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  1. UPDATE: As many commenters have pointed out, since we wrote this video the Ukrainians have made further advances, and reports suggest they reached Kupyansk yesterday (September 9th). As of this morning (September 10th), there are now reports, recently confirmed by various Russian telegram channels, that Russian forces have surrendered en masse in Izyum already, which is sort of incredible. It's hard to overstate quite how terrible this is for the Russians, and things could get even worse as the Ukrainian forces take advantage of the ensuing chaos. If you wanted to stay updated on the latest developments in Ukraine, subscribe to the channel - it's much appreciated!
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  2. This script was written before Putin made his demands regarding NATO's expansion into Ukraine, which is related but distinct to the Minsk negotiations. If you'd like us to do a video on Putin's NATO demands and opposition to NATO more generally, let us know in the comments down below - Jack
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  3. A few people already confused/angry in the comments, but I'd say two things: 1. Watch the video, don't just judge it on the title (and considering the video's longer than the time it's been out I suspect you haven't had chance just yet) 2. 'Losing' doesn't mean 'lost'. Russia is definitely struggling a lot more than Putin ever expected (as we explain in the video you're commenting on) but that doesn't mean it's a foregone conclusion. We would argue that Russia is losing at this point, but that's not us saying it could never change.
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  4. CORRECTION: At 6:50, we say "Sweden and Norway'" when we clearly mean "Sweden and Finland". Apologies; we'll continue trying to clean up these irritating errors and we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video.
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  5. CORRECTION: When we finalised this video yesterday evening for release this morning, Prime Minister Mario Draghi had announced his resignation. An hour or so later, it was reported that President Mattarella had in fact refused Draghi's resignation. This doesn't necessarily mean Draghi won't eventually resign, but it does mean that some of the information in this video is outdated. We apologise for the error, but unfortunately, there was no way of re-doing the video to include this information without delaying its release, so we decided to release the video as is with a comment explaining our error. Again, our apologies, and we hope the video was nonetheless both informative and enjoyable.
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  6. We thought it best to address the points made in the comments section for this video. In the opening of this video, we discuss some ‘wacky’ lawsuits - using the McDonald’s hot coffee case as an example. It’s been brought to our attention that bundling the McDonald’s lawsuit in with another frivolous case was, frankly, plainly incorrect - considering the very real injuries sustained by Ms. Liebeck, and the merits of the case. To put it simply, we agree with your criticisms and complaints - and we will try to ensure that it won’t happen again.
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  7. APOLOGY: Just a quick apology from us: we originally published this video with the thumbnail 'Did Hungary and Poland Betray Ukraine' - as many of you pointed out, this language was too sensationalist/clickbaity, so we've changed the thumb to a more neutral description of events. Apologies, we hope you nonetheless found the video informative!
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  8. UPDATE: Since we wrote this video, the Pentagon have apparently announced that American weapons systems can indeed be used during the Kursk offensive (https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3867296/deputy-pentagon-press-secretary-sabrina-singh-holds-a-press-conference/ ). It's also worth mentioning that, while there have been some reports of Ukrainian F16s in Kursk, the lack of video evidence this deep into the offensive suggests that Ukraine have not deployed F16s to Kursk (yet).
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  9. UPDATE: Last night, Georgians in the capital Tbilisi staged a massive protest against the government's 'foreign agents' bill, which would require non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and independent media who receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to declare themselves as foreign agents. The bill is unpopular with the Georgian public because it's widely perceived as a replica of a law passed by the Kremlin in 2012, which has been used to target and suppress "unfriendly" media outlets and NGOs. During the riots, some Georgians waved EU flags and chanted anti-Russia slogans. While this video doesn't touch on the recent protests directly (it was written a week or so ago), it should hopefully provide some context and help you understand why most Georgians - who are generally pretty pro-EU - are at odds with their pro-Russian government.
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  10. After we wrote this video, it was reported that Biden would approve the sale of new F-16 jets to Turkey, which had previously been blocked in reaction to Turkey's purchase of a Russian S-400 missile defense system in 2019. It's now apparent that, while Erdogan might have had real complaints about Finland and Sweden's treatment of Kurds, he was also using the threat of a veto to force the US' hand on the F-16 deal. Apologies, we didn't quite have time to fit this in yesterday and get the video out this morning; hope you enjoyed the video nonetheless!
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  11. THREE THINGS TO NOTE: 1. Yesterday evening, after this video was created, it was revealed that Ukraine had re-captured Lyman. Reports tell us that Ukrainian forced closed in on the city from the West and South forcing a Russian surrender. The rest of the video is still accurate, so we thought it was definitely still worth releasing, just know that the Ukrainians were successful in the effort in Lyman discussed in this video. You can read more here, as well as on basically any other news site: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/world/europe/ukraine-maps.html 2. Sorry about the audio and video quality. As you can see I recorded it at home, just becasuse of technical issues in the studio & because I was working from home most of the week with a pretty gross cold (which I wanted to recover from & avoid spreading to the rest of the team). I hope you can ignore the tech issues and just enjoy the information and graphics as normal! 3. The reason I wanted to recover so badly was because right now, as this video is released, I'm running the London Marathon. I'm still not fully better (as I write this on Saturday evening) but I am feeling better. I'm still going ahead partly because I've trained for too long not to, but also because I'm running for SRUK a charity who raise money to support people with scleroderma, a rare auto-immune disease my mum suffers from. The disease has no cure and in some instances is fatal (the 10 year survival rate is between 50 and 80%). SRUK are raising money to not only help find a cure, but also support those living with the condition - and both of those things are vital as there's no government funding going toward finding a cure in the UK. If you'd like to donate I'd really appreciate it and you can do so here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tldrjack Thanks, and sorry for any disruption in this video - Jack
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  12. CORRECTIONS: (1) At 5:15 we say 'only a slight majority [in Bornholm] want independence', when we meant minority (2) At 6:30 was say that 'more than 8 million people claimed Silesian identity in the 2011 Polish census', when we meant 800,000 Both of these were typos on the writer's part (Zac/me, the guy writing this comment), so apologies for that; we'll try our best to improve in the future
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  13. It’s an entirely fair point. The titles and thumbnails are a balancing act for every video, as we want people to click the videos and learn about important topics but we also don’t want to mislead anyone. I would slightly push back on the specific term clickbait though. To me at least, the bad kind of clickbait is when the title promises something which is either untrue or not delivered on in the video. I think at worst our more ‘clickbait’ titles may over dramatise the issue slightly (although in a way we still seem to be respectful) but the videos themselves always still deliver on the core promise of the video, as we’ve always done. I do get why people want a clean, accurate titles on our videos. I think the whole TLDR team would prefer that too. For us though, we really think the topics were covering are important, so if we’re going to reach the 18-30 demographic we’re aiming for, we have to play the same game to get their attention as everyone’s else on YouTube is. We’re not just competing with news, we’re trying to teach people politics vs far more fun content they could watch on here. Again, I do understand the desire for a more pure news experience, and I really do hope that people are able to understand that our actual videos haven’t changed at all. It feels very sad to me that someone’s desire to not click on a more hyperbolic thumbnail would put them off watching the full 8 minute video - that feels like a really disappointing situation for everyone - Jack
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  14. CORRECTION: At 0:30, we say 'Sweden and Norway' when we clearly mean 'Sweden and Finland'. Apologies (especially to our Nordic viewers) - this is a sloppy mistake that we shouldn't be making, and we hope you nonetheless find the video informative.
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  15. Correction: The 10H rule actually states that wind turbines have to be 10x their height away from nearest residential building, not 10x the height of the nearest building. Apologies
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  16. CORRECTION: The Northern League are, of course, Italian, not French as claimed at 2:00 Melenchon left the Socialists in 2008, not 2018 as claimed at 8:35. Apologies for that; we thought it was worth mentioning that these were both mistakes in production, not by our writers/researchers, so don’t worry, our French writers know what they’re talking about. Anyway, apologies again, and we’ll try our best to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t happen again. PS: some people have suggested we probably should’ve focused more on Hollande’s policy failures than his personal life. In retrospect, you guys were probably correct, but hopefully the wider point - that Hollande’s presidency has had long lasting consequences for the socialists and the French left more generally - still came through. And as a final final thing, thanks for calling us out on it - constructive feedback always welcomed, and as an audience you guys are great at it (and remarkably well-informed)!
