Comments by "D. von N." (@D.von.N) on "serpentza" channel.

Reminds me Eastrn Europe. Not only copper wires stolen from railways wiring, but even manhole lids went missing, for scrap metal. And that was usually done by those more sunkissed minority ethnic. They were given newly refurbished flats and they dismantled them within months, including the elevators and radiators in those flats, then complaining how the state didn't look after them, that they were freezing in winter.
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What communism when they pay for healthcare and accommodation, among many other things?
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Thanks for explaining us the background. I also wondered how they can do it so cheap, and thought there was some extra contract on bulk shipping. Sometimes two or three separate small orders arrive in one bag as one item (more of a letter size and thickness items), wrapped individually inside as they left the production and would otherwise arrive individually anyway. I don't know who does this grouping, but at least THIS saves extra work to our postal services. It has a sticker label with Chinese on it so I guess it happens on their side of the ocean. I have been and will keep purchasing from China though. It is mostly items for creative activities, not a mere consumerism of trainiers or clothing or other pointless gadgets ending up in the landfill in no time, which I do NOT buy there. I wear proper leather and other branded shoes bought here which last me for years and years and are kind to my body, and returns if not fitting are easy and pain free. I generally buy directly from China stuff I cannot find here, or that I can is extremely overpriced for what it is. I don't mind paying for postage some reasonable fee and I rarely get any free postage from them (Aliexpress exclusively, I haven't tried other platforms and I don't intend to). I only get a free postage when making an order of a certain volume/cost, or the items I look for and find with a free postage have already this price included in the item price. An item worth of 75p came with £2.80 postage charge (plus VAT) or other seller offered it for £3.70 straight. One way or another. By avoiding a middle man I not only save, but often avoid subsidising another unscrupulous business like Amazon. Or items listed on e-bay still coming directly from China regardless, as someone mentined already, just me paying fees to the platforms on top of it. Why should I? They already get enough profit and their practices aren't entirely to be proud of, especially Amazon. I am also selling on e-bay and the policy often comes as cost prohibitive, I don't bother selling certain items at all or I would only earn pennies of profit for individual items I want to get rid of. I do shop locally though, wherever I can get what I need for a reasonable price. For electronics we go for reputable sellers like Currys, expecting the items to be genuine and in working order, with a proper warranty, withouth safety risks like exploding cheap chargers. So it isn't that I only hunt cheap items on the Asian market. Others complained that if the purchase goes wrong they don't get a satisfactory solution anymore. I am yet to have this experience. I always got a refund for a faulty or missing item on Aliexpress, with supplying a photo evidence. And they are obviously aware about extortionate return charges because they also offer simply a refund without returning the item. I have always got it so far. When that changes I will reconsider my purchasing habits. What you mentioned that we support Chinese govt... we do it regardless, wherever we buy items as those items were already produced there. Most of our stuff we use for this or that were produced in China. There is no escape from it. The only downfall is this subsidising of delivery service, which needs sorting out if it is such a big issue, I don't know the real scale within the entire business volume. But that is OUR problem to fix, not theirs (Chinese).
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Was it meant to pose as a library full of books though? Looking at the shelves higher up, leaning over the space of the room... how would anyone access the books placed there without some risky ladder or motorised high-up kind of vehicle?
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Does incogni remove my details from the dark web? Or Chinese databases? No? Then don't be a shill. Disappointed by these youtubers. And by you. Instead of asking for support like on Patreon you selll your soul to overpromising services that cannot fully deliver.
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Fair reasoning, but there are super wealthy individuals who go out dressed like the poorest people, intentionally, for whatever reason. And you have the opposite who have very deep into their pockets but they try to present themselves as very wealthy, with many fake items, men posing by cars that don't belong to them, etc. Good for you that you respect your audience and everyone around who in return respect you back. Edit: forgot to mention that once I was on a presentation (the man was selling pillows and mattresses), he was dressed well but the odour he was spreading around was awful. It was unbearable. Daily shower and antiperspirant should be part of a decent look/impression.
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Hi, watching this in August 2022 and that destruction of history in mainland China reminds me the destruction of Palmyra by the Islamic extremists (among many other such destructions). By that signature you know you are dealing with a backwards totalitarian regime, whatever the culture, whatever the era... erasing past and culture is never a good thing. BTW, I prefer you to talking alone than with your other YT partner when it gets just a talk over talk, and quite confusing.
