Maybe a rule that your hotel can be child-free, if after your hotel has been defined as such, 80 % of hotel capacity in the area is still accessible for families. It's also not okay that a family cannot visit some area because all hotels there are child-free, but as a parent of two children, I can absolutely understand why someone might not want them around. I love them, so them waking up at 5:30 and causing moderate amounts of unavoidable noise is okay with me. But I can absolutely understand it's not okay with everyone. There are people who want to sleep at least until 6 in the morning (and probably all the way to 12...), and I think they must have a right for that! When in a hotel or similar, I of course do my best to make sure in different ways that my children will not make other guests' lives miserable, but sometimes they still behave as if they were kids. Because they are.
You're for a ban on your own existence?!
I wouldn't say the Russia's shitholeness has to do with westernisation. But, I can guess what was meant.
When the Russia became capitalist, almost nobody had any idea of the value of property. The factories became private property of their workers, but there could have been 1000 workers in a factory and people were like "what the hell am I gonna do with a paper proving that I own 0.1 % of a factory?!"
And then there were people who were driving around with a van full of vodka bottles. You handed out a bottle of vodka, you got a share. So, a full factory cost you one thousand bottles of vodka, and that's it. Or actually, 501 bottles of vodka, because a majority was enough. And even less, because most people didn't come to the meetings to vote, so you didn't really need more than a handful of shares to start making decisions that helped you gain a lot more influence.
The Russians thought that if they just have capitalism, then everything will soon be good. And Europe and USA were okay with that rather moronic thought, not really doing much anything to warn them that they are about to crash head first against a wall. Also, I think that especially in USA there were people interested in seeing what happens if a country tries to go fully capitalist with no state controls whatsoever.
It's a bit bonkers saying that is "westernization", as there are many western countries and only one actually has a system even somewhat like that of USA. So, maybe you could say that the Russia is a shithole because of americanisation (one done horribly badly), and that's almost surely what was meant with "because of westernisation".
But indeed: In the 1990's people in the Russia did those stupid decisions because they wanted to become a part of the west. And that failed. And instead of looking at what had gone wrong, the majority there just decided: "It's the west's fault! They did this to us!"
In year 1998 there was a huge amount of inflation, and basically, if you had enough money on your bank account to buy a house in January 1998, in December 1998 you were barely able to buy a loaf of bread with that money, as all money in the Russia lost something like 99.999% of its value in 1998. That was a horrible time, and the only year more horrible than that in the history of the Russia is 2026 (or maybe 2027).
But, when enough people are cut from the fascist instances' communities, then
- people are more motivated to found alternative communities elsewhere and
- the people admining the communities are more likely to move to some decent instance.
Germany is making AFD's life more difficult –> JD Vance is unhappy –> USA concludes that Germany has human rights issues and the issues are that AFD has become more active and Germany should have prevented that from happening. Okay.
Maybe USA should decide whether it's a problem to let AFD do its stuff or if it is a problem to not let AFzs do its stuff? 🙃
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- Searching for secrets in a video game with an exceptionally large heaplet of secrets and then, after having shown general skill and interest in committing to said action, seeking appropriate help for completing your task, including in the form of perusing a walkthrough.
I commend you for your engangement in achieving the best possible result in the process of donkeying the kong.
Uh? What does this have to do with left and right? There's no left in the US. (Okay, there is, but for what I know, there isn't even one leftist party either in Senate or in Congress. But maybe I'm wrong and not everything is just republicans+democrats?)
Still, at least the president has been either from Republicans or Democrats for the last century at least, so talking about "left vs. right" is kind of moot in this context of talking about US presidents. (Though, I don't know, maybe one of the parties has been somewhat leftist before WWII? I have no idea if that's been the case, because I was only born in the 1980's and might be too young to know something I'm maybe assumed to know?)
The person on the other end might be making somewhat educated guesses, based on what they have heard people around talk.
Huh? "I want to overthrow a tyrannical president" would have been an important thing to say when there was no tyrannical president?
Why?
