RubberDuck

I’d call it Burqa logic. As there you see the exact lo.gic at work.

This kind of stuff is trivial for the IRS to find if they wanted to. Just crosscheck revenue, purchases and wage costs and such. And when stuff is off balance, audit. Here in the Netherlands they even look at how much mayonaise and water a restaurant uses to estimate revenue. Same as number of cans of hair product for hairdressers.

And if a company is found at fault they force them to switch to predominantly taking card payments instead of cash to make it even more transparent for the IRS.

Apparently they also estimate people’s net worth by looking at registered cars, real estate and the length of you yaght… and this is pretty accurate to determine if an audit is in order.

Air BnB started for people with a spare room. Cause then it’s just small scale and supervised. Or to rent out when you yourself are on vacation… like home swapping. And I think both are fine if they are the exception.

I don’t know who you think you replied to… but I agree. More is needed.

This is a good start. Putting hundreds if not thousands of Appartments back on the market for permanent living is good. And at the same time you increase livability in neighborhoods.

Exactly… all those sluts should just keep their legs closed and practice abstinence, deny one of their primal urges and get back in the kitchen and bake me a pie.

I’m happy some countries are still showing that stuff like this is possible. Good for everyone.

Roommates and such is fine. If it is done as a primary living space. That means you are invested in your surroundings. If you have parties constantly you piss off the neighbors and there will be trouble.

A vacation rental filled with people that can be as loud and obnoxious as they want because tomorrow or in a few days they leave and will never see the people that actually love there ever again.

And normal housing is not a hotel. If you have people that rent a room or something and you are there you keep an eye out and make sure they behave. Can you imagine your neighboring house or appartment becoming a party flat with people that don’t care how loud they are.

From the link you posted:

The offenders were tried and convicted in Japanese court by Japanese law, in accordance with the U.S.–Japan Status of Forces Agreement.

So:

• not legal
• Criminals gonna crime

Interesting, now his replacement has been finalized he can take off the gloves and say some stronger stuff before Rutte takes over.

Just hope Rutte does a proper job once he takes over.

Yeah, just like it was impossible to cut off Russian oil and gas.

Yup, and hydrogen for the greenification of steel production. Pump water into elevated reservoirs as energy storage.

Plenty of good things to do with excess power.

TikTok should be banned in Europe. The fact that the app we get served is not allowed in china, and that in china it serves educative content to kids means it is just a weapon of war for the CCP.

In the wiki article. The request was formally don’e by the government of Turkiye to the UN. It was accepted as a formal name change. And yes, Erdogan is their president. Im also not a fan of him, but calling a country by their name should not be contentious, or should it?

Apparently the spelling is closer to the pronunciation and is older than the English spelling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Turkey

Turkiye is the proper name btw. They formally requested people start using their name correctly.

One of the lessons we are learning the hardest way possible is that moving all your industrial base over seas to a country with autocratic tendencies makes you dependent on them, while also removing skill and knoedge from your country resulting in long term risk and damage.

Capital moves easily, supply lines do not. The 0 covid policy showed that this dependence on only china is dangerous for companies. And since companies are generally risk averse they will start spreading across more countries.

I’ll bet. I’m not German but I saw the maps of where the afd vote was geographically. And have some knowledge of German history so I asked the question in Ernest.

For east Germany it also does not help that within an hours drive you cross an arbitrary meaningless line but on the other side of it people will work for cents on the euro. So companies will not go where the higher wages are to be paid.

This also does not help the us and them rhetoric.

And yes, the left seems so hyperfocussed on migrants and citizens with a migrant background in their rhetoric that they alienate a lot of people that feel like they are not represented by that left. And this translates to… so they are spending all the money on the brown people and nothing is left for us… While in reality everyone is fucked… Except a very small group.

Massive difference in perception, or actual effects for the voters. Cause they seem to be mainly situated in east Germany.

Afd result is mind boggling