My thought exactly! I mean, has he been to Alcatraz?! 😆 I visited it as a tourist 15-20 years ago, it’ll take a bit a work! 🙄

Definitely agree - it was interesting being expats in the US and I loved being abroad as a family sharing that experience but I am so grateful to be a European citizen and have our kids grow up back here 💯🇪🇺🇩🇰

This!! We’re Danish but lived in the US as expats a few years ago. Adding up all the different kind of taxes in the US combined with all the other stuff we had to pay for separately left us with less disposable income than ever 🤯 The US wages were higher than in Denmark but we had never been poorer!

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Honestly, same!!

Have you tried reaching out to Hans Island? I suspect Denmark and Canada who share this island will be very forthcoming and sympathetic to the penguin cause 🇩🇰🇨🇦😁

I read an article about this earlier today. It also specifically mentioned soybeans which we apparently import *a lot of* from Louisiana, but the article said it was a product that we in the EU can easily get from other countries. Tobacco and sugar were also mentioned.

That’s what a lot of us are telling ourselves here in Europe too - Putin in our backyard and the US no longer an ally but at least we aren’t Americans 🤷🏻‍♀️

I just finished it and I’m in awe. It’s so fascinating how it balances delicately between poetic and unbearable. All the parallels to current events are definitely scary but I really like the main character’s perspective. I definitely want to read the sequel. Did you read the next one too?

*reading 🤦🏻‍♀️

I’m only a few chapters in but it’s already quite eerie. I’m readying a translation in my own language so I don’t know if this quote is completely accurate in English but I almost gasped at this part: “The Secretary of Space doesn’t need to know anything about science, only politics” 👀

I know the feeling, my reply was supposed to say “…are more likely…” 🙃🤷🏻‍♀️

That is funny 😆 But I also remember hearing that there are a lot of different types of readers - and especially “mood readers” are more like to be reading multiple books at the same time because they are looking for something to match their mood at that moment. Whatever works, I guess ❤️📚

Haha, most of the time yes 🙈 Sometimes I’ll have an audio book for my commute to work and a paper book at home but I rarely juggle more than that 😆

This book is literally sitting at the very top of my TBR pile right now! As soon as I finish the book I’m currently reading this is next 📚

Came to say the exact same thing 💯 Actual sentences and the resemblance of empathy combined with no use of CAPS gives it away.

Is it Polish soldiers or Ukrainian soldiers he will be training? As a European I know I have read news stories about how some of the equipment we are providing for Ukraine is different from what they have so our soldiers also train theirs - and this training also takes place outside Ukraine.

I actually chatted with an employee at one of the stores today and they did mention that there is a similar “Danish product” sign coming too. So specifically Danish products will be recognizable as well as just European products in general.

Agree 😁 But it’s not just food - some of the bigger stores carry a lot of other products as well (more like the selection in a store like Target). I only needed a few things so I didn’t go through the entire store but I also saw the stars in the aisle with beauty products and personal hygiene.