Nei, jeg er kjøtt og blod og stål og smøreolje som deg

How true is the dead internet theory, in your view?

I’ll ask anyway. Why do companies like bots?

You’re right. The problem is not so much the concept as what happens when residential property can be turned into Hotels by installing an app.

I think going after short-term rentals is exactly what they should be doing. If they take bribes not to then that’s a huge problem though.

Ireland runs a budget surplus and has the lowest debt since the financial crisis. They’ve never been better placed to take on this project.

South-East England even

The problem here is that you’re competing with tourists sleeping four to a room and you just can’t outbid them for apartments, even with high wages. The solution here is to set aside properties for resident locals so that they aren’t forced to.

Nobody’s forcing farmers to buy seeds. Seed sellers are asking farmers to pay if they want their seeds.

Farmers could grow their own seeds and use those. It’s just that nobody does because buying highly productive cultivars is more profitable for them, even after they’ve shared that extra income with seed producers.

Russians don’t really use motherland. Rodina, which means birth-land, is translated that way because there’s no simple English term to convey that

It was a very good system. Collecting it’s own fees added a degree of separation between government and public broadcaster and protected it’s independence.

The European model used to be empowering the public broadcaster to collect a TV licensing fee, but is now moving to direct tax payer subsidy because internet streaming made that too easy to circumvent

Finland

Norway, not Finland. Women have a duty to serve but so few are called up that it’s kind of voluntary in practice.

On the other hand, China had access to those resources already, and are now much more exposed internationally, as evidenced by recent Western efforts to “de-risk” economic relations.

India are making a lot of money but they’ve also lost their main weapons supplier and are now forced to turn to Western countries to fill the gap. A position they most definitely didn’t want to be in.

It isn’t good news for Russia either.

I predict they will do well. They’ll get sympathy votes from their supporters, and there’s nothing their enemies can do to stop it

Berlin can be good value once you’re settled. The problem is usually finding a decent apartment, not paying for it.

The big issue with “trying” communism is that it historically has only really occurred through violent revolution. The political instability in these situations gives a perfect opportunity for the seizing of power by exactly those kinds of people.

Gradualist Socialism was the political project for Social Democrats in post-war Europe. They had 30-odd years to achieve it in several countries. The issue becomes that once they started notching up victories, radicalism decreased, and that when they’re not starving and oppressed people categorically will not vote to let someone collectivize their farms and expropriate their homes. It seems clear to me that in real-world conditions, a Socialist state can only come about through revolution, because the path in a democracy is far too long and leaves far too many angles of attack from a liberal opposition.