Here's a list of MasterCard's toll-free phone numbers in various countries: https://www.mastercard.fi/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/na/global-site/documents/global-services-phone-numbers.pdf
And here's the same for Visa: https://www.visa.fi/content/dam/VCOM/download/personal/security/gcas_general_numbers.pdf
And the content of that file, in case that they might remove that link:
Mastercard Global Service™
Local Toll-Free Telephone Numbers
- American Samoa 1-1-800-307-7309
- Japan 00531-11-3886
- Anguilla 1-800-307-7309
- Korea, Republic of 0079-811-887-0823
- Antigua and Barbuda 1-800-307-7309
- Liechtenstein 0800-89-7092
- Argentina 0800-555-0507
- Luxembourg 800-2-4533
- Australia 1800-120-113
- Malaysia 1-800-804594
- Austria 0800-07-06-138
- Mexico 001-800-307-7309
- Bahamas 1-800-307-7309
- Monaco 0-800-90-1387
- Bahrain 8000-0087
- Montserrat 1-800-307-7309
- Barbados 1-800-307-7309
- Netherlands 0800-022-5821
- Belgium 0800-1-5096
- New Zealand 800-441-671
- Bermuda 1-800-307-7309
- Norway 800-12697
- Bolivia 800-10-0172
- Panama 001-800-307-7309
- Bonaire 001-800-307-7309
- Peru 0800-77-476
- Brazil 0800-891-3294
- Philippines 1-800-1-111-0061
- Cambodia 800-881-001 then 877-288-3891*
- Poland 0-0800-111-1211
- Canada 1-800-307-7309
- Portugal 800-8-11-272
- Cayman Islands 1-800-307-7309
- Puerto Rico 1-800-307-7309
- Chile 1230-020-2012
- The Russia 8-800-555-02-69
- China 10-800-110-7309**
- Saba 1-800-307-7309
- China 2 10-800-711-7309***
- St. Eustatius 1-800-307-7309
- Colombia 01-800-912-1303
- St. Maarten 1-800-307-7309
- Costa Rica 0-800-011-0184
- St. Kitts-Nevis 1-800-307-7309
- Curacao 001-800-307-7309
- Saipan (N. Marianas) 1-800-307-7309
- Cyprus 080-90569
- San Marino 800-870-866
- Czech Republic 800-142-494
- Saudi Arabia 800-844-9457
- Denmark 8001-6098
- Singapore 800-1100-113
- Dominica 1-800-307-7309
- South Africa 0800-990418
- Dominican Republic 1-800-307-7309
- Spain 900-822-756
- Finland 08001-156234
- Sweden 020-791-324
- France 0-800-90-1387
- Switzerland 0800-897-092
- Germany 0800-071-3542
- Taiwan 00801-10-3400
- Greece 00-800-11-887-0303
- Thailand 001-800-11-887-0663
- Grenada 1-800-307-7309
- Trinidad and Tobago 1-800-307-7309
- Guam 1-800-307-7309
- Turkey 00-800-13-887-0903
- Guatemala 1-800-999-1480
- Turks and Caicos 01-800-307-7309
- Hong Kong 800-966677
- United Arab Emirates 800-0444-3895
- Hungary 06800-12517
- United Kingdom 0800-96-4767
- India 000-800-100-1087
- United States 1-800-307-7309
- Indonesia 001803-1-887-0623
- Vatican City State 800-870-866
- Ireland 1-800-55-7378
- Venezuela 0800-1-002902
- Israel 180-941-8873
- Vietnam 120-11576
- Italy 800-870-866
- Virgin Islands, 1-800-307-7309
- Jamaica 0800-307-7309
- Virgin Islands, U.S. 1-800-307-7309
Last Updated 31 January 2019
The contents of the file for Visa's phone numbers:
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- Anguilla 1-800-847-2911
- Antigua 1-800-847-2911
- Argentina 0800-666-0171
- Aruba 800-1518
- Australia 1-800-125-440
- Austria 0 800-200-288Δ800-892-8134
- Bahamas 1-800-847-2911
- Bahrain 800-006
- Barbados 1-800-847-2911
- Belgium 0800-1-8397
- Belize 811 or 555Δ800-847-2911
- Bermuda 1-800-847-2911
- Bolivia 800-10-0188
- Bonaire* 001-800-847-2911
- Brazil 0800-891-3680
- British Virgin Islands 1-800-847-2911
- Bulgaria 00-800-0010Δ888-557-4446
- Cambodia 1-800-881-001Δ888-710-7783
- Canada 1-800-847-2911
- Cayman Islands 1-800-847-2911
- Chile 1230-020-2136
- Mainland China (South) 10-800-110-2911
- Mainland China (North) 10-800-711-2911
- Colombia 01-800-912-5713
- Costa Rica 0-800-011-0030
- Croatia 0-800-220-111Δ866-654-0125
- Curacao* 001-800-847-2911
- Czech Republic 800-142-121
- Denmark 80-010277
- Dominica 1-800-847-2911
- Dominican Republic 1-800-847-2911
- Ecuador 1-999-119 or 1-800-225-528Δ800-847-2911
- Egypt (Cairo only) 2510-0200Δ866-654-0128
- Egypt (outside Cairo) 02-2510-0200Δ866-654-0128
- El Salvador 800-6921