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  17. I know we addressed this in the video, but there's still a bunch of people talking about it, so on the HAI thing. We are absolutely aware that HAI released a video on this exact topic only a couple of days ago. We started work on this video on August 20th and the script was finalised on August 26th, so in no way we did we steal anything from HAI - the script was locked down way before that video came out. Regardless we contemplated not putting this video out, as we were concerned that people would be done with this topic having seen the HAI video. However, we decided that ultimately out video takes a very difficult approach from Sam's. I don't mean this as an insult to the HAI video at all (I have been subscribed for a very long time and watch most HAI and Wendover video) but those videos tend to only lightly touch on each topic. They give you a brief overview of a topic in a few minutes to give you a starting point if you want to research further. Our video is that further research. As a politics channel and with a political audience we can take 10 minutes to explain the complexities of Belgium's political system which just isn't possible for HAI. Ultimately I hope you enjoy both videos and as much as we were sad to see our topic taken days before posting, that's just how the game goes. HAI clearly had no idea our video was coming and we had no clue they were doing there's. Though if HAI start explaining trade deals or doing Brexit videos we might have to start writing a dis track...
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  18. CORRECTIONS: At 1:09, we displayed a map implying that Albania was part of Yugoslavia, when Albania was never part of Yugoslavia. We also used an EU symbol for our Serbia license plate animation, when, as we mention later in the video, Serbia is not currently a part of the EU. Apologies about both of these errors, we hope you nonetheless enjoy the video!
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  19. CORRECTION: At 4:22, we misspelt "RESORT" as "RESOT". Apologies for this sloppy error - we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video!
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  20. CORRECTIONS: At 6:44, we say that 'for most of the war, Russia refrained from striking civilian targets'. Of course, this isn't true: Russia has been striking civilian targets since the war began in February of last year, as we covered on this channel. What we were trying to communicate is that there was a significant uptick in Russian strikes on civilian infrastructure (bridges, railways and the electricity grid) in October of last year, when Russia changed its command after the successful Ukrainian counteroffensives in Kherson and Kharkiv, and this latest attack on Nova Kakhovka suggests a further escalation in this direction. Nonetheless, this is an error on our part, and we can only apologise - it's a sloppy mistake. At 2:30, we say that Kherson city is 'occupied by the Ukrainians'. Again, this is just a mistake - we meant to say 'controlled', but apparently got a little confused having used the word 'occupied' in the context of its Russian occupation so many times previously. At the end of this video, and in other videos, where we refer to Russia's "Special Military Operation" we intend the reference to be tongue in cheek. I think previously that's been pretty well understood, but we totally see that based on tone it's possible to misinterpret our intention here. To avoid any confusion going forward, we plan to refrain from using the phrase (even mockingly) Finally, some commenters have pushed back against our suggestion that the Russians were behind this, and likened it to the NordStream pipeline attacks last year. We're not going to go into this in too much detail, but the two cases are clearly not analogous for a whole load of reasons (as we explain here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBArIp0Gy7g ) These are sloppy errors that we shouldn't be making, and we can only apologise - hopefully you still found the video informative
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  21. CORRECTION: At 7:00, we show St. Petersburg as being inside Kaliningrad (it isn't). Apologies for this sloppy error, and we hope you enjoy the video nonetheless!
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  22. CORRECTION: As many eagle-eyed (or eared?) commenters have pointed out, at 5:25 we say 'Balkans' when we of course mean Baltics. We're really sorry about this - it's a sloppy error we shouldn't be making. PS: Some other commenters have accused us of clickbait, arguing that there's zero chance of this actually happening. We're sympathetic to the general point that this seems unlikely and wouldn't go well for Wagner, but as we point out later in the video: a) Prigozhin is nothing if not unpredictable and b) it's something the Polish state is apparently worried about, which is why we decided to do the vid in the first place. Nonetheless, we hope you still enjoy the video, and apologies again for the sloppy errors!
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  23. CORRECTION: At 1:50, when we're talking about the AfD's popularity in Saxony, we mislabelled Saxony-Anhalt on the map. Saxony is in fact the region to the southeast, below Brandenburg and to the east of Thuringia. Apologies for this error; we hope this has cleared things up and you nonetheless enjoy the video!
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  24. UPDATE: VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz-Zegerius has said VVD will not enter government, but could support a centre-right government in parliament on constructive proposals. She said: “The big winners are the PVV and NSC. After thirteen years, a different role suits us. The voter also said: VVD, skip a round. But we will make a centre-right cabinet possible. We will support constructive proposals, so it is a form of tolerance." https://nos.nl/artikel/2499072-fractievoorzitter-yesilgoz-vvd-niet-in-kabinet-mogelijk-wel-gedoogsteun
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  25. UPDATE: This video was finished on Friday and there have been two key updates since then: 1. President Duda has proposed amending the law to remove the penalties that the commission can impose (i.e the commission wouldn’t be able to ban people from office but would be able to issue a statement that someone is not fit for public duty). He’s also proposed changing the makeup of the commission so that its members are non-partisan experts and not members of parliament. However, these changes would only be made if/when parliament adopts the amendments. 2. On Sunday hundreds of thousands of Poles marched in Warsaw to protest the government and its plans. Some estimates put the number at half a million.
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  26. Thanks to everyone for pointing out the colour issues in our charts. I think we just picked the CDU's colour from their logo but clearly, that was a mistake. We'll make sure to use black to represent the CDU going forward and be more vigilant when checking party colours in other countries too - Jack
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  27. CORRECTION: As many commenters have pointed out, we incorrectly include Albania in our map of Yugoslavia at 0:50. Apologies for the error - we shouldn’t be making these sort of mistakes, we’ll try not to do it again. Nonetheless, we hope you still found the video informative and enjoyable.
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  28. Update: Since we made this video, the two main Catalan pro-independence parties (ERC & Junts) have said that amnesty is necessary but not sufficient to make Sanchez PM. The parties have agreed not to support Sanchez unless he agrees to "commit to work to make effective the conditions for holding a referendum". All in all this increases the likelihood of another election.
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  29. CLARIFICATION: At 1:22 in this video, we say that Sweden had the most left-leaning results of any EU country. This is true, but it was equalled by Portugal, which also gave 10 out of 21 seats to left-wing and far-left parties. Eight seats went to the Partido Socialista (which sits in the EU's Socialists & Democrats bloc), one seat went to the Bloco de Esquerda (which sits in the EU's Left bloc), and one seat went to the Unitary Democratic Coalition (which also sits in the EU's Left bloc). Thanks for watching!
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  30. UPDATE: Since we wrote and animated this video, the Russian advance in Severodonetsk has accelerated. According to the governor of Luhansk, Russian forces now control 70% of Severodonetsk, and Ukrainian forces have retreated to defensive positions in western Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, which is still under Ukrainian control.
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  31. UPDATE: Since we wrote and animated this video, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced he's considering resigning, blaming a “harassment and bullying operation” by his political opponents after a court launched a corruption investigation into his wife. This doesn't really affect or undermine the gist of the video, but at 4:25 we do describe Sanchez as a political "survivor", which now looks, well, a bit silly, even if it's still sort of true. Anyway, we hope you enjoyed the video nonetheless!
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  32. CORRECTION: At 5:45, we're talking about the Digital Services Act, but the Online Safety Bill is shown on screen. Apologies for this error, and we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the vid!
