Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Vox" channel.

  1. The German custom comes from German paganism. "Tree cults" we call them, where given trees were said to have exotic properties (I.E. a tree that survives a lighting strike was "blessed by Thor"). Tree cults were still being discovered in Germany in the late 18th century.
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  2. Correction: Qatar is NOT the richest country per capita. A large portion of their population does not have documents and officially don't exist.
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  3. Well, there's Fiserv, United Health, Protor & Gamble, Merck and others.
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  4. You're asking too much of the Masri. They lack the funds and the expertise for that, they've relied on foreign investors and expat skilled labors to build their utilities.
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  5. Projections are like buttholes. Everybody has one and they all stink.
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  6. There's no mystery there. When there is food populations grow, when there is famine populations shrink.
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  7. They don't pick their own cases, and the Feds don't have jurisdiction over schools. That's a state matter.
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  8. Blame the guy eating cows: You.
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  9. No, that's simply not how it works at all. You need a job lined up before you're issued certain classes of passport, but there's a whole alphabet soup. But more importantly, there's no travel restrictions with the passport, and we actually have labor laws. And I will castrate you insist otherwise.
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  10. The American embassy in China has huge lines of people wait for visas and large overworked staffs handling all the people leaving. Every time a major issue happens in China, Chinese search engines record everyone looking up visa requirements.
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  11. Washington DC was the middle of nowhere when it was built, as was St Petersburg, and Salvador.
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  12. Not so, because China lied about its population growth too. State and city governments are allocated state resources based on population numbers, so everyone engages in double counting. Their census includes both migrant workers from the city, migrant workers in the city, people who have left China for good, and it is intentionally difficult to make a permanent change of address if you have moved elsewhere in China. This process is repeated at every level of government. IDK how much of China's population simply doesn't exist, but there's a lot.
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  13. Because Karens try to ran politics down their neighbor's throats.
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  14. He was always just making whatever video gets clicks. In the early days he was just a teenager with a smartphone but now he runs a studio.
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  15. Taiwan getting into semiconductors is largely an historic accident since the country industrialized right at the start of the technology boom and there were government subsidies to get Taiwan into modern industries. Those days are over, though
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  16. It's a growing city. It's not the house, it's the land
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  17. @Bell Olli If only the Masri s problems were that simple
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  18. This is common in the middle east. They use local stone and cheap cement to make simple buildings. There are some small construction companies with some equipment and little skill, but most families build their own homes. The larger firms are all owned by oligarchs or the government so they are lawsuit-proof. Building regs simply don't matter.
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  19. It's hard to believe at one point people used real trees and real candles in their houses.
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  20. @elfrjz A lot of people don't know who they are. Like how most US fast food franchises are run by the Yum corporation
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  21.  @geoffreycharles6330  there's a lack of skilled workers of all kinds in that part of the world. Even mechanics are generally foreign trained and/or self taught.
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  22. Most people who just need a place to live are better off renting.
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  23.  @Dukenukem  yeah, in this case some rich dude's desire to get out of the city probably isn't going to result in any permanent transfer.
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  24. Vox went full Borderlands. Next the CEO will have a duel with Shane Smith!
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  25.  @johnmcgill3603  There's no particular reason why chip factories can't be made elsewhere and the demand for chips is likely to rise, meaning while Taiwan will keep making chips they won't have such a leading role. It's like how Wichita was the airplane capital of the world for a couple decades, but after a while Kansas aerospace grew slowly while it exploded across the US
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  26. @@liy5840 This goon doesn't know this stuff was largely invented in the US... The US has chip factories, they're just Taiwan's specialty for the past couple decades.
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  27. It's a scam. They promise good wages and then simply seize their passports and refuse to pay them. Sometimes they have to take out loans to get to the middle east, sometimes they pay near all their wages in arbitrary fines, sometimes their pay is withheld as an eventual large bonus that will never come, and many are beaten for complaining or asking questions. And the cost of living in the oil states is very high and state subsidized, meaning the laborers are stuck in whatever housing the employer provides which are generally worse than prisons with more men than beds, streams of sewage on the grounds, few if any showers, and guards that will berate the "filthy foreigners."
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  28. If India tried something like that, they'd just have doctors neuter Muslim and Dalit women after the give birth.
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  29.  @genuinennessbefitting4734  You do realize a big chunk of the Taiwanese companies are US owned, right?
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  30. That case involved a building who neglected maintenance and died in the collapse.
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  31. Most modern Christmas customs, yes.
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  32. In key locations in cities, every bit of land has a price. Empty spaces are just a waste.
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  33.  @jv-lk7bc  St Petersburg was the capital of Russia for over 200 years. New York City was the original capital of the US. You're not as familiar with these topics as you think, and we both know your original argument was only made to throw dirt at el-Sisi anyway.
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  34. Houses do not rise in value, land does. It doesn't matter how long you own a house in a rural area, it's going to trade at the same price forever.
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  35. Cold War never really ended in the far east
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  36. Try pity.
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  37. Not just the state, but small ventures that don't really have the skill or equipment to build large buildings often do.
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  38. It's about how a momentary shortage made politicians fixate on it for a moment so now no one will shut up about it.
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  39.  @KICK839  No one else either.
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  40. Like... you?
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  41. Not exactly. This was already a known issue for decades, it's just the world cup has made it widely known.
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  42. Lose the whataboutism, you're no good at it. You literally just said that A) All employment is slavery and B) Qatar and America are the same size. Now go away before you get doxxed and castrated for your arrogance and stupidity.
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  43. [Laughs in Afrikaans]
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  44. Egypt doesn't have a middle class.
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  45. Hedge funds are statistically insignificant. 10,000 hedgies times an average AUM of 80 million equals 800 billion total value. The GDP of New York City alone is twice that.
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  46. They're called gangs, most people in that area pretencd they're affiliated with one
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  47. There's no difference
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  48. Presents at Christmas didn't come around until roughly 1800.
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  49. The scam depends on information vacuums. If potential victims know, they won't fall for it.
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  50. Not really. Renting out homes is a perfectly good investment, but most people who just need a place to stay are better off renting.
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