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What holiday destination is the most concerning?

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  • Yeah, OP has since clarified they meant that more literally than I expected.

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  • Unless you're in Europe that's even more sex-touristy than Thailand. Nobody crosses continents for windmills, but lots of people like Buddhist architecture, beaches and sticky rice.

    It's regulated prostitution in the Netherlands, at least, and sex work is work.

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  • I’m not saying anything bad about the country I’m just saying if you want to visit you probably don’t have the best intentions.

    I want to visit. Not for sex.

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  • I wouldn't jump straight to sex tourism if there's no other red flags, no.

    I have family connections out that way, I am aware there's lots of other great stuff around.

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  • I've never had a guy tell me that exactly, but I've definitely encountered people (drunk people? I feel like I'm remembering a drunk guy going on about it) who have mentioned regularly going to Thailand and who make me wonder.

    I'm not talking intimate, close confidants here.

    • All of IT in one image

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  • I'm picturing something like Slenderman arriving and dragging me off to the land of model failures forever.

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  • Stopping while we're ahead? Never!

    /s, but also I'm sort of in this picture.

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  • Exactly. It's definitely not for any plausible moral reason.

    Although OP also mentioned she's broke, so it might not work out as planned...

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  • So wait, does this apply in both directions? It seems kind of impossible that people from city A are ruining city B and people from city B are also ruining city A.

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  • It's pretty known for sex tourism, including the underage kind. That's only if it's somebody who fits the profile of a sex tourist, though.

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  • Thailand or the Philippines is actually the right answer, although it heavily depends on maleness and general vibes. If it's a women I'd just think "have fun eating street curry".

    Dubai consistently knocks them down a couple pegs of respect.

    I'll submit Israel. Unless it's to visit family there's no wholesome reason to insert yourself there at the moment.

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  • From what I've heard, you don't have fun in Dubai with no money.

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  • I think that was OP's point. What's she going for?

    • What are the most promising ways for bottom-up networks to share financial resources in an anonymous, sovereign way, without e.g. the interference of Zionist, fascist, bootlicking intermediaries?

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  • This is a textbook use-case for crypto. And honestly, you can fundraise for a lot of things through those conventional channels right now anyway; freedom of association is still strong in the West.

    The trick is always getting people to send you money in the first place.

    • What are your advices to cool homes without AC ?

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  • Ah, okay. So not technically an AC unit then.

    • What direction do you think tech in general will go in 5 years (ignoring AI)

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  • Oh really? I'll have to go looking for that. Not being able to easily hack things on my phone is a PITA.

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  • Yeah, you're not wrong about the history. It just still seems like it counts.

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  • Okay, love you too.

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  • In quantum mechanics, there are times you divide two different complex numbers, and complex multiplication/division is the thing two real numbers can't really replicate. That's how the Bloch 2-sphere in 3D space is constructed from two complex dimensions (which maps to 4 real ones).

    It's peripheral, though. Nothing in the guts of the theory needs it AFAIK - the Bloch sphere doesn't generalise much and is more of a visualisation. So, jury's still out on if it's us or if it's nature that likes seeing it that way.

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  • Would that make it less true? Complex numbers can be seen as a weird subgroup of the 2x2 real matrices. (And you can "stack" the two representations to get 4x4 real quaternions)

    Furthermore, octonions are non-associative, and so can't be a subgroup of anything (although you can do a similar thing using an alternate matrix multiplication rule). They still show up in a lot of the same pure math contexts, though.