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  33. Apologies, as a number of people have pointed out, at 4:07 I said “Russian HIMARs” rather than Ukrainian like I was clearly meant to say. I think the graphics and context do make it clear enough to hopefully avoid confusion, but apologies for the mistake ALSO, and this is on behalf of myself and Ben (the other guy who hosts our videos) please do trust me that we do look up the pronunciation guides constantly. I totally get that we likely miss with the pronunciation regularly, but in a normal video record we stop to look up pronunciations maybe 5/10 times. Now, good and accurate guides are hard to find for a lot of the smaller places, and even for bigger people/places they’re often dodgy and hard to replicate. I totally get why it’s annoying to have someone pronounce words wrong, and we will continue to look up guides constantly (and hopefully improve) but please do know that we are genuinely trying, we’re not just guessing! - Jack
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  34. UPDATE: Things are moving quickly so here is an update on some things that have happened since this video was written: - National Rally ruled out forming an alliance with Reconquest - Republican party leader Eric Ciotti said he wanted to form an alliance with National Rally, but this sparked uproar within his party (previously the mainstream centre-right party in France) with some lawmakers quitting in protest and senior party figures demanding Ciotti's resignation - The main parties on the left have agreed to form a 'popular front' alliance to fight the election, but it remains to be seen who will lead it (and the question of leadership will be a major point of contention)
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  35. UPDATE: Since we wrote and animated this video, the US and its allies have announced further sanctions on Russia's oil industry, which will put even more strain on Russia's oil revenues in the coming years. Thanks for watching, and we hope you enjoyed the video!
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  36. Sorry for the audio issue at 2:15 - unfortunately without deleting this video, re-exporting and re-uploading there's not a whole lot we can do about it. Sorry for any inconvenience and I hope you can still hear what I'm saying! - Jack
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  37. CORRECTION: Since we wrote and animated this video earlier this week, there have been reports that (as we predicted in the video) Germany will indeed agree to re-export licenses for Leopard-2 tanks. According to a report from Politico on Tuesday evening, two sources close to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have told Politico that, as well as agreeing to re-export licenses from countries like Poland and the Baltics, the US and Germany will also send M1 Abrams and Leopard-2 tanks to Ukraine themselves. The total number is expected to be somewhere around 100 - far fewer than the 300 the Ukrainians requested, but definitely a non-trivial number. According to the Politico report, this will all be officially announced sometime later today. This video mostly covers the contours of the argument over the last couple of weeks, so we hope you nonetheless find it informative and entertaining; apologies either way!
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  38. CORRECTION: As many commenters have pointed out, the narrator says 'FdL' throughout the video, when it should be 'FdI'. This is clearly a mistake, and we can only apologise for it - as an explanation (not an excuse), it's because in arial font a capital 'I' looks identical to a lowercase 'l'. Nonetheless, it's entirely our bad, so apologies and we hope you still enjoyed the video! Furthermore, there's been some pushback against the idea that the Fratelli d'Italia are far-right, as we say in the thumbnail. This is fair enough - as we mention in the second half of the video, the FdI's actual policies aren't anywhere near as extreme as some of their rhetoric. Nonetheless, they're clearly on the right of European politics, and some of their politics could be fairly described as far-right', so, while there's room for debate, we don't think the label is unequivocally unfair. All in all, apologies for the errors - we'll endeavour to do better in the future! As a final thing, we'll be discussing all this - our errors and the question of whether or not the FdI are far right - in more detail in our fortnightly podcast the Editorial over on https://www.youtube.com/c/TLDRPodcasts, so if you want to see us apologise even more go subscribe to that
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  39. CORRECTION: At about 3:50, we say "the Ukrainian army" when we mean "the Russian army"
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  40. CORRECTIONS: There are a number of mistakes in this video: At 0:09, the map of Schengen area doesn't include Croatia At 0:21, we use the Icelandic flag instead of the Norwegian flag At 1:08, the animation dates the Treaty of Rome as 2021, but the narration (correctly) states 1957 At 5:10, we use the Slovakian flag for Slovenia These are both appallingly sloppy and unacceptably frequent - we can only apologise. If you'd like to know more about our editorial process, and what we're doing to reduce our error rate, we've made a video on it over at TLDR Podcasts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2YICfgUET0 (specific discussion on animation errors starts at 2:35 - somewhat embarrassingly, we claim that animation-related errors have been "weeded out", when clearly that's not true). Again, we can only apologise, and hopefully you still enjoyed the video.
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  41. We've got some pushback for the title/thumbnail of this video, so a bit of clarification: while the "red bloc" did indeed win a majority, it seems that Frederiksen has decided that the coalition is too unstable to govern. This is essentially because the other "red bloc" parties don't like the Social Democrats enough to provide reliable parliamentary support for their policies. This is why, on Wednesday morning, Frederiksen claimed that "there is no longer a majority behind the government in its current form; therefore, tomorrow I will submit the government’s resignation to the queen" (source: https://apnews.com/article/europe-legislature-denmark-government-and-politics-6051713a8bda8850afbc823718872892). Frederiksen will stay on as caretaker PM while she tries to negotiate a new centrist coalition, which she will most likely lead as PM. In theory, Frederiksen could have stayed on without resigning, and continued to rely on other "red bloc" parties for Parliamentary support, but she apparently decided this was untenable. Nonetheless, we appreciate that the title/thumbnail was a bit clickbaity, but hopefully this comment makes it a bit clearer.
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  42. A few people are commenting on the animation decisions re: Ukraine and Crimea. The decision to leave Crimea out of the map was an attempt to avoid politicizing the issue in a video that nominally isn't about that border. However, doing so isn't us saying that Crimea doesn't belong to Ukraine or does belong to Russia. In fact, as you can see in the thumbnail we've marked it as Ukrainian territory when compared to Russia - Jack
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  43. CORRECTIONS: At 2:30, we used the Bulgarian flag instead of the Hungarian flag. At 3:12, the map showing which EU countries have exceeded the deficit isn't quite right: Bulgaria and Romania should be switched At 3:20, the labels showing the deficit of each Visegrad country are incorrectly applied These are sloppy errors, and we can only apologise (we've also edited the vid to remove the Visegrad bit) - we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video. PS to regular viewers, we're aware that our error rate has ticked up a bit over the past few weeks, which is obviously disappointing given (we feel) we made pretty good progress reducing errors over the previous six months or so. We think this is down to a combination of magazine deadlines, moving office and summer holidays, which has made everything a bit chaotic, but hopefully this effect will be only temporary. This is of course an explanation, not an excuse, and we'll still try to make sure all future videos are error-free - thanks for your patience/understanding.
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  44. CORRECTIONS: At 0:13, we show a kopeika instead of a ruble At 0:51, we say "war-related countries" instead of "war-related companies" At 3:14, we say "Officially, the Kremlin claimed that it was only spending 8% of its budget on defence", when we meant to say "8% of GDP" (as implied by the graph on screen). Apologies for these sloppy errors, and we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video!|
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  45. UPDATE: Since we wrote/animated this video, Erdogan has changed his mind (again), and has now said that Turkey will indeed veto both Swedish and Finnish accession to NATO (source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/17/turkey-confirms-opposition-to-nato-membership-for-sweden-finland ). This doesn't mean NATO accession is off the table; it's at least possible that Erdogan is threatening his NATO veto as leverage to secure concessions from other NATO members. Nonetheless, it's a spanner in the works, and it won't be well received in Stockholm and Helsinki, or Washington for that matter.
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  46. CORRECTION: At 6:12, we describe Alar Karis as the leader of the Social Democrats. This is incorrect: Alar Karis is the President of Estonia, not the leader of the Social Democrats, which is Lauri Läänemets. Here, we meant to say 'Alar Karis and the leader of the Social Democrats', who have both asked Kallas to provide a detailed explanation of events. Nonetheless, this is a sloppy error, and we're sorry; hopefully you still enjoy the video!
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  47. CORRECTION: At 5:05, we show a video of a plane that we claim is Prigozhin's plane. This is a mistake - this footage is actually of a plane that was shot down during Wagner's mutiny a couple of months ago, and the correct footage is here: https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1694402110702387328/video/1 It's also worth saying that the FT is currently reporting that US intelligence doesn't think the plane was shot down with surface-to-air missiles (https://www.ft.com/content/af341ede-933c-4bbc-b804-3ecbe5a66827 ) Apologies for this, and we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video!
