Comments by "" (@causewaykayak) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. In UK. These are by far the best noodles. Bumboo Sauce should have a special mention, 🎖️🏆
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  2. As simple as that eh?? Its a tasty sachet for sure. Thank you for explaining!
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  3. As usual America is complicit in foul play
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  4. As always a brilliant exposition.
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  5.  @user-yk1cw8im4h  You seem to be saying that China lacked honesty and quality but did not say that explicitly. I'd say you just insulted a vast number of people. Your contribution appears to be just a slack jawed cat-call. Perhaps you should express yourself more clearly.
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  6. An economy that has been ravaged enough over recent years. Surprising there's anyone still living there.
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  7. Another simply brilliant essay.
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  8.  @simonmarshall3869  Not stupid I agree (they all went to good schools etc ) but irresponsible verging on the Criminal.
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  9. Asianometry has regrettably fallen far below it's usual high standard for neutral and objective presentations. Seasoned professional historians will be shocked at the unusually cavalier regard for precision on display here. What Jon's team says is undoubtedly true but one can mislead by omission. The result here is an agitprop which will appeal to the rabid of America. This is a key skill of the British state propaganda arm, it's BBC octopus and it's Channel Four. (I am from a jurisdiction only recently out of conflict with the Brits). We are used to spotting such artifice.
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  10. This team is nothing short of amazing. 🏆
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  11. godz @tf2godz  So to what extent did the Brits assume responsibility for organising agriculture in India. I think very little. Southern Rhodesia was a prosperous place when the white farmers ran it. Woke politics got in the way and independence ruined it. Likely to befall South Africa given time. Wouldn't lay bets on it succeeding tho' Kenya doing well with Chinese infrastructural help and Nigeria does its own thing happily. So maybe just maybe there's a chance for SA. I'm thinking radicals like Julius Nyerere could really do a Mugabe on the place given a chance 😝
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  12. Nonsense
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  13. ​ If true (and its only an opinion) then the upcoming crop of unoccupied dwellings can reasonably be nationalised for issuing generally as Social Housing.
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  14. Did you never consider the effects of unrestrained immigration on many british towns. My Glaswegian associate describes his home town as "The Curry Capital of Europe" - wrong of course, Brixton is.
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  15. Marx and others showed that most labour is to some extent coerced. Next time we chose a pair of pants or a tec gadget we are like as not to bid on price. Pricing forces down wages ... Most of us face inescapable debt and so drudge to survive. Those who think they are free might want to reflect on that. We know slavery is not dead. Often in the countries howling loudest about colonial oppression, landlords and mill owners are in cahoots with security and justiciary to opress plantation workers, garment factory workers, domestic servants and others. Back in the day the business was acceptable. Slaves and bond labourers were negotiable assets. Often the result of conflict battlefield outcomes fed acquisition of labourers. It was often the price of Quarter. Europe had no qualms about using convict labour as galley and plantation slaves. Until very recently the pious Americans used prison Labour to work farms - private gain there - Parchman Farm eh😅 and the Brits built infrastructure in south Australia with convicts expressly sentenced to provide a labour force. Most cultures used slaves. Theres no need to get all righteous or cry shame about it.
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  16. Both indeed are good. Particularly the sachet in the Hot Spicy packet (one with Fried Onions extras sachet). Now our local stockist has run out 😒.
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  17. ​ @fnorgen  Perhaps in some outfits, that has already happened 😂
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  18.  @enigmatic-pisces  Try books instead of U-Tube
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  19. ​@Osterochse Like Hamas ?😊
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  20. ​ @NoahSpurrier Does the world really need these elaborate toys. I say Guns before Phones.
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  21. Tunneling on any scale is great science. Worth documenting and preserving. This system occurs pretty much worldwide. China and Europe included . No modern nation can claim ownership of the principle. It is good to compare and appreciate all such systems. Would be nice to restore the Persian/ Iranian Quanat to former glory. Those few photographs were alluring.
