I'd already posted seperately. All the snowy pics are from a day trip to Zakopane, in the mountains. Amazing place. Apologies for the spam, just skip if you like

All meathead chavs should be banned from travelling, regardless of nationality.

What an interesting pile of rubbish. Here's a simpler break down. Imagine I found 10 countries that were recently at war with their neighbors out of 200 countries Then I took a survey in those 10 countries stating that I wanted to know if they liked their neighbors and if they wanted them as neighbors anymore But, this is the internet and surely there will be some backlash so for good measure and to make things legit I now go and add 5 countries that have had trouble 10 years prior to my data so as to not look like I have an agenda All of the sudden the really high numbers start to look like real statistics because of course the median gets shifted and you've got a data-set that is advantageous to click-bait Now, I have to of course talk about places that love their neighbors but my already burned mathematical wizardy tells me to not include all the countries I already did a survey in because god-forbid I find data in those countries to contradict my earlier data so I take the colored map and pick all the non-evaluated slots What you end up with is a skewed data-set that looks sort of real so folks at a cocktail party can have one of two conversations Did you hear, we're #2 in the list of countries with the least racism. I mean I tell my maid who moved here from her country that she's a worthless bag of dirt every day but thats just me telling her to do her job surely I am not racist. We're #2? But I didn't know I was supposed to let the guys who tried to break into my house and shoot my parents just have their way and of course invite them over for biscuits the next day because that's the Christian thing to do. In the end its all circumstantial and contextual. Of course some things are black and white as night and day but to think that the report above is a clear indication of racism at its peak in the developing world is myopic at best. It's here for sure but not like what's being reported above.

Another thing to consider is that quite a few countries in the "most racist" list have had ongoing internal or external conflicts in recent past or present with certain other nations or ethnic groups, so it's probably not surprising that it would strongly influence their preferences in terms of having neighbours of other race/nationality.

@Tommy, your rock-throwing expertise is required! Forget the loved-up couples, these are your real targets!

What a bunch of inbreds. Imagine having to deal with that kind of shit on vacation. Even as a bystander.

Garfield.

@nudge some reports are saying the objects/balloons might be lost ad balloons from used car dealerships Idk if I've ever seen car dealerships use balloons to advertise in my life, but hilarious if true. Could also be bullshit to cover up the fact they've killed aliens/destroyed drug running balloons/killed aliens running drugs from Canada to the US.

Hmm. It classes them, as the title, as 'most racist countries in the world' but clarifies this point almost immediately as some kind of caveat The other potential flaw is that only 61 countries were surveyed in one study, and only 78 in another survey. It's not even half of the world's countries. It's hard to see what other countries were surveyed other than a 'top 25'. Only from a quick look and going through some of the links on the page. Were Western European countries even surveyed? It's such a difficult and subjective topic to cover. It's rare you'll see any large volume of people admit they're racist. But I don't think the questions they ask point to 'being racist'. At least not by way of the definition of racism that we know or follow. Just because someone doesn't want to live next to a 'foreign neighbour' doesn't automatically make them racist. They might have a valid reason for doing so. But they're ticked on a checkbox as 'racist' because they said no.

Krakow was a lovely clean city, stunning architecture, and I was impressed with how cheap Food and Drink was. You cannot go wrong. The Zakopane and Chocolowska region near the Tatra mountains was stunning, and actually a bit of a unknown hidden treasure to a lot of tourists. I couldn't recommend it enough.

Hopefully it comes to streaming soon, it looks hilarious.

https://www.deichstube.de/news/werder-bremen-investor-angebot-abgelehnt-verzichtet-auf-millionen-euro-nasdaq-boerse-usa-investorengruppe-geld-finanzen-zr-92090129.html Rejected an up to 70m offer from a US Investor group.

Disgusting. This is one of the reasons that I don't like to travel to well known areas, but prefer the low-key and hidden gems out there in the world. Also, this is partially why I've never partaken in drugs, and gave up alcohol about 3 months ago.

Yeah, if I were Yemeni I'd probably be so fucking angry at pretty much every country involved in that civil war. From the regional powers backing groups like Al Qaeda, ISIS, and on the other side the Houthis... to the western countries brought into the Saudi coalition to that war. I think that's a natural reaction to a foreign backed rebellion movement to ousting a foreign backed puppet government & having your life torn apart by so many foreign powers having a power struggle and destroying your home with modern warfare & vile tactics like starvation and disease being used as a weapon of war. Idk how they don't score higher than 34% tbh.

To be honest, tourists going for cannabis don't cause a problem. It's wherever there is cheap alcohol and cocaine. Germans are just as bad in fairness

It would be hilarious if they accidentally shot down their own experimental new tech, so that's why I hope this is the case and they are withholding it from the public because it would be fucking embarrassing

That's an insane amount of people for a demonstration. Good for them, now we just need to hope that Lim is tired of his toy and moves on.

Linkin Park released a song today which had Chester as lead, but was previous not released and from what I read, was somewhat forgotten. Today it was released.

The F-22 has made its first air-to-air kill.... a balloon

The Killing Fields is a pretty good movie, I think watching it as a kid was the first time I learned about the events there. There's also a new-ish film available on Netflix and based on a well-known memoir of a survivor, called First They Killed My Father. I would actually recommend it over The Killing Fields, as that one is told mostly from the perspective of a Western journalist, whereas First They Killed My Father is authentically Cambodian and uses Cambodian actors, music, and language.

And so it continues... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64650310