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  48. CORRECTION: At 1:45, we say that "even within Italy and Spain, unemployment rates are higher in the North than the South". As the graphs show, this is incorrect, and we meant to say "unemployment rates are LOWER in the North than the South". Apologies for this sloppy error, and we hope you nonetheless enjoy the video!
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  49. Hey! Thanks for watching the video & I hope you enjoyed it. Three quick things to note: 1. If you do like the series please do sign up to Nebula. Unsurprisingly this was an experience thing to put together, so signing up is the best way to support us - plus it gets you every episode a week early and access to our exclusive behind the scenes race discussions in the Daily Briefing. Be sure to sign up with our link so they know you came from us: https://go.nebula.tv/tldrnewseu 2. I'd like to thank the team over at Jet Lag for their support and approval of this series. We don't make a big deal of it in the video to avoid confusion, but Ben and Adam were incredibly useful when planning the game, and Sam was very kind to sign off on us doing a series similar to theirs 3. Finally, if you know anyone who might be interested in this show (maybe someone who doesn't care about news, or likes Jet Lag/Amazing Race/Race Across the World) then please do share this video with them. We're super proud of this series and would just love people to see it! Thanks so much - Jack
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  50. Good point, sorry about that. It's purely an error during animation & I'll make sure we don't make that mistake again! - Jack
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  51. CORRECTIONS: - At various points in this video, we say that these new immigration plans came out 'last week'. This isn't correct: these plans actually came out on June 20th, but we wrote this video a while ago. - At 4:37, we say Poland 'regained its independence from the USSR'. Obviously, Poland wasn't a member of the Soviet Union; what we meant to communicate here is that Poland moved away from the 'Eastern' or 'Soviet' bloc towards Western Europe and the EU in the 90s. Apologies for the errors, and hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video!
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  52. Hey! Sorry for any issues with static sounds in this video. I believe I've managed to fix the issue with our recording hardware so hopefully, we don't have this problem again! There's a lot going on at the moment so sorry for any potential sloppiness when it comes to production and thanks for sticking with us! (p.s. we're currently upgrading studio space & hiring two new editors, so hopefully it will be looking better than ever very soon!) - Jack
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  53. UPDATE: On Thursday morning, Lukashenko threatened to cut off Russian gas supplies into Europe via the the Yamal-Europe pipeline [source: https://twitter.com/ntvru/status/1458739101805563909?s=20]
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  54. UPDATE: The new election looks likely to be held at the end of June rather than July as PM Mitsotakis says June 25th is a possible date. Also at the end of the video we way he is on course for another four terms; this should obviously be "another four-year term"!
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  55. CORRECTION: As AVRiegel correctly identified in the comments at 4:40 I meant to say Finland rather than Sweden. Apologies for any confusion - Jack
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  56. CORRECTION: At 2:30, we suggest that the Russian forces are going to take Bakhmut after Kramatorsk/Slovyansk. This is a mistake on our part: Russian forces are currently targeting Bakhmut, and will almost definitely try to take it before Kramatorsk/Slovyansk. Apologies, this was down to a miscommunication between writer and narrator. Hope you enjoyed the video nonetheless!
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  57. Since we wrote and animated this video, there have been reports that Russian forces have made more more progress in Soledar, to the north of Bakhmut. if Soledad does fall, then Ukrainian positions in Bakhmut will come under significant pressure. However, as we mention in the video, even if Bakhmut does fall, at the current rate of advance Russia is unlikely to capture the remaining Ukrainian holdouts in Donbas (Kramatorsk and Slovyansk specifically) any time soon, and the basic premise of this video - that Russian advances are pretty minor relative to the cost in terms of materiel/personnel - still holds. Nonetheless, apologies and hopefully the rest of the video is still interesting and informative!
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  58. UPDATE: Since we wrote and animated this video, Ukraine has staged another effort in the south, around Zaporizhia. The offensive began on Wednesday evening, and the New York Times described it as 'the main thrust of [Ukraine's] counteroffensive'. So far, it doesn't look like the frontlines have changed all that much, but Ukraine has made some advances around the town of Staromajorske, a small town on the border of the Donetsk and Zaporizhia oblasts, and we'll have to wait to see what happens. We should also say that it doesn't look like Ukraine has fully recaptured Klischiivka yet. Earlier this week, Russian telegram channels were saying that Russia was retreating from the town, but more reports out in the past 24 hours or so suggest that Russian troops are still in the south and eastern parts of the suburb.
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  59. NOTE: Some commenters have pushed back against our characterisation of Italy as "one of the weaker eurozone economies". To some extent, we actually agree: there's a lazy cliché that frames Italy as the "weak" EU economy and Germany as the "strong" one, even though - as commenters have pointed out - Italy has run a primary budget surplus (i.e. excluding debt interest payments) for the best part of the last three decades, and recent stress tests suggest its banking system is one of the safest in Europe. Nonetheless, Italy does still struggle from persistently low growth and a high debt burden, which is partly why Italy has historically been in favour of deeper monetary/fiscal integration than, say, Germany, and hence why Italy's opposition to the ESM is a bit of a shock. Anyway, we're planning a wider video on the Italian economy in a bit, where hopefully we'll go into all this in more detail. PS: There's also been some discussion about our characterisation of the 2008 crash as a "bank run" amongst nonbank financial institutions - this is fair enough, and the best way to understand 2008 is still a topic of academic debate, but for a good exposition of the "bank run" theory we'd recommend "The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis" by Lev Menand (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fed-Unbound-Central-Banking-Crisis/dp/1735913707). Thanks for watching, and we hope you enjoyed the video!
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  60. UPDATE: In the time between writing and publishing this video, the uneasy relationship between the government and Junts has got worse, with Junts leader Carles Puigdemont announcing his party was suspending its relationships with the government, breaking off budget negotiations, and demanding an urgent meeting with the government’s mediator to assess its compliance with the political agreement. https://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/junts-suspends-negotiations-with-socialists-january-17-2025 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-17/spanish-prime-minister-loses-a-catalan-ally-as-party-stops-talks
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  61. Many commenters have asked why we didn't mention that Turkey has apparently said it would unilaterally continue the grain deal, which would basically involve the Turkish Navy protecting Ukrainian exporters from the Russian Navy. We've seen these reports, but we chose not to mention them because they seem to originate from this report by the Azeri Times (https://twitter.com/AzeriTimes/status/1678080379033354244?s=20). We haven't seen any other major news outlets report on this, and it hasn't been confirmed by the Turkish government, so we didn't think it was worth mentioning until it's been verified in some way. If anyone has seen some more evidence that this is happening, please leave a comment down below.
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  62. NOTE: Apologies for the difference in natation today. Were in the process of moving office and getting Ben to record the voiceover with his microphone at home just made the most sense. We should be back to normal soon! - Jack
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  63. CORRECTION: At 0:15 and 1:10, we've misspelt 'fatigue' as 'fattigue'. This is entirely our bad; we shouldn't be making these sorts of mistakes and we can only apologise. P.S. We've also seen some comments taking issue with us covering this topic. We're covering this because this is a real concern with both Western and Ukrainian politicians, and the answer to the question affects the future trajectory of the war. We're not saying that the war in Ukraine is boring, or that the West should stop supporting Ukraine. As we make clear at the end of the video, the data suggests the best way to assuage Ukraine fatigue (amongst Republicans) is to increase support for Ukraine, while being conscious of the risks of escalation.
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  64. CORRECTION: As multiple commenters have pointed out, describing the superbonus as "Meloni's superbonus" is rather inaccurate: the superbonus was passed by the Conte government in 2020, and Meloni has actually been one of its most vocal critics. Apologies, and we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video!
