Stay at a hotel in Mestre, make a plan to visit lesser-known local businesses and attractions (Atlas Obscura is a good start), if possible, join a tour given by an authorized guide.

Apart from every other answer already given, Venice is existentially threatened by the continuous influx of people causing huge costs to the city while contributing absolutely nothing to the local economy.

I am Italian, I have stayed in my uncle's house in Rialto and loved to experience the little local life that was left at that time (20 years ago, more or less). Nonetheless, I have made the conscious choice not to visit the city ever again until it gets its shit together.

It is in fact cursed to disappear, but to deny young people to experience it because it is turning into a Disneyland for old people is just cruel.

Moeche can feed on billionaires. Just sayin'.

Them protesting peacefully is exactly why Bezos will eventually get things his way.

Please notice that Brugnaro, mayor of Venice, is politically spawned out of Berlusconi's party, Forza Italia.

Italian lesson: "Dio li fa, e poi li accoppia": "God makes them, and then pairs them"

Khamenei is a priest. 'Nuff said. Israel is a theocratic state. Religious people attacking each other, with normal people in the middle. Once more, Rome did it first, 900 something years ago.

I am personally supporting Ukrainians every week. I am also pro-rearmament in the EU.

That said, said by Germany, this should be read as "we are strongly reliant on heavy industries, but our cars in record low demand, so we really, really, really want to build a lot of weapons for Ukraine (and we will keep some for us, while we decide whether to agree or not on standards and common resource pooling with the rest of the EU)"

EU needs to take several other steps before going head-first into (over-)production of weapons at the levels being discussed here.

Germany sounds every other day like they forget there other 26 countries with them in the Union. And I could say the same about France, but under the military POV France is much more defendable.

You forgot immigration.

I believe him to be of Russian descent, and playing hard on the American stereotype of that.

He has had a troubled academic career due to a faulty paper trying to prove Tesla's Autopilot to make people more attentive.

He has a long standing podcast in which he interviews mostly techbros and politicians such as Musk, Carmack, Trump, Modi and the like for hours at a time. He never really challenges them and lets them speak on whatever they bring up, turning his podcasts into hours-long PR stunts.

Probably a Russian asset, given that in this comment to his conversation with Zelensky he reiterated Trump/Vance talking points.

I have noticed that people who later reveal themselves to be into Joe Rogan and the like first test the waters by asking you if you listened to the latest Fridman podcast. I work in a tech consultancy so I have quite a sample, but it could also be a bubble.

Andrew Rousso made a spot on imitation of the guy here, as usual. It's worth listening to a Lex Fridman podcast intro just to enjoy Rousso's imitation.

Ask about Lex Fridman: at least for tech geeks it is the antichamber to Joe Rogan and the pandemonium thereafter.