Comments by "Echo Sierra" (@SignalCorps1) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. I agree that Nigeria’s process ‘doesn’t necessarily generate the most creative or competent leadership’, but as an American, we’re not a shining star in that category either.
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  2. False alarm. I thought this was the video we’ve all been waiting for, but it’s just the video to set up the video we’re waiting for. We’ll have to wait until Monday
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  3. The world ‘Yankee, go home!’ US ‘You’re about to get everything you wanted. You’re not going to like it’
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  4. I like how Peter corrected himself from ‘old people’ to ‘people of advanced age’ but was fine with referring to old people as ‘a giant sucking sound’. I’m getting close that stage of life and frankly I resemble that comment.
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  5. Thanks. I’m not a doctor, but this seemed pretty obvious.
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  6. Peter, this was a very informative session. This type of topic is your strength along with several other areas. Please provide more of this.
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  7. Comparing fentanyl and cocaine in terms of man-hours/dose was the highlight of the video for me. Second was the supply chain for each drug. Particularly that cocaine has a very linear process to go from organic material to drugs on the street, whereas as fentanyl is very fractured and desperate because it’s a synthetic and can be produced by a large number of people. This type of information is why I stick with Peter, despite his tendencies to wander off into areas which aren’t his strong suit.
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  8.  @eddietejera8179 Comrade, I see you are absorbing all of Mother Russia’s propaganda.
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  9. I’m engineer that’s worked in the energy sector for decades (conventional & renewables) and he was correct on everything he said in this segment, which gives me confidence that he’s correct on most subjects where I have little, to no, knowledge. I’m amazed at the breadth of subjects he can cover off the top of his head. It’s not like he’s making a prepared speech that he reads off a tele-prompter. Most of the time, he’s hiking at elevation and apparently just stops and delivers a very crisp and interesting chat about something going on somewhere in the world.
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  10. I agree. Peter’s strength is the long term impact associated with decade long trends, particular demographics which leads to solid insights on trade, geopolitical strength and weaknesses, strategic alliances,etc. But for near term events, he’s not very strong. It’s like a climate scientist trying to predict the weather
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  11. Global hypocrites
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  12. As a German American, I wish I could agree with you, however, Germany has entered a phase of terminal demographic decline, which is going to be very hard to reverse. This is not immediate and frankly not related to new term policy, but this is a kin to trying to stop a glacier during an Ice Age.
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  13.  @devincortno123  My friend, you can make your point without accusing the commenter of being illiterate. His point is valid and so is yours. No deed to make accusations that you know aren’t true
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  14.  @rick67hou Do you really believe the nonsense you’re writing? Tesla sells about 50,000 cars per month, while Stellantis, Ford and GM sell about 120,000, 177,000 and 215,000 cars per month, respectively, in 2022. I used to work for Tesla and they’re a great company, but they are a niche manufacturer are nowhere near the big 3 in volume. Also if you’re one of those dreamers that think the US will have a 100% electrified fleet in the next 20 years, you’re going to be very disappointed. The US will not have over 25% EVs over the next 40 years. Its not a function of the EV product, but rather that the infrastructure and raw materials don’t and won’t exist to get there. The future of the US car industry is in ICE/EV hybrids, not EVs. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the data an math takes precedents over ideology.
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  15. No doubt. I lived in Asia for 16 years and had a very good Chinese friend and mentor. He cautioned me with these words of wisdom was, ‘The only thing straight on a Chinamen is his hair’.
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  16. This is worrying to me. I’m a Yank that is close to retirement and was VP in a large US company. I dealt regularly with Siemens and other large German firms. The Germans were always a bit autocratic and not the easiest to deal with, however they were (are) smart, organized, precise and produced consistent high quality goods. We couldn’t have sourced the goods we needed at the quality we required from the US firm if we had to. If Germany is waning, its bad news for everyone. I hope they can right the ship. I also gotta say the Germans I worked with were tough during business hours, but absolutely lovely after hours and generally on a personal front.
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  17. Love the Ent analogy
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  18. The ‘millions’ might have been a euphemism for ‘shit-tons’ or butt-loads’, That said, Russians moth-ball everything, so there is a lot of equipment all over Russia. Whether or not they can get them into fighting shape and get them to the battlefield are both huge question marks.
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  19. Totally agree. I’m an engineer that’s worked in the industry for a couple decades. I’m near retirement now, but throughout, I have been amazed at the caliber of colleagues I have had the pleasure to have worked with and called friends.
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  20. to be honest I worked in the defense industry in the 80s and 90s and within that environment everyone new the USSR and later the Russian weapon systems were decades behind those of the US. Given Russia’s general aimless meandering and poor economic environment over the last 25 -30 years, my assumption is that they lost additional ground on the front since that time
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  21. Great story. It’s always nice to hear how things unfolded and decisions were made from someone that was actually there. When I graduated from Texas A&M with a EE degree in the late 80s there were so many jobs available from Frito Lay. I was shocked at how many EE jobs they had. We were used to postings from Motorola, IBM, NASA, Boeing, Toyota, etc and other as the traditional EE employers. Thanks for sharing your story.
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  22. I appreciate your knowledge and taking the time to pen this comment, but you in my opinion it would be better if you lost the snarky and condescending tone. Keep in mind, Zeihan comments on a wide range of topics for five or six minutes. its not meant to be anything more than a snippet, so its great when experts like you add to the understanding. All the best
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  23. Not really. Demographic changes have always happened over the course of several years, often decades. It just seems slow in this era of the endless hype of the 24-hr news cycle. On the extreme edge of this spectrum, those with ‘tik-tok’ brain can’t stay focused on a five minute conversation without getting fidgety, restless, and nervous. We all need to protect our brain’s ability to think, particularly teenagers
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  24.  @Richard_Cranium  you seem to be confused. The federal government budget is not to shore up fire prevention measures at the state level. That’s on California, Newsom and its voters. Californians have voted for decades to prevent forest management, invest almost nothing in new reservoirs and use the water they have to protect the Delta Smelt. So while the federal government might be a joke, California has got what they voted for, which is sad but was very predictable.
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  25.  @robertshelton3796 I can’t speak to Ukraine, other that what I read before the war (since the war, its all propaganda), but I did live in Asia for 15 years and spent a lot of time in Taiwan. The Taiwanese are very smart, dedicated and kind people. In my experience they are very different than mainland Chinese in their attitude, outlook, mannerisms and appreciation of the West. I personally would be very sad for the people of Taiwan if they were invaded.
