This is a widespread public opinion in Ireland btw, which is not part of NATO. About 50% disapprove of joining, most citing the idea of "why the fuck would Russia invade Ireland."
Cannot overemphasize how funny this film is. Like laugh out loud hilarity combined with the intense bleakness of late capitalism. Superb movie.
Incredible painting, oozing with style. Thanks for sharing.
So I did this process in 2015. It might be different now, just FYI. I did have to go to the consulate, it's huge and miserable and you wait in line for over an hour. You apply for a tourist visa with a long forum, attaching proof of airline ticket purchase both into and out of China as well as a hotel room, and have to give in your passpt as well. If all goes well, they'll shoot you an email in a few weeks and you have to go back to the consulate to pick up your passport with your new shiny 10 year 90 day multi-entey visa. They do have single use visas but usually even if you apply for that single use visa they just give you a 10 year multi entry visa to encourage more tourism. As long as your fill the forms out right, you'll be fine. It's just quite time consuming.
When you get to China it's pretty much a normal place with a different suite of apps, the only big difference being everything is reliant on Alipay and WeChat. Menus are QR codes only accessible through WeChat. All stores only take mobile payments. You are required to use these apps to function in urban Chinese society. So definitely download them. Getting money into Alipay as a foreigner without a Chinese bank account is not easy, so make sure to read up on how to do it! It also changes all the time so I don't know the current scheme of how to do it. Wonderful place though, incredible food, everybody is very helpful even if they don't speak English, get a jianbing for breakfast and go for dim sum the next.
‘Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh’: Ireland, colonialism and the unfinished revolution is a wonderful place to start. Gives a good overview of the contradictions and struggles of Irish decolonization, and what remains to be done.
I want to note that Sally Rooney has also refused to allow her most recent works to be translated into Hebrew and sold in Israel in accordance with the BDS movement. She's a real one.
Well given that Portugal was a fascist state up until a left wing military coup in the mid 1970s I don't think you're off base here.
That's a train or bus, there's no way a plane has windows like that.
TikTok without Americans is a dream come true. I hope it gets banned for the sake of the rest of us lol
Lamy 2000. Yes it's $150, but it's the only fountain pen you need. It's perfect. The design hasn't changed in 50+ years. There is no pen better imo. I have used mine for over a decade and it still feels new.
That's kind of Branko Milanovic's argument in Capitalism, Alone. Good book, even though I disagree about a lot of its conclusions (mainly that China is clearly "state capitalist").
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Looks like a week where a decade happens is incoming. Writing's been on the wall for a while, we'll see if this is the Thing that explodes into the widespread regional war we've all been predicting.