I think the Russians probably realized, "We don't even need to fund them - they will glue themselves to the roads for free."

Good point. What a great society it must be, where school shooting has become normality - a part of everyday experience.

"problems is [..] with Germans requiring to use their hard language [..] nobody bothers to learn German anymore, (some small percent still learn, ok) everyone who I know rather works in different country because of this"

I assure you, as a matter of fact, (A) the size of your social circle is very limited, and (B) such an attitude as yours could safely be labeled as cultural ignorance bordering on cultural arrogance.

Yes, "windshadow" one is more descriptive than "slipstream". (At least for me.)

"Rain shadow" is a common idiom in English. "Wind shadow" is not because English has multiple dedicated words for this concept, including "lee" [2] as well as slipstream.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_shadow

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windward_and_leeward

I wonder how he managed to reconquer his castle. By, uh... besieging it, maybe? Probably? Now repeat that eight times - and honestly, I’m struggling to see where and how exactly he tried to save his subjects.

Sorry, but losing your castle nine times isn’t what capable military leaders do.

Well if he had the loyalty of the surrounding subjects presumably there's a lot less looting during his sieges.

That's not how it worked. Armies had the tendency to eat more than the locals could provide. A region that could feed itself suddenly has to provide for thousands of soldiers. This is why war inevitably led to starvation.

Have a look at "Code is Data / Data is Code" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity And then see how it's done in real life: https://guix.gnu.org/

What about "If things don't go my way, I don't mind starting civil war?"

I haven't seen that in Trump, myself. It seems to me that a lot of the Jan 6 discussion comes down to "what was he thinking when he did X?", and the tribes either give him the benefit of the doubt or assume the worst intentions, according to their various inclinations.

Apparently that's the case.

We need to understand that such people want to be distracted and entertained.

Give them the show they want, promise them something and they happily make you their king.

They don't ask you to fulfill the promises. They just want to hear them.

That's it.

> that flipped upside down my accepted method of thinking about types and type system paradigms.

Could you please write where in the video is Rich talking about it?

The entire video