Message from @ETBrooD
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Another purge I take it?
no, the channel is just haunted by the delet monster
Hunted.
It's a monthly thing, except most channels were overdue. Only temple and wrtng were done last time (and they've been done again to avoid having to remember a staggered schedule)
It's needed because I like to debate some more in-depth things in here. @Lupinate Excuse me, for saying I am still gasping at the Starbucks coffee company store's and their locations around the world. Yes, everything, will eventually look the same. Is this a good thing , or a bad thing?
Good for travelers - you always know where to eat if you can't stomach local cuisine.
The local Makudonaruldo's!
Why are you making discord be IRC
Discord isn't IRC
Have the official Athens IRC server, peeps can use hexchat
@retxirT As a regular traveler this is sorta true regarding chains. *However* taking part of the local is part of the mystique thereof.
If everywhere is the same, there is no point in travel
You go to different places to see what is unique about them, whatever it is that is unique.
Agreed.
What if you go somewhere else not because you want to go somewhere else, but because it's away from where you are?
What if you go somewhere else not because you want to go somewhere else, but because it's away from where you are?
What if you go somewhere else not because you want to go somewhere else, but because it's away from where you are?
Then frankly, youre a migrant, not a tourist.
If you go somewhere because you want to get away from where you are, but you dont want to change the culture youre in. You completely missed the concept of how your culture influences the society around you. Or you completely overestimated how far you need to travel.
wat
@Fuksias wonderfully cynical of you! I didn't get very far because of reasons X Y and Z. But the people whom broke the Dublin Treaty agreement, are only shooting themselves in the foot because compatibility in the environment you're in, means everything.
There's a Starbucks in Afghanistan. You can check it on Google maps. For the purpose of my introduction of, new level's of globalism. To discuss the anomalies and the changes. The only place in Europe without Starbucks has a sanction in it and that is Bosnia Herzegovina. So, I'm saying that there are still parts of Europe that are not even having money fairly distributed to it. There are no means for them to get jobs. So, when they assimilate , are they more important than those whom broke the Dublin Treaty agreement or are they breaking it also?
That Starbucks is gonna get fucking bombed tbh
Though shops may spread globally, all nations have their own twists to their local designs and buildings. Can't think of a city that doesn't have some feature that distinguishes it from the rest.
So Starbucks being ubiquitously present won't change borough market or other places in town.
@ETBrooD
Ill admit that was written based on more extreme examples in mind, and not all catching. There are always nuances.
Still, if you want to travel to get away from somewhere, i assumed a good reason for wanting to do so. A good reason means you also likely wont want to return any time soon, unless the situation changes.
I don't know, I just think vacationing for the sake of getting away from home for a while makes a lot of sense. Everyone has a different motivation.
Me for example, besides wanting to meet extended family, often I have no preferred location when I go on holiday.
@ETBrooD you should be given the freedom to travel. But, you have to apply for a visa , to help you have it for more than a vacation. This is the problem. I couldn't , and wouldn't wish ...
(Okay and you have to hold on for what I am about to tell you.)
Any harm to those whom I travel to. For example, the people whom joined ISIS. They were born in mostly European countries. They didn't go to Syria to have a vacation. They didn't have extended family.
They participated in war crimes. Created a refugee crisis. You name it, these guy's are the Nazi's of our time.
Do you think these people gave a crap about their surroundings, when they got to Syria?
Do you think they had an innovative western idea, to franchise Starbucks?
Did they create jobs for the people around them?
See, I know, Starbucks in a country gives people the idea to capitalise and invest.
We have the power to be equals. It's just, certain religions are unable to grasp the concept of the idea of equality and jobs.
Btw I love Bosnian people, it's a shame they don't have a Starbucks because it creates jobs.
@Fryan Republic debate ... What part of debate don't you understand?
```Debate```
noun
1... (a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people take part:
Education is the current focus of public debate.
How we proceed from here is a matter for debate.
Over the year we have had several debates aboutfuture policy.
More examples
The debate completely changed course after Liz made her speech.
The debate about food safety has engaged the whole nation.
She issued a challenge to her rival candidates to take part in a public debate.
The prison riots have sharpened the debate about how prisons should be run.
This proposal will almost certainly spark another countrywide debate about how to organize the school system.
verb
2.... to discuss a subject in a formalway:
In Parliament today, MPs debated the Finance Bill.
They had been debating for several hours without reaching a conclusion.
[ + question word ] The authorities debated whether to build a new car park.
[ T ] to try to make a decision about something:
[ + question word ] We debated whether to take the earliertrain.
I'm still debating what colour to paint the walls
I don't think the official definition of debate fully encompasses it's true definition:
A conversation between two or more individuals, or between one's self, in which two or more differing opinions are put forward in a rational coherent manner with the goal of convincing one side of the validity of the opinion of the other party.
Which, by the way, yes, would completely eliminate the utterly abysmal contemptible and embarrassing show that is 'debate contests' schools have