I don’t think this concern is justified in most cases, but I’m not really in position to argue. If this were a common problem, I think I’d have heard about it, but outside of the occasional sensationalist news piece or Hollywood/TV thriller, I haven’t.

I do know an old joke, though: Before visiting a foreign country, it’s important to memorize three phrases in the local language:

1. Where is the restroom?
2. How much is it for one night?
3. Power to the people! I support your revolution!

I don’t know what a “treat monster nature” is. I haven’t traveled much outside the core, so I can’t speak to this first-hand, but my impression is that most of the world is mostly a safe place to visit. There aren’t a lot of places that are going to punish you for renting hotel rooms and eating at restaurants as an American. Most people around the world know how to distinguish between America the empire and a civilian American spending money into the local economy.

I don’t fully understand your question, and I doubt that I’m qualified to answer, because I have virtually every privilege, and I’ve never thought about international travel but from my own easy mode perspective.

You say “travel the world,” but where realistically will you travel? Westerners tend to travel almost exclusively to other imperial core countries and to popular tourist spots in the periphery that cater to imperial core tourists.

Yes? “Consciously” and “knowingly” would be synonyms in the context.

This is the ideal tech worker. You may not like it, but this is what peak technology looks like.

Counterpoint: knowingly taking risks is valid and sometimes even necessary.

Stick a in Firefox. #mozexit

Nobody reads the community rules or pinned posts :(

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Open a laser tag center or a car wash.

Because we are social animals? Someone should create c/AskStonerLemmy 😂

Not so much plan to as resigned to 😅

NPR is state media, and who runs the state? The capitalist class.

The fact that the Electoral College was determined to be more important than the people’s votes was shameful.

Huh? First of all the Electoral College has never not been the basis for presidential elections, and second of all that election had nothing to do with the Electoral College. It had to do with hanging chads, Florida governor Jeb Bush, and the Supreme Court.

Very few of Israeli Jews are actually Arabs. They are largely of European descent. So it is misinformation to characterize this as Arabs murdering Arabs. What this is is Western settler-colonialism.

Unless I take the extreme measure of touching grass, social media will keep me apprised unbidden.

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Roko’s basilisk, if you run an online forum for “futurist” dumbasses.