Schools and firehouses were funded long before property taxes existed. Property tax on “normal” homes is rent.

I assumed this was a joke. It’s an actual quote in the article. Holy cow.

I also don’t know Ukrainian

There is an English speaking foreign legion in Ukraine if you’re interested.

https://ildu.mil.gov.ua/

Do you have military experience?

That’s honestly impressive.

Omg. Listen to yourself.

This is the last thing I’ll address because you’re being deliberately obtuse now and just parroting the same, dull, seemingly deliberately naive takes.

literally called “The Republic of China”

That’s ignoring the countries that recognise them. That nomenclature is from history. Same as the Irish claim on the North. If they called themselves the Republic of Taiwan, China would invade post haste. Like this is twelve year old child level obvious.

You’re bringing nothing to the discussion that you haven’t already said and the .uk suffix coupled with such apology for an obviously independent nation smells so bad of a bad actor that I’m out.

It’s not. Ireland claimed Northern Ireland, while the UK didn’t claim the Republic of Ireland.

No, but it claimed the North. You’re deliberately ignoring my point which is that the claims, both ways, are bluster.

So in your opinion, literally every country and Taiwan itself is China’s bitch.

More or less, yes. There are exceptions and hats off to them. I wish my country had the balls but selling some butter (which I’ve seen in supermarkets in China) is more important to them.

China will cut off ties if you don’t recognise the one China policy. Even the US accepts it for trade purposes, all while arming the shit out of Taiwan to defend itself from annexation and maintaining heavy ambiguity on whether they’ll defend Taiwan.

Nobody claims Taiwan is a country, Taiwan doesn’t even claim to he a country.

Provably false.

This is equivalent to Ireland having a constitutional claim on the North until the 90’s. Essentially meaningless. Taiwan is an independent country and anyone who says otherwise is China’s bitch IMO. That includes my country.

Cheers. I appreciate the effort bud.

The fuck? Not disbelieving but you got a link?

I missed that. What racist stuff happened?

Congratulations. I honestly thought France / Spain would be the decider but Spain’s consistency was amazing. One goal conceded all tournament is the stat that says it all.

A well deserved win. Lots of sore heads over there today I’m sure.

Unfortunately anything beyond this point is tainted. The only thing that can save this is the USA coach deliberately not fielding Balogun.

I have a story to tell you about “steak and chip” on a menu in China that I assumed was a mistranslation and was in fact, not.

That chip was fucking huge though

Nice one. Cheers

Are you able to migrate Spotify playlists? I’ve cancelled my Spotify premium after more than ten years with them and on the hunt for a new provider. Got podcasts sorted already and I like their per-stream money for artists so very tempted.

Claude. Like the AI accelerating it.

Ireland has Gaelic football too so you have to figure out from context which football is being referred to.

We even play against the Aussies at a mix of the two football types occasionally which is called international rules.

Their lads are fucking massive as they play it professionally while Gaelic football is strictly amateur (all the money gets pumped back into local clubs which generally end up being very nice as a result).

It must be the 1% of the 1% of many fanbases.

Whenever Ireland are in a world cup, people start saving from the qualifiers so the rich are definitely there but it’s die hard footie fans that make up the bulk traveling.

It’s hard to overestimate just how much some people love the beautiful game. I remember the 2002 world cup which was in Korea / Japan and myself and my mates were getting up at unholy hours to watch all while murdering beers and screaming at the TV and I’m not even that into football.

leaving it behind isn’t as easy as they say it is.

🍻🎈🎉

He very much feels like Goebbels / Himmler to me. Amazes me that he feels straight up in the right but I guess they both did too.