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Just watch it until about half way in.

This is the context:

> and cars aren't mounting pavements to get me...


The US car companies have been given decades to catch up. That's the problem: they have been shielded from competition.

> Why has communism not destroyed that country?

It did. The Communist takeover in the North lead to mass starvation deaths and a flood of refugees to the South. The Communist takeover in the South lead to another mass starvation and lots of hunger deaths.


Your position is that Vietnam has been destroyed?

Because the US seems to be doing a lot of trade with a communist country which calls itself Vietnam. And that country seems to be in rather better shape than Cuba, with the biggest difference the US embargo on the latter.

The Cubans who recently died because there's no power for their ventilators didn't die because of Communism, but because the US is preventing oil from getting to the country. The US could do the same to Haiti, or the Bahamas, or Jamaica. Gunboat diplomacy is back on the menu.


They are counted by hand in Denmark. We used to post the results on physical paper at the voting site afterwards + have them published for the entire country (including a list of the votes at each voting site) in the national papers.

If the local results anywhere were different from those published in the papers, people would notice. If they were different in different papers, or in different parts of the country, people would notice.

We have, unfortunately, switched to a list on a website instead of in the papers :(


It's not the 5-year plans that are driving China and most of the Chinese economy is untouched by the 5-year plans.


Memory models matter.


Does that work for humans, too?


That's mostly because it is syllable timed instead of stress timed. And because a lot of people are not as good at Spanish as they think they are, of course.


I would use em-dashes all the time if they were easier to type.


Normally?

All governments are in the egg-breaking business some of the time. Most of them are most of the time. Some of them all of the time.

Very few are good at making omelettes.


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