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Just want to leave it here that the Global Times is a virulently anti-American / anti-Western arm of the CCP/PLA, not really a source I'd go to even for political cartoons (and this one doesn't really make a hell of a lot of sense anyway). Europe and the rest of the West has no shortage of pointed (and funny) political commentary to choose from.
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Like the national forests? Go while they're still there.
flatdawgs replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
This is a painful topic to those of us who grew up in the PNW (or, I assume, in other forested areas). I can see three national parks from my office window, and most everything else in between is national forest. We grew up playing, fishing, hunting (wasn't my thing, but certainly friends did), and - most of all - hiking in them. To this day it is where I'm happiest. I recall the days of actual clearcutting right down to the streams, rivers, and highways, and would so hate to see that return. Nowadays they have to leave buffers and replant, which doesn't replace the more mixed natural forests but is a renewable resource and as such is likely to continue. Selective logging is best but is still fairly rare. The lack of sawmills is definitely a thing out here as well, at least in WA. Oregon is still a resource colony WRT timber and probably have more remaining. When I was young two places all the kids in Seattle went to on field trips were a salmon hatchery and a sawmill. Both are ingrained in us as part of our home. The hatcheries are still there; the sawmills, since the early Reagan years, are mostly gone. Now raw logs are sent to Asia for milling and their use. Our lumber comes from Canada - easy enough to see the trains and trucks rolling through Seattle. Mass timber construction will continue to grow; building codes have very recently been updated to allow for greater use, even in high-rise construction, and there are now local wood product manufacturers here again to produce those materials. As mentioned above, though, stick frame/dimensional lumber will still dominate the construction market for some time to come, and Canada has the mills. Like manufacturing elsewhere in this country, it effectively no longer exists here - certainly not as it once did. -
I have my tax ID and bank account set up/funded - that part takes up the most time from the applicant's perspective. Highly recommend using a Portuguese attorney to assist; they're reasonable (i.e. not members of the Surly Lawdog Cabal). As far as the rest goes, I've put it on hold whilst waiting on the new government's changes to the visa laws to become codified/clarified as well as to take care of some things here. It'll probably be a year or so until I restart the process, all else being equal. There is still a backlog of applicants for the Golden Visa program (visa by investment; 7 days min residency/year); it's being cleared as fast as possible but there's still a processing backlog of 18-24 months. Note that this doesn't mean you can't get temporary residency there. The 5 year clock to citizenship or permanent residency now starts upon acceptance of application rather than processing date, which is a huge time savings. The other residency visa options are much quicker/cheaper but require tax residency, or 181+ days/year in country. My sister and her family have been in the UK for 16 years and are dual citizens - one of the reasons Portugal was so appealing to me (plus it's just a lovely country/people and I speak a bit of Portuguese; not required to live there at all, but is for citizenship/permanent residency).
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If I make it that long, no - but I had already started the residency process in Portugal some time ago, long before the last election, and without regard to politics. The question would probably better be "will I return?" I live in and am native of a beautiful, sane, educated, prosperous part of the country and may well have returned home at some point; now it remains to be seen. We just hope to continue to be forgotten up here while we help pay everyone else's bills.
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Hawai'i says hi (before we fucked them over). Texas history is awesome, though.
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Chamberlain, although hopelessly naive, was well-intentioned in his hopes of avoiding war (as was Daladier). This is not that. This is Hitler berating Hácha into giving up the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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I expected nothing less from Foreign Minister Marco von Rubiotrop.
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Palau and the Marshall Islands are under Compacts of Free Association with the US; independent but we provide their defense, postal services and some other stuff. They were always going to vote with us regardless of what it is. Hungary sucks. Israel also sucks; they did nothing much for Ukraine after Bucha, why would they start now? The others are either pariah nations (NK, Belarus) or recipients of Russian aid, primarily military/PMCs (most of the African nations listed). Yep, we are a shithole country now. Lovely.
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"That's Friedrich Merz, from the CDU." "She sounds hideous."
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
flatdawgs replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
"But we need our socialism! Why is he taking our socialism away from us?" 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆- 9859 replies
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Guy played in Minnesota, Oakland, and Seattle. Clearly brainwashed. (and a real mensch)
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Great points, and I'll of course defer to your knowledge (plus love your avatar; Floripa is awesome). IIRC Bolsonaro was stabbed on stage during a campaign appearance and the event had a similar impact on the electorate as the Trump shooting did (although Bolsonaro was much more seriously injured). The resilience of the Brazilian judiciary is all the more impressive when you take into consideration the political violence and the still extant corruption (great comparison to Louisiana + local DC). The Electoral Court told the blockading truckers to GTFO and they did so. I think there is still some institutional memory of the Diretas Já movement and the end of the military dictatorship; here of course there is no such parallel.
