Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "NFKRZ" channel.

  1. I'd say even pro-Z Russians shouldn't be deported in most cases. If they're working age, it's more advantageous for Ukraine if they're not in Russia contributing to the Russian economy. Some countries (e.g. Estonia and Latvia) may have legitimate security concerns when it comes to Russian citizens but that doesn't apply to most countries and certainly not Portugal.
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  2. Isn't he? He might be a bad journalist but that's not the same thing as a non-journalist.
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  3. It's not very inclusive. Maybe he should change it to "Я россиянин".
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  4. Russia is mostly sending contract soldiers in any case so he most likely wouldn't have been sent (even if he had served at the "right" time) unless he decided to take the contract after the mandatory service. Some conscripts were sent in the early phases of the war as well and Putin claims to not have been informed about it at the time.
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  5.  @enginerd80  Permanent residency is often enough to vote in local elections but for EU elections he would need the citizenship of some EU member state.
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  6.  @Asmodis4  "a journalist has to be neutral" Similarly, e.g. a judge has to be neutral. But a biased judge is still a judge, just a bad one.
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  7. "B (B)" Shouldn't that be "B (Б)"?
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  8.  @Bozebo  "if they think there's the kind of crime that might cause issues then they might decide to use the coins?" You mean like stealing the shopping carts? I don't think the coin thing is to prevent that. I think even a homeless person could afford one coin to steal a shopping cart, if the cart is useful to him, and he could probably even get the coin back with some amount of violence. I think the real purpose is to make "normal" customers to actually return the carts to proper place instead of leaving them wherever thus creating extra work for the busy staff.
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  9.  @digitalxrealism  It's the simple things that are more attractive to thieves, at least less sophisticated thieves, because it's very easy to find buyers for them.
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  10.  @truedarklander  I'm pretty sure you need to be an EU citizen to run (or vote) in the EU elections.
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  11.  @truedarklander  You seem to be mistaken. The EU Parliament website says the following about who is eligible to vote in EU elections in Portugal: For the election of Portuguese members of the European Parliament, the following people can vote: -Portuguese citizens aged 18 or over who are registered on the Portuguese electoral roll in national territory; -Portuguese citizens aged 18 or over, registered on the Portuguese electoral roll, residing outside the national territory, who have not chosen to vote in another EU country; -Citizens of other EU countries registered in Portugal, who choose to vote for Portuguese Members of the European Parliament; -Brazilian citizens with a citizen's card or identity card (with equal political rights status).
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  12. I think it's not even Central Europe but just Germany and Austria. At least when I visited Prague I could pay with credit card almost everywhere (with one exception I remember).
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  13. Preferably not.
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  14.  @sammiller6631  "Bopomofo sounds like an Taiwanese insult or curseword." But in fact, it's just a nickname that comes from the 4 first letters of that alphabet (B, P, M, & F).
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  15.  @Ass_of_Amalek  "normally such a word would indicate that gloves are a much newer adoption to the culture than shoes, but that would only make sense for a language from a place that's too warm for people to need gloves, so they only got introduced to them in modern times." I'm not sure I agree. Firstly, I would say that in a cold climate shoes are much more necessary than gloves so they might very well be an older invention. Secondly, they might have used other types of clothing for hands before gloves (e.g. mittens). Thirdly, it would be possible for the word for gloves to change. I'm not sure what's the history of gloves and shoes among Germanic peoples but, for what it's worth, Wiktionary says the following about the etymology of the word: "From Middle High German hantschuoch, from Old High German hantscuoh, from Proto-Germanic *handuskōhaz.". Proto-Germanic was spoken about 2 millennia ago so this compound word isn't new.
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  16.  @neyuse  "I think it only closed in the US" Not quite. In Finland, all the Toys R Us stores closed in early 2019 (I think).
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  17. @ What I really reacted was when you said: "Traditional Russian religion is paganism". But the same is true for basically all of Europe. Maybe you can argue otherwise for Greece but even that is a bit dubious. So calling Christianity "western-imported" sounds a bit strange. For most of the West it's eastern-imported.
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  18.  @milosterzic6452  Google translate translates that as "voluntary military service". In any case, Roman doesn't have a moral duty to remain in Russia.
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  19. "Imagine if America did this when we invaded Iraq" Some soldiers who resisted going to Iraq received prison sentences, e.g. James Burmeister. Of course, this is a bit different in that they had voluntarily chosen military service (if not going to Iraq specifically).
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  20. Ангелы
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  21.  @Rig0r_M0rtis  I wanted to mention it for the sake of completeness. It's possible that Putin knew that some conscripts were going to be used alongside contract soldiers and he just decided to throw some of his underlings under the bus by blaming them. In any case, the Russian forces sent to Ukraine are primarily contract soldiers.