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That photo from 3/1... of course people normally take platform shoes to the pool - was my first thought. A couple months ago someone called me out of blue offering me great profit from Forex trading. They had my name, email, and phone number, not sure what else. They got nothing else from me. Then more attempts from various numbers for a few weeks, obviously spoofed as well... no luck, crooks. Good exercise if you have the nerves to play with them, I don't. And while I have had my real photo on social media, unsolicited messages, mostly from Indian men were coming. I removed my face and they stopped. So it goes both ways, not just scammers preying on old men via women, men do that to women too. There is a huge desperate world out there.
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How do these data removal services remove my data from the black market, sold in batches, obtained by illegal hacking? They won't. Black market will wipe its a$$ with their legal letters. Waste of money. Your data is out there and there will be more of it. Legal companies trading my data is my least worry.
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I guess those women 'work' for a few pennies, as those who pay them might no have much themselves. The girl at the end was probably fatening up her dinner a few weeks down the line. Life can get desperate.
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What would happen if you were a bit more honest and announced a sponsor, instead of sneaking it into the content, like you did? It is so annoying and I skip it, very unlikely purchasing it. I would skip it anyway, but at least I wouldn't get annoyed. When I get too annoyed, I blacklist a channel. And I believe I am not the only one. Announcing a sponsor beforehand is honest and transparent, a quality in such a short supply nowadays. We aren't some brainless sheep here, that if we see an ad we run and buy the stuff.
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To be fair, have you seen the Indian trains with Indian people almost like glued to the exterior? Well, it isn't a high speed, but much worse than in China. And the trains in Britain also aren't to be envied. Expensive, frequent cancellations, crowded at peak time... also the queues in the London underground can be pretty unpleasant as I remember it from my time there.
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at least the fruit, you cannot beat the freshest home grown apples from the tree. Speaking about scams... last month I returned an USB key, not trusting it, made in China. But I am happy to use the clear punch pockets, A6 size compartmentalised, I received today, from China. They are sturdy, look of the same quality other companies sell under their logo for 3x the price. I will keep those. Let's use our brains and those people in China are also just humans trying to survive.
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Disgusting. But at least they don't have such issues with fatbergs in China. Always find a silver lining on issues LOL. That reminds me a joke, about an unnamed ethnic minority from my part of the world. Social services came to a settlement of this minority which is known for not being very adaptable to the world they live in, neglect of children, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, crime and dependency on social services, where having a job is a failure of their culture. They pride themselves to make it through the life and not working (exceptions exist, but they are really exceptions. and even those who really are able to adapt and better themselves, are often targeted and boycotted by their own as a failure). The services came and asked one family: do you have lice here? The mother said: Lice? No, we have nothing, children will eat everything.
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Did you have a uveitis on that thumbnail photo? :D
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Cost cutting: why paying two workers to do the job when you can pay just one faking it?
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Coming to this unaware how bad things are in S Africa and it starts making sense why the govt is so servile towards Putin. Two alikes. But regarding the privately ran energy companies, we in the UK don't have shortages, but because the private energy producers only watch their profit, an increasing number of people cannot afford to use the amount of energy they need and are going without as a choice. And obviously many have had their health harmed or lost lives last (and previous) winter due to hypothermia, especially the elderly. Poorer households cannot afford to heat enough so they have moulds spreading in their neglected homes and that has a whole range of other consequences, on healthcare, economy due to loss of working hours, etc. So private sector isn't the silver bullet you are trying to promote, but I get the point that when the corrupt govt deprives the nation of their rights, private sector can bring a positive boost. Up to a point. Just remember that the customers are secondary there, the primary interest are shareholders and their profit. And so many public services ran by private industries in the UK neglected the upgrade of networks while paying out £billions in dividents to their own members, all across the world. British customers are subsidising pensions in Australia, for example. Or cheaper energy to France where the state owns the majority of energy supply. Right now we have a big scandal with raw sewage pumped into our rivers and seas, due to neglected upgrade of pipes from Victorian times.
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If there was communism in China, this wouldn't be a problem, right? All belonged to people, it is theirs to take. No profit. The thing is, there is no real communism in China. These people live in fear of insufficiency, the fear turning them into thugs, often violent and selfish.
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