Yeul

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by Yeul 2y ago
To be fair China is a threat. For the last 200 years we've lived in a world dictated by the West. All other nations have always agreed to abide to the Western world view. Ofcourse China is at its core only a symptom. The world economy-
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by Yeul 2y ago
A lot of people don't know this but one of the strengths of China is their huge expat community all across Asia. When Dutch people arrived in what is now Indonesia in the 16th century they ran into Chinese merchants- the only locals wh
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by Yeul 2y ago
The idea of buying stuff from a dodgy website just seems strange to me. One of the most fundamental basics of trading has always been trust.
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by Yeul 2y ago
In the Netherlands people use a system called iDeal. It was a masterstroke worthy of Sun Tzu by the banks at the onset of e-commerce to keep the American credit card companies out of the loop.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Lucky bastards.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Americans call it innovation I call it going back to 1890. But I refuse to believe that every employer in the US is a piece of shit. I bet most of them are decent people.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Unemployment is low, rapidly aging society. Any company that treats it's people this way will find their workers looking for greener pastures.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Ah yes collections. Good luck with that if you live in a studio or apartment. Seriously IP holders of old movies should get on that Tubi thing I hear so much about so they can at least squeeze some money out of it.
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by Yeul 2y ago
I'm white, blue eyed and speak without an accent but I do have friends of shall we say Mediterranean complexion who have run into problems with hotel security. It's all in the small print too which nobody reads (these hotels have
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by Yeul 2y ago
Yep I have Edge here on my phone and I quote "the AI browser". So yes I do see it in marketing.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Considering most European countries have universal healthcare the pharmaceutical industry is just an arm of the government.
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by Yeul 2y ago
I don't know about America but in my country a bunch of historians and architects can decide something becomes a monument and then society has to spend tax money on it for the rest of eternity. Normal people can understand a castle. Th
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by Yeul 2y ago
If America can make space a crusade again instead of a business sure. The Chinese are currently in their Apollo phase in which every engineer dedicates their life to the mission.
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by Yeul 2y ago
There is this scene in Das Boot were one of the crew members says that they are going deeper than the sub is rated for and the captain says "don't worry German engineering".
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by Yeul 2y ago
You can't make money from a small fuel efficient car I suppose. The margins on a 50k SUV are huge.
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by Yeul 2y ago
In my country you see a lot of motorcycles as soon as the spring summer shows up. They all go back to the garage when the autumn rain starts. They're not really practical.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Hackers themselves became corpos- or worse work for the intelligence agencies.
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by Yeul 2y ago
I sometimes read alarming articles in the media about literacy rates and attention spans. I played Planescape Torment and other text heavy games in my teens.
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by Yeul 2y ago
This is what happened in the Netherlands. After the war the entire population genuinely believed that they were engaged in rebuilding the nation into something better. Turns out humans can do a lot if they work together- ofcourse it usually
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by Yeul 2y ago
Also a lot of history books were funded by government money or NGOs. Which is understandable considering that it may very well take years of research to write one.
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by Yeul 2y ago
I speculate that because of those few years of living as a rockstar you're left with a big gap on your CV.
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by Yeul 2y ago
How many astronauts died in the Apollo era? Nobody wants a Chinese moon base. That's worth a few lives.
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by Yeul 2y ago
It's space. If you want safe you stay at home. There will always be a risk when you ride a rocket into orbit.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Yeah in the 1980s the stadium concert tours were invented and people like Madonna, Springsteen and Michael Jackson made tons of money from it.
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by Yeul 2y ago
State sponsored art has been tried in my country and it led to entire warehouses filled with shitty art. People glorify artists.
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by Yeul 2y ago
As I understand it copyright on a videogame is 50 years but the vast majority of games- or all entertainment really- stops making money after a few years. It gets worse if your game has licensed music in it! I think piracy is the best metho
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by Yeul 2y ago
In the case of all out nuclear war with the USSR the choke points would be the 3000 or so targets that would be hit by Soviet nukes.
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by Yeul 2y ago
We do. This is just deregulated paradise Texas. I don't complain Texas supplies Europe with LNG and their carcinogenic sacrifice is appreciated.
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by Yeul 2y ago
I was reading the newspaper a few weeks ago and there were two articles that amused me: The first one was about Dutch high speed trains having to reduce speed to 80kph because the construction company fucked up the bridge construction. The
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by Yeul 2y ago
I saw 9/11 cloud on TV. That was one building. If Earth's megacities get nuked I refuse to believe that it would not have consequences for the climate.

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