Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "Patrick Boyle" channel.

And the US did, too. It also has a very protected home market for cars — otherwise, the European and Japanese cars would have completely beaten GM and probably also Ford.
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It wasn’t for free. Xerox got Apple stock.
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A pity the others preferred to relax in the sun :( There’s a saying ascribed to Edison: “opportunity knocks on most people’s doors but it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”. You were lucky that you had opportunities but you were the one who grasped them hard with both hands and made the best out of them!
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Which includes the months before he had brought inflation down — including the months before his term started. You didn’t really have a point, did you?
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> such a rich history Almost all of it stolen! > so much potential Really? Erdogan's heartland of fast breeding dimwits has no potential at all. The rest of the country does have some potential but not much. The best thing that could happen to it would be a break up of the country -- perhaps along the lines of the (still valid!) Treaty of Sèvres. Most of Erdogan's supporters would end up in a country of their own where they couldn't damage the rest nearly as much as they do now. That country would of course sink like a rock and become even more of a basket case than Turkey already is.
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@gamal01 it is apparently spot on, judging from all the bots stating how unreliable it is.
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There were a number of different simultaneous (yes!) official exchange rates + a black market rate (= the real rate). Milei got the official rate(s) closer to the real one.
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Not in the EU, no. It’s law that we have to use a clunky CCS connector instead of Tesla’s much better connector. Thanks, Germany!
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The ones I talked to in 2018/19 simply couldn’t fathom that house prices wouldn’t go up forever. “The government will make sure they do”.
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Only two women (two and a half if you count the surrogate for his youngest).
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Huh? You don’t think rising labour costs (*less* income inequality!) had something to do with it?
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Energy costs went up much more in Europe than they did in the US.
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A man who still can’t say three or third…
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I would expect nothing less.
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@davinnicode a German bank?
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Xerox still made a lot of money on patent licensing of PARC tech (laser printers, Ethernet) + they got a nice chunk of Apple shares.
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Imprison some oligarchs, reduce corruption, weaken the presidency and strengthen the parliament, get closer to the EU.
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@holgerokorn3164 I think that was a roundabout way of admitting that more money won’t make the schools in Baltimore better.
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It is 100% radical left!
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Arrest the “greens” (and Merkel) for treason.
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@thomas316 we could also start fracking in Europe. We have lots of hydrocarbons we could use.
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@barrymcdonald9868 hey, you sound almost like a 五毛 or a Putin bot :)
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@alhollywood6486 poverty — but they will have a roof over their heads and their bellies will be full.
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Working-age does not equal productive. Germany is better off without those people.
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They don’t really matter. Their main export is people. A large part of their income is remittances.
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Patrick, you should try cosplaying as Zorglub!
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Penguinistas Rojas, a dreaded independence movement in the South.
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The Curry-Howard isomorphism does hold but your conclusion doesn’t follow from that premise.
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@3_character_minimum no actual austerity happened in the UK. All that happened was that the state started growing slightly slower.
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@3_character_minimum not “maybe”. Definitely.
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@rumplstiltztinkerstein thatcher obviously saved the UK. She stopped the rot - she didn’t managed to roll it back, but she did stop it from getting (much) worse.
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Has Russia ever honored a treaty? Why would a peace treaty now be any different?
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