I had an American house mate here in Australia. He maxed out a bunch of credit and got into trouble. Eventually he just left Australia and went back to the States and defaulted on everything.
As far as I know nothing happened to him and the Australian banks couldn’t do anything. I mean from their perspective he just dropped off the map with no contact details valid anymore.
Yeah Chaser nailed it. All the “assistance” is not for the people who need it… It’s simply welfare for the power companies and landlords. The ones who caused this shit show in the first place.
Not sure if true but I did hear somewhere that a big part of the Roman changes were to make carving letters into stone tablets and buildings easier.
It certainly explains using more straight lines in eg M and N. But maybe the flip also makes it easier to carve if you’re chiseling right handed? I’m imagining how I’d chisel a K.
What Zagorath also replied. I can go vote anywhere. Everywhere in my region they have the same giant book with everyone’s names. They obviously reconcile it later to double check but it still amazes me as a system.
This is clever. But in a way, it’s also shifting the environmental impact from these bottle caps. I can’t imagine under which conditions the birds’ may be a problem (e.g. getting too much food). Maybe someone with better knowledge on these species can tell if there could be a downside (no matter how improbable, just the...
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This is clever. But in a way, it’s also shifting the environmental impact from these bottle caps. I can’t imagine under which conditions the birds’ may be a problem (e.g. getting too much food). Maybe someone with better knowledge on these species can tell if there could be a downside (no matter how improbable, just the...