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  26.  @danielsmith3265  yea but he equates Trump’s experience with that of Harris’. That is absurd. Trump was POTUS for four years, Harris was a prosecutor and completely shunned as a VP.
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  27. USMCA, no longer NAFTA
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  28. Teacher: ‘And Johnny what do you want to become when you grow up?’ Little Johnny: ‘Canon Fodder’
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  29.  @wisenber  Yea hearing it once in the right context is somewhat profound, but when it’s regurgitated at every interview with the same hand motions it becomes clear that the messenger is a complete dolt.
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  30. It’s really a sad state of affairs.
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  31. Yea, I mean why would you extract the light-sweet shale oil that is easy to refine and has a much lower carbon footprint, when you can use Canadian sand sludge that is expensive to transport, expense to refine and has a much larger carbon footprint. I love Canadians, but I am not a fan ‘ol Justin.
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  32. Again, Peter missed the point. Trump’s cabinet pick looks like the B-Team if you’re trying to get along and maintain the status quo. They are perfect if you intend to disrupt the rot and tear down the bureaucracy.
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  33. …..or free labor in the rural context
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  34. I hold the CCP in disdain, having worked there on assignment, and I can assure you the stories about this are completely blown out of proportion. I’m not saying this shouldn’t be monitored, but this a very low threat situation.
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  35.  @juniorjames7076 No its not a cover for something more, its a hapless group where beaurocrats talk a big game and the travel around the world on their citizens taxes
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  36. The US should have been charging a seaway fee to the insurance companies that insure these vessels and use that money to fund a portion of its Navy. Instead the US taxpayers have footed the bill for the worlds protection of the sea lanes for nearly 80 years. Yes, the US citizens received some value for this effort, but the rest of the world received most of it.
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  37. Peter, implying that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset is beyond irresponsible. She’s an American and a soldier that volunteered to go to Iraq and served with distinction. Until and unless charges are brought against her and she is convicted, she is owed a debt of gratitude and to suggest otherwise does nothing but paint yourself in to a hyper-biased corner which will severely limit you audience.
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  38. Interesting. What kind rates are being offered? I hadn’t heard of this. I was an expat in Asia for 15 years in the telecom industry during the rise of Huawei. They were about as sleazy as they come so if they are in financial trouble it couldn’t happen to better bunch of crooks.
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  39. Really? I didn’t know that. Time for research. Thanks
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  40.  @jimjiminy5836 Yea, the richest guy in the world, that created the EV industry and will reach mars before any government is a clown. A bit of self-reflection might be in order for you
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  41. Yeah, have you seen those videos where construction workers were sticking empty whiskey bottles between the rebar so they could use less concrete? Astonishing
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  42. That is a very fair comment. Argentina is a bit like California on steroids. Extremely blessed with amazing geography and natural resources, which is routinely undermined by bad decisions
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  43. As an engineer that used to work for a very larger EV company (hint, hint) I completely agree and that’s only the beginning of the issues. EVs are cool and fun for the wealthy, urban niche buyer, but they are not green when considering the total energy input over the life and disposal of the vehicle. Also EVs will not surpass 20% of total vehicles in the US for at least five decades an it may take longer. My money is on hybrids becoming the primary vehicle power source and from what I see Toyota is the one that will lead in this area, and no I don’t work for Toyota.
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  44.  @rizkyadiyanto7922 What. Nigeria can definitely hold together. The current conflicts are not a threat the government. I’m not a fan of Nigeria, but they are the big fish is the small pond and will be just fine.
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  45.  @Interlocutor67 Against the UK in war, Venezuela would be completely out classed. The only difficulty for the UK would be supply lines and citizen support for the effort.
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  46. Yea what is going on in Ethiopia on this front cannot be underestimated. There is very little coverage of this
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  47. Great comment
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  48.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  Just asking, did France’s involvement in Niger come before or after the discovery of Uranium deposits?
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  49.  @bazzo4569  If you understood Vietnamese history, you would know that the American conflict barely shows up in their consideration
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  50. I’m an engineer with an undergraduate and a graduate degree, and while I think STEM degrees are the best route for those who can and want to proceed in this direction, outside of that, the trades are far superior to any other university degrees. Also, I work with AI and there is no doubt AI is going to take a chunk out of white collar jobs, including STEM jobs, but AI can’t touch anything where you need to be on sight and use your hands. Electricians, plumbings, mechanics, and other such trades are going to be a great place to be moving forward.
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  51. As an engineer in the solar industry I can guarantee your panel efficiency has dropped at least 20% and probably closer to 30% over that 12 year period. You might not notice the degradation, particularly if your system was designed to produce more electricity than you use or your usage has dropped over time, but the panel efficiency has definitely dropped.
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  52. @ Agree the demographics is not the reason for VW’s decline. The problem with Germany’s 82M population is that most are only consumers, with a rapid reduction in the number of producers. Additionally, Germany is the most industrialized country in the world outside of Singapore, which is a major factor in Germany’s low birth rates. So their producers are aging into retirement and there is a very small number of people moving into their prime working years.
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  53. He did address this on Patreon 4-5 days ago, so we, the unwashed masses should receive it soon.
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  54.  @HellYeah.McKracken  which treaty violated NATO expansion? There are no such active treaties, unless I’ve missed something
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  55. Funny how there were no unintended consequences when that potted plant occupying the Oval House for the last four years botched the Afghan withdrawal, left the boarders wide open, showed continuous weakness to our friends and foes, but DEI ahead of having a ready fighting force in our military. Peter has severe TDS and it’s compromising everything he does. Sad to see
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  56. And China’s emphysema problem in that age bracket and younger has lowered the average retirement age to the late 50s
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  57. Trump probably will stay out, but Kamala definitely would not have
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  58. I totally agree. I’ve been to VN about 50 times and managed expats and our local team in country. The Vietnamese have worked diligently to foster a closer relationship with the US for the last 40 years. They will be cordial to China and Russia, but they are very wary of China and their intentions and that Russia has very little to over in the long run. They also know that the US conflict was a blip (an a mistake) that will never be repeated.
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  59. Near-term political results are way outside Peter’s wheelhouse. He is much better on long-term trends like international geopolitics, demographic shifts, international commerce and trade, natural resource requirements, etc. If we watch Peter for short term outcomes, we’re all wasting our time.
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  60. This was Peter’s best session in months. Much appreciated. Please stick to what you know.