- Estonia 800-12001Δ800-406-9982
- Finland 0800-11-0057
- France 0800-90-1179
- Germany 0800-000-6510
- Gibraltar 8800-877-3745966
- Greece 00-800-11-638-0304
- Grenada 1-800-847-2911
- Guam 1-800-847-2911
- Guatemala 1-800-999-0115
- Guyana 159Δ1-855-477-1390
- Honduras 800-0123Δ800-847-2911
- Hong Kong 800-96-7025
- Hungary 06-800-17682
- India 000-800-100-1219
- Indonesia 001-803-1-933-6294
- Ireland, Republic of 1-800-55-8002
- Israel 1-80-941-1605
- Italy 800-819-014
- Jamaica 0-800-847-2911
- Japan 00531-11-1555
- Jordan 1-880-0000Δ888-557-4442
- Kazakhstan 8 800-121-4321Δ888-557-4447
- Kenya 866-654-0162
- Latvia 8000-02288
- Lebanon 01-426-801Δ866-654-0130
- Liechtenstein 0800-89-4732
- Luxembourg 0800-2012
- Macedonia 0800-94288Δ888-557-4458
- Malaysia 1800-80-0159
- Mauritius 01-120Δ866-654-0165
- Mexico 001-800-847-2911
- Monaco 0800-90-1179
- Montserrat 1-800-847-2911
- Morocco 002-11-0011Δ866-654-0163
- Netherlands 0800-022-3110
- Nevis 1-800-847-2911
- New Zealand 0800-44-3019
- Norway 800-12052
- Panama 001-800-111-0016
- Paraguay 008-11-800Δ800-599-1137
- Perú 001-800-890-0623
- Philippines 1-800-1-111-9015
- Poland 0-0-800-111-1569
- Portugal 800-8-11-824
- Puerto Rico 1-800-847-2911
- Romania 0 808-03-4288Δ888-557-4416
- Saba* 1-800-847-2911
- Saint Eustatius* 1-800-847-2911
- Saint Kitts 1-800-847-2911
- Saint Lucia 800-238-5517
- Saint Maarten* 1-800-847-2911
- San Marino 800-819-014
- Saudi Arabia 1-800-10Δ866-654-0129
- Senegal 800-103-072Δ888-557-4451
- Singapore 800-110-0344
- Slovakia 0 800-000-101Δ800-406-9970
- South Africa 0800-990-475
- South Korea 00798-11-00-908-12
- Spain 900-99-1124
- Sweden 020 160 4293
- Switzerland 0800-89-4732
- Taiwan 00801-10-3008
- Thailand 001-800-11-535-0660
- Trinidad and Tobago 1-800-847-2911
- Turkey 00-800-13-535-0900
- Turks and Caicos 0-1-800-847-2911
- Ukraine 800-502-886Δ888-557-4445
- United Arab Emirates 8000-021Δ866-654-0112
- United Kingdom 0800-89-1725
- United States 1-800-847-2911
- Uruguay 00-0411-940-7915
- U.S. Virgin Islands 1-800-847-2911
- Venezuela 0800-1-002167
- Vietnam 1 201-0288Δ888-710-7781
- Updated 1/10/2023
Do you have to somehow enable them? There is a common standard for paying directly from your online bank here in Finland, but Steam doesn't seem to support it.
Such an exemption would be moot: The tariff income goes to the US federal budget, and in this case, the extra costs caused by the import tariffs are paid from the US federal budget. It's +-0 all the same with the import tariffs. However, there will also be import tariffs in the other direction, and those need to be paid to EU. Anything that needs to be brought from USA to EU in order to be processed there into an F35 component causes extra money to go to EU.
he US federal budget doesn't really win or lose anything through the import tariffs alone, but the opposing import tariffs go to foreign countries in the EU and there's no reason why the US federal administration would exempt from those tariffs.
Of course, when EU countries are buying F35 planes, it matters more: There the components being brought from EU to USA are subject to import tariffs paid to the US federal budget, and are money lost from the perspective of EU. But at the same time, how is the price of the F35 agreed upon? If the price is already fixed, then Lockheed Martin has to pay the EU import tariffs from its own pockets and might get the US import tariffs compensated as federal subsidies. But, if the agreements say that the variance in prices are covered by the buyer, then the US import tariffs actually benefit the US.
I see you simply skimmed through my comment and commented without actually reading it.
Yes oh my god some of them were children
As I said in my comment, that is a horrible thing. Please read the comment and then reply again. It is ridiculed that you just randomly accuse people of being heartless without bothering to read what they actually think about the matter.
