Comments by "knopkaplay" (@knopkaplay0507) on "Econ Lessons"
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@AK-cr5pe are these serious questions and statements? Okay.
1) would Russia survive without land lease - maybe, maybe not. No question it played an important role.
2) in Russia, the curriculum is federally mandated, but there might - might - be schools that do not talk about land lease. I haven't come across one.
I have worked with secondary schools both here and in the US and I'd venture a guess that, on average, more Russian high school students will know about land lease than, say, American high schoolers would know about the battle of Kursk or Stalingrad or the fact that Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops.
3) Frankly, I don't really care much for Youtube. The videos have slowed down significantly (so huge kudos to all those creators providing transcripts to their vids), but it's still pretty watchable via mobile connection. All things considered, it's a logical step - at war, one should limit the opposing side's propaganda. YT threw the gauntlet, pretty heavy-handedly, Roskomnadzor was happy to pick it up. Lose-lose kind of deal, but, like I said, doesn't affect me much personally.
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No, not really - the US embargo on Cuba, for instance, has been around for some 6 decades now, no sign of it lifting or easing up. Magnitsky is long dead and the refuseniks have grown old and peacefully died out in Israel, Canada, and the US - but the spirit of Jackson-Vanick is still very much alive.
It would be nice to have SWIFT back and have aircraft parts to maintain Russian Airbus and Boeing fleet - after all, it's a question of safety and ultimately human lives, but then again, Iran has been in this situation for awhile now and seems to be coping okay. So yeah, generally the expectation of sanctions lifting is fairly low.
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@peterwulff469 they also export wheat (a grain), Raman spectrometers (a type of scientific equipment), pork (a kind of meat), Vostok, slava, and Raketa (a kind of watch), Kamov and mil (a kind of helicopter), rockwool and drywall (a kind of insulating material), borzoi and French bulldogs (kinds of dogs), wrestlers (kinds of athletes), engineers and scientists (kinds of people), rocket engines (kind of metal things that make spaceships move), nuclear technologies, materials, and equipment (a kind of tech that not too many countries have mastered). But yeah, other than that - vodka and mail order brides, primarily.
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@daniellarson3068 in cities, it's usually the choice between "commie block" vs "human anthill" vs "premium apartments". For standalone private housing you need to go into suburbs.
For an idea of a commie block, Google Earth Dubna, Ulitsa Stroiteley, 16 (notice school, swimming pool, tennis courts, embankment - that's the idea, ideally). For an anthill - Sel'skokhozyastvennaya Ulitsa, 35, Moscow. And for the last one (older "premium") - triumph palace, Moscow. For standalone housing close to the city - listvennaya ulitsa, Veshki, Russia.
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@Cougelly1999 ah, that would make sense, somewhat... For the record, though - most of the parallels drawn by Mr. Biernat are not parallel at all. For starters, given how badly he garbles the Ukrainian names, I have some doubts he ever had the chance to read, say, Shevchenko in Russian, Ukrainian (the two languages his works are originally written in) or even English. This also holds true for the remainder of the cohort. With this in mind, you can throw in any other historical or semi-historical figure into the mix, from Homer to Homer Simpson and find parallels in the figures of American revolution or Ukrainian nation building simply based on the fact that they were humans, with a comparable number of limbs and and other appendages.
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@bobs12andahalf2 ну, где я был, местные дороги были отвратнейшие, но ямы другие - на стыках плит и верхний слой асфальта слетает, а нижний остаётся. А федеральные трассы да, хорошие.
По поводу дяденьки у меня есть определенные сомнения. Я в экономике ни бум-бум, но всякий раз, когда он выползает за границы Адама Смита, в те области, где у меня есть какое-то понимание, как все работает - он порет откровенную чушь. Поскольку делает это он с той же уверенностью и апломбом, у меня есть подозрение, что и экономтеории у него так себе теории.
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@ukraine-gonna-beat-ruzzia boring or not - we've seen some attempts at negotiations, some starting offers on the table, etc. I really don't think an incursion/invasion into Kursk adds a meaningful bargaining chip for UA. What it does, though, is antagonize Russians, which hitherto didn't, by and large, have any hatred towards Ukrainians as people. Some of the videos coming from Sudzha may change that.
Anyways, like I said, I'll let you know what the chatter on the ground is once I hear back from my friend - off to work, TTYL.
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@ukraine-gonna-beat-ruzzia no, never went back to school, but I visit fairly often - and I lived there for about 10 years, pretty much through the last pre-covid decade. I liked your people, made some good friends there (now that i come to think of it - they were primarily Brazilians, Ethiopians and Canadians, but some locals, too :-)
Thanks for thinking about my financial well-being, - yes, every last kopeck counts in today's tough, harsh, highly competitive world, - but don't feel compelled to respond if you don't want to. I was actually pretty happy to find a non-bot in this channel's echo chamber :-)
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@AllmedialabNl excellent, thank you! According to WHO '19 data linked in that article, per capita consumption in Ru was 10.4 liters (same as in Portugal), and in Poland in was 11.6 liters. So?
According to the same report (published in 2024, with data from 2019), Hungary's number is 10.6 liters, while Romania had 17 (this addresses Mark's claim of Hungary as "number 1" and Russia as "number 2"... Poland's 11,6 doesn't make it anywhere close to the "bottom of the list").
Again, those numbers, taken in isolation, don't mean much - I just find it funny when people use them to prove some point and can't even look up the correct numbers in the first place.
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@gior987 I have a summer house in one of those 30-people villages, some 120km away from Moscow, so I have a pretty decent understanding of how things work there. On paper, the village would qualify as "no plumbing", with low employment, high percentage of vacant houses, no gas connection (until very recently), and there is no local store at all (there is a grocery truck coming twice a week with bread and other staples). In reality, all houses that are used year-round are connected to septic tanks (so of course it doesn't qualify for "centralized plumbing" in official stats), multi-fuel furnaces, with very decent 4g internet connection, satellite dishes, and the like - and some of the houses would put to shame the neighborhood where I used to live in the US.
Still, on paper it's one of those decrepit rural villages somewhere far, far away.
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@gior987 well, yes, the country is pretty large and last-mile connections, be it fiber optics, water/ plumbing, or gas can quickly become prohibitively labor-intensive and expensive. Still, there are ways to deal with it - take a look at the videos of that weird Canadian family who moved to Nizhny. They are detailing their plight with power and water connections.
All that said, to return to the original comment, - yes, the level of loans/mortgage is quite low, hard to argue with that. I've had several credit cards since early 2000s, used them maybe 3 times total
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@sterlingdafydd5834 oh, sad linguistic realities of endangered minority languages, I get it. Oh wait - how come in my family, where my father actually barely spoke Tatar, I still had a bunch of Tatar fairy tales growing up (printed in Tatar in late 70s-early 80s).
Also, if a family is indeed bilingual, it would be somewhat inaccurate to speak of a dominant language (take many, many Russian families living abroad as an example). And even in families that are not truly bilingual, Russian fairy tales will be passed along, in Russian, along with English-language tales.
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