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  61. Hi, I’m an American that spent 15 years as an expat in the Asia Pacific region, including China. I have a lot of good Chinese friends from China, Taiwan (sorry, I see Taiwan as a separate country), and Singapore. Americans aren’t anti-Chinese at the individual level, we’re just not big fans of your government.
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  62. There are some byproducts to be rendered from sour, but nothing needed in large volume. Light sweet is still preferred over heavy sours because they are much cheaper to refine.
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  63.  @JVendittelli  That is incorrect. Asia including SEA and SARC sees China as the world’s villain. Africa views the European colonizers as the villain. Europe views Russia as their enemy and knows that America has stood by them twice when it matters. Canada, Australia, Japan, NZ, England and others see America as their greatest ally. The middle east does view America with contempt as do parts of Latin America, but we also have friends in each of those areas.
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  64.  @geneoh5048  you are wrong. I’m not Mormon, but I have a background in signal intel and the Mormons are a huge source of linguistic talent. There are some that only learn the basics on their missions, but many know there is value in really learning the language exactly for this reason. Be careful speaking about things you don’t know or understand.
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  65. Yea, I don’t think he was referring to a military quest for the reasons you mentioned, but also because the economic upside of cooperation is huge, and Türkie is going to need their military to the south at some point.
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  66. As an 2nd generation Danish American, I’d be interested in this as well. With limited knowledge of the situation, my top concern for Denmark is what the impact of a decline Germany. As strong as Germany has been, they are heading towards a very difficult time that will last decades. Would you happen to know the state of the Danish demographics?
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  67.  @markyocum8249  No the server will definitely not reside in India for US calls. It will 100% reside in the US for several reasons. I’m a cloud architect and AI services are all local, and remain local for reasons including latency, transport costs, availability, and in the case of the US lower energy costs. All the best,
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  68.  @JH-jx1hs  Yea, I love listening to Peter, but he definitely has a strong political bias. I don’t know if Brexit was right or wrong, but part of the rationale was in recognition that the EU is crumbling from within due to demographics of aging, non-reproducing Europeans and migration from N.Africa with very little economic growth which is increasingly hampered by more and more anti-business legislation coming out of Brussels. For many, Brexit was to get out now to try to find that next gig before the EU comes apart. Also I don’t think NA would be as harsh on the UK if they wanted to join the USMCA (not NAFTA) as it would expand the pact’s footprint and provide a European-based entry into the markets that has a common language, property and patten protection and legal system.
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  69.  @mrcrowley109  I wouldn’t think there is any desperation either, but long term Russia is in terminal decline as a world power and it has nothing to do with Ukraine. You might disagree, and that’s fine.
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  70. 100% agree. As an American, my opinion is that Japan needs to be moved up quickly to be an equally trusted ally. Not only is their geography of utmost importance, the Japanese have skill and know-how that will be extremely valuable to the alliance.
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  71. I like Peter for demographic commentary, but he clearly leans left, not radical left, but left nonetheless.
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  72.  @BlueSkyEntertaiment Yea, the Germans had the vocational training bit correct all along. While Germany has some serious issues to address, the vocational knowledge built into the society will help them get through these upcoming difficulties
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  73. Did the US also change the way judges were appointed in order to bypass the Senate rules requiring 60 votes?
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  74.  @Aztec1050 regardless of what makes our lives better, China is gong down in flames and there is no means to pull out of this death spiral. We should a be prepared for much higher prices for a period of 5-10 years, until the impact of On-shoring, Near-shoring, Friend-shoring efforts can be realized
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  75. Hamas fighters can melt into the civilian population,so there is no way to get everyone. That was not the IDF’s expectation or that of the Israeli people. It’s not like they have ‘Hamas’ tattooed on their forehead. Even if they did, it’s too large an area to look in every crawlspace and any number of other areas an individual could hide
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  76.  @monstroth  no, his hatred from Trump has caused him to been historically blinded on everything he does. He is way off on this assessment too.
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  77.  @CP3oh322  if you believe the country is wretched, first you need a history lesson an second there are a couple hundred other countries you can move to.
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  78. I lived and worked in BA for a period of time and could never quite wrap my head around how Argentina had so many smart, logical, rational people (that were also fun and friendly, BTW) and yet the country would limp along from crisis to crisis without ever gaining as stable foothold. I also lived in Singapore, Australia, Thailand, Qatar, Indonesia, Hong Kong and have never seen a country so badly underperform the potential of it’s people. I hope things get better.
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  79. Will I get my hair back too? All joking aside, it would be worse than the 70s, because in the 70s we were geared to work without the internet and had paper based systems to do so with a skill set in the population to be function at that time. We have lost our ability to go back to that era.
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  80. You’re not getting smarter you’re becoming more knowledgeable
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  81. Typical. Sweden living under the security blanket provided by others. Where did that Viking spirit go?
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  82.  @alekdemj You’re not wrong about their demographics, but keep in mind that Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and the world did nothing which enabled Russia to consolidate power in Crimea with troops and war infrastructure. Everyone with a brain knew Russia wouldinvade deeper into Ukraine and this has been hanging over the Ukrainian population and impacting birth rates for over a decade now.
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  83.  @KitaJabig Yea because Peter always speaks so highly of China, right? go troll somehwere else
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  84. Today’s HSers are about as mature as prior generation’s kindergarteners
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  85. Yea while ChatGPT did well, the content was clearly off and his eyes tracking the prompter was way off
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  86. It’s a slow motion car crash that has already started. I was an expat in Asia for over 15 years and China is definitely beyond the point of no return.
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  87. I dont think he meant this figuratively, he meant it from a geographical perspective. Bangladesh’s location does look like the armpit area if India were a person
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  88. Peter is incorrect about this. I’m not sure how Peter can know so much and still not have a basic understanding of civics
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  89. ….and China has been a bad actor in the UN since 24 October, 1945
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  90.  @easonhuang7117  No that doesn’t show good credit, that shows that it’s an inside job, specifically for Chinese citizens that have nothing better to do with their cash particularly given the collapse of the residential real estate market. No one outside of China would invest in a Yuen denominated corporate bond that pays 2/3 the rate of a US T-bill/note
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  91. Ha. I’ve almost achieved this. I’ll be retiring into decrepitude in a few years. Woot woot!
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  92. AD as in Anno Domini, not CE. That is how time has been defined for millennia. No need to change it.