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  22. I am British living in Ireland. In the case given in this video essay I only find it bad that young women were pressured into donating. This is both a sexual harassment issue and a workplace harassment offence. I personally see no problem whatsoever with using human eggs - only with forcible acquisition. However in Ireland which unwittingly slaves under the yoke of a regressive fantasy cult - The church of Rome - there is incredible 'twitchiness' on anything to do with maternity and fetal tissue. It reaches hysterical proportions in a flash and the government is happy to be pushed along by such waves of sentiment. Indeed its members are almost entirely of the same persuasion. So for Ireland you could say that the bulk of the population (majority is rural, ageing and in any case almost exclusively schooled through a religious leaning syllabus) anything to do with cell technology is regarded with aversion. My understanding is that extreme protestantism effects the same condemnation . Hope this answers you at least in part. 🇬🇧🇨🇮
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  23. ​ Decrying empires seems to be a sport. All human interactions are based on some sort of exploitation. You might start with marriage perhaps.
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  24. This channel has as many clever ways with linguistics than the machines it is often describing. The writer is to be congratulated.
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  25. This whole thing is just an assemblage of fragments arranged to suit an American audience. Great to whip up anti socialist feelingvas the US presses towards bring war to the world YET AGAIN. Americans should stay home.
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  26. ​ Thank you for taking the time out to reply. A 'disagree' is still to be welcomed. My own view, if I may - is that coercion of labour is so much a part of human existence that taking a moral stance against it is a fruitless exercise. EXCEPT as a propaganda to assist the resistance of labour in its (eternal ?) struggle to resist exploitation. That does sound a bit leaden, sorry - but U Tube on a tiny cell phone screen isn't really for elaborate essays. What I mean is that emotional tear jerking on this subject is like yelling at the incoming tide. Thanks again for speaking out 🍀!
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  27.  @rickden8362  "Just spin" -- spin is a twist put on a story to advantage some particular interest group. Who gains here ? If muscle and sweat is a defining characteristic of athleticism then Grave Diggers, Soldiers and Coolies must rank amongst athletes. Climbers delicately and slowly traversing a slab, are they to be excluded? Rifle shooting is a demanding activity - are practitioners to be excluded from the category too. OK by me, I always liked Diamond League athletics but Track and Field is only one category of athletics. Have you no space for ice dance, ski jump, horse trials or sailing ?
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  28. The post war british governments have been the most corrosive actor inflicting grievous harm on british industries and social fabric.
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  29. ​ @Peizxcv The UN is an American agency.
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  30. Its sort of ironic that this lovely peep into brain analogs has its own Matrix moment - The cat walk past the door - Twice. Look for that around 14:21 Did you do that on purpose ? Always fantastic quality !!
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  31. ​ @user-yk1cw8im4h  What does that mean. Are you insulting China ?
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  32.  @Grak70  Thank you so much for this great reply.
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  33. ??? So in 1917-18 Germany gets the territory of Ukraine, then in 1921 Ukraine ( Germany) sends food aid to Russia whilst the Civil war is still on?? And Germany at same time had a revolution too The Kaiser is gone and country is moribund. So they have surpluses for Russia?? My family was there then, only memories of shortages in the Rhineland. France taking everuthing for war reparations. Didn't Poland get a big chunk of historically Russian Ukraine and launch severe repression. And which political areas of Russia got food aid from the Ukraine and the US ?? America was sending troops to Russia to fight Bolshevism?? Right. Built military rail lines etc. This production is not mentioning a lot of important stuff and essentially re writing a very partial history in favour of the United States. As another comment says here, is weak on Slavic history or my way of saying it, gives some salacious bare bones only to mislead. Sorry Jon, maybe try some time on China between the first revolution and end of WW2. Explain Formosa Taiwan and the success of Nationalist policies for Chinese people in that time. You are usually so good but I fear this one was for Messianic Americans only. PS, so how nanybyears was Ukraine a sovereign state between say 1900 and now ... and America you trying to start WW3 for that?!?
