I forgot two places - both as bad as Zakopane - One is the Hel(l) Peninsula, it’s as overcrowded as Zakopane; but it has a single road (one lane each way) that gets jammed very fast, you can be stuck there like 5 hours, even though it’s only 30 Km long. The second one is Krynica Morska, a town located on the Vistula Spit(separating Vistula Lagoon from Gdańsk Bay, in the Baltic Sea) and it has the same problem as Hel - it’s a popular destination with only one road in and out.

Here’s what I would avoid when traveling to Poland:

• Zakopane, it’s overpriced and very crowded. If you want to visit the area the town is in your better off staying in smaller villages, unless you have to use public transit.
• Szczecin --not an ‘avoid at all cost’ but more of a ‘there are better cities to visit’-- this-or-that part of the city is always being remodeled/reconstructed and there’s no ‘old city’ with day and night life focused between two shoping centers and some roundabouts in the city center. If you want to go sight-seeing Kraków, Wrocław or Gdańsk are much better choices.
• Mazury lake district, beautiful lakes and decent nightlife, shit infrastructure - roads are narrow (two bigger cars can’t pass eachother without going offroad) and often lacking sings and other markings
• Podlaskie Voivodship, even worse infrastructure than Mazury, it’s rural, mainly towns and villages with nothing a tourist might want to see. You might think it’s a good place to go star-gazing but Bieszczady are a lot better for that (Tho you should probably go to a Dark Sky Site for that, there’s one close to Bieszczady, in Slovakia)
• THE SEASIDE, it’s crowded, expensive, the sea is cold and it’s fumcking wimdy, go to like Italy, Croatia, Portugal or Spain instead

Also in general avoid capital cities, they are often the worst of major cites in a given country.

thanks for the help!

Thanks!

Next week I’m going to Czechia and later Slovakia. I want to get some local aftershaves while I’m there, do you all have any recommendations?

I’d stay away from SLA, I’m told uncured resin can be quite toxic.

Quick Google: “Short-term exposure to resin fumes can result in dizziness, headaches, and throat irritation. The long-term risks are unknown due to lack of research, but may include increased risk of cancer.”

‘Normal people’, ‘trash’ how about you chill a bit if you want to talk, I’m a rando on the internet not a rival politician lol

->Be me, walking down the street

->Overhear someone say they ‘dont’t like capitalism that much’

->Abloodymarxist.png

->I tell them ‘you’re no better than a Nazi, dirty commie’

->They look at me like I’m crazy and walk away

Even if a process is efficient, which in this case it isn’t (overproduction is terrible for efficiency), that’s not the only thing to consider, the moral aspect is important too. Off the top of my head, in this example, there’s the inhumane treatment of the cows, the workers get paid inadequately for what they produce, and the dumped excess produce probably affects the ecosystem.