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  93.  @smmm5559 Your comment is correct on aggregate, but incorrect when it comes to recent and future grads. Yes, if you take the entire US uni grad population, you are correct, but this includes people that graduated in the 70s and 80s when a uni degree was almost required to reach that next level. Now with the internet things have changed. Also in the 70s & 80s a much higher percentage of US students studied STEM degrees. Today it is dominated by liberal art degrees that are massively over subscribed and pay very little. As someone with a BSEE and an MBA, I have encouraged my kids to either choose a uni degree in high demand (STEM and a few others), or focus on an upcoming vocation.
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  94. Not really. At least Peter has been very clear since last October that things would be at a standstill until the mud season was over at the end of May, right?
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  95. I’m an IT/Wireless engineer and have designed and deployed comms and data networks in the Permian and the Eagle Ford. There is so much going on within each of the pad, storage tanks, holding station, and pipelines, etc. Some drilling locations have over 150 SCADA devices/site to monitor and control operations. All the data generated is sent to the cloud for storage, processing, and utilized to develop preventive maintenance algorithms. Even what you can’t driving through the area is pretty impressive.
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  96. Your point is well taken, but he didn’t have to do this segment at all. All the best
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  97. Wow thanks for our comment. I hope your friends and family are as safe as can be expected. Out of curiosity, what is grown in that area? My understanding is that wheat is the primary crop grown in The Ukraine, which is near the bottom of the agricultural stack in terms of value and caloric density.
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  98. I lived in Hanoi for three years as an expat, in the early 2000s. Lovely people, who really appreciate America and loath the Chinese.
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  99. When Elon lands on Mars, he’ll be greeted Peter getting ready to film most recent ZoG post
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  100. Do we have Clearance, Clarence? Roger, Roger.
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  101. Thanks for the update. That’s a big shift in thinking since the last Taiwan update. Personally as isolated as the Chairman has become, I still have to believe he understands an invasion of Taiwan would not be contained within a 500 miles radius of the conflict zone. The Straits of Malacca and the passages through the Maldives are beyond the reach of China’ ability to project power.
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  102.  @asdasdasddgdgdfgdg  Europe is 90% white? I don’t have the facts on the broader European mix, but I am certain that most Western European countries have a much lower percentage of white folks.
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  103. ⁠ @taylorc2542 the comment was intended to be sarcastic. Peter is our daily dose of gloom that we wait for each day..😂
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  104.  @emceeboogieboots1608 Renewable energy is not cheaper than fossil fuels. If it were it would adopted with no hesitation.
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  105. I agree, but note it’s not to protect US workers and consumers, it’s being done to protect a US pet project.
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  106. No much difference on the balance sheet. My understanding is that the military doesn’t capture cost of inventory as they own the storage facilities outright. Cost of disposal is real, but its usually just the cost of transport as these assets will be given to a friendly country and this case it is still be transported to Ukraine
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  107.  @musa7606  It’s not a big threat at all. It would be categorized as an event of note worth monitoring. There are a lot of serious threats with regard to China, this is not one of them.
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  108.  @krisspkriss It’s not economics that driving child birth rates lower, it’s urbanization. The proof: almost universally poor urban communities have high birth rates, while wealthy urban couples have nothing close to replace birth rates, often lower than 1.0 which is far less than the 2.1 needed for replacement
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  109.  @trapskilla In the US there is a shortage of houses for sale in some markets, but many markets are over supplied. Additionally there are plenty of houses built with occupation permits, but many are now being held by investors that are not renting them out .
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  110.  @killahnan  regardless of what happens to Trump‘s mind over the next four years, he is clearly much sharper than Biden was when he began his campaign in 2019. if you don’t see this, then we’ll have to agree to disagree.
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  111.  @navinadv  That’s a gut to me because you’re right. I’m in my late 50s and overweight. I gotta change things now.
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  112. Glad you feel safe. As long as the El Salvador government can remain in tact and inpower and keep the criminals locked up, we’re all better off. Hopefully you wont get a woke, soft-on-crime regime that let’s them out. Good luck. We’re praying your guys
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  113. That sounds like sarcasm
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  114.  @jimluebke3869 I assume you’re joking, but I just thought I’d check to make sure
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  115.  @johnnykrauze  Agree, they’re not going to be storming the beaches of Guyana, but then again this isn’t WWII, however their navy could easily establish a blockade to prevent any oil exports which would collapse the economy inside of six months and there’s no naval power in the area to prevent this. Also the Americans are nearby and wouldn’t let the UK get into a tangle without providing support. Whether or not the UK has the will to do this, I do not know, but a lack of will is all that would stop them. It certainly wouldn’t be Venezuela stopping them., right?
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  116. Yea, I love Peter’s video, but his topics move like glaciers compared to the regular new topics
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  117.  @wisenber Mate, first I disagree as he is still very pro-India, just not in the semiconductor area. As VP in a large tech-firm and an expat in Asia for 16 years, he is a 100% correct on his analysis, based upon my experience in the region and the industry. Second this is not a feel-good YT channel. This is his interpretation of what is going to happen based upon his analysis.
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  118. @ mate, until not too along ago I had been an expat for over 15 years in Asia and travelled extensively not only within Asia, but also Europe and the Middle East for work. China is universally despised and distrusted. It’s is almost as bad for Russia. The US would be a distant third, but unlike China and Russia, the US has a lot of strong allies and many more countries that are positive about the US.
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  119. Good to see our brothers from Downunder doing the same. The US needs a strong Australia and vice versa. I had the opportunity to work in Sydney and lived in Manila for a couple years. Such a great country and great folks.
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  120. Yea, I really appreciate Peter’s insight and I watch his clips every morning, but just keep in mind he is one source and does have bias like we all do. There are a lot of factors to consider here. Tread objectively with all data
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  121. Howdy from Texas. We appreciate y’all
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  122.  @themiddlelayer Its not condescending to the individual countries, its focused on the BRICS organization
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  123. What was it? A miniature? The Tomahawk missiles are much bigger than that. It definitely was not a missile. Even at five feet long it would be too heavy for one person to move
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  124.  @Leftatalbuquerque  we didn’t miss anything. We won the electoral college, the popular vote, the house, the senate and grew our base in every demographic and in every state. So if any one needs to reflect on what they missed, grab a mirror
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  125. This will be short lived. I support Trump, but not the tariffs on Canada. With that said, you guys need to crack down on a few things, as do we, as does Mexico. We just happen to have a guy in the White House that is going to push North America in a direction it should have taken decades ago. Still love you guys up there
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  126.  @1Esteband I’m an electrical engineer and EE will continue to be a great degree for the foreseeable future. Keep in mind all AI runs on computers (designed by EEs) and requires cloud compute (designed by EEs) and a network to connect it all (designed by EEs). I was an EE that started in power distribution, moved to telecoms, migrated into IT and now in the cloud space. Over that time, I chose to move up in the management ranks but that isn’t required as there is plenty of room for those that wish to remain an individual contributor. I don’t know if you’re an American or not, it doesn’t really matter but in terms of demand, the US imports 10s of thousand of foreign workers with EE degrees every year because American kid just aren’t studying STEM degrees like in the past, including EEs. Also keep in mind that what you learn in undergrad does two things; secures your first job (after which the tech you learned in U becomes obsolete) and more importantly for the rest of your career signals to managers you have a valuable foundational understanding of principles and you have the ability to quickly learn new tech. All the best to your son.
