Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. My grandmother was born in 1934 in what is now Poland but now lives in West Germany as she did since the beginning of West Germany. Granny always stated that the hardest year was 1946 and the winter of 1947. No transport, no fertilisers made for poor harvests. Greatgranddad died three days before the end of the war leaving her and her brother fatherless. No food. In the winter of 1947 she and her brother scavenged for the potato greens on the barren fields covered in snow so they had something to eat. Never had she been more grateful than for a Care Packet. Had she not received this generous aid it may have been her death and I wouldn’t be here. Contrasting that with the complete destruction of Germany in the four years after the war. Never has a country been cured faster of an ideology after the total defeat and annihilation of the state and society. Granny is 90 years old now and still going on strong It was unreal for those children that 10 years afterwards there was no shortage of anything anymore. My granduncle stayed in East Germany and despite being generally poorer than West Germany; all basic necessities were available at all times in good enough quality and quantity, safe for housing maybe.
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  2. It’s 1:30 where I live and instead of sleeping, I am watching a video about a shoemaker in Taiwan. Strange world
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  3. Since when it is human rights to force developers to give their IP away for free?
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  4. Given that this would mean they would lose access to 12 nautical miles around New Zealand, this would not be catastrophic. And in a war with NZ a participant; they would not uphold the ban
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  5.  @pubg3188  And what exactly does this have to do with the matter at hand right now? Apples and oranges... You might have realised how Russia started a devastating war on Ukraine.
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  6.  @jstasiak2262  Ukraine got nuclear reactors and retained enough people to built nukes… If Ukraine wanted a nuke, they could have one. You don’t need to completely jumpstart a bio weapon programme and look for a foreign power to finance this for you… especially not when you border Russia….. Your arguments are really nonsense. We have detailed reports on Russian bio and chem weapon programms. They exist despite Russia being a nuclear power. Don’t deny this…
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  7. We had a prof in med school in Germany who researched extensively on it. He gave us quite the lecture
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  8. On the other hand, it must be fair though. If there is no IP, why bother attaining IP?
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  9. Probably because too much supply of pharma graduates
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  10. Try and find out what genocide actually is before you make such ridiculous statements.
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  11. West =/= USA... While you make a lot of general assumptions about the US, little of what you have written about the West holds true to Europe.
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  12. Absolutely true. I wish both sides could just give each other the hand of peace for a mutually benefitial peace settlement. This eternal conflict harms both sides perpetually.
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  13. Good thing that Apartheid is a south African model which does not apply to Israel. After all, Apartheid Israel would not have Arab parties in government, Arabs as judges on the supreme court, the civil service, the military….
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  14. Should be something the world bank could perhaps finance for Somalia or Mauretania. Imagine having a 1 GW solar park for a desalination plant.
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  15. Nothing is actually all that true... 1. The UK did not loot India. Sure, they traded and made deals to their benefits but India was decidedly not looted... And save yourself the 45 trillion lie. 2. It doesn't matter whether you were good in pharmaceuticals ages ago. Modern pharmaceuticals are a different topic over plant based medicine.
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  16. You are pretty ignorant on why those sanctions are in place. And if the US are constantly bedevilled by them, why on earth would they help?
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  17. You can’t boycott Israel lol. They are way too integrated into modern industry. Don’t buy software either, chances are extremely high that it was engineered in Israel
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  18. East Germany…
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  19. The US could theoretically produce what they need at home. It is cheaper not to do it though. Given an administration that would encourage autarky, the US would manage just fine.
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  20. Yes, but why? Sound waves have very big wavelengths compared to EUV, can't etch anything with them
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  21. They do. That’s on the Americans then to regulate prices. In Europe Insulin is far cheaper
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  22. Good thing Israel doesn’t do Apartheid. Having an Arab party in government, Arabs on the supreme court… the civil service, police, military… Are all not hallmarks of Apartheid. But I guess the propaganda war will continue.
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  23. West has provided billions of doses and funding…
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  24. 1948 was a fucking war. You know how many Israeli villages were destroyed? You know how many millions of people in the world had lost their homes to ethnic cleansing and persecution in the last century? Including my grandparents? Millions. That is what wars are like. Arabs attacked. Israel defended and won. Both sides persecuted their minorities. Millions of Jews had to flee from Arab nations.
