[Lady Bliss]

It’s very hard at our age to get a visa in other countries and unless we can buy property.

[Macros]

oh.

Naïve on my part I guess. We see so many people coming into jobs from all over the world here never really considered visa angles. I guess a lot of them have ancestral passport options too with the Irish being such a migrant nation and the British stamping their heels on most of the world.

But still with any kind of a job offer you don't need to buy property afaik

[HoosierDaddy]

My wife has already emigrated once in her life from China as a child. Her parents brought her here so that she could have a better life than they did (they were sent to the fields as part of Mao's glorious Cultural Revolution and suffered under the 1 child policy after that).

While I didn't experience how hard that process is, they do, and I think if they were to go anywhere again it'd be back to China unfortunately. That's even worse than here (for now).

Getting a visa and finding work that would make our lives easier than what they currently are is going to be difficult as well.

[Mentalist]

lol, now they're demanding a public, on-camera apology from Zelensky.

goddamn kindergarteners

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Mentalist, on 03 March 2025 - 10:57 PM, said:

lol, now they're demanding a public, on-camera apology from Zelensky.

goddamn kindergarteners

Wonder if Trump wanted to demand it be on his knees, slamming his forehead into the floor (like the Grace of Kings)....

So it's tariff apocalypse eve...

The market's been doing its solemn duty by tanking a little. We'll see to what extent Trump chickens out. (Lutnick already signaled the tariffs may be less than 25% and/or possibly limited to or excluding certain things.)

He's a bit like a toddler playing Russian roulette but with the gun aimed at his feet (and the world...).

China's finally prepared to retaliate with tariffs on US agricultural products. Punching the bully in the breadbasket. Wonder how that's going to affect my dried edamame---as I mentioned before the US is a net exporter of soybeans, primarily to China, so the price of soybeans will in the US almost certainly go down (as it did last time China retaliated with tariffs on soybeans, during Trump's first term), but my brand is a product of China (so would be subject to the tariffs, even though the price hasn't gone up since the 10% tariff was enacted), but also a US company, so who knows---I've stockpiled six months worth which seems like it might be enough time for them to change up their supply chains (or for Trump to chicken out). The price of almonds, pistachios, and walnuts should also go down, since the US is the world's biggest net exporter of those and a large percentage go to China (as well as Canada, Mexico, etc.).

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'No room left' for a deal: Trump says Canada, Mexico tariffs take effect Tuesday

Trump gave no indication Monday that he plans to grant any [exceptions]. What manufacturers will have to do "is build their car plants, frankly, and other things in the United States, in which case they [will] have no tariffs," he said. [...]

"Reciprocal tariffs start on April 2," Trump said, joking that he didn't want to do it on April 1, because it's April Fool's Day.

He also tried to reassure American farmers, who are likely to be one of the first casualties of any retaliatory tariffs from Canada and Mexico as well as China, that his forthcoming tariffs will ultimately help their bottom lines. In a post on Truth Social on Monday addressed to "the Great Farmers of the United States," the president wrote, "Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. Have fun!," Trump wrote.

https://www.politico...ariffs-00207238

The US exports so much agricultural stuff that the domestic market can't make up for the effects of tariffs. Even if Trump bans Ozempic. And especially with Trump deporting people. Though prices going up will help to compensate. Difficult to imagine biofuels or more bullshit subsidies making up the difference with the "deficit hawks" in Congress already throwing fits about funding the tax cuts but perhaps death threats (or deaths) will silence them.

Then again maybe Trump just wants to be able to say he really did it and so wasn't bluffing about the tariffs, he's a very scary Big Boy now, so he can rescind them in a month or two because the other countries have done such-and-such (they were probably going to do anyway) and "learned their lesson".