OP is referring to this: https://jamestown.org/program/the-long-arm-of-the-lawless-the-prcs-overseas-police-stations/

China operates clandestine police operations out of their embassies that harass Chinese citizens living abroad.

I believe they meant that they are surprised our banknotes aren’t made of plastic or a more durable material as Canadian dollars are - rather than the other possible interpretation, referring to a cashless economy.

JFC.

This is the correct answer. Pacific Northwest microbrew is awesome for many styles. But not German/Belgian style beers - you guys haven’t figured them out yet. The big nationally distributed beers like coors and bud are basically horse urine.

We already have a bunch of different import tariffs on stuff - it’s not new. Most goods from outside the EU/EEA/CH have at least a small percentage charged on them.

But, they’re selective and used to protect domestic industries- so for example, cheese from outside Europe has tariffs on it to protect the French and Spanish cheese industries. This is fine, because we can buy those European made cheeses for cheap.

This is different because we don’t apply enormous tariffs to stuff that mostly comes from abroad. That would be stupid.

Alaska and JetBlue are both nice airlines as a passenger, and AFAIK are pretty decent to their employees. Unfortunately neither is very useful unless you’re staying within your particular coast, or flying from a hub to a very specific destination. The lack of network effect and international destinations limits the usefulness of both, sadly.

Line go up so good.

Well… I thought it was relevant and humorous, and the rules don’t say the submissions have to be news. I might be stretching the definition of “discussions” but, figured it was worth a try :-)

It’s a beautiful country! Lisbon is well worth a weekend getaway once you get settled!

Wow, that’s surprisingly complicated! In Portugal it’s very simple, you’re Portuguese if either parent was. Sorry to hear it’s such a mess in the UK. But good luck, I hope your family will qualify for permanent residence.

Huh. Interesting. I thought a child automatically inherits the citizenships of their parent a birth. Weird.

Sorry to hear about your family troubles - hope it’s sorted soon. Shouldn’t your daughter be eligible for citizenship by descent, since you’re one? At least here in Portugal that is the case.

Are you a dual citizen? Otherwise, you would have needed a job, no?

We need to release him so he can work on Elon next.

Haha, plot twist! That doesn’t sound very useful.

How quickly did it burn disk space? I occasionally have to resize my Lemmy VM for the Postgres database, but I’m still on the free tier for object storage after like 1.5 years of running this. I would imagine a photo sharing site would crunch through disk a lot quicker though.

Spain, you mean Europe Mexico?

It’s even stupider when you remember that fries are from Belgium.

I hired a law firm in Poland that specializes in immigration. They walked me through genealogy / document procurement first, then helped with getting everything translated and notarized for use in Poland. It took about 2 years from starting the process to receiving citizenship.

Welcome to our side of the pond, friend!