Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "DW News" channel.

  1. There are 10's of thousands of Russian parents with very good reason to be angry about the pointless loss of their children...
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  2. EVERY CAPTAIN I have spoken to [I live next to a port] has said the same thing "ships are too big, simple as that" In the last 20 years ships have gone up X 3 yet rules and ancillary equipment [tugs] have not changed at all. They all say "It was inevitable"
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  3. PEOPLE - JUST RIGHT CLICK AND REPORT THE RUSSIAN TROL BOTS THEY ARE GETTING OUT OF HAND ON EVERY WAR CRIMES VIDEO.
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  4. I USED TO BELIEVE IN THE MYTH of high productivity... Till I moved to Bulgaria where no one slaves under that delusion. Work HARD so your company and your boss do better when you are on a fixed wage - no thanks... Bulgarians are in the park with their kids 15 minutes after they officially finish work. YES on paper Bulgaria is poor - TERRIBLE levels of productivity. Very high levels of happiness and free time though - they don't mention that on the news...
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  5. Here in Bulgaria, we have not HAD a govt for a year - its not going as badly as the UK though...
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  6. WELL BULGARIA has not had a government for 10 months - so that has not helped. I was waiting for vaccination, they kept changing the rules. Eventually I asked at the pharmacy AT the hospital - they didn't know, asked at reception at the hospital - the woman said I had to go to the main hospital when another woman interrupted and said "just come here between 1 and 3, so I did and got vaccinated - SO TOTAL CHAOS.
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  7. THE WORLD IS WITH YOU GUYS...!
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  8.  @derriegel5705  - China is also setting debt traps for western consumers... Super easy credit to get people indebted to china, I dont know how they will leverage it - but MI6 are warning that it should be stopped as a national security issue...
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  9. I'm an author on geopolitics and I have no idea what will happen - so I'm pretty sure you don't. Let's just wait and see.
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  10. They would do what you demanded - thats the point...!!! When the billionaires start losing money - they tell the govt to give in.
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  11. THAT IS NOT the win you think it is... The fact you have to say it - is a loss...
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  12. I drove across Africa in 2005. I came home with a disease that was viral, the school of tropical medicine could not identify it - the conclusion was "you will either get better or you will die" - I was not especially ill, but it paralysed my joints one at a time, starting in the finger joints, then the toes, then the elbows and knees, got to one hip and then it just went away... And thats before we talk about mango worms and stuff - OH MY GOD. You never got washed in mango worm areas...
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  13. There are 10's of thousands of Russian parents with very good reason to be angry about the pointless loss of their children...
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  14. I USED TO BELIEVE IN THE MYTH of high productivity... Till I moved to Bulgaria where no one slaves under that delusion. Work HARD so your company and your boss do better when you are on a fixed wage - no thanks... Bulgarians are in the park with their kids 15 minutes after they officially finish work. YES on paper Bulgaria is poor - TERRIBLE levels of productivity. Very high levels of happiness and free time though - they don't mention that on the news...
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  15.  @williampinestone431  - Thank you - God it's painful having to cope with the terminally ill-educated...
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  16. Its an idiotic thing to do and they will regret it.
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  17. Looks like they just tried to cut too many costs when they built these things - its ALWAYS a 737 MAX when there is a problem
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  18.  @esgee3829  - I live next door to a hospital - literally. It WAS a vaccination centre but it was for ver 75,s then over 65's then over 60 - then ANYONE - YEAS!!! That lasted about 2 days and I was not quick enough and it went back to 65 and over. Then it closed as a vaccination centre cos they started building an extension to the hospital and the smaller vaccination centres have an intermittent supply of vaccines. Its just a shambles. I have HAD Covid so I'm not desperate, Id rather other people who need it get it first if there is a shortage of supply. But the whole thing has been totally chaotic - exactly what you would expect with no government really. But to blame it on the people is not really accurate. We have had 100% compliance with mask mandates and lockdowns here, people have been fantastic. But the attitude to the vaccine has kinda got to the point "oh ill get it when they finally get it sorted" kinda thing... OH BTW - Bulgaria are normally very good at getting medical to the villages, they have mobile clinics and mobile MRI scanners etc.
