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Volvo cars was sold to Geely but Volvo Buses (+ trucks) is still a Swedish company.

> She was entitled to a refund or vouchers.

Is this true? Many (most?) airlines offered vouchers en masse when they had to cancel most flights during COVID, with no option for full refunds.

At least Air Canada was forced by the Canadian government to pay back vouchers to people who asked for them, as part of a deal for financing.

I was able to claim the full value of the flight I had to cancel in April 2020.

Interestingly, even the initial vouchers took many months to be delivered to my email (6 months or more I think). But the refund was very quickly paid. The power of government coercion...

It's widely accepted that the Huanan market cases are an early super-spreader event and not the first human infections. Basically we don't know who and where the first infected humans were. We do know lots of people got infected at the market and that became the first time a new pneumonia was noticed in hospitals.

Trillions and trillions of mutations and still the most dangerous H5N1 viruses were created a decade ago by Fouchier and Kawaoka. And how did that help us prepare for the inevitable natural evolution of the same virus?

I found it suspicious that it mentions "sleeping in cars" which shouldn't be needed for day trips as most places in the country are at most 3 hours drive from Amsterdam and places in Belgium and Germany can be reached that fast as well.

Day trip means people return home at night, not that they sleep in the cars.

Seems to cover more than that, things we should be ignorant of could simply be labeled as False. Malinformation seems to be about how facts should only be interpreted in a certain way. So for example a factual statistic but it can only mean what the government decided it means (i.e. supports the government's policy).

Actually controlling inflation means slowing it down. So the gallon of milk will be only 7 cents more expensive than last month, not 70 cents.

But a public company has higher public transparency obligations than a private one. Why do you think being afraid of Elon will make them more transparent than being afraid of the SEC?

> For 2021, national tourist board Visit Britain has forecast that visitor numbers will be lower even than in 2020, when travel restrictions were at their highest.

Not sure how they evaluated the travel restrictions, but in 2020 there were travel corridors between many European countries including the UK, while for most of 2021 to enter the UK there were required PCR tests (usually 3) and home quarantine. 2021 restrictions definitely felt more strict, at least in the summer.

Restrictions for arrivals were only lifted for the vaccinated in the autumn.

The point is that she gets called because of buzzwords such as Blockchain and AI and what have you.

If the education and job experience is made up, how do you know you're not getting calls because you sent a fake CV mentioning great education and relevant past jobs?

How so?

If these days a house listed for x gets offers at x+10%, after average wages increase it will receive offers at x+20%. Is there any historical precedent of house prices not rising faster than inflation, absent external factors?

I think a major correction of house prices can happen in two ways:

- economic catastrophe (everyone's unemployed) / war / natural disaster / ... - we wouldn't want to buy a house anyway in that case;

- major increase of interest rates or minimum deposit required - we wouldn't be able to afford the mortgage in that case.

I agree, religion offers simple ways to classify actions as good or bad. Following the church teachings or priest's guidance was enough to make an individual confident they are a good person, doing good things.

Meanwhile, in real life, everything is complex, few things are clearly good or bad, everything has advantages and disadvantages. People need a simple compass to distinguish good and bad. It seems the "political beliefs" are taking up that space in a secular society.

Also it seems the agreement is that 7 countries agree that all countries in the world need to have that minimum rate? How would they convince the rest of 180+ countries? Especially, how do you convince the ones who would lose a lot of tax income by closing their tax heaven loopholes.