By the way, only some concentrations camps in Nazi Germany were exterminations camps. So even without any mass murder this can easily be regarded as equivalent in function to a concentration camp.
Kazumara
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Still can't believe this stupid liar became governor
Ah, yes it's for personal use, true. But the meaning of personal item as it relates to customs means an item that you take with you on the travels for your own use, so the assumption is that it leaves and re-enters your country with you. So that there is no net export or import involved. Here's the definition my government provides (helpfully even available in English).
My claim, if asked, would have been, that I always use two phones and I just took both with me when I went to Germany and then obviously took both back to Switzerland.
Yeah "willingness to pay" is quite an imperfect proxy for "necessity of the drive", but on the other hand trying to administer it differently to find out the validity of a given drive would create a huge administrative burden, and space for interest groups to lobby for exceptions, and attack surface for political opposition to prevent the entire system from ever going into service.
Yeah I'm with you in wondering about that.
semiconductors for example
Agreed. That makes the apparent dislike from the Republican administration of the chips act so weird. It would work well in tandem with a reasonable long term tariff precisely tailored to the goods you need to produce indigenously in future.
I didn't see any image credit for the bunny picture or the other rodent with the hood. So I don't think the original creator's credit was removed, only some remixer who didn't give credit lost his unjustified watermark.
I tried reading the original opinion piece by John Ullyot, and god damn what a sad lackey. It was hard to read.
If anyone really cares, that's because Pope Francis was from the Jesuit Order. The first pope to be one. They swear poverty among other things, so the golden chair wouldn't look appropriate.
he and his wife are Lebanese
The article only says that Bachir Atallah was originally from Lebanon, his wife, only referred to as Jessica, might not be.
Not that I disagree with the fundamental notion, I just noticed that it was never said where she was from.
From Switzerland shopping in Germany is pretty worth it. Their VAT which you can claim back on export is 19% ours is 8.1% and on top of that their prices are generally cheaper. It's a real thorn in the side of Swiss retailers. They successfully lobbied to have the VAT free value lowered, starting this year it's 150 CHF instead of 300 CHF.
I thought they were threatening him with flowers? He must be reading too much into it.