They're very nationalistic especially China. There's no guarantee they don't want to conquer the world even if they were not authoritarian. Just ask any of them about the 9 dash line, instead of saying something neutral like no comment they say yeah it belongs to us.
So the best thing is even if they democratise, for the moment never interrupt your enemy whilst they're making a mistake.
We can all thank our lucky stars for that. Totalitarian regimes are usually corrupt, and talent is based on how much you pay rather than your actual talent. They usually do alot of own goals that benefit the leader and it's cronies rather than the population at large. And constant purges which again helps the upper echelons but causes the country to go backwards.
We can thank their corruption for their '3 day special operation' taking almost 2 years and counting now.
Similarly China now has a population and economic crisis of their own doing to please their leader. Disallowing tutoring causing alot of younger generations to lose their job and killing the tech industry jobs because of beef with jack ma. And the one child policy which was a large part of the population decline.
We're lucky that people can't speak up to their leader when they make mistakes. Imagine if these regimes were competent. We just need to look at Germany in WW2 to see how that can turn out.
China is all aggressive because they know it's now or never. Even before the bad news with their economy it was already a foregone conclusion beforehand.
Everyone knew their population would decline. Then their comparative advantage disappears. Their advantage is a shitload of people, even with a lower GDP per capita it's still significant as it's 4x the population as the next country (besides India, who are on an even lower GDP per capita right now)
Due to the sheer numbers they can use their internal market as political leverage. Disagree with them and no money for you.
There's a few skirmishes but I think Putin has made Xi think twice. Although I do believe China can sustain quite a bit of losses if they do go to war before their advantage of many people disappears.
Firstly they have excess males so theoretically even if they lose excess soldiers it wouldn't affect their birth rate as the issue is lack of women not men.
Might be a two eggs in one basket outlook for them, gain a bit of territory and rebalance their gender ratio.
We can only hope Putin's war has made Xi think twice whilst we bide our time whilst their population decreases.
Eh what's to investigate? We all know the plane was deliberately bought down to remove specific people from existence. Even blind Freddy knows this.
Encourage young footballers and ship them off early to Europe to play (preferably England so they're guaranteed English language skills). But many go into international skills in non english speaking countries and you can't tell the difference.
And then hope they play for Australia. There's no way we'll ever match them in investment so might as well leverage their resources to train our players.
Why would you even need a digital ID? My digital driver's licence works great, accepted everywhere I go already and I've not carried a wallet for more than a year.
Transport card - digital Credit card - digital Loyalty cards - digital Drivers licence and all types of permits - digital Private health and Medicare - digital
Which place demands a physical copy of anything thesedays and moreover since it's working fine why do we need another
I see this as a way for the government to earn a quick dollar and de facto get into the housing market.
When the owner buys back the share I doubt it will be calculated at the price the person bought it for. It would be at the market price at the time of the buyback.
I guess it works both ways too? I can see someone buying the minimum 2 percent and if they get something like opal or mascot towers when they sell at a loss the government is the one that loses out. So I can see it as a way to transfer the risk to the government and live in a place without having to pay rent.
I always thought his channel was really dummed down. I watched a video or two and then noped out of it. Wasn't many if at all any tips from the so called tech tips site.
Oh and stating the obvious but he's 'sorry' because he got caught.
$800 a year?
I wouldn't go for less than 120 a day (commute cost + my per hour cost multiplied by the time spent travelling)
You don't even need to look at Carl's Jr. Just look at taco Bell I've walked past it and am convinced it's used as either money laundering or a tax write off. There's never anyone there.
Inflation is sweeping the rest of the world. It's a good thing people are buying less of stuff they don't absolutely need.
It's France they're very xenophobic. Just look at how they treat the Corsicans, Brentons, Basques and Catalans.
Night and day to even a few hundred metres across the road in Spain or Andorra.