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27 days agoI’ve heard of a big conference this year in the US (decided and planned for years before Trump) that now offers remote participation option.
Tommi Nieminen
Staunchly Peircean pragmaticist linguist, phonetician and semiotician. Does translation studies and comparative literature too when time allows. Politically far left, deal with it. Localizes FOSS (eg. KDE Plasma, Vivaldi browser, Handbrake media transcriber).
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I don’t understand why tourism hasn’t dropped more than it has. I
Probably because something so big as a voyage to the US is often planned for years before which may make it too difficult or expensive to cancel. A year from now, things might look a lot different.
1·2 months agoThat was probably one reason why Hitler wasn’t assassinated by the allies. OTOH, the death of Franco (but to old age!) meant the end of fascism in Spain. When a dictator dies, there’s always a chance for better.
11·3 months ago“Why would I own a car? Our public transportation works fine. Or a watch, since I can already see the time from my mobile phone.”
123·3 months agoThe humanity does. Well, maybe not “need” it but deserve it. Finding out about the world around us is what we exist for.
I wholeheartedly agree; but there’s now growing fear all around the world that not even attending to a research conference will save you from ICE if they are behind their daily quota.