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  19. YEAH Texas skipped the once-in-a-generation education.
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  20.  @hape3862  Poverty breeds religion. If you have nothing you hope for salvation from it. ALSO - the people keeping you poor are very likely to push the idea that "YEAH you are poor and your life sucks, but look at the reward you will get in heaven...!!! now get back to the sweatshop and stop asking for a living wage" I'm an author on psychology in the collapse of civilisation, so this is kind my area.
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  21.  @nextfantasy9549  NOPE - everyone I know in over a dozen countries supports them...!!!
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  22.  @teodorugabriel2175  - I have HAD covid and I had "long covid" which was terrible. But the long covid has got better after the vaccination. Thank you for the good wishes :-D
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  23. ID LIKE TO THINK that when I die - the world will not mourn for my car... I think that is my baseline hope.
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  24. IM ONLY SORRY THAT SHE DIDNT SUFFER... Im sorry if that makes me a bad person - I live in east of Bulgaria - some days we have to wipe the brick dust of Mariupol off out cars, on bad days we get dust storms that brown out the sky Thats how bad the destruction is, and we all know it, even though we dont say it, we are wiping particles of bodies off the cars as well as brick dust.
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  25.  @ronnieince4568  - Jahre Viking was a bulk crude carrier with a very very low windage - it is effectively an oil filled submarine. It was 100% ballast, the difference between the specific gravity of oil and water is what kept it afloat. So it was incredibly stable and virtually impervious to wind. It is like comparing a HGV Semi with a state board.
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  26. @martin manuel I NOW LIVE IN BULGARIA and whilst it IS corrupt, I would argue the corruption is amateurish and obvious and that's why its SEEN by people. In the UK the government have just robbed the people of £50 Billion on PPE contracts for their friends and even their mate who owned a pub they go to, but its legal cos they are BETTER AT CORRUPTION...!!! Its the same in the USA, the corruption is MASSIVE but they are just much better at it than the Bulgarian politicians. In other countries, they just make a law that you have to pay €150 for this piece of paper and their mate gets the printing contract, in Bulgaria the piece of paper is free but you have to pay the guy €20 to hand you it. The corruption in the more advanced counties STILL EXISTS they just cover it up with a veneer of legality
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  27. Looks like they just tried to cut too many costs when they built these things - its ALWAYS a 737 MAX when there is a problem
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  28. Wrong correlation. More affluent areas are more atheist, they can afford fire suppression systems.
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  29. Troops yes, the economic situation is very much overstated in the west - don't expect them to collapse any time soon.
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  30. WHY WOULD UKRAINE HONOUR THE TREATY...??? The US has just proven that treaties mean nothing as far as they are concerned - and this one was extorted. Sign it - get the peace and then tell the US to go sw!vvel
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  31. AS A EUROPEAN I love the national awakening in the USA that there really IS more to life than work, work, work, WORK, WORK
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  32. WOW - BIG WIN - your not actually starving...!!! GREAT...!!! I know a person who did not eat for 3 days last week cos they did not have petrol to go shopping...!!! OH and there is no buss service cos the bus drivers have left for HGV jobs. ITS A TOTAL DISASTER...!!!
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  33.  @MrMac1138  Im sure some companies use cloud inf. But electricity bills are paid cash at a kiosk, same with water, internet, telephone, things in shops have little paper labels on them with prices on, things you buy online are delivered cash on delivery. Im British but I live in Bulgaria - Bulgaria has a weird relationship with computers. In the 1980's it was the 3rd largest manufacturer of computers on the internet, they developed rules for the legal governance of AI in the 1980's. It was the computer division of the USSR. But unlike the US it was NOT profit led share value at any cost - it was policy led - so they had the discussions over governing AI in the 80's that the US Congress are having today. Its just a different culture here - its a "computers make things easier but don't rely on them" - they knew and EMP would take out the computers so they planned for them not working - the apartments have grounded wire mesh in the walls to create a faradays cage, the power lines are buried under ground etc
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  34. Looks like they just tried to cut too many costs when they built these things - its ALWAYS a 737 MAX when there is a problem
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  35. Im just buying a house for renovation - I will make sure nothing used is Am3ric4n, I just vetored "Carrier AC" and I will be checking that no Am3ric4n parts are inside the products I buy 0- if I possibly can.