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  127.  @dixonhill1108  I disagree. As an Expat that lived in Asia for 15 years, China is in very bad shape. Whether or not it happens in the timeframe that Peter is proclaiming, I don’t know, but he’s absolutely directionally correct.
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  128.  @ghostpiratelechuck2259  As someone in the Energy business, the fluff about not using the Petrodollar is just that, fluff. The US could and would shut down all protection for the ships containing petroleum purchased without petrodollars which would increase their insurance by a factor of 10 to 20, and it only gets worse from there.
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  129. No, I like Peter but he is very biased. On geopolitics he’s overly biased for the US. On US politics he way over rotated to the Left
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  130. As Americans it would be a healthy start to begin doing with less. That said, I’m a bit of hypocrite in this area, but I’ve been slowing downsizing and simplifying my life and I’m definitely happier for it.
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  131. You don’t even need AI to automate the transfer process. This only requires simple programmatic workloads. However AI is required if the government is going to assume the Orwellian oversight role it so desires to have.
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  132.  @Group.B mate, you might have lived in Texas, but its clear that you’re not up to speed on the current economics or long term outlook. Yes, property prices have surged in Texas, particularly in Austin and Dallas, and yes prices will pull back over the next few years in those markets, but long term Texas is nothing like NY or NYC. Texas will overtake CA as the most populated stated by 2040. It is very well balanced between energy, agriculture, high-tech, manufacturing, and financial services. Texas is also managed much better than NY or NYC. Texas is also one of the youngest states in the union and doesn’t have the massive demographic problem that NY/NYC does
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  133. Nope. I’ve worked in the O&G industry for decades, and the quiet running joke is that green movement is all about headlines for the public, not substance. So they’ll go after plastic drinking straws and grocery bags, gas stoves, styrofoam cups and the occasional pipeline if it goes through Indian territory and leave the relocations of refineries, industrial materials, and finished goods factories alone. This reshoring has been going on for almost 10 years. Even Germany has begun to disassemble some their industrial plants that run on NatGas and ship to places in the US like Texas and Luisiana for re-assembly where NatGas is 1/3 the price. We just have endure the media abuse, but deep down we’re smiling
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  134. Yes, but training bases are very different from forwarding operating bases
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  135. Thanks for serving. BTW, why didn’t you go to OCS after college instead of enlisting?
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  136. Yep. As an engineer that was born in your B&W TV era, technology is great in the moment, but often detrimental over time in ways that were not predicted
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  137.  @KathyAndrew  China printing money does have some differences from what’s happening in the US. For every eight Yuan China prints they have to buy a dollar to maintain their hedge that has underpinned their economy for decades. That gets very expensive very quickly, but in someways, it also acts as a moderator. What the US is doing could be more dangerous because there are no short-term repercussions, like there is in China. The US is at risk of printing into oblivion to the point of catastrophic collapse.
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  138. What wild reports have you heard? I’m interested to learn
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  139. Swapping Biden for Harris is like sitting your pants and then changing your shirt
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  140. Scam
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  141.  @andreasweber7828 I don’t know, the Russian bear that rumbled into Ukraine seems to have been declawed and toothless and the Russian have never been good in the water, particularly compared to the Swedes, so I wouldn’t worry too much.
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  142. Excellent insight and perspective. Thanks for sharing.
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  143. The same system that allows a demented man that had to drop out previously for plagiarism.
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  144. Robotics and AI are separate technologies that work together like many other technologies, but from someone in the AI space, robotics are not a near-term or mid-term threat to the vast majority of workers, however, AI is a massive threat, particularly to white collar jobs. If you’re a blue collar worker in a trade, you’re in good shape over the long haul and job opportunities will likely increase. For while collar jobs, it’s going to get very tough very soon, and that includes my prospects despite being an engineer in an AI intensive field.
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  145.  @irresistablejewel Your understanding of what he said about China is really off base.
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  146. That is what we get for not being a Patreon. We’re viewing Peter from a three to five day time warp
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  147. Russia will eventually lose those bases, regardless what happens in the near term. Also I suspect the Russians are too smart to negotiate until the HTS has consolidated power, which may never happen. If they choose a horse now and it loses, there will be hell to pay at a later date. Right now the HTS taken the space, but this is only the beginning
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  148. I lived in the region for over years. The only Chinese buying property in those areas are people in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainlanders that have a means to get their money out of the country and denominated into a ForEx. This is tiny portion of the population. For the vast majority of the population, the only options are to leave the money in State owned banks or invest in the local housing market. The Chinese middle class would have preferred to buy houses in the UK, Australia, NZ, Canada, US if that was an option.
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  149.  @bogdan78pop  Yes, and the data shows exactly what you’ve stated. Chicago prices aren’t rising because the area has experienced negative migration for most of the last 17 years due to high taxes, high crime, less opportunity than other places in the US. I used to live in Lincoln Park in the 90s and loved it, but the city is in decline
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  150. US is proud to be a partner with the Australia as well. I had the opportunity to be an expat there for two years. Worked in St.Leonard and lived in Manly. Two of the greatest years in my life. Love you guys.
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  151. Wind and solar is great to subsidize the base load power, but until storage becomes more advanced and a lot cheaper, you still need an alternate base load power source
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  152. This was excellent. Thanks
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  153.  @vgernyc  at this stage its mostly just Apple and even they have begun to move production capacity to Mexico. Most other companies have been in the process of moving for several years
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  154. ⁠​⁠ @joythought  Have you ever had a US history lesson? The Declaration of Independence does not apply to the world. It has always only been specifically and uniquely applicable to Americans. Do you think this document extended coverage to England at that time?