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  65. Hello - this video has proved more controversial than usual, apparently because a significant number of viewers think we're (perhaps deliberately) overlooking immigration as reason that young European are voting for the so-called "far right". This is in some sense fair - after all, polling suggests immigration is the main reason Europeans are voting for the "far right" (https://x.com/SteveAkehurst/status/1799935834168377532 ) - but we were specifically trying to explain why YOUNG Europeans were voting for the far right MORE than their older counterparts, not why the far right was on the rise generally. On this count, Eurobarometer polling (https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/3152) suggests that young Europeans are actually less likely than older Europeans to cite immigration as a policy priority for the European Parliament elections, hence why we didn't consider it a sufficient explanation. P.S. we nonetheless made a number of errors in this video, including: - misnaming Germany's Social Democrats as the Socialists - typo suggesting 11 year old Finns could vote - presenting Flanders-specific polling as Belgium-wide polling. For these errors, we can only apologise: we know that this is a recurring problem and we should be doing better. Nonetheless, thanks for watching - Zac
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  66. NOTE: As some commenters have pointed out, this video is a reupload: earlier this week, we briefly uploaded the same video, but mistakenly described Tusk as President instead of Prime Minister, so we decided to correct the video and re-release it today. PS: Some commenters have also complained about the fact that we didn't provide axes on the graph at 0:55. This is entirely fair, and we should've put axes on the graph, so apologies for that. For those interested, the original graph is here: https://twitter.com/RafalMundry/status/1716905927016919209/photo/1, and the y-axis should run from 280,000 up to 440,000. Hope that clears things up, and hope you nonetheless enjoy the video!
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  67. CORRECTION: As a handful commenters have pointed out, at 3:36 we say the Czech Republic, but the animation shows Hungary. Apologies for this sloppy error, and we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video!
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  68. NOTE: The 'Sweden' code now expires on December 21. This video was supposed to be released sooner but was pushed due to unforeseen circumstances - Jack
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  69. NOTE: Some commenters have suggested that Europe isn't experiencing a particularly colder winter. While it’s true that this winter has so far been relatively mild, at least in some European countries, according to the EIA , temperatures in Europe (and especially Central Europe) are in fact projected to fall quite a bit, and the first few months 2025 are due to be colder than average. (https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=63804)
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  70. So! It seems that some people are frustrated by the framing of this video. I do understand the dispute, especially with the use of the word 'crisis' and as such we've removed it from the title and thumbnail. We do also agree that having a 'leader' isn't necessary or even expected within the EU, but we do still feel that the lack of clear figurehead is unusual in the modern history of the EU and something which deserves discussion. If you disagree that's entirely fair enough, but we'll be discussing why we wanted to make this video in Friday's edition of The Editorial, where we'll be able to better discuss our thought process than in a pinned comment: https://www.youtube.com/tldrpodcasts
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  71. CORRECTION: At 3:05, we describe Francina Armengol as a Catalan native. As commenters have pointed out, this isn't quite correct - she is in fact from the Balearic Islands, where Catalan is widely spoken. Apologies for this sloppy error, and we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video.
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  72. If this video feels a little different to you, then that's for good reason. Let me explain. We're currently working to bring back our series, the Daily Briefing (subscribe at www.youtube.com/tldrdaily to be notified when it returns) and as part of that, we've been writing test scripts to prepare ourselves. This video is actually a component of a test episode that I liked so much I wanted to pull out and share it here. Hopefully, it gives you a taste of what's to come and if you want short little explainers like this, to keep you in the loop fast, then be sure to subscribe to the TLDR Daily channel as the show returns April 4th - www.youtube.com/tldrdaily Any questions do let me know! - Jack
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  73. Sorry for a couple of errors in this video: - You guys are absolutely right that I made an animation mistake on this one, mixing up $ and € symbols - I also misspoke when recording the line "developing countries, especially in Africa, are desperate for credit" When it comes to bias and the use of sources. People are absolutely right that the title/content of the Economist article is provocative, and that's why we chose to feature that one over others in the video. We absolutely did use other sources, but the Economist's take is so different from their normal very neutral coverage (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-economist/) that we thought it was worth examining why they made such a bold call on this instance. I'd also say it's disingenuous to claim that the Economist is being anti-EU because they're British. The Economist is certainly not an anti-EU pro-Brexit publication and I think even if you support the EU fully you should still be willing to critique them and examine the decisions they're making (especially when their budgets stretch into the hundreds of billions). Going forward we will be ensuring that the scriptwriters see the finished videos as often as possible, in an attempt to catch errors as this and we've also spoken to the writing team about the use of sources and ensuring the continuation of balanced coverage. We really appreciate your feedback and hope we can improve on the back of this - Jack
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  74. Sorry for re-uploading this! As a number of people pointed out the first version of this video had issues with the audio balance, which we've now resolved - Jack
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  75. Hello - just thought we'd say that if you'd like to know more about the how the results were falsified in Moscow's Danilovsky district (and how to infer the actual results from those falsifications), there's a good article on it by Russian blogger Alexander Kireev here: https://kireev.livejournal.com/2068935.html Thanks for watching, and hope you enjoyed the video!
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  76. CORRECTION: At 2:57, we say that TurkStream was originally commissioned as Blue Stream. This isn't quite correct: TurkStream is actually a replacement for Blue Stream 2, first suggested up by Putin in 2009. Blue Stream was the first Russia-Turkey gas pipeline, which began pumping gas in 2005. Blue Stream 2, which would have run parallel to Blue Stream, was proposed by Putin in 2009, but it never took off. Blue Stream 2 was replaced by South Stream, which was in turn replaced by TurkStream after it was cancelled by the Russian government in 2014.
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  77. I spent a while trying to get it right, but seems my German GCSE wasn't totally wasted... thanks Mr. Cooper - Jack
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  78. Thanks for all your brilliant feedback! We're planning on starting a bi-weekly series where we take a full episode to dive deeper into each of these groupings. Our Patreons are currently voting for which grouping we should discuss first, so expect to see the first video in the series next week - Jack p.s. A bunch of people seem to be comparing this video to one by CGP Grey. Despite being a huge Grey fan, I had completely forgotten he even did a video on this topic. Regardless any similarities are probably because both of us based the video on a similar diagram, one that neither of us created - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Supranational_European_Bodies
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  79. Sorry - we absolutely should have noted that. Due to the fact this was designed for the Daily Briefing (as noted in my pinned comment) we didn't have the time to mention it, but when adapting for this format we absolutely should have done. Rest assured though, we've already started a video on Hungary's election! - Jack
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  80. Update: The six EU leaders negotiating the bloc's top jobs have again agreed to put forward Von der Leyen for another term as Commission President, however they’ve now got to convince the rest of the Council (made up of the leaders of all EU member states) to agree to the nomination at a meeting on Thursday. This is basically what happened a week or so ago, but the Council failed to agree, so we'll have to wait and see what happens this time round.
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  81. Note: A few people have questioned the decision not to include Ireland in the discussion. In the original script Ireland was featured heavily, however, considering we're planning on releasing a number of videos on the country & the border in the weeks ahead we thought it would be better to keep this video concise and talk about Ireland elsewhere. If you are really keen to see our content on the Irish/Northern Irish border you're best off heading over to the TLDR UK channel where we're most likely to post content on the topic (https://youtube.com/tldrnews) - Jack
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  82. QUICK CORRECTION: The Euro was actually introduced between 1999 and 2002
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  83. If anyone came to the comments to hate on the thumbnail, don't worry I agree it's ugly, but it got you to click didn't it... 👀 - Jack
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  84. Sorry I misspoke during the promo at the end of the video, Nebula and Curiosity Stream are less than $15 a year, not $15 a month; so a much much better deal - Jack
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  85. CORRECTION(ish): While it's true that the Netherlands' energy support package wasn't particularly generous (at least compared to other countries where natural gas makes up a similar fraction of energy consumption) and that domestic demand rebounded remarkably well in the Netherlands, the dramatic swing in YoY inflation shown at 3:38 is at least in part because of the specific way that Dutch statistical authorities measure inflation (explained here: https://www.rabobank.com/knowledge/d011374284-a-new-dutch-inflation-methodology-definitely-an-improvement). Thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed the video!
