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Have you filled one out lately? The questions have got a bit wild.

Its pretty common for international travel....?

USA, Canada, Australia all have a small fee to process a visa. Some even have tourist/hotel taxes if you really want to get a huff on.


A visa is entirely different. EU citizens of course don't need a visa to visit the UK (or the US, or Canada). The UK always had some special border shenanigans (not in the Schengen, etc etc), even for travelers with EU passports, but demanding an advance application with an associated fee is a new level of ridiculousness.

You've described exactly what the EU are implementing this year

Is it because no one you know IRL uses paypay? It hasn't been relevant in a lot of countries since Ebay was popular in the mid 2000s.

A free/standard current account will do physical/online payments, cash withdrawal, currency conversion, spending abroad ect ect.


No, the social media company.

Vocal gamers care, majority market gamers dont.

They will continue to buy three reskinned Ubisoft sandboxes a year and two seasonal sports releases.

The industry is already forfeit.


Also children probably don't care.


The scary people who lent the money to silence Twitter actually need paying one day. Lord knows you aren't doing that with any other product in the portfolio.


Favors can always be offered in lieu of payment. Preferential access to powerful friends or political candidates, a stock tip here and there....


It would take a tremendous amount of favors to cover $20B of loans.


Are the talks just Elon with a sock puppet on each hand while Grok runs in the background doing the voices?


That's mostly to prepare teenagers at the time for having no state pension in 50 years.

I have about seven of the buggers and I'm only in my mid 30s.....


Pensions or teenagers?


Lets assume all this is true, why should i be concerned about it?

If the Chinese tax payer is going to help me buy a new car then thanks, my own government isn't going to do that.


The Chinese tax payer isn't voluntarily helping you though, it's China's forced resource extraction from its own citizens (wage and QoL suppression), to maintain a stranglehold on global manufacturing. Everybody (except your specific car purchase) would be better off if they used these resources domestically. Do you think they'll ever want payback? if not from you, then from the next generations.


When you start presuming that the cause of this is that China is evil and wants world domination, let me remind you that it's the propaganda getting to you.

China had a mandate to contribute to climate action goals years ago. Their government sponsored that growth. Now their companies need to make a profit and selling overseas. It's simple free market forces.


For the same reason countries don’t like it. It guts their domestic industry and puts you at the mercy of an authoritarian country?

I thought the last few decades of the US losing key industries to China was a lesson everyone learned?


Because over time when your own industries suffer and then become jobless, your country is less secure and wealthy.


> The single-car crash was reported at about 12:45 p.m. on the scenic road north of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Mountains. The southbound Ferrari veered off the road just after exiting a tunnel, hit a concrete barrier and a passenger was ejected, the California Highway Patrol said.

> The driver, Zampella, was trapped in the ensuing car fire, the CHP said. He died at the scene and the passenger died at a hospital

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-develope...


Ok, but no where do I see any credible claims of reckless speed or irresponsible driving. Without some evidence you’re just jumping to conclusions here.


Its on video my man.

Starts with a car going way too fast, the middle bit if an Italian car being rapidly disassembled and it ends with a fireball.


Apologies, I wasn't aware of there being a video.


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