Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. Never have I been more glad that I live in a newly-built house with photovoltaic cells on the top, quadrouple layered windows, heavy insulation and a heat-pump (runs on electricity from the roof). I will be warm come what may. But I think we all will manage somehow. Should Russia stop all gas deliveries we will still be able to get gas that will be able to cover some of the demand. It might not be comfortable but survivable at the very least. And I'd much rather freeze than see Russia win in Ukraine because if we give in now he will not stop in Ukraine. Neither will Taiwan be safe from China. It is in our interest to support both nations and if we are uncomfortable during winter - there are jumpers to stay warm.
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  2. Russian news aren't really censored. And I have yet to see journalists arrested in EU
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  3. The UK doesn't rule the world with regulations. It actually took over most EU regs because they needed to remain compliant for their own economy. 1. English Language: You don't rule the English language. You may be the origin of it and spread it but the language constantly evolves. 2. Well, other nations do science and technology too. If you wanna talk Corona, the most innovative ones came from America (Moderna) and Germany (BioNTech). 3. The idea of the worlds best universities can be solely pinned to the marketing departments and THE indices. Contrary to popular belief, the Anglo-Saxon uni model is not ubiquitous in the world and any cross-country comparisons when using THE and other indices consistently undervalue other models. Plus, America typically sees more unis in those rankings. 4. The English legal and democratic systems only spread when Britain colonised most parts of the world to subject them to those rules... Not something one should be bragging about in this day and age. Then, most people do not live under such a British system. Most people don't live in monarchies. Many more have a Republican (French) system. 5. The NHS doesn't set the standards... I don't know who told you this.
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  4. Gas exports to EUrope are not sanctioned.
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  5.  @peksn  The green stance on migration is just not popular. And it is a relevant hot-button topic.
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  6. Well no. 1. Finland is very close to St. Petersburgh 2. Finland is a lot closer to Murmansk and other harbours which are home to the Northern fleet.
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  7.  @dmmw125  1. Europe does punch above it's weight compared to the world... We are a small continent with less than 10% of the worlds population. Anyway, the idea of very large multinationals is decidedly an American thing from a time when America was the largest economy in the world by a long mile and Europe disunited. And while we are a single market now, companies take time to grow. And since then market leaders in each country have formed and they now compete. That also questions whether having those super big companies dominating the economy is a good thing or not. 2. Europe is not completely without resources but has comparatively little if you compare to the US. And those companies typically have their HQ here but their ops are mainly abroad in other regions of the world. Total Energies is not making their money at home in France. 3. The tech giants benefited from the massive US expansion in the 1950s and 60s which laid the foundation for the silicon valley and the unique risk capital, entepreneurial minds and technology research done there. However, many of those tech companies are massively overvalued. Just look at Meta, their entire business model could be unravelled if Apple or the EU introduce privacy measures. Nonetheless, we do have tech companies, typically not in consumer markets though. SAP comes to mind for example. And with regards to tech, without ASML no chips would be produced nowadays - and they are Dutch with German optics. Tech is all good and dandy but their business models can quickly be unravelled. Yahoo lost their domineering position, did Snap ever make a profit? Zuckerberg spend weeks in front of congress testifying. Apple at least has a business that actually produces things. 4. I would not say Europe is no longer innovative, willing to take risk and dynamic. We certainly are more risk-averse than the average American and that is ok. However, just look at the diverse set of "innovation rankings" and you will find European nations regularly beating out the US. 5. America keeping politicians out of business? Oh please, just look at corporate donations and you see corruption legalised. And regulations aren't bad per se. I quite like not having cancerous additives in my food or standardised electronic equipment. Or having an actual air regulatory body that actually performs their duty (737 MAX scandal). Can't really fault the EU here. 6. We have kept close pace. Just look at the data. You base this on the list of the largest companies. Fortune 500 sees 128 in Europe and 138 in North America. Not that big of a difference. In regards to GDP, GINI, HDI, Innovation, GDP / Capita (PPP) etc we kept pace and don't have to hide.
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  8. The Greens now back under 20% and CDU approaching 30%…. Nothing solid about it
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  9. Actually no. The EU has more buyers and the EU does a lot more trade than the US meaning that companies primarily want access to us and need to comply to these stringent regulations.
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  10.  @allyourshekelsarebelongtou8934  Apparently being a free country is a dictatorship to you
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  11. That's just a myth. 1. We don't want Africa poor. It doesn't benefit us if you are poor. If you were richer we Germans could sell you a lot more BMWs, Mercedes, you would purchase more goods from us, you would fly more (requiring aircraft), you would be a much better trading partner. 2. With regards to Ethiopia; no, we did not design the civil war. I find it tiring to be blamed for all of Africa's woes. The situation in Ethiopia is on you, not on us.
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  12. Instagram belongs to Facebook....
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  13. Yes, our companies are older typically. Yet they are still there, delivering cutting edge products. The no-regulation or laissez faire approach in America resulted in travesties such as the 737 Max.
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  14.  @dmmw125  1. How do you measure Top 100 companies? By revenue? By employee count? Market capitalisation? Cause the rankings are quite influenced by how you measure "Top 100 companies". Plus, not all companies actually publish their numbers to compare freely. And America obviously benefits from being one country whereas European companies face stiff competition in the single market because it was originally 27 single markets. 2. That is largely a function of geography and has little to do with skillful political management. Europe can't be helped that it doesn't have the immense size of the US and their raw materials. This is luck on America's behalf, not something America worked hard for so I would not go bragging about it. More like look how a continent with little resources managed to become such a force in the world.