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  86. Hey! A few people are commenting on what we said in the video about Moldova's official language so I wanted to quickly clarify. Moldovans and Romanians do speak the same language - Romanian. So why did we call it Moldovan in the video? Well that's because the term "Moldovan" not Romanian (the more common name for the language) was used in the 1994 Constitution which was most relevant at the time we're referring to. Now this is confusing, why would you not use the more common name for the language if you're actually speaking Romanian? Who knows! Probably patriotism? Saying we declare ourselves independent (and have this lovely new constitution) and by the way we're speaking Moldovan in Moldova sounds a lot more exciting than, we're independent but we're using our neighbours language. Now to be fair, in the 1991 Declaration of Independence they did use the word "Romanian" not Moldovan... oh we do love inconsistency. Also, while most do call the language Romanian (especially internationally), there are many who refer to it as Moldovan, with surveys showing a pretty serious split between rural and urban Moldovans. Did I make that clearer or did I just say Moldovan too many times? I'm not sure. All I know is that technically both terms are correct, although Romanian is the more commonly accepted term, just that in the specific instance we were referring to "Moldovan" is slightly more correct as that's the term the declaration actually used. TLDR; I understand the confusion but we did choose that term for a reason BTW, I've spent a few months living in Moldova (both in Chișinău and actually pretty near the Transnistria border) so I have the upmost respect and love for the country - so I'm sorry if we've confused of offended anyone - Jack
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  87. It could have been better timing...
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  88. P.S. For those asking, this video's thumbnail was based of QA7 of the most recent European Parliament Eurobarometer poll (Autumn 2023), which measured the percentage of people in each member state who think that EU membership is, "generally speaking...a good thing". Relevant data can be found here: https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/3152 (go to Report --> EP Autumn 2023 Survey: Six months before the 2024 European Elections - Report - en) Hope that clears thing up and you enjoy the video!
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  89. NEW - We discuss the details of Putin's speech & the international response in today's episode of The Daily Briefing... WATCH NOW: https://youtu.be/p8as1IrN7c4
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  90. Honestly, watching it back it doesn't feel real. Especially because I confidently say that because of that they can't be on our flight... just for Zac to walk up behind us before I finish the sentence - Jack
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  91. NOTE: I've just spotted an issue with the 'BIDEN' code on the TLDR Store, which means the code won't have been active this morning. The issues' now been rectified and I've extended the code's validity until the 15th to try and ensure everyone's able to use it. Sorry for any inconvenience! - Jack
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  92. Don't worry we found it very very stressful too haha - Jack
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  93. Hello - we've seen a fair few comments suggesting the original thumb was too clickbaity and, well, we agree, so we've changed it. Our bad and our apologies; we hope you still enjoyed the video. PS if you'd like to see us apologise for both this and any other errors we've made over the past couple of weeks, we do a bi-weekly podcast called The Editorial over on TLDR Podcasts (https://www.youtube.com/@TLDRpodcasts) where we discuss our editorial decisions/mishaps. Thanks for watching!
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  95. Honestly me too, I wanted him to be much angrier 😅 - Jack
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  96. me. too. - Jack
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  97. SORRY! The code wasn't working initially, but code "toolongreveal" will now definitely get you 20% off
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  98. Watch our full interview with Mitch McConnell: https://youtu.be/lmmnAfNZjxo
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  99. We were absolutely inspired by Jet Lag as well as other shows like Race Across the World and The Amazing Race. In fact, we actually got tips from Ben and Adam when designing the game - and Sam approved the fact we were doing something similar to them. So it certainly does feel a bit Jet Lag, but fortunately everyone's cool with that! - Jack
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  100. Only the first team to arrive really make the delivery, the others just showed up for fun haha - Jack
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  101. Good point! We're planning to discuss the whole Irish border issue in a separate video on TLDR News UK. It just didn't feel right to try & squeeze something so major into a video like this - Jack
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  102. Sorry! The promo code we mentioned at the end of the video wasn't working up until now. It's now been fixed so feel free to start using code NEWNOTES - Jack
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  103. If you can please donate toward our Movember effort (thanks so much!) - https://movember.com/t/team-tldr?mc=1
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  104. Luckily you don't need to miss anything! We're still making the same number of fully animated TLDR Explains videos, these TLDR Now videos are supplemental bonus videos that you can skip if you don't enjoy! Also including the video makes it far far quicker to make, and the Now series just wouldn't be possible without it - so there's no other option really - Jack
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  105. We hear that, and we've changed the title accordingly. It wasn't intended as misleading or to be clickbait, but we see how it can be.
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  106. If you want to get more updates on stories like this (and our full interview with Eric from Le Monde) then subscribe to the Daily Briefing: https://www.youtube.com/tldrdaily
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  107. We were absolutely inspired by Jet Lag as well as other shows like Race Across the World and The Amazing Race. In fact, we actually got tips from Ben and Adam when designing the game - and Sam approved the fact we were doing something similar to them. So it certainly does feel a bit Jet Lag, but fortunately everyone's cool with that! - Jack
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  108. Maybe for the 20,000th order!
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  111. CORRECTION: In the video, we claimed that those with permanent residency in the UK do not need to apply to the Settlement Scheme. This is not entirely correct - only if you have Indefinite Leave to Remain/Enter or if you already have UK/Irish citizenship are you not required to apply. We suggest that you contact your embassy or visit the government website where possible
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  112. I'd love to drop them an email to explain, but as we obviously don't have their contact details, we can't ever really reach out to explain - Jack
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  113. Absolutely perfectly said - Jack
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  114. How did you guess...
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  115. Good spot, thanks mate! - Jack
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  116. I'd love to see your evidence for this, because all recent studies (including this one released this morning (https://on.ft.com/38XGBdS) seem to suggest the opposite; that the vaccine does still work against the different strains - Jack
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  117. Despite being a huge Grey fan, I had completely forgotten he even did a video on this topic. Regardless any similarities are probably because both of us based the video on a similar diagram, one that neither of us created - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Supranational_European_Bodies
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  118. This all seems very fair
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  120. It's doing well thanks! We completely sold out the first print run a few weeks ago and pre-order for the second edition's going well - Jack
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  121. The first episode of our podcast, Truss Issues, is now live. Hear our thoughts on Truss’ core policies and how her wild first week has shaken out - https://youtu.be/w0fcVgJVJ4M
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  123. You're absolutely right, I don't quite know how we made that mistake, but I'll ensure the graphics are updated to try and prevent future errors like that! - Jack
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  124. I agree with the two responses here, it's no longer a tactical or practical win, but it certainly is a morale win - Jack
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  125. The whole game was based around where the 10,000th order from the TLDR Store was. Other commenters are absolutely right - wherever that order was going we would have played the game there. Don't worry, some members of the team were certainly disappointed that it wasn't going outside of Europe too! - Jack
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  126. That's fair
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  127. Thanks so much! I really like both of your videos by the way, I recommended them in the office yesterday, looking forward to the third video next year 😉 - Jack
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  128. We are very likely to cover it! - Jack
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  129. We were certainly inspired by them as well as the Amazing Race and Race Across the World. Ben and Adam (from Jet Lag) also offered help, so I can definitely see the comparison - Jack
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  130. You know people live on different timezones right? It's 10am in London where we are and 11am in Germany (what this video's about) 😅 - Jack
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  131. What can we say - it's a great video!
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  132. The rules didn't specifically ban it. We didn't really expect anyone to try, because the rules do state that the first team to declare a delivery get the points, not necessarily the first to make the delivery. So the risk of not announcing a delivery is that another team could still beat you & get the points. However, Ben's team were (correctly) confident that that wouldn't happen, and as such were willing to delay the announcement. If we did it again (we won't) we'd change the rules to ban that kind of play, but we just didn't expect it - Jack
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  133. Get more content like this only on TLDR Business: https://youtube.com/tldrbusiness Aldi vs Aldi: https://youtu.be/HBudhxKK6vA Google vs ChatGPT: https://youtu.be/Lz6NBJtxYEE Secret Economics of Porn: https://youtu.be/nF0tze2JHNE
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  134. A huge thanks to our writet Hugo Chadima who put a lot of effort and enthusiasm into this script. Due to an editing error on my part he was missed from the credits in this video, but his hard work absolutely deserves our recognition 👏 - Jack
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  135. We've gone over the 12-point peace plan three weeks ago, in a video over on TLDR News Global: https://youtu.be/cGM768BkyHA.