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  155. Evergrande is larger than Country Garden by most assessments. Evergrande is certainly more indebted than Country Garden.
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  156.  @GeorgeStar  I’d be interested to hear if our Kiwi commenter agrees, but as an American that was an Expat in Australia for several years and traveled extensively to New Zealand, it is just as beautiful as the pictures indicate, and the people are really friendly and fun loving. However, if you don’t have old money in New Zealand, it’s much harder to get ahead professionally and financially than it is in America. If you’re in American and haven’t lived abroad, you might be thinking it’s a hard to get ahead here too now, but comparatively the US is still the land of opportunity and there are very few barriers here than elsewhere.
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  157.  @frankstallone3864  I heard his Gen Z comments and its good that you brought up this point. I don’t recall him saying they were the hardest working (he might have, I just don’t recall) but he did say most skilled and loyal, however, I think the context was technical skill and loyalty was to individuals, not companies. I’ll have to look that up. As a hardworking Gen Xer, my personal experience with Gen Zers isn’t great, except that they have pretty much guaranteed that I’ll have gainful employment for as long as I chose to work. BTW, I’m not saying he’s correct all the time, but he’s a better data point than 90% of commentators out there.
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  158. Yea, but as I guy that worked in academia before I decided to get a real job, this stuff isn’t as complex as people like to make it. Most people that make things so complex that only PhDs in their field can understand, do so, either because they lack the communication skills to convey ideas without utilizing little known terms and theories OR they’re elitists that think their deep knowledge in a very narrow field makes them smarter than everyone else. Many of those fitting the later category don’t know how to boil water once they’re out of their comfort zone. Take heart, you’re smarter than you think and if you’re following Peter regularly, you’re more informed that 99% of the population.
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  159.  @shawnr771  oh man, that is going to suck! That I-35 split has been in place since I went HS in Austin in the 80s. It was clunky back then and too small for sure now, but that is going to be an ugly upgrade
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  160. Not really. The lesson from WWI is not to put your enemy in such a financial bind after the war that they are susceptible to a dictator. This type of commentary during the battle is productive from a mortal and support perspective. BTW, I am NOT a fan of Blinken at all.
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  161.  @CraigPerry  I’m in that space and while it’s still very good, AI is going to replace a lot of the heavy lifting for programming and therefore a lot of programmers. Those going to school now will never see the day where a programmer can start to back away from full-time work at 35. Those days are coming to a close.
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  162. I agree. When Peter talks demographics and geopolitics it’s very informative and useful. However, when he veers too far out of his area of expertise Into near term, politics or technology he really degrades the overall product he puts out.
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  163.  @txrx1060  Sounds like you have a ground level view of this, which I won’t challenge, but as a German American, the 50,000m perspective looks dire for Germany to me. The combination of demographics, declining birth rates, expensive and at risk energy, inadequate domestic food supply sector, and a deteriorating global supply chain it seems that Germany will have to thread the needle to make it through this period in tact.
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  164.  @jager6863  This is true, but cut 90% of non-defence fed workers, we’d also have 2 million unemployed people with big expense houses and cars with no skills in a competitive market. It would still be an excellent trade for those of us that actually work for a living.
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  165. He has done some of this, unfortunately it’s difficult to do detailed searches on YT. I know he talks about the mid-west and how the Mississippi valley is the most important watershed and arable land in the world.
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  166. Peter, I would recommend you not use reflective glasses when making a vid. If the house in the reflection is yours, It wouldn’t be too hard to use that information with the topology in the background to pinpoint your location. All the best and thanks for the content you provided.
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  167. Back when they made great movies. The ‘Lethal Weapon’ series was great and yet still underrated. I’m gong to have to put that on my ‘re-watch’ list
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  168.  @smuook1969  Mate, doing a job remotely does not all mean that it can be done in India and definitely not by AI. It depends on the nature of the job. That comment is just silly
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  169.  @kevtall9012  I remember the comment, but I think they were just driving in a car at the beginning of the twilight zone movie. The driver asked the passenger if he wants to see something scary, and then turned off the lights and drove down the road in complete darkness for a few seconds. Afterwords the passenger said, ‘Wanna see something really scary’. Either way that’s a great quote and that was a great same and it’s also applicable for what’s about to happen around the world.
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  170.  @jimluebke3869  You misunderstood what he was saying. He did not state, imply, or infer that industry performs best when income inequality is highest. He was simply stating that you need different pay structures relative to the complexity and value add for differing stages of a larger process. This is well known and 100% true. On the other extreme, if there was a ubiquitous rate for all jobs regardless complexity or value add, two things would happen: First, labor would migrate towards to the simplest tasks due to human nature, second the company building the product would either outsource the parts of the process that were not aligned with their labor force or would go out of business (If their labor was to highly qualify it would be too expensive to carry out the lower end components to build a price competitive product, or if it was lower in the value add, it would be unable to build a quality product as the higher end functions would be poorly executed.
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  171.  @titanblooded6222 They couldn’t get rid of the petro-dollar if they wanted to.
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  172.  @arthurkineard7356 There is nothing close to a moral equivalent in this situation. The Russia government is not only pathetic, they are barbaric.
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  173. Good comment. Count me in for subscribing if it includes hour debates or interviews on demographic topics. Regarding China, he very well could be overly optimistic on the timing of events, but as an expat in Asia for over 15 years he is definitely directionally correct.
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  174.  @Arcanine1995 As a conservative American, he plays it essentially down the middle on politics (trashes Biden, Trump, Obama, etc on some things and gives them credit for others, except he seems particularly down on Obama’s administration from an international diplomacy perspective). However as a proud American, but also a realist, he is a bit too optimistic about America’s future and our past. Just trying to keep it real.
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  175.  @abhirama Peter is has a lot of bold predictions based upon his analysis which aren’t always correct, but given the detail and specificity of his predictions he is right more than anyone else in this space.
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  176. Yea, folllowing Peter is like being on a roller coaster and watching a horror film in slow motion. Exciting and terrifying
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  177. Yes, but our news just south of you isn’t any better
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  178.  @wyominghome4857 Yes, that is true. I live in a small town now, but grew up in the Bay Area and lived in Austin, Houston, Chicago, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Bangkok, and Jakarta. I am one of those well traveled, well versed, and previously well heeled folks that is now very happy in a small. It wouldn’t have fit my level of energy and desire to see the world as a younger man, but is perfect now.