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  25. And why would the CIA found weapon research labs in Ukraine right next to Russia where it would be very easy for Russia to spy them out? This is just a dumb Russian conspiracy to justify their invasion.
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  26.  @jstasiak2262  Ask the Ukrainians why they overthrew Yanukovich, who was so corrupt that the Ukrainians had enough? You may be surprised how small neo nazis in Ukraine are. Last parliamentary elections they barely made 2%. A large NATO army? Ukraine isn’t in NATO, neither is NATO in Ukraine. And principally, Ukraine is a sovereign state which can choose to ally as it pleases and if they want to ally with NATO, so is their right to do so. You know, they get help when a large army attacks them to steal even more territory away from them? Sounds logic… Russia is castrating itself just fine. They don’t need our help for that…
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  27.  @jstasiak2262  1. Yanukovich was so corrupt that even corruption-tempered Ukrainians had enough. Shooting at protestors killing dozens just sealed the deal. 2. You think people let themselves buy to revolutionise? Think again! 3. Weirdly enough how neonazi held next to no political power in Ukraine. Poroshenko wasn’t a nazi, neither is Selenski. 4. Sure, corruption is endemic but even Ukrainians have a limit. Can you substantiate your claim that Selenski is even more corrupt than Yanukovich? By the way, Selenski was elected freely and fairly. 5. Yes, Ukraine receives some western weapons; as it is the right of those nations to arm another sovereign nation in a conflict they neither sought nor started. Whether the US would allow so is a no-brainer; the US had to accept a communist Cuba being trained and equipped by the Soviets… Mexico would never do that with the PLA because they have zero reason to do so. Why would Putin allow it? It’s not his prerogative to allow it; he does not control Ukraine which is an independent country from his own. Note that any such support was preceded by a Russian illegal annexation of Crimea and the backing of militias in eastern Ukraine (and actual military support). How do they forfeit? Name the laws and treaties Ukraine broke that would forfeit their right to a country? Ukraine has every right to exist in this world.
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  28. When was the last time Israel annexed lands? I think that was the Golan which they took from Syria in the 1967 war.
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  29. @UC1SjnekJLtvCaAy5H9rZexA I have heard about the biolabs lie. The US has repeatedly published information about biological defence institutions around Ukraine. They work to prevent the spread of diseases and to investigate any potential new disease. Any actual weapons research would be done in the US, where it is much easier to shield from view and where there is the infrastructure in place. Nobody does weapons research next to a potential warzone... Ukraine nor the US have so far sought to use bioweapons in any conflict. So please, leave your propaganda. Russia wanted to attack Ukraine and did so unter pretenses.
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  30.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  You won‘t hear anything against that from me.
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  31.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  temporary waiving IP means permanently loosing IP. Once such knowledge is out the others will know how your tech works and more importantly how to copy it. Just check who was all for waiving such IP; countries with pharmaceutical industries that didn’t invest in mRNA technology. France, China… were some of the loudest; knowing full well that they could receive a technology boost for free. People like you fail to understand that IP is the most important thing a company owns. If IP is declared violable who would throw billions of research into it and then risk loosing the money? Plus, how many doses or vaccine could have been made additionally? The call of waiving IP was as much about acquiring technology for free than genuine. Distribution of the vaccine is more problematic than dosage now. And mRNA requires enormous investment into distribution since it is has to be continuously cooled.
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  32. De facto, probably not. But unlike other nations, should Sri Lanka recuperate they will become upper middle income relatively quick.
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  33. Russia won't get anyway near Berlin...
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  34.  @25_26  Not when I see the shit show in Ukraine. Poland would bleed them dry
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  35.  @varun2250  lol
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  36.  @Peizxcv  The US and the EU are on pretty much the same page with this one. As is the UN. Nobody wants a nuclear armed Iran
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  37. Given that Albendazole isn’t a big seller in the US I don’t think that is too bad.
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  38. The German grid is one of the most stable grids in the world. But most factories this size have their own power plant - more control about prices.
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  39. It’s not though.
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