I'm going to be dog piled for this comment but have a preemptive "fly off" for your contrarian opinion.
I didn't ask to be born and yet I was. My father made his life mission to screw mine. Turned me into a very angry and authority distrusting individual. My mother died when I was young.
Could have turned to crime, drugs, despair, anything else. Instead opted to find a way to manage all that anger. It's a life consuming task.
Found a way to disconnect myself of the cause of my misery. Found people I could relate too. Found someone to love. Created my own family.
Is it hard? Yes, it is. It's tiresome. It's a never ending struggle. Sometimes I want to sit down and cry. Cry myself to numbness, until I faint. But I don't. I'm here, so the world has to deal with me.
Allow me to share a small personal story. An anecdote, as it is often called.
I was home for ten years with my children. I changed diapers, took care of meals and chores, and when it was time for it, I took my children to pre-school.
Being a stay at home father, being present for my children, was trampled on by teachers and the mothers of other children. It was disrespectful, demeaning. I was unwelcomed and unwanted. Some even tried to create a narrative that I was a danger to the children.
Women were more vitriolic and systematic in their gender affirmation than men.
That is extremely sad and telling.
The guy in the post is an idiot and being told to shut up and told off, followed by perhaps a couple of punches to the teeth would be enough to get him to stay quiet.
That picture is the closest representation of what hellfire must be without entering nuclear territory. For sheer display of power, that is that, in my opinion.
Euro is weird. The central bank is independent on paper but you have political figures trying their best to get in there. The current president is that bitch from the IMF. With so many countries throwing their chips to influence the central bank, things tend to level out but the Euro Zone is known to be slow to react to fluctuations and even worst on how to plan ahead. Just look at how they managed the 2008 market crash aftermath and the Covid debacle; most experts defend they should have had the opposite reactions they did, as in, they should had had lowered the interest rates and facilitate liquidity then and control money flow during Covid.
The Euro was once floated as an alternative to dollar for oil trading but it caused a shit storm.
They get exploited by a mix of factors, some of which are:
poor or badly prepared information for non-nationals
no easy recognition of academic competences
nationals refusing certain segments of employment due to systemic low salaries and/or poor working conditions
bad actors
In good intelectual honesty, I can't oppose immigration to my country; historically, we are an emmigrant nation.
Want I can oppose is how the same that go out and often get exploited, eventually come back and do the same to those coming here. Bad actors.
At a government/legal level, those same bad actors exist and thrive at delaying or not properly organizing the means for those that want to integrate, legally, to do so. It is extremely sad to be a private citizen and be forced to show a public official where and how are they wrong.
And professional, independent, orders refusing to recognize the competences of non-national professionals is disgusting. If a phisycian is good enough to provide healthcare in a tourist destination, I risk they can perform just as well anywhere else. The same for teachers, engineera, etc.
And last, on my list, why are there occupations too low for my compatriots to take? Low salary? Make demands, go on strike, unionize. Poor work conditions? Same recipe.
We have, technically, two grape alcohols: distilled wine or the distilled leftovers of the wine making process (bagaço).
I was referring to the second one. It's a clear alcohol, with strenght varying from 21% up to 75% (anything above 41% is technically illegal but privates still make the really hard stuff).
It is supposed to be flavour neutral (if it kills your taste buds it does become, along with everything else...) but in reality it still carries some of the flavours of the grapes/wine and it can accentuate other flavours.
It is used as a secondary leavening agent in traditional pastries, especially for very heavy doughs, as the alcohol evaporates and areates the doughs.
It's a local pastry. A traditional recipe. I bake it myself.
There is no fixed recipe. It uses plain flour, leavening agent, olive oil, grape alcohol (aguardente), eggs and sugar. The dough itself is to be very low on sweetness.
Everything is mixed together until it forms a heavy batter, that is then spooned onto a oven tray in dollops, sprinkled with sugar, and baked in medium/high pre heated oven.
We are speaking of the people that will, most often than not, occupy the lower paying/non specialized works that most nationals consider below them, correct?
The people that most often clean houses and businesses, work fields and greenhouses, staff restaurants, take the hard jobs in general and most often than not get exploited?
How about we put the people against immigration filling those jobs?
Sadly, I can't see that image.