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  15. YOu are more than welcome to join me in ICU and care for the patients who need to be intubated because the virus fucks their lungs.
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  16. Still fighting on whilst Russia, nominally the second most powerful military, has casualties of WW scale
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  17.  @qinby1182  1. What do you count as manpower? Sure, they have a vast reserve available in terms of demographics but it isn’t inexhaustible. You make a big mistake and just look at the total number of soldiers. The Navy and Strategic Missile Forces number 100ks and more - those soldiers cannot be used in Ukraine. The Russian army as a whole only got some 300-400,000 troops and this does include logistics and support personnel which cannot be used to fight. Russia has manpower problems. 2. Russia drastically reduced the volume of artillery shells fired in recent months - their stocks aren’t inexhaustible and so are their barrels. The Russian aim and target identification is far worse than the Ukrainian reconnaissance- they have to expend many more shells to have the same effect that a well-placed 155 mm from Ukraine has; nobody really argues this count. We don’t know the casualties of either side; we know that both sides don’t state the truth about theirs.
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  18. Yeah sure, a Jewish president and Nazism… By the way, don’t forget that Stalin invaded Finland, had deals with Hitler and actively supplied Nazi Germany with fuel, grain and metals until the invasion. Don’t play innocent victim
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  19. She destroyed her own reputation just fine…
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  20.  @jofloku9176  it still is her reputation that suffers cracks even if what she did wasn’t legally wrong. However it is morally not accepted to pass someone elses work as your own no matter if that is a dissertation or a political work. She is shown once more as someone who lacks judgement. Her book was an unnecessary rush job finished by another author and now the public cannot even be sure if her book even contains her ideas! That and the CV debacle, the corona bonus and money schemes; that is just very bad for her reputation. There haven’t been allegations of corruption against Laschet. Laschet wasn‘t responsible for rents, pensions, climate change. Those are Bundes issues, Laschet is MP of a land. Gee, get some political education…
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  21. 5 months for a small city… Russian military might is astounding
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  22.  @draculasneeze6681  The US barely gave Ukraine anything and Russia heavily supported „DPR“…
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  23. They haven’t for weeks
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  24.  @getreal3148  Don't forget wind where there is wind. We need a mix of energy sources and much more connections between countries. It should be easy for Spain to export electricity to Poland...
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  25.  @xenoplayz4524  On the expense of the government. EDF had to be nationalised and has a billion deficit (and high debt). Plus Germany has to export electricity to France right now because so many reactors have been shut down.
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  26. Maybe many people want to preserve status quo? I will either vote FDP or CDU because I simply don’t want the Greens to run things. Scandals or not, I just identify more to the right.
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  27.  @EinApoStein  They don‘t have a government perspective and I won‘t waste a vote on third parties.
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  28.  @dubiusindex8216  Black / Red has no coalition option. My bets; Black - Green Black - Green - Yellow (Jamaika) Black - Red - Yellow
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  29. You mean Baerbock who had so little substance behind her that she needed to copy internet sources for a book, forged her CV half a dozen times? Who is only chancellor because she is a woman? The Greens who are currently in a huge battle in Saarland because a democratic decision to use a guy on Listenplatz 1 is being fought on the grounds of a controversial women statute that gives primogeniture to women ? The Greens who looked away for years with those leftist extremists in Berlin? Oh, and climate change is by far not the only topic the Greens can campaign on. If we have another refugee summer I wanna read their stance on that. Right now they do absolutely not mention anything with migration…
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  30.  @soerenbode  Strong answer - nothing I said is false…. But I am apparently not ready to give a woman without any executive experience a job and trust to a party that fills lists based on gender… Hell yes, I am not ready
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  31. Education is an issue for the respective German states! In many of them Greens did nothing for education when they had power but just installed their crazy inclusion ideas
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  32. Thing is, Arabs haven't really done a good job with integration into German culture and society. Unlike Iranians for example.
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  33. Norway and Switzerland are extremely closely integrated and join the EU on most of those rules and regulations. Switzerland even pays for the EU budget :D
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  34. Have fun not affording energy this winter...
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  35. It just shows how bad Russian battlefield reconnaissance is. They apparently completely missed the deployment of Ukrainian troops to Kharkiv. Sure, risky move by Ukraine but seems to be a high reqard situation
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  36. Why does Europe have the moral responsibility to take those people? As for Islam, nope, it's decidedly not something Europeans want. Guess where most refugees come from.
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  37. 1. Together, North America and Europe make some 15% of the world population. 2. Probably some 3/4 or so. Not sure. 3. Our wealth really isn't built on colonialism. You think extractive economies are vibrant and we took all the valuables and left you poor? Dude, you have no idea how a modern economy works. Modern economies run on the minds of their people because only then is value added to the products. And if African nations do not invest into health and education (look up Angola) then this is on them and their bad governance. Not saying that colonialism didn't cause problems and sure, colonialism was often a root problem but that era ended almost 60 years ago so your problems cannot be eternally blamed on this time period, not with 3 generations now living in free countries. 4. China actually demonstrated how to get rich right... Good governance, effective governance, emphasis on schooling and economy supporting measures. Just look how countries like India have wasted their potential. In 1970, China was a lot poorer than India. Now India is richer and more developed. 5. I believe in human rights for all. What do you exactly mean? 6. I don't believe in keeping them down. I believe their politicians will manage to do that just fine on their own.
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  38. Didn't know that there are Marxists in the EU.....
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  39. So the EU should accept substandard products so that Cameroon can export without additional costs?
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  40. Not with Greens though…
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  41. Are you serious?
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