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Regardless of how it first came to be called Hell, the name stuck and the area has become a tourist attraction, featuring a fire-engine red hell-themed post office from which you can send "postcards from hell", and a gift shop with "Satan" Ivan Farrington[1] passing out souvenirs while greeting people with phrases like "How the hell are you?" and "Where the hell are you from?"

Really, I think that the bigger question here shouldn't be "how would you turn Hell into a tourist destination", but rather "how would you avoid overtourism in Hell?"

How would you turn Hell into a tourist destination? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Already done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway

The village of Hell has become a minor tourist attraction because of its name, as visitors often have their photograph taken in front of the station sign.

Florida man armed with garden shears survives gator attack before shot, killed by deputies in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=florida

Nobody seems to have created a dedicated Florida Man community as of this writing, but there is !florida@lemmy.world.

EDIT: Oh, wait, yes there is. Just no banner. !floridaman@lemmy.world:

Florida Man Arrested For Having Three Wives In Different Counties After Dating App Scam Uncovered
Man in Florida 'shoots two Israelis he thought were Palestinian
Florida attorney allegedly strikes slimmer man with a dinner plate at the meat station after his daughter cuts in front of him in the buffet line
Florida Man eating 6-9 pounds of butter and cheese a day develops ‘cholesterol hands’ while on carnivore diet
Florida Clown School Student Who Tried to Smuggle Gold-Plated Pistol into Australia Claims Google Said It Was 'OK'
Sarasota man drove stolen car to Mar-a-Lago to talk to Trump in Palm Beach, police say

Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

But it is particularly concerning for cheap, uncertified chargers. These often lack appropriate levels of protection and can be a fire hazard.

I mean, you could hypothetically have an unsafe charger that plugs into wall power, but I don't think that that's specific to chargers. Any electrical device that plugs into wall power could hypothetically be unsafe.

In the case of chargers, the power supply is external to the device being powered and uses a standard interface, so it's easy to examine and replace. I think that the only thing that comes close are external, semi-standardized power supplies with barrel plugs. So if you want to make sure that you have, say, all UL-marked chargers (in the US; a CE mark isn't really the same thing in the EU but is the closest analog that I'm aware of) you can do that fairly easily compared to ripping an internal power supply out of a device. But I'm not convinced that USB chargers in particular are especially problematic relative to other forms of power supply or wall-power-connected device.

Shoes on or shoes off in your home? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 7 months ago

Shoes on.

Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] tal@lemmy.today 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Outside of formal settings, I'd say that it's uncommon for women to wear skirts or dresses in day-to-day life now.

Menswear is considerably more casual. This is a trend that's been going for over a century or so, so it certainly didn't just happen during my life, but it did significantly change in that time.