Comments by "" (@SusCalvin) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

  1. @magigooter2096  Parts of the EU has voices ideas about a shared labour standard, for example an EU min wage. Sweden and Denmark argue against, and for independent collective bargaining. The unions on my national level have suggested that foreigners fall under union-negotiated salaries.
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  2. ​ @MarkBarrack The old Soviet war plans involve a forced neutrality for Finland, and sometimes bypassing them entirely. The assumption in the other Nordic nations was that everything the Soviets did around the Baltic Sea would be in support of the greater continental war.
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  3. Part of it seems to be specialization, there is no general "computers dude". There is a tug between who should do all the retraining. Company job training, public funding, employees taking a second student loan etc.
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  4. I always hit a wall eventually where I can't imagine some specific substance or another ever having a legitimate use. Marijuana is not good for you with long term use, but neither is alcohol. It always weirds me out how socially accepted alcohol is.
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  5. ​ @gorillaguerillaDK We got an EU exception to make snuff, I think. Finnish people also sneak it in from Sweden. I have not associated it with kids, its pretty foul.
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  6. ​ @LowJSamuel I still need a place to live, and evicting people from our town when it grows would be awkward. A lot of towns here would love to have problems like that instead of becoming ghost towns.
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  7. ​ @Jack93885  I think the practical application failed. In practice, that would make Greece and Italy etc administrative border centers.
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  8. I'm gaining a new appreciation for basic war materials like socks, cheap drones, shells and helmets over the next wondersystem.
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  9. I think a chasm of time separates us all from past generations.
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  10. I would think dumpsters behind grocery stores are much easier, if I was urban poor.
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  11. From what I understand, in practice Greenland usually negotiates from within it's continued position as a regional autonomy at the moment.
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  12.  @xiiguardian  Your ICE already charters whole flights for that. I don't know how many ICE staff are used in escorted deportations.
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  13.  @xiiguardian  Most of the historical plane hijackings took place in an era when some fool could walk into a plane with a concealed grenade or firearm or knife.
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  14. @microcolonel  My rule of thumb is usually that military vehicles are more expensive, with increasingly specialised needs civ vehicles do not need. I always dislike it when cops or schools or the armed forces are seen as free organisational slack other orgs should borrow.
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  15. ​ @evgpanchenko Medvedev and Putin did a funky little castling. All the actual power moved with Putin.
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  16. @anantakesharipanda4085  Should Ukraine continue to supply occupied Crimea with municipal service? Whether or not to stop the gas has been a long debate. What would you have done if Saddam had asked for oil sales to continue during Desert Storm.
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  17. The DPRK special forces are drilled and trained, but if they are trained with up to date methods is unclear. I think just training itself could be part.
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  18.  @johnsimion2893  The nominations are effectively and internal party process, right? The parties set most of the rules themselves. Both at local and national level. I'm always interested in how internal democracy works though. In parties, churches, unions, associations. The Chamber of Commerce has to run some sort of internal decision making. The electoral college usually puzzles outsiders. It looks like a middle man between the voter and the presidential candidates. It lumps people into sometimes arbitrary zones. The largest party in my municipality had 36% of our votes. And giving them 100% representation would be silly for us. I can vote for a party with 5% voter support and still feel we have a fair share of representation.
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  19. Does anything compare to the centralized Mother Church?
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  20.  @liambiggar5658  I mean they never did, the Cold War propaganda war did not escalate like that. I think you can shame and expose the propagandist, or run your own counterpropaganda.
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  21.  @scotthix2926  The FM radio system here is for mass broadcast of updates. What is going on and where, what they want people to do. I don't know how the cash grant works for you. For me, that would come through the state or private insurance system. That would be necessary long term. If I evacuate, I would need to rely on state or municipal resources in the neighbouring town. But the emergency is usually not supplying people with cash, but supplying them with stuff.
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  22.  @waitandsee9345  I thought your system intentionally placed emphasis on local government, with FEMA in a supporting role. From what I understand, a lot of your road infrastructure has been disabled. I don't know how well terrain vehicles would work. Here, we assume the same blizzard that caused the incident could ground air transport.
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  23. The US armed forces were probably one of the best-supplied armies in general terms at that point in the war.
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  24. ​ @Peterski What the EU does have is different anti-trust regulations. The USA is the place where people can grow huge, dysfunctional monopolies and keep them.
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  25.  @randmayfield5695  It is a single party state. The reforms of the 80's look a lot like the reforms China took, but more. The party is not going away but they allow a sort of managed capitalism. They seem to do more agriculture than the South Korean heavy industry drive. China still leads in state owned companies. I start to think centrally managed economy is more common in SE economic models than I thought. It took a few decades before the USA figured out what a keiretsu was. The closest news to me was when China arrested two Scandinavians, one with dual citizenship who was visiting Thailand. Like they see all Chinese abroad as in their jurisdiction.
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  26. Halting abortion funding for service members sounds like a rather big deal. Would service members in Europe have to get abortions on their own dime.
