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"@CianoLiam @ShazCoder @taukingur Turkey has a trade deficit with China&TOGG is the local electric car made in Turkey. Now I think that Chinese cars are probably imported so that TOGG doesn't stay behind (import substitution usually works if the producing company doesn't take the advantage of the situation)"  
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"Found this guy's channel. He's been living in Tokyo since 1984 and uploaded streetwalk videos from early 90s Japan. Somehow feels nostalgic"  
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"@LupinJay010 How is this related to Japan"  
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"Explains why Japanese media was banned in Korea until the 1990s"  
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"Subaru used to produce aircraft engines but after WW2 they turned to automobiles"  
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"I'm saying "might have" because the US would have surpassed their competitors anyway because of the jet engines. Propeller engines became obsolete by the late 1940s. I'm not sure if the Japanese could make their own jet engines. But yeah the semiconductor industry was sabotaged"  
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"@martian_lore Existential crisis that the Turks faced was pretty much over by 1925. Greece was defeated Britisher humiliated Armenia was kicked out of Eastern Anatolia and a new republic was established. But after 1940 the economic policies were not properly managed. Only recently improved"  
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"@MK_Foxbat The first picture is an alt-history map"  
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"@AdmiralCaleo @tyy1147959 @cremieuxrecueil Ah misunderstood your comment. So deleted my previous comment. Japan/Korea/Taiwan IQ study"  
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"Akshually Central Asia would be Christian. Seljuk (the founder of the Seljuk dynasty) was most likely a Nestorian Christian before he converted to Islam per his sons' names (Israel Michael Moses Joseph and Arslan). Al-Qazwini also stated that the Oghuzes were Christians"  
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"@number_pizza111 E-friend argued that after the first oil shock USSR became a petrostate (ie relying on oil and gas exports mostly) while neglecting innovation"  
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"@number_pizza111 You can see it in GDP growth data too. The oil shock gave the USSR a slight boost but afterwards it went downhill for them and Reagan killed the USSR by getting Arabs to decrease the price of crude petroleum"  
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"Projected real gdp growth in 2026 in Europe. Azerbaijan isn't looking good"  
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"@CianoLiam @ShazCoder @taukingur Not sure which one is worse that or the fact that the Anatolian countryside had Central African levels of iodine deficiency in the 90s (which also recently improved)"  
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"This guy really looks like a Meiji era politician"  
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"@jewandahalfmen Russia has a PPP of $X trillion (PPP is important for war materials production yes) and a population of XXX million people. It's also a wealthy country in terms of minerals (basically tons of oil and gas resources). It's not a country that can be underestimated"  
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"The same year in other countries Japan: XXXX% The US: XXXX% South Korea: XXXX% Australia: XXXX% China: XXXX% Brazil: XXXX% Canada: 36.2%"  
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"Not shown on the map for some reasons Albania: XXXX% Armenia: XXXX% The Netherlands: XXXX% Luxembourg: 17.4%"  
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"This video makes a good case about how the Trojan War Hittites fought the Trojans who were aided by Ahhiyawa (Achaeans ie Mycenaeans). Centuries later Greeks tried to recall the story while completely forgetting about the Hittites"  
[X Link](https://x.com/n30n5223434/status/1979223069097971741) [@n30n5223434](/creator/x/n30n5223434) 2025-10-17T16:28Z XXX followers, XXX engagements


"The study said "birth years" not separate IQ tests for each year. So I'm reposting it again. Average IQs in Japan Taiwan and South Korea based on age groups. 65-69 YOs average IQ was for XX South Korea but it rose to XXX for Korean zoomers. Massive IQ gains in Korea&Taiwan"  
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"@AT1475 Turkey"  
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"@waldmenschen @mandate2049 Judging from the latest IQ study on Japan/Korea/Taiwan I wonder how much of this was due to Japan's early lead in average IQ as well (due to better nutrition having more access to education on average&higher urbanization rates overall etc)"  
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"In 1926 Americans offered it to turn Hagia Sophia into a jazz club and promised to bring the world's greatest jazz orchestras and strongest saxophones to Hagia Sophia"  
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"Individuals in Europe using the Internet (% of population) in 1999"  
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"@twentymatches I'll never experience 90s Japan and Hong Kong"  
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"@sadwerkl For this I tend to use 95th percentile results (also a proxy for EHC)"  
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""It's too late for industrialization""  
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"Central African levels of iodine deficiency in the Anatolian countryside (1999). Iodine deficiency has a negative impact on IQ. IQ decrease by XX points was observed in iodine deficient areas in China. Only recently it improved. But not sure if older generations can ever recover"  
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"@CianoLiam @ShazCoder @taukingur This thread has some anecdotes that prove my point. The most striking one was how nearly 1/4 of stanbul did not have access to running water in the 90s"  
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"Generally I don't buy into "the US is the reason why X country isn't industrialized" cope claims but the US in my opinion might have sabotaged the Japanese semiconductor and airplane industries"  
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"Mathematics Achievement in TIMSS 2023 in Europe&Neighbors (4th Graders)"  
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"@Noahpinion The Bahamas too. XX% of the Bahamas is African"  
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"@LivingJew7804 I'm a Toyota guy"  
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"@GildedCoprolite @Noahpinion I agree that not all studies are conclusive. But it was interesting to see such a huge leap. Also where do you get the North Korean stat from"  
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"@kyberfaust @sadwerkl Ataturk was right. But only for the Gen-Z Turks"  
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"@n00rdung I remember reading somewhere that the US does not have villages in the old world sense. Maybe that could be the reason"  
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"Founder of Kyocera (ceramics and electronics manufacturer) became a Zen Buddhist priest later in his life. The Japanese government asked him to come out of retirement (he retired to become a priest) to help save Japan Airlines (JAL) out of bankruptcy and he did save it"  
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"Till that the Koreans also built their own Great Wall (Great Wall of Korea) in the 7-11th centuries against the Chinese incursions"  
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"@mandate2049 IIRC only significant German tech contrib to Japan was the lens/camera tech but that happened in 1920s. And those guys were just fleeing Germany since Weimar Germany was an absolute clownfest both economically and politically"  
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"@ZhangSupremacy Late 90s sucked for Japan and South Korea"  
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"First capital of Japan Asuka city (538 XXX CE)"  
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"@mandate2049 You can only write nouns and verb stems in Japanese using kanji only. I don't think you can make sense of Manyogana as an example"  
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