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> I have no idea what “mail” is

Not a native speaker. How do you refer to the pieces of paper that the Royal Mail sometimes drop through your letterbox?

I'm sure you are right, but that didn't stop the landlord from trying their luck. Your observation about serving notice is on point, because in the end the deposit was returned only after my friend filed a small claims case against them.

They absolutely prey on people not being having the time/resources to fight back.

A friend in the UK had his deposit withheld as "mail charges" by his landlord upon moving out. Turned out the fine print in his lease said that he wasn't allowed to receive mail at the house he was legally renting.

For someone intending to overstay their visa, is the loss of $250 really going to serve as much of a deterrent?

> Women aren't able to attract the mates they want, so they would rather try to do it on their own or wait, than "settle" for a guy that isn't meeting their standards.

This seems like a rational decision to me. Better go it alone than risk becoming the sole carer of both a baby and a man-baby.

Unless you plan for children to never leave the parental home, wouldn't housing demand caused by births just be identical to that caused by immigration, only phase shifted 20 years or so?

Meanwhile the baby is essentially a net drain on productivity, whereas an immigrant is not.

Maybe not for the client list, but possibly for the team.

How much would the code of say Photoshop be worth if the entire Photoshop team were to leave and set up a competing business?

Deploying spyware against journalists in retaliation for their exposing racism in the governing party's youth wing is petty.

> Ciro Pellegrino, who heads the Naples newsroom of an investigative news outlet called Fanpage.it, received a notice on April 29 that his iPhone had been targeted. Last year, Fanpage secretly infiltrated the youth wing of Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party and filmed some of them making fascist and racist remarks.

It's never a good look going after journalists, but this seems especially petty.

Some countries with publicly funded healthcare make immigration much more difficult if you have an expensive health condition. This is the case for Canada for example [1].

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

As did everyone else who read the article :-)

If it were that easy there wouldn't be a garbage patch the size of Texas floating in the Pacific.

Insurance companies are supposed to operate in this way, but some are happy to take your money as long as they believe they can profit and only start enforcing policy violations etc once you've become a net liability.

How would corporate governance work if the only shareholder had no voting rights and no board seat?

How much cleaner, safer and faster would the actual public transit option be if everyone who was prepared to pay $13 each way for a 30-minute commute paid the same amount in taxes instead?

> a conservator to manage their finances

It seems like that might be what they effectively end up with once the bank starts freezing suspect payments. I'm assuming they have some way of allow-listing other payments for rent and bills etc.

Young people may be checking out of that system but BlackRock and others are doing the opposite.

Why wouldn’t they, when government policy has made it an asset class that can never fall in value?

The UK-EU trade volume is three times larger than that between UK-US.

Here’s one UK datapoint from a few years ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/15/wood-bur...

My impression was that an agent would ask you to unlock your phone and then just randomly scroll through your messages etc until they get bored.

This would imply that no part of the Constitution applies at the border either, which is surely not the case.

No one sensible would agree to live like this. You’d be left only with politicians who were in it for all the wrong reasons.

It seems to me like elevator shafts with a single elevator going up and down is somewhat of a waste of building volume, with limited throughput similar to that of single-track railway.

Couldn't a smaller number of shafts move a greater amount of people using one-way traffic, paternoster-style?

> And maybe perhaps the pronunciation of diaeresis would be clearer written diaëresis?

Wouldn't diëresis be more correct? Now I'm curious how the New Yorker writes it.

I'm not disputing that the German economy has issues, but is a large number of companies with a P/E ratio over 100 really a sign of a healthy economy?

Explosive growth can only continue for so long before the bubble bursts.

There are plenty of examples of walkable neighbourhoods in places with cold and/or wet weather.

Arguably also true for some (many?) tech entrepreneurs.

Isn't Starlink subject to frequency spectrum licensing in each country it operates in?

It's a good question. If that were the case, I would have expected to also see other oil rich countries at the top of those rankings.

Not surprising that an Atlas Shrugged reading entrepreneur dislikes taxation.

But government services cost money, and by other accounts [0] Norway are doing pretty well:

Norway performs well in many dimensions of well-being relative to other countries in the Better Life Index. Norway outperforms the average in jobs, work-life balance, education, health, environmental quality, social connections, civic engagement, safety and life satisfaction.

[0] https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/norway/