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  179.  @blakegoulds8313 I agree that 30s is too late, but for me, I would not have been a good Father in my 20s. I was too eager to work abroad and travel. As it ended up, I got married at 36, had one child at 38.She’ now 18 with no intentions to have children and I’m in my mid-50s. While I’ve loved my life and it was the right thing for me at the time, it would be great to have more kids and grandkids, which is something I’ll never experience.
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  180. First off, thanks for your service. Second, I’m a huge fan of Germany and Germans. When looking in the rear view mirror, it’s hard to imagine that Germany will do anything other than prosper, however I can tell you unequivocally that Germany is in deep trouble and will in all likelihood have to endure decades of decline. They are facing massive constraints in people, energy, and markets to sell to. I’m pulling for them, but it’s going to be very difficult. We’ll see
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  181. I’m a huge fan of Germany and Germans and when looking in the rear view mirror, it’s hard to imagine that Germany will do anything other than prosper, however I can tell you unequivocally that Germany is in deep trouble and will in all likelihood have to endure decades of decline. They are facing massive constraints in people, energy, and markets to sell to. I’m pulling for them, but it’s going to be very difficult. We’ll see
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  182. How is China from your view? I was an expat in Asia for 15 years. Repatriated in 2011. Even back then the writing was on the wall for China, but this type of thing can stretch out for longer than many expect.
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  183. @HolyAlric I hope you’re capable of seeing the massive gray space between not ruling out military action and wanting to invade.
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  184. He just did a talk on Detroit not too long ago
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  185. Thanks, I wasn’t aware of most of these countries recognizing Taiwan
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  186. .What role will the heightened immigration from outside Europe play in this fading of ethnicities? I don’t have an answer, but I’d like to hear what you have to say
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  187.  @stevensko9153  that wasn’t an ICBM. It was however a hyper-Mach missile with multiple munitions and clusters that we hadn’t seen before
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  188. I was thinking the exact same thing. That was by far the highlight of the video for me. It perfectly summarizes the economic comparisons between fentanyl and cocaine. It’s things like this that I like the most about Peter, despite his tendency to wander into topics where he’s not an expert.
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  189.  @Leftatalbuquerque  correct. That’s the wokeness we’re referring to. Enjoy the next four years
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  190.  @vhscoverstory5671  Gaza had very little to do with it
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  191.  @user-hg4jk2q  Really, did you miss the US turning Iraq military into rubble with in few weeks with no causalities? It was far stronger than Ukraine at the time. If push comes to shove, Russia is just a minor inconvenience to the US.
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  192. that is true, but state owned and run media is much worse
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  193. There probably are sources of equal quality, but to date we don’t know where they are. Currently, NC is the only source at this purity level
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  194.  @sagetmaster4 Yea, I worked for Tesla and they’re not as far along with transformative bots as you’re indicating.
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  195.  @demiurgenext  Nope, that’s not how it works. Pardons are on acts, not cases, so the POTUS can pardon himself for all past actions and the Atlanta case disappears immediately.
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  196. Peter is looking further down the road at possibilities. The EU is weak and getting weaker and NATO is the a function of US funding which is dropping. NATO was formed to provide a united front against Russia which not required as it once was. Russia is not an economic power and is barely a military power. Things are going to get ugly in the region within the next 10 years.
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  197. It’s amazing how precise and accurate Peter with no notes and no pause, when he’s in his wheelhouse
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  198.  @judewarner1536  oh lord, the person that interjects politics into everything. The same person that ironically no one likes
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  199. You’re correct that water is a huge vulnerability for Iran, however, that’s a topic for another video because that would not slow down the development of a bomb and no one will go after the water supply, unless we’re in an end game scenario, as this primarily hurts the civilian population.
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  200.  @PopularesVox I noticed that ASMR has torn down a NarGas powered facility in Germany and relocated it to Louisiana in anticipation of gas shortages and to take advantage of cheaper gas on the US
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  201.  @junkscience6397  Oh, I’m sure he does a ton of research and probably has other people helping them to do so, but still the wide range of topics he’s able to discuss on the fly regardless if it’s been committed to memory over time is still impressive, don’t you think? Also, I haven’t read that book. I’ll have to do so.
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  202. That’s not what he said. Trains are inefficient going uphill because they can only carry half the weight due to the lack of friction with steel wheels on steel tracks. So yes the laws of physics apply perfectly.
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  203. Yep, I’m an engineer that lives in New Braunfels as have to be in my office in The Domain (Northwest Austin) three days a week. The traffic is so bad that I just rented a small condo in The Domain, which is pretty expensive, to avoid the 3-hr/day commute. I’m fortunate to have a good job with kids that are already out of the house, where this is an option.
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  204. Huawei, not Whawaia. Also ASML doesn’t make chips
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  205.  @adi6293 That’s probably because you were born and raised in a rural environment and now you live in an urban area. Is that accurate?
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  206. Sorry for your situation. I’m on the opposite side of the coin. I’m 58 and my company just implemented returned to office 5 days. Fortunately, I live in one of three cities where we have offices, so I’m sitting pretty. People quitting left and right and those of us that are here have just been offered extra shares to stick around. I’m speaking to my manager next week about needing additional time off, paid or unpaid, it doesn’t matter to me.
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  207. I was an electrical engineer and migrated into the IT space and later became a cloud architect. If you’re struggling in IT, have you thought about cloud work? It’s an easy transition
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  208. Peter if flat out wrong on his take. Even according to Peter, the US has been withdrawing as the world’s police for over 30 years. So it makes complete sense to prevent NATO from expanding because that’s just another group of people the US has to defend. The Europeans have been living under the umbrella of US protection for decades without providing the committed level of funding. If Europe wants to engage in a land war in Ukraine, that’s their decision. America’s vow to NATO members is to protect them against aggressors on their soil. If Europe up to decides to invade Ukraine, even if it’s to protect from Russia, the NATO commitment does not apply.
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  209. I’m an old-school American engineer and I’m appalled at the lack of math and science skills in the US for those under 30.
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  210. ⁠ @jlvandat69  the reason it was not a big issue is because he was referring to a small minority of migrants that had recently been in the news for doing exactly this. no one thought that Trump was implying that household pets are a staple of migrant’s diets. Context matters. The reason Republicans would have jumped on this (just like the Democrats did ) had Harris said the same thing is because Republicans know that Democrats are way too sensitive when it comes to anybody that’s not white. Democrats have dug their own grave in this area.