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  22. 14:34 Aha, so your real name is Valisy Iakovenko.
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  23.  @grizellda2540  I think the stores can usually give you a token to use if you don't happen to have coins.
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  24. "long live Schengen!" Ireland isn't in Schengen so Schengen isn't relevant in your case.
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  25. 1:10 Hey! It's Language Simp!
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  26.  @Chonkems  There are a bunch of important companies in the US run by Jewish people. Of course, company founders and inheritors and CEOs are still a small portion of all Jews so that might not much consolation to you personally.
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  27.  @andriandrason1318  If you totally refuse service without a valid reason the punishment is 173 days in prison.
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  28. Even if YouTube is banned maybe you can still upload using a VPN?
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  29. You could argue that it's fair that people that actually use the elevator pay for it.
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  30.  @Ast151  Roman explained it in the video. If you live on the first floor or always take the stairs then you won't have to pay for what you don't use. It can be argued to be more fair. If it's included in your dues or rent then you'd have to pay for it whether you use it or not.
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  31. "I knew of 0 Russian influencers before I watched this" Not even the woman who got into trouble for the "almost naked party"?
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  32.  @Ass_of_Amalek  "what doesn't make sense is that at some point after gloves must have already been common in the region, people started seeing a need to descriptively name them hand shoes" It's not clear to me that that would be the case. Even if one of the points I made doesn't apply I still think that shoes must be an older invention than gloves.
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  33.  @Ass_of_Amalek  "but gloves are older than the divergence of the various indo-germanic languages such as english that call gloves something other than hand shoes" But that doesn't mean that the word is newer than that divergence. Like I noted in my earlier comment, at least Wiktionary says that the word comes from at least Proto-Germanic which is also the ancestor for English even though English instead uses a different word. Also note that it's not rare for languages to have several synonyms for one thing. "compound words basically always are much newer" Do you have a source for this? I'm a little bit skeptical. I'm not necessarily claiming the opposite but this is a pretty strong claim so I would be curious about what it's based on. "is highly suggestive if the word being newer than the language splits to other indo-germanic languages" But at least if we are to believe the etymology given by Wiktionary the word is not newer than that. (Of course, it would be good to have a better source but I don't have an etymological dictionary.)
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  34. 3:30 Belarus is twice as progressive as Russia!
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  35. I'm really sorry for your plight. It pains me to say it but I think I'm still in favor of the sanctions, at least as long as this war is still raging. While I don't think Ukraine is totally innocent, a full-scale invasion cannot be justifies IMHO and it has to be combated somehow. However, NATO probably won't dare to send troops to actually clash with Russian troops in Ukraine so the only option seems to be maximally tough sanctions. As an interesting philosophical question, I wonder whether sanctions or sending troops into combat in Ukraine would be morally better (if we ignore the risk of nuclear war in the latter case). If troops are sent into Ukraine then some of the Russian troops facing them will be getting killed or maimed which is a pretty severe result, but the number of people in the harm's way represent a very small portion of the total Russian population. Sanctions, on the other hand, don't kill (most) of the people they affect but on the other hand they can make life quite difficult for large swathes of the Russian population. Which is one is the gentler measure, some people killed/maimed or many more rendered destitute?
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  36. I guess I would recommend giving a crypto wallet address like you did when the war began.
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  37. I wonder how many Russians are considering emigration.
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  38. Debit?
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  39.  @Anglo_Catholic88  Нет войне!
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  40. YouTube is likely getting banned there so he wouldn't be able to earn money.
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  41.  @ObIitus  "western-imported Christianity" Christianity comes from the east, at least from the perspective of most of the West. "Ex oriente lux" and all that stuff.
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  42. @M J I dunno. Getting some exercise is good too. I live in the 5th floor in an old building that doesn't even have an elevator (or rather the other stairwells do have one but mine doesn't).
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  43. 8:25 I'm not sure there's necessarily that much reason to be happy. Even Z people might find it boring to listen to a bureaucratic and cringy lecture on something they already agree with (or think doesn't go far enough).
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  44. Cool!
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  45. My wife did have that experience in Frankfurt am Main though that was many years ago.
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  46. I just realized that he looks a lot like Peter the Great.
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  47. When I visited Prague I only came across one.
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  48.  @pragueexpat5106  At the very least it seems that card payment is accepted there far more often than in Frankfurt am Main (where my wife once visited).
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  49. What is COGA? It's the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism, of course.
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  50. Though he probably chose the best looking parts to film.
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