including colleagues from BRICS (Ethiopia, Egypt, South Africa)

The one country doing PR stunts sending people to space isn't on this list curious

why did they call world war one world war one?

What if I call it the people's democratic intellectual property, is it cool now?

And the MSS controls the CIA, but is controlled by the FSB... it's a scary spiral out there

no

Guy is marching for something every day, it must replace his normal workout routine

Updated my other comment.

Also I thought you would find this [sci-hub link] tangentially relevant and interesting. It's about DPRK's Taean work system, an ancestor of whatever work system is in effect there currently. Of course, a warning on the background of the author, it might not be to your liking.

It's blocked worldwide for some reason

Don't know about Iran specifically, but from what I know about the Middle East, many of their economies, even those that had a lot of state intervention, are experiencing a decay that is analogous to Soviet zastoy/stagnation period.

Agreed, it happens to human drivers too. It's on whoever carried out the roadwork to follow the regulations, although if a self-driving car was somewhat smarter it could avoid poured concrete.

registered to the ford company

I think he's wrong on one account: there's 100% a guy in the UAF with the callsign москаль, but whether or not he actually is a moskal'... I'll leave that for conjecture.