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  136. that's not even our name 😭
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  137. It'll be out tomorrow, so make sure you're subscribed to the channel! - Jack
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  138. It's on Nebula already... 👀 (go.nebula.tv/tldrnewseu)
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  139. Probably some time this week!
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  140. It's not that late, it's only been on for a week or two, but I'm only engaged at the moment! Thank you very much regardless - Jack
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  141. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-59264070
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  142. Thank you! - Jack
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  143. We allowed our contributors to inject some of their own personality, and we clearly flagged when a piece wasn't written by TLDR. But... broadly I think he did! - Jack
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  144. There were rules preventing this, but I still didn't fully trust that Zac wouldn't just do it anyway haha - Jack
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  145. It's a really good point. Ultimately we were limited by the location of the final 10,000th order (which was obviously totally out of our control). We obviously could have still added eastern European spots, but realistically given time and budget it's unlikely people would have picked them anyway. We also wanted to limit options a little, to try and encourage exactly the kind of conflict which happens here. It would definitely have been fun, but unfortunately it was a little out of our control - Jack
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  147. That's a good strategy, or we could have had a bonus location as a tie break race. However, we absolutely didn't expect a tie so didn't even consider a tie breaker - Jack
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  148. We just don't want to set up YouTub memberships! We already have a successful Patreon page (www.patreon.com/tldrnews) and I just don't want to complicate things with another membership platform - also YouTube take a huge cut of that money so I don't even really think it's worth it - Jack
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  149. I'm sorry to the people of the Netherlands - you are very high value... but in the game... less so Also, who knows, the Netherlands could end up being much more important later in the series! - Jack
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  150. We were absolutely inspired by Jet Lag as well as other shows like Race Across the World and The Amazing Race. In fact, we actually got tips from Ben and Adam when designing the game - and Sam approved the fact we were doing something similar to them. So it certainly does feel a bit Jet Lag, but fortunately everyone's cool with that! - Jack
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  151. Don't worry we compare Sweden by population a little later in the video! We were just comparing them to the UK because a huge section of our audience is British and the UK also currently leads the way in Europe. Completely understand this critique though! - Jack
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  152. OG Top Gear was definitely one of the inspirations for the series. Growing up I always wanted to do one of their races/challenges, and I guess now I have - Jack
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  153. You're absolutely right, which is why we didn't say Russia would lose, just that they are currently losing - Jack
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  154. Great question - we didn't mention it at the beginning (because there were about 6 pages of rules and we thought people might get bored) but although teams are allowed to split up, everyone had to be together when making each delivery. When submitting the photo to prove the delivery was made, everyone had to be in it. Sorry if that wasn't clear! - Jack
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  155. Teams weren't allowed to rent cars, and just from a timing/budget perspective I don't know if it'd have been a great play anyway, especially as rental companies charge you big fees if you don't drop it back at the same location. For fairness though, some teams had more/less people comfortable driving in Europe so we decided to ban it entirely - Jack
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  156. Sorry, we're not going to be cutting our titles sequence any time soon. It's only 8 seconds and I'm really not sure how annoying it is - Jack
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  157. It was just a question, and a quoted question at that. We still don't tell you what to think or come to a conclusion in this video, we just discuss why some would call it bs - Jack
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  158. Hey! So we have discussed this with the Nebula team and they are aware of the issue. We're personally curious (and ignorant) when countries don't have credit cards as the norm, what are they using instead? As a team predominantly based in the UK/US we just can't imagine functioning without credit/debit cards and we're struggling to understand how that even works - Jack
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  159. It's a little complicated unfortunately. The UK channel is 99% fixed now and the vast majority of our videos there stay monetised. However that's because that channel is big enough to have a Partner Manager at YouTube who sorted it all out for us. Unfortunately the US and EU channels aren't big enough to have that and as such it's still a little variable. In theory it should be fine but about 50% of the time the videos still get demonetised for the first 24 hours 😣 - Jack
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  160. We didn't forget! As of 2014, the ECB stopped printing new €500 bills and in 2019 the EU stopped issuing the notes at all. They also weren't included in the mid-2010s refresh we mentioned in the video, so we thought they weren't really worth including (as presumably they also won't be included in the new collection of votes) - Jack
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  161. I certainly don't think we said that, I've checked the animation and throughout the Vänsterpartiet are always associated with the Red-Green Coalition. The only time they're grouped differently is at 2:06 when they're placed in the group who abstained - Jack
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  162. Hello A Ch, thanks for your kind words. I appreciate what you're saying but as we've explained a few times & on our FAQ page including the camera footage is what makes TLDR Now possible: https://tldrnews.co.uk/now
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  163. too long - jack
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  164. I think some of the team would definitely be keen to do something similar again, but by the end of the 30 hours we were all pretty exhausted haha DB is infamously pretty shaky these days, so for Team Ben's sake, let's hope they caught it on a good day! - Jack
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  165. I'm interested to know which one you're referring to, the title or the thumbnail? And why?
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  166. Noone said it wasn't 😊 we said that France had suffered more deaths than any other western nation since 2015, and of those attacks the Bataclan attack was indeed the biggest - Jack
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  167. Yes! I also really want to do something on this topic. Maybe we will release something along those lines soon - Jack
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  168. Despite being a huge Grey fan, I had completely forgotten he even did a video on this topic. Regardless any similarities are probably because both of us based the video on a similar diagram, one that neither of us created - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Supranational_European_Bodies
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  169. I'm so sorry 😬 It took about 30 minutes to record because I had to keep checking pronunciation guides, but I still don't think I did a great job 😅 - Jack
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  170. Noted! Thanks for the tips 😊 currently I only rely on weird pronunciation guides online so that’s helpful to know - Jack
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  171. It hurt me to say, but Zac insisted there were a lot of reasons - Jack
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  172. Do we have to make a video on why the sky is red too? Got to have some balance against that 'blue' narrative - Jack
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  173. I completely agree, it was just for the sake of brevity in the thumbnail and title! - Jack
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  174. Disgusting?
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  175. We didn't forget! As of 2014, the ECB stopped printing new €500 bills and in 2019 the EU stopped issuing the notes at all. They also weren't included in the mid-2010s refresh we mentioned in the video, so we thought they weren't really worth including (as presumably they also won't be included in the new collection of votes) - Jack
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  176. Good news! We actually made one, just scroll back on out channel and you should be able to find it - Jack
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  177. We will do soon! We're working on new countries for 2020 - Jack
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  178. 😅😅😅😅
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  179. We didn't forget! As of 2014, the ECB stopped printing new €500 bills and in 2019 the EU stopped issuing the notes at all. They also weren't included in the mid-2010s refresh we mentioned in the video, so we thought they weren't really worth including (as presumably they also won't be included in the new collection of votes) - Jack
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  180. I'm assuming you're referring to the diagram at 6:02 - If you are then that line isn't supposed to represent a national border, as the customs icon on the line indicates, the line is showing where the customs border will fall post-Brexit. Hope that makes more sense - Jack
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  181. We're working on it! There should be even more badges in the new year - Jack
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  182. NOTE: As many people have accurately commented, the map used in this video isn't quite right. Some of this is due to actual inaccuracies in the map, some of this is due to a lack of clarity on our part. So to explain... The blue shaded countries are supposed to represent EU nations (hence why Ireland is highlighted despite not being part of Schengen) The countries with the red line around them are the ones who are within Schengen. That's why France, for example, is blue & within the line as it's in both; where Switzerland is grey and in the line as it's in Schengen but not the EU. As the map says (in the bottom left) a number of countries within Schengen and/or the EU aren't included in the map simply because there wasn't space. If we had to include countries like Iceland it would end up being a very zoomed out and much less useful map. Finally and this really is our error - Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria (while all candidate Schengen countries) are not actually part of the grouping at the moment, so the red line shouldn't have grouped them in.
