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But it can be done. I have a friend who gained citizenship in Australia and another who did the same in Sweden (two of the harder countries to do that in). Neither was particularly wealthy, but both worked in software, which i imagine helped a lot. Took about 10 years residency in both cases...

My hair is entirely too long because the woman who cuts my hair just up and moved to Portugal (and I can't be bothered to find someone else to cut it). I think they just recently changed the rules to make it harder, but i can't remember if that was about establishing residency, or about gaining...

In the “On the right side of history” sense, yes. Yes they are. Room for you too. Hop on board.

I think Kirk meant exactly what he said, and that is the problem. The fundamental divide between conservatives and liberal is whether they feel the need to treat members of out-groups as equal (in rights, in status, even in humanity) with their own preferred in-group. Empathy (by putting...

Multiple choice test: The terminally online gun nut kid that killed Charlie Kirk inscribed "Ciao bella bella" on a bullet because: A) He was a history buff, specializing in century old obscure Italian anti fascist songs of which NONE of us were aware existed last week, or, B) Because he ran...

Killed,? No, of course not. Quit building strawmen. But when someone (ahem...) reflexively and slavishly carries water for these reprehensible type then of course they share in the shame.

Yeah, that leaped out at me too. That move was smooth enough that you feel like it must have been rehearsed in terms of the specific sequence of movements needed for that dismount.

Odds that this factoid leads you to self evaluate where you get your media from, and why those sources are failing to keep you informed of things that are common knowledge to the rest of us?

IMO, that's why "I've prayed on it" style Christianity is ruining Christianity for all of us. Precisely because it almost 100% of the time resolves to the "personal preferences and whims... devised to meet... felt exigencies".

Of all the posters on this board, I'm most disappointed by Zen. Smart enough to know better, not overtly trolling like a lot of others, not a professional contrarian, just stuck in a mental groove they can't quite seem to snap out of. Cognitive bias is a hell of drug. I haven't lost faith in...

It's like a public good. The choice is not between efficient or inefficient, it's between getting the information or not getting the information. 😝 But seriously, I don't know of an alternative written source for the information that Perun produces. I may well exist, but I don't know about it.

Yup, and you (meaning Ramrouser) are ignorant if you think the rest button was on HRC, she may have been in the photo, that was a president Obama who gave his secretary of state her marching orders. Hillary is, was and has always been a real Russia hawk. I love Barack Obama, but I can assign...

This. This. This. A thousand times, this.

After an hour of Perun's stuff, I feel like I've read an entire book! :) The guy knows his shit and has the gift of communicating dense material succinctly. I think you'll also appreciate how he extensively caveats things he does not know, and is very clear about sources and methods.

I know you're a reader, not a media guy, but Perun's YouTube videos are densely packed firehose of information. If you're truly interested on the topic I would suggest watching his latest "Russian Casualties & Force Generation - Losses, Recruitment & Sustaining the War in Ukraine". Normally I'd...