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  36. I LIVE IN BULGARIA though I am British, this is mostly rubbish - the reason we are not vaccinated is WE HAVE NOT HAD A GOVERNMENT FOR A YEAR - 3 elections provided NO government...!!! The pandemic response and the vaccine rollout have been utterly shambolic due to this and everyone has just given up waiting on the none existent government to DO something. Im 51, IM WAITING for a vaccine, cant get one.
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  37. FINALLY - IVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR 10 YEARS...!!! I moved to Bulgaria 15 years ago and this is the norm here, no one pays for childcare, the old people look after the kids. Old people are the BEST people to look after children — and the kids keep the old people active and happy. THANK GOD WE HAVE WOKEN UP IN THE WEST.
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  38.  @teodorugabriel2175  - Well I am English, but I live in Bulgaria and I am coming to Romania soon to see a friend in Transylvania :-D But yes, she told me it is bad there with Covid right now.
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  39. - I live in Bulgaria - we liquefy the Russian gas when it arrives anyway. We dont really have a domestic gas supply to houses so its automotive LNG or BBQ cylinders. We only use 4% the amount of gas the UK does...
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  40.  @gloekgloek3046  YEP and winds is even less - but the nuclear plants in France are still using the 60 year old process. The newer processes WILL be much cheaper and safer and flexible when they finally come on line.
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  41. its called degradation and saturation - you have to use up the ammo in the air defence system before you saturate it with an overwhelming attack
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  42. 47kg of TNT was the equivalent energy involved in the implosion
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  43. I NOW LIVE IN BULGARIA and whilst it IS corrupt, I would argue the corruption is amateurish and obvious and that's why its SEEN by people. In the UK the government have just robbed the people of £50 Billion on PPE contracts for their friends and even their mate who owned a pub they go to, but its legal cos they are BETTER AT CORRUPTION...!!! Its the same in the USA, the corruption is MASSIVE but they are just much better at it than the Bulgarian politicians. In other countries, they just make a law that you have to pay €150 for this piece of paper and their mate gets the printing contract, in Bulgaria the piece of paper is free but you have to pay the guy €20 to hand you it. The corruption in the more advanced counties STILL EXISTS they just cover it up with a veneer of legality
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  44. YES - I was just watching a strategist saying this sort of thing was exactly what is needed - lots of things that distract Putin and forces fromt he Ukrain conflict.
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  45. WHY WOULD UKRAINE HONOUR THE TREATY...??? The US has just proven that treaties mean nothing as far as they are concerned - and this one was extorted. Sign it - get the peace and then tell the US to go sw!vvel
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  46. ID LIKE TO THINK that when I die - the world will not mourn for my car... I think that is my baseline hope.
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  47.  @34ofaninchofbrain80  I'm an author on the collapse of civilisations living in Europe - This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. The only question left is can you MANAGE the collapse? Will it be like the end of the British Empire - or Yugoslavia 1992 with way more guns.
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  48.  @pineapplesareyummy6352  - I KNOW - I live there... Its terrible. And the politicians argue about forming a government and cant get it together - all the while people are dying.
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  49.  @pineapplesareyummy6352  - In the recent general election, the vast majority of the people who were alive under communism voted for the communist party...
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  50.  @kirilmihaylov1934  - Well that is the same across the world. The Kings of old never disappeared, they just changed the name to Billionaire and they let the politicians take the blame for their terrible policies. I have lived in Bulgaria for 12 years, and as far as I can tell the great things about Bulgaria are mostly what is left from the communist times. Every morning in my city the "Baby Kitchen" delivers hot food to people with small children, at a subsidised cost. As someone who grew up in extreme poverty in the UK this is just amazing to me, making sure that children get good food - I'm a man and I'm only 173cm because I did not get enough good food in my childhood. My sister's little boy is 13, he is taller than me, THAT is how much difference it makes. I see many things like this that the people here take for granted, but to me as an immigrant I think are amazing.
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