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  34. Thats me as well. Life's too short to be spending much time on the phone. If I'm going to be late home the family will just have to do like our parents did - - and wait. Same goes for my buddy's new baby ... I will chose a paper card with care and hand write a few lines. A circular email at Xmas will not please me. A regular card or a nice BRIEF word on the phone will suffice. Boring etc etc.
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  35. Or just practice cannibalism ??
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  36. I don't think it is much different in many western countries. An individual may declare self bankrupt (or financially dead). However this is regularly abused as debtors bend rules and exploit loopholes to go back into business u der other cover-names. The system does connive at this. This dodgy system benefits financial crooks. Bankruptcy is ill policed and the life of bankrupts is allowed to be far too comfortable for many of them.
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  37. ​YouReadMyName But you could argue that thecUS created a dependency in europe post their aid to Britain prior to, and then post their military invasions after 1941.
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  38.  @iandaniel1748  We had draft avoiders over here - they were much into liquid methedrine.
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  39. Nice to hear some serious respect for Chinese innovation
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  40. War is an adjustment process. Stable food and water or stable population level. Guys cant keep it in their pants SO some adjustment methods are necessary. Of course not just periodic wars. Then (before anyone else jumps in to mention it!) there is the issue of demographic age balance. PRC is adjusting for its successful era of one child policy. Now to see how they get on. Hopefully no unwelcome foreign interference. We wait and watch. So far no war there except in America's eyes.
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  41. It's better if people can just be themselves.
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  42. I wonder if that would be true for Cornish tin mine waste in the UK.
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  43. ​ @miguel5785  You get a metered water bill ? That's tough😮.
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  44.  @szurketaltos2693  I think there would be distribution difficulties. What might be possible is not to have food crops exported from places where there is famine. I'd say that some countries are exporting cash crops from unaffected regions whilst other areas are at that time unproductive. That would be a matter for national government. It's not lost on me that every time the middle classes of affluent countries get some new super-food fad, some where far away a peasant staple is taken out of the local market as a foreign currency earner for the state authorities
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  45. You may well get sick.
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  46.  @genesotdorus413  There's a lot of naivety even amongst the smartest 'tech types. 😅
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  47. A seamstress can easily sew in a new zipper. Don't overlook this valuable trade. They can generally fix anything unless the fabric is rotten. Can also re tailor to give a lovely custom fit. Grateful Shout Out to the legion of Seamstresses ❤ ❤❤
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  48.  @PFAlt  From the UK. You've got that right 👍🏼. This place has been systematically dismantled for the benefit of a few investors who wrap themselves in the flag & call for patriotism to protect their operating haven but have absolutely none themselves. Global Capitalism has no morality. To whit, the current trade war playing out between US and Putin's Russian Federation.
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  49. Felton is selling other men's flowers. Seems preoccupied with raising viewer stats by sensationalist Reveals about the sins of our fathers. No doubt appeals to the Woke generation who appear to succour on getting indignant about most everything . Not so much fake as distorted accounts of the past and salted with tones of moral outrage. Asianometry seems to get great respect from industry insiders. Nice touch is that he /she / they keep personal opinions largely under wraps.
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  50.  @robinmorritt7493  Don't be hard on yourself. You did a couple of good replies here. MF is a persistent irritant and although he does pick up many interesting topics his tone/bias/ skew grates badly on an unknown (but likely large) number of folks. In the UK he is marked out as one of a loose coterie of like minded actors who seem to live a charmed life on our media. The Snows, Prof. AR, "Time Team" Crew to suggest a few. Their anti patriotic, anti Imperialist, anti white working class, anti militaristic etc etc bias sits well with the BBC, Channel Four boards of (unaccountable) management. We have cuckoo's eggs hatched in our nest. Their removal seems unlikely. A sharp condemnation in a UT comments section is about all a frustrated public can achieve against them. Conventional written complaints to the broadcasters just go straight to the autoshredder. This situation is probably duplicated in most countries.
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