Also, you can be sad without being very very horrified. Those children were brought to death by their own parents. Why would that not feel bad?
that doesn't mean they deserve to die in a plane crash!
True. I completely agree with you regarding this. As I wrote in that comment. Please, just read it. If somebody is robbing a bank and gets shot in the process, that is a bad thing, because it's a dead human. A bank robber does not deserve death, because nobody deserves death. But, I won't expressly explain that I'm very sad about a robber dying, because the robbery does decrease my sadness. And even if the robber also kills their own child during the robbery, it of course makes me angry at that horrible parent, and sad about a child dying, but it doesn't make me actively write that I'm angry and sad. Because there are other thingsore relevant about the event.
Arguing against a really bad argument does not make the arguer's "empathy is conditioned on where somebody comes from."
If you now read my comment, you will notice that I'm saying my empathy is conditioned on what somebody has done. (And, to clarify: absolutely regardless of where they are from! It tells a lot about you that you even end up assuming it might be because of where that someone is from! That looks a lot like projecting.)
Furthermore: how have you successfully managed to completely skip the connection to the extreme suffering in Ukrainian homes? Based on you apparently projecting there, it's hard to not notice how you're voicing your compete apathy to the death and suffering of innocent civilians in the terror attacks the Russia is now committing on an almost hourly basis.
Please elaborate what in my text gave you such an impression.
Something in the ballpark of 90 % of those civilians support the war of genocide in some form. Some 30 % are against the war, but most of those are angry about how Ukraine was invaded: They would have wanted it done in a much less bloody fashion.
You talk with Russians, and they keep telling you how "you must look at both sides of the situation", in other words trying to defend the genocide their country is doing its best to commit. So, of course at least 5 %, possibly almost 10 % of Russian civilians are innocent, but out of the 44 adults that died, that is statistically about 2 to 4 people in the whole plane, plus the five children. Are we supposed to be very very horrified that 9 innocent people died in a plane crash?
In the other hand, the Russia is doing its Human Safari attacks against civilians, hunting them down with drones for fun. And they are targeting mainly civilian homes in their terror attacks with drones and missiles. If the death of those 7 innocent civilians and 40 guilty civilians (because of course, every death is always a sad thing – always to at least some extent!) helps end the war earlier and that saves the lives of 200 innocent civilians in Ukraine (being attacked by the army most of the plane's passengers were happily supporting), then as a net result that crash has then saved lives of a bit over 150 people. And yes, I prefer 49 dying over 200 dying, absolutely! Especially if those 200 are innocent and about 42 out of those 49 are not. Even if we were to assume somehow all of the 49 were innocent (HOW?! What are the chances for that?!), the balance would still make sense.
And then: They chose to enter a plane, fully aware of the existence of very severe safety problems in Russian aviation. A Ukrainian living in their own home and getting killed there hasn't really chosen their death as a victim of a terror attack. But someone willingly choosing to use the airplane under the current circumstances has made a completely free decision. They could have taken a train or a bus, but they preferred the risk in order to save time. First they decided not to do anything against Putin, in order to have a comfortable and safe life, then they decided to enter a deathtrap.
Nope. Not terribly sad. Not even for any of the approximately four innocent adults on the flight, because they chose the flight. I am sad for the 5 children, though. But even their deaths easily hasten the end of the war enough to save lives of 20 other children, which does diminish (but doesn't remove!) my sadness. It's 5 absolutely innocent people who didn't know of the risks and even if they did, could not do anything to mitigate them, and that's always sad. But 5 innocent children dying unfairly is something that happens more often than once per decade.
This war must end. It will only end when Russians get fed up with it. Everything that pushes them that way is more good than bad.
Possibly. Has there been a specific risk those two have been aware of without forbidding the dangerous operations?
We'll see how that will go in the States. I just read a text about why there are so few pickpockets in USA, and someone mentioned that during the Paris Olympics people had tried pickpocketing spectators from USA, and got so frequently immediately beaten up by spontaneously formed mobs of Americans that the French police had to start actively intervening on the side of the pickpockets O.o
Not everyone on this planet is like the Chinese and Russians. But, we are about to see.
Might be a cultural difference.
A Finn would be too scared not to react under the contemporary Russian circumstances. They'd work with the motto "I'm basically dead anyway, so this way I at least bear a chance to maybe survive."
...and then don't do as you claim to agree.
That's how you work with narcissists, yes. Give them the words they want and then do what you do.
EDIT: (Of course the important thing is that you agree off the record, when talking one-to-one. Then make sure no cameras catch you saying anything concrete.)