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  27.  @DavidWilliams-xe3ig  I have little idea how the USA views conscription. Its less controversial in Europe. Especially in a territorial defence role. The vast majority did their mandatory years and filtered back to civ life and reserve status. Finland, Switzerland and a few others still have large reserves. We have just reactivated ours. Its not like the US draft where you get an influx of raw recruits a cadre of instructors has to indoctrinate.
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  28.  @DavidWilliams-xe3ig  There is usually a mix of conscripts, career officers, volunteers in home guard and civ def and contract soldiers. But most volunteers and career troops except from purely civilian volunteer orgs are recruited from that mass of conscripts. I can't recall how much conscripts here are paid, but I think they get a cash allowance on top of room and board. Career troops have a salary. The core difference is that mandatory part. At the most extreme, it can mean cops knocking on the door. Just how hard the states really pursue people and just how leniant the options out are varies. But the state reserves that option. And the system rolls on punctually, at a certain year the state will send a letter. The level of training can be tuned up and down too.
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  29. Chernobyl and Afghanistan was starting to crack up their system. And Gorbachev allowed a slightly more open debate about it.
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  30. ​ @seansmith5955 The tech companies employ relatively few people for how valued they are. There's not a lot of people at a server farm. And the most nonsense crypto and tech hype is even stranger, then they conjured value out of the air.
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  31. ​ @ericciaramella1984 A possible downside of protectionism is that competition is removed. You could be locked in with the companies you got and whatever competition regulations you got.
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  32. I think your economy exists to drive up tech company hype and crypto, and it's starting to freak me out a bit.
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  33. ​ @sumduma55 Europe had dog butchering during it's various wars, and it hasn't become some sort of comfort food. Same with beavers and other weird survival food of the early 20th century.
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  34. Poland had a change of government recently. The war itself has also pushed Poland from Hungary and into the EU.
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  35. Poland has an upcoming presidential election, where they will decide if PiS will retain the president post.
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  36.  @barnettmcgowan8978  I am curious about how you transport higher-security people. I was surprised to learn that ICE escorts are armed when flying domestically. Transporters here are not armed, firearms are kept far from the institutionalized. And an armed cop inside a cabin sounds like a very US thing.
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  37. There is a similar but much smaller scale runabout with police and psych patients here. Civ medical agencies can request police to pick up people. Originally intended for dangerous patients, it turned out that it allowed cop cars to be used as a free taxi service. The only situations I consider it is when we need every terrain vehicle the region can muster to assist a train wreck out in the hinterlands.
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  38. ​ @grandsome1 Stray dogs are seen more like pests in bits of Europe. Not like cherished pets. There's a taboo to eat them but sometimes for slightly different reasons than them being cuddly pets.
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  39.  @RyanMcBethProgramming  I think you have increasing cooperation with all sorts of nations near China right now. From South Korea to Vietnam to Japan, who sometimes just share a growing unease with an increasingly arrogant Chinese neighbour.
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  40. The culture war always shows how stupid it is when it comes close to home. My region has banned christmas a couple times at this point, and probably banned bacon three times, according to the culture war. While I sit here eating a bacon sandwich.
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  41. ​ @erf3176 I don't know if your small towns have that issue, but some of the smaller municipalities in my nation have a bit of a slow spiral. A company moves, people start to think work is somewhere else. Municipal income tax drops as working people move and a larger portion of elderly and disabled remains. Those who remain has to either lower services or pay more, causing more to look elsewhere.
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  42. ​ @AggressiveLemur We have a wonky situation in a few mid-sized boom towns. More people are moving in to work at a new plant than the local real estate developers can bang out houses for. It gets awkward when working class people you need to operate a city can't afford to live in that city. Those people on a civil engineer income are not going to clean and cook.
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  43. ​ @SeanPat1001 I don't know what rules you have for roadkill. Most people are not trained butchers or hunters and have little idea what to do with the animal. We have to report it if the animal is injured, so the poor thing isn't laying there bleeding out. We had a roadkill accident at work earlier this year. Some deer got confused and darted onto the highway. Me and a colleague sit in the company van and suddenly it just bumped.
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  44. The first response where I live is assumed to be municipal government and volunteers organized by them. A lot of civ def stuff is volunteer organizations.
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  45.  @GrigoriZhukov  They are government to me. There is less divide between the central government and local government here. A national response can mean a part of the government from one side of the country is shifted to another place.
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  46. Snowden becomes a lot more guarded when asked about the Russian government. He does not seem to spread their most vulgar propaganda, but he neatly steps around criticism of Putin.
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  47. That's what I fear. That the military will be pushed into a role a civ agency already does. Either that it will create a wonky dual role of that the civ agency will learn they can use the military as a taxi service.
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  48.  @survidmt  That would get into boring policy, like how to test drivers and administrate people. Stuff that tests the administrative capacity of the state instead of security theater.
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  49. There's also different kurd nationalist groups, some of which have okay relations with Turkey. It's a matter of comparing different options I think. Turkey backs ex-al-Qaeda.
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  50. We had Cold War instructions for forming a partisan group. Wear an arm band or something for uniform, form a chain of command, cooperate with the army.
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