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There are still places on the Croatian Adriatic which aren’t over run with tourists. Of course the popular areas are extremely crowded. There are still other beautiful islands which are not so busy. I’m writing this from a small 20 tent only campsite on a Croatian island. Access is only by ferry. Facilities are limited (no large supermarkets for example). It’s our third summer here and while there have been some chan…
Wifi or 3/4g?
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The recommendation, remember? The research? She was a PhD student.
Technically, just to be that guy, she worked all the extra time and was compensated for it with a recommendation.
That's criminal, and it's worrying you're justifying it under an account named "Workaccount2"
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Falklands is much closer to Argentina though - they should belong to Argentina by right of proximity.
Do you have any more info on this right of proximity? It’s nearer to me so it’s mine is that about it?
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The US is actually bizarre, anyone born in the US automatically gets US nationality. This leads to amusing birth tourism. Iirc it is the only country that does this.
It's not unique to the US at all. Almost all the countries in North and South America are like this. If you want to claim it's wrong that's another debate but everyone in the Americas came from somewhere else, borders are an ephemeral concept and what's bizarre to me is how strict Europe is with jus sanguinis when its borders have changed so many times in the last century and in the centuries leading up to it. I do b…
Out of these 11% only a third were from EU (including Great Britain), 6.5% of the foreign nationals were from Latin America, taking 5 out of the 15 countries from which most Immigrants come from, and the biggest year to year increase in immigration is from Venezuela (39.8%), Colombia (31.3%) and Honduras (29.4%).
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> priority queue if you must with priority being given by a random number generator tempered with both nonsense You cannot sensibly call this a "queue". No programmer would accept "random order" when they expected "in order". Moreover, decisions are independent . The number of people already accepted is not a factor in individual immigration decisions! Someone else getting accepted cannot affect the outcome of your o…
Obviously the priority is /meant/ to be sensibly arrived at. The rest was commentary on how sensible it is likely to actually be in practice, with a nod to your assertions about it which seem at least plausible. I simply don't believe decisions are entirely independent. I strongly doubt the public servants making those decisions have it in the power to increase the rate of immigration tenfold based on individuals mee…
It is clear that there is high political prioritization of rejecting as many applications as possible, despite what the criteria actually say and whether the criteria are met. Once people manage to appeal to the real courts, rather than the politically controlled asylum process, most of the decisions are overturned. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/03/inhumane-thr...
The number could be significantly increased by simply taking their own stated rules at face value rather than rejecting valid applications.
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What's it like in Serbia, do Chinese oligarchs own everything?
The Chinese are buying up Serbia's industry and mining. They provide jobs and money but care nothing for the environment.
"...(the only access to the islands) is to have a pre-arranged job contract with a company that has signed a form of bond taking responsibility for you" That sounds like all British immigration rules. My employer had to apply for my visa and had to pay all my healthcare contributions for a year up front before I could move for a job in London. If I lose my job I have a few weeks to find a new employer (who will have…
Don't go. My young friend went on contract for a year, doing fishery research. After a few months they said "We aren't going to pay you any more. You can't leave because the boat won't come back until {whenever}. And if you say anything, we won't give you the recommendation you need as a young researcher doing a PhD." She had to stay for months working for nothing. It's slavery, and they know it, and that's how it wo…
The horror stories of things they endure would fill hundreds of volumes. One told me another prof just stole her dissertation topic, and she lost two years. Innumerable others get caught in academic politics because another prof doesn't like theirs.
As many people say below, being a whistleblower brings a heavy personal cost, and no one should say "you should publicize this" without being aware of that.
"...(the only access to the islands) is to have a pre-arranged job contract with a company that has signed a form of bond taking responsibility for you" That sounds like all British immigration rules. My employer had to apply for my visa and had to pay all my healthcare contributions for a year up front before I could move for a job in London. If I lose my job I have a few weeks to find a new employer (who will have…
Went to the same visa process recently. It left me with the feeling that foreigners were viewed with suspicion. > I doubt British people know how bizarre the policies that arose from their voting are either. I assumed this actually was a consequence of their voting (seems in line with Brexit).
Here's data showing national attitudes towards migrants [1], the UK has consistently one of, if not the most positive view in Europe towards migrants. It's always been a fairly pluralistic place relative to most places on the continent. The notion of reducing migration or having some control over it is fundamentally different that views of migrants themselves, much like there's a big distinction between regular migrants and undocumented migrants, which is sometimes conveniently ignored for political reasons.
The rules for migrants are varied in every country, they are similar on the Continent in many ways where they have their own bits of weirdness.
The Falkland Islands have a population of 3000, which is really, really small. Every 'small nation' especially the really tiny one's are going to have a really peculiar take on basically everything. There's either one person, or not even one person the kinds of jobs for which we take for granted.
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/03/14/around-the-wor...