Sampo Smolander

[Sampo Smolander @samposm]

@maxkarpis > 1 in 5 working-age adults in Europe

How is Europe defined here? Does it include 100 million Russians in the European part of Russia?

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@MyXaccName @maxkarpis Do you use Mobilepay in Sweden?

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@maxedapps Is it forbidden in Switzerland to have AC in your home?

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@HenriVanhanen Tony Blair ulkoisti liikaa valtaa oikeuslaitoksille, virastoille ja quangoille, vaikka vallan kuuluisi olla eduskunnalla ja poliitikoilla. Tuo demokratian ulottumattomissa oleva valta jatkaa blairilaista politiikkaa, eikä kansa pääse niistä eroon vaaleilla, vaikka yrittää.

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@Mark_Harding @vesperdigital @GadSaad > Is deferred payment still owed to Canada

Yes, of course.

Tax treaties between Canada and most developed countries will probably also eliminate double taxation, so you probably won't even end up paying any more tax. Just part of the tax goes to Canada.

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@pbyrokraatti Tanskalla on muuten samanlainen maastapoistumisvero (ja senkin maksua voi lykätä kunnes oikeasti myy), mutta se koskee vain yli 7 vuotta Tanskassa asuneita.

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@pbyrokraatti Olet väärässä. Kanada antaa lykätä veron maksua tulevaisuuteen, kunnes myyt omaisuuden. Jos uuden asuinmaan ja Kanadan välinen verosopimus poistaa kaksinkertaisen vertotuksen, todennäköisesti et maksa yhtään enempää veroa, mutta osa verosta vain menee Kanadalle. Hyvä systeemi.

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@SteveOnSpeed Denmark

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@cbcwatcher > When you cease Canadian tax residency, you're deemed to sell most assets at fair market value.

Incorrect. You can apply to defer tax payments until you actually sell the assets (or until you die).

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@GadSaad Your accountant sounds less useful than asking an AI. Just apply to defer the tax payment until you actually sell the assets. Then, depending on the tax treaty between Canada and your new country, you will probably avoid double taxation. So you won't pay any extra tax.

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@Heminator In many cases, you can apply to defer the tax payment until you actually sell the assets. And then, depending on what kind of tax treaty your new country has with Canada, you will probably avoid double taxation. So it's not as bad as it first sounds like

[Richard Seiler @richardseiler]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

[Sampo Smolander @samposm]

@TheEvilKaiser @SannaAntikainen https://t.co/gOyyLziLK7

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@Handre The 3rd largest Bank, Glitnir, failed first. Iceland government made plans to nationalize it but then they realized the 2 larger banks were also in trouble, and they just didn't have enough money to bail out all 3, so they stopped with Glitnir, too.
https://t.co/hnFSIqz4zF

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@Handre > The state refused to socialize private bank debt

This is a myth. The Icelandic government totally tried to bail out the banks, too. The politicians tried to do the same as Ireland. But there was simply too much dept and the population of Iceland is too small, so they couldn't.

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@OrbiusO @kangminlee > 250k is equivalent to saying 5% of all girls under 16 were raped.

250k over a time frame of 40 years, will not give you 5%. More like 1%.

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@ganka1212 Did Japan use wood preservatives such as 2,3,4,6-tetrachloroanisole when building wooden homes?

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@thlbr > Vähemmän lapsia tarkoittaa lopuksi fiskaalis-makrotaloudellista kriisiä

Paitsi jos Elon Musk tai Korean chaebolit saa aikaan humanoidi-robotit seuraavan 20-30 vuoden aikana. Sitten robotit voi hoitaa vanhukset ja tehdä muunkin ruumillisen työn.

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@aakashgupta > South Bimini's airstrip was watched, closed at sunset, and had a single road in.

But have you heard of the other Bimini Road? The one under the water.