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I read Portuguese sufficiently well enough to follow Brazilian news and politics; one thing I'll note here is that Brasil has a functioning judiciary, one that can go after, at various times, both Lula and Bolsonaro - and release Lula as new shit came to light. That said, right now it appears as though whomever Bolsonaro backs in the upcoming elections will be favored. And then 8 January 2023 happened in Brasília (yes, obviously two months after this statement, but the parallels are striking in many ways - save for the fact that the perpetrator in Brasil was banned from running again for 8 years and is once again under indictment for related crimes. Up here in the "First World," not so much.)
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You post this in response to someone who went to Washington? We have our own big-ass ledge for that. The asteroid would be a vast improvement....
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As if the poor bastards living along that line don't have enough shit to deal with.
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There are a few Texan regulars at my local here in Seattle - most have been here for a few years and primarily came voluntarily for jobs, but as they mostly tend to the liberal side I'm not sure if politics played any part in it as well. Good people. I've progressed relatively far in my plans for relocation to Portugal, although haven't pulled the trigger yet and may not for a bit. The motivation was not political - I live in (for me) a sane enough place, one that just this week voted overwhelmingly to raise taxes for a social housing program first made successful by Viennese social democrats - but should the other Washington remember we exist up here, it might be the impetus to pull the trigger. Good luck to any of you planning it, and remember to not simply look for a place full of other Americans/expats. You'll enjoy the experience a lot more with the locals.
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Every few years, BC folks are polled about who they feel most aligned with in the rest of North America. WA gets between 50-60%, depending on the year (higher recently), CA 15% or so, and nowhere else gets more than around 10% - even other Canadian provinces (Québec gets about 5% lol). Cascadia is a real thing up here in the PNW, although we're quiet and polite about it. Most of us grew up crossing the border frequently, in both directions, although White Rock isn't nearly as interesting as Matamoros or Nuevo Laredo, heh.
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*aboot
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Norway. Tax the hell out of resource extractors for the public benefit (SOCIALISTS!), create a fund currently worth 1.2 trillion dollars with ownership of the equivalent of approximately 1.5% of all shares traded on the world's markets. Norway has 5.5 million people. We, on the other hand, will give it all to 6 or 7 Toddler Kings.
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My critter - former chair of the House Progressive Caucus and representing a seat Harris won 85-11 - is doing the same shit, posting "statements". 100% of the responses on Bluesky to each one are identical to the above: "Stop posting and do something!" Perhaps it's time to realize that these people are just representatives, not leaders. It would allow our low expectations to be met.
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Clearcutting still exists here (although regulated to some extent by using buffer zones, variable-density harvesting, etc. and mandatory replanting) and although it has been severely limited (on federal lands) since the NW Forest Plan 25 years ago, it still occurs there under the guise of other NFS projects, most recently in the Colville NF. On private lands, which are extensive due to the checkerboarding of federal land grants to the railroads, it's more extensive and subject only to state regs. In WA these are relatively weak due to, among other things, the fact that the state constitution to this day allocates school construction funds from timber sales revenues. You're quite correct (as I'd expect with your background and experience) that more of this occurs outside the NF boundaries than inside, which can be pretty clearly seen in the checkerboard patterns on satellite images.
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We already log in the national forests. We always have. NFs are for resource management, not preservation; side benefits such as camping and hiking are just that. I've spent my entire life spending time in the Cascades of WA and OR - most of which is national forest land - and I guarantee that not only does logging still go on in them, quite often you can't even get to where you think you are going because the Forest Service roads are gated to allow for timber extraction. Oregon is still primarily a resource colony due to timber, despite most of the mills in the PNW having shut down 40 years ago - since then softwoods have been exported to Asia to be milled there. Washington's economy is far more diverse and the state is much wealthier (3rd highest GDP per capita in the nation, ahead of California [4] and Texas [16]), but even here the timber industry is important and a good deal of that occurs in the national forests. A tariff war above and beyond the three-decade long timber wars would hurt not because you can't get the trees, but because there is no longer anywhere to turn them into lumber.
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July? Ya gotta go when stuff sucks before you decide. Seattle, for example, is chock-full of people who came out to spend time in July or August, when it's the best place on earth, saying "lol it doesn't rain here that much!" Yeah, come back in the fall/winter. If you can make it through November, you're a local. Chilly, foggy, drizzly is what you want to experience on the central California coast. I spent a June and part of a July in Tavira (Portugal); fell in love with it. I had to go back during a November to make sure it was right for me. Good luck - y'all would be a great addition to the Best Coast.
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