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  183. Don't worry that channel will have new videos out from this week!
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  184. What? No we absolutely didn't! I think there must have been confusion because, while we made graphics in the video, you can check our store... we absolutely don't have pins for either country - Jack
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  185. I don't disagree at all, we just never planned for it as we didn't think it was possible 😅 - Jack
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  187. We likely won't have time unfortunately this week, we're down on writing staff at the moment, but we did discuss it in yesterday's Daily Briefing! - Jack
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  188. We did a video on Georgia a few weeks back, and one on Moldova should be coming soon! - Jack
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  189. ​ @gillesaboubechara2978 correct me if I'm wrong, but this happens all the time in football doesn't it? In regular league games it's very common to have a tie at the end of 90 minutes
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  190. We just didn't expect it to happen, the odds of a draw given the number & variety of points seemed so low we didn't even discuss it in the planning phase. So given there was no rule it felt like it would been unfair to take the win away from one team by randomly coming up with a new criteria at the finish line - Jack
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  192. We discussed it over on the TLDR Daily channel yesterday - https://youtube.com/tldrdaily
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  193. It should have been fixed by now, sorry for any issue!
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  194. How did you know... we're doing a video on Taiwan over on the TLDR Global summary very soon (make sure you're subscribed! https://youtube.com/tldrglobal )
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  195. I think you might need to listen to an old video! I think this one sounds pretty terrible! - Jack
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  196. Despite being a huge Grey fan, I had completely forgotten he even did a video on this topic. Regardless any similarities are probably because both of us based the video on a similar diagram, one that neither of us created - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Supranational_European_Bodies
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  197. It should have been fixed by now, sorry for any issue!
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  198. Thanks for your kind words. I appreciate what you're saying but as we've explained a few times & on our FAQ page including the camera footage is what makes TLDR Now possible: https://tldrnews.co.uk/now
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  199. No yet, we periodically release pins in 'seasons' and we've not got to Wales yet, however, keep your eyes peeled in 2020 - Jack
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  200. Where have you been? We've not done a totally voice over videos in literally months - Jack
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  201. Part 2 of this video will be on Business, but I wanted to share this first part with the larger TLDR EU audience. So yeah, I suppose it is kind of an advert for TLDR Business, and maybe I just like attention - Jack
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  202. It was just a question, and a quoted question at that. We still don't tell you what to think or come to a conclusion in this video, we just discuss why some would call it bs - Jack
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  203. It's not us making a political decision, we're simply basing our diagram on the official model - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Supranational_European_Bodies
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  204. Despite being a huge Grey fan, I had completely forgotten he even did a video on this topic. Regardless any similarities are probably because both of us based the video on a similar diagram, one that neither of us created - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Supranational_European_Bodies
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  205. We may release a PDF version in the new year, but certainly not before that - Jack
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  206. Unfortunately that's not possible, hopefully you can justify the double postage costs! - Jack
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  207. We didn't forget! As of 2014, the ECB stopped printing new €500 bills and in 2019 the EU stopped issuing the notes at all. They also weren't included in the mid-2010s refresh we mentioned in the video, so we thought they weren't really worth including (as presumably they also won't be included in the new collection of votes) - Jack
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  208. You don't have to watch the second one if you don't want to, it's at the end of the video so feel free to stop watching, there's never going to be anything after it - Jack
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  209. We've sold out twice so don't worry about our stock management! - Jack
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  210. What? No we absolutely didn't! - Jack
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  211. absolutely! anywhere in the world - Jack
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  212. Don't worry we'll have a full video on the results & implications soon! - Jack
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  213. That’s fair enough! You don’t need to care, we just wanted to go into more detail than YouTube would allow us to, so we wanted to provide more detail on Nebula
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  214. We sold out of the colouring books (three times in fact) so we decided to go back to promoting the old favourites - the pin badges we've successfully been selling since Spring 2019! - Jack
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  215. I'd estimate around 10,000 badges sold thus far ☺️ - Jack
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  216. Sorry what?
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  217. It will be back later this week 🇺🇲
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  218. I think it's a tad hyperbolic to call quoting a very centrist news outlet (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-economist/) approaching Fox News ☺️ - Jack
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  219. You're gonna be furious when you find out how often TV news hosts appear on-screen 😉 - Jack
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  220. It was just a question, and a quoted question at that. We still don't tell you what to think or come to a conclusion in this video, we just discuss why some would call it bs - Jack
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  221. I appreciate what you're saying but as we've explained a few times & on our FAQ page including the camera footage is what makes TLDR Now possible: https://tldrnews.co.uk/now
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  222. Not yet, but we'll have more countries in 2020 - Jack
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  223. I’ve honestly only watched CNN twice, both in hotels with no other English language programming. As someone from the UK, under 40 American TV news isn’t exactly my vibe - Jack
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  224. We didn't forget! As of 2014, the ECB stopped printing new €500 bills and in 2019 the EU stopped issuing the notes at all. They also weren't included in the mid-2010s refresh we mentioned in the video, so we thought they weren't really worth including (as presumably they also won't be included in the new collection of votes) - Jack
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  225. What? No we absolutely didn't make a PKK pin badge! We might have made a graphic for them in the video, but the PKK flag is nowhere in our merch offering - Jack
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  226. I'm afraid we absolutely didn't delete your reply. In fact, there are probably only 3 or 4 instances ever where we've deleted comments. YouTube does scan and filter comments for spam though, so you might want to ensure the quality of your messages - Jack
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  227. It should have been fixed by now, sorry for any issue!
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  228. Should arrive in the first couple of weeks of December, but I'm afraid we can't guarantee any more than that! - Jack
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  229. I do completely understand this view point, but our current policy is to only use internationally recognised maps & flags. We obviously get how many people feel about the border, but we have to have a policy we apply to all countries. Interestingly the Irish pin is actually one of the best selling badges, but I do appreciate it's not for everyone - Jack
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  230. We explain in our FAQ - https://tldrnews.co.uk/now
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  231. Do you agree with the USB-C plan? Cast your vote in our Twitter poll (and why not follow us too) - https://twitter.com/TLDRNewsEU/status/1441701478817665032?s=19
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  232. I do completely understand this view point, but our current policy is to only use internationally recognised maps & flags. We obviously get how many people feel about the border, but we have to have a policy we apply to all countries. Interestingly the Irish pin is actually one of the best selling badges, but I do appreciate it's not for everyone - Jack
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  233. I'm not, but the member of our team who wrote the script is Dutch! Glad you liked it - Jack
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  234. I do completely understand this view point, but our current policy is to only use internationally recognised maps & flags. We obviously get how many people feel about the border, but we have to have a policy we apply to all countries. Interestingly the Irish pin is actually one of the best selling badges, but I do appreciate it's not for everyone - Jack
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  235. It should have been fixed by now, sorry for any issue!
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  236. We already have one! There's only 2 in stock though! - Jack
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  237. We were just quoting the article, and as we wouldn't normally use words like these on our own accord we decided to censor it - Jack
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  238. It was just a question, and a quoted question at that. We still don't tell you what to think or come to a conclusion in this video, we just discuss why some would call it bs - Jack
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  239. 🎙Watch all of our interviews from NATO: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYVUSCs1YuSzVdHETF_L2Hntvl5DKFixm
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  240. Despite being a huge Grey fan, I had completely forgotten he even did a video on this topic. Regardless any similarities are probably because both of us based the video on a similar diagram, one that neither of us created - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Supranational_European_Bodies
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  241. What about the ad in the video that you're literally quoting? The one for CuriosityStream - Jack
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  242. Do you have any examples of 14 western businessmen & influential people dying in a year? We’d cover it if it happened, but I think you’d struggle to find any examples of that
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