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  211.  @jlvandat69  I’ll bet you 1000 to 1 odds he doesn’t see the inside of a cell. I won’t bet you that he finishes his term since he’s already had two assassination attempts on his life and now that he’s trying to tear down the establishment there’s a good chance. The establishment will try again.
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  212. I get your point but I’m not sure that’s correct. The $60/bbl price was set because the Russian extraction cost is about $55-57/bbl. So instead of $5/bbl profit, they’re now making $30/bbl profit. They definitely added some costs, but not that much. For instance the Chinese and Indian insurance is probably cheaper than what they were buying from the Europeans.
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  213.  @NoOneToNoOne89 No their volume hasn’t plummeted, what is being tracked and reported has plummeted. Only about 10% of Russia’s oil can be shutdown because 90% comes from permafrost regions and if the wells are shut in temporarily, water rises to the top, freezes, and bursts the casing which can take years to fix. This is partially why the $60/bbl price cap was set. Part was to keep global oil supply stable, but part of this was knowing that Russia cannot reduce their output and they have no where to store it if it can’t be exported.
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  214. I own a house on 3/4 acre in New Braunfels (Gruene to be specific, <400yds from Gruene Hall) and a 10 acre mini-ranch between I-35 and Canyon Lake. Hope it’s worth the increased traffic.
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  215. Sir, you’re just a few months from being a boomer yourself, but I’m not far behind you at 58. I work in the tech space and many of my colleagues are young enough to be my grandkids. The good news, with the boomer’s retiring is there’s a shortage of experience, so we should be good to go until we want to retire. For me, I’m done at the end of 2025
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  216. If in doubt, wait it out. The down side of bad laws are much greater than the up side of good laws.
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  217. 100% correct. Many commenters are rooting for deflation thinking they can go on a spending spree for discounted products without understanding the devastation it will leave in its wake.
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  218.  @lloydgush Comparing China to Cuba shows a complete lack of context and your ‘lol’ shows a complete lack of experience.
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  219. ChatGPT is a languages based algorithm and will 100% replace the majority of translation jobs.
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  220. Very good point. 100% correct
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  221. I love Peter and look forward to these videos every morning, however, in this instance he’s not 100% current about the American citizens. Credit card debt is at an all time high. This is at least partially due to the fact that people got used to an elevated lifestyle when the economy was awash with COVID money and now that this has dried up, people are subsidizing their lifestyles with debt. Second, the housing market is in trouble in many metros and foreclosures, while still low relative to historical averages, are up significantly from the bottom and are rising quickly. Worse than this, during COVID the eviction and foreclosure moratorium created a bubble not only by eliminating the normal run rate of evictions and foreclosures, but many people just decided to stop paying rent and mortgages knowing that the landlord/bank couldn’t do anything about it. The moratorium period has now ended everywhere (CA being the last) and eviction and foreclosure filings are extremely high and will impact the market in the near future.
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  222. Yep, but he is correct. Trump might get rid of the Jones Act. The EPA was a big proponent of leaving it intact
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  223. Dr. Sunshine strikes again…. And I’ll be back tomorrow for another dose
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  224.  @garedmorort  I agree that both France and the US are maintaining their positive demographic profile through immigration, however, both countries are making mistakes by not regulating and accounting for incoming migrates. It is critical that incoming migrates are an asset to the country, not a liability. Many countries around the world have established criteria for immigration based upon the type of skill sets that are needed moving forward, France and the US have some programs like this, but the majority of immigrants are not vetted in this way. A merit based system is needed for long term success and is not racist at all.
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  225.  @nephilimninjaofnibiru2907  How old are you? Two? The GOP is more in sync now than it has been for decades. The Dems on the other side are in complete disarray.
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  226. ‘This is YOUR daily does of Peter’
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  227. Yea, I’m an engineer and an expert in some areas that Peter discusses and often find those sessions lacking, however, I keep listening because he’s almost always directionally accurate with some noted flaws, whereas I have limited, to no, knowledge on many of the topics. Also, the comment section for his videos is one of the few on YT that can be a good resource to augment the information. BTW, Merry Christmas to everyone
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  228.  @apagoogootwo7552  Canada’s media is very biased. He was being diplomatic when inserted ‘slightly’
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  229. ⁠ @mbak7801 Wage increases are the result of inflation, not the base source. Inflation is almost exclusively a result of government spending and the need to print more currency which reduces value of the dollar and consequently worker’s buying power.
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  230.  @keithkuckler2551  He didn’t given the back the cancel. It was never theirs. That was a huge mistake
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  231.  @chuckwood3426  You are correct, but the exporting of US inflation only matters if it exceeds local inflation rates over an extended period of time. Most countries have endured more inflation that the US, so relatively the dollar has gained strength over this period of time compared to the global basked of currencies.
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  232.  @JamesR1986  It wasn’t about steel. It was released on 11/7/22 and is entitled something like ‘Reshoring in the USA’ and the thumbnail has a caption like, ‘The Future of Detroit’ or something similar. If doesn’t go into too much detail, but indicates that it will benefit in the industrial space, moreso, than other cities particularly given its size compared to larger cities like Houston.
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  233. …..then you don’t understand deflation. I’m a real estate investor and have been for decades. The very last thing we want outside of a nuclear ware is deflation.
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  234. Not ahead of England
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  235. 100% agree. I look forward to his daily briefs and we’ve all learned that he is generally very good with long term trends related to demographics, geographies, geopolitical undercurrents, historical perspectives, etc and much less of an expert in short term narratives, in particular politics.
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  236.  @Cynicruss2  As an expat that lived in Asia for 15 years, I think he’s is directionally correct regarding China, but I’m skeptical about the time frame
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  237. Is that the case? Where?
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  238.  @keithkruse2595  Do you even know what FEMA does? Let me give you a hint, FEMA has nothing to do with forest fire prevention. That was the job of the State of California.
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  239. Yea, WWZ wasn’t pretty bad, but Ant Man 2 was terrible and it got a pass.
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  240. Clever
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  241.  @1donjuego  including you, right? Or are you the global oracle of truth?
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  242. You go with that😊
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  243. I worked for Tesla for a several years and at least up until the time I left in 2018, the majority of Tesla’s purchased were for secondary purposes. The SF Bay Area was an anomaly in the data, but overall this was the case. The Cybertruck is only attended to be a niche product as most truck drivers need range, towing, or both and truck culture isn’t be a fan of EVs for several reasons. I wasn’t involved in the 18-wheeler program, but they are definitely not suited for long-haul and probably be limited to 4-6 hour shifts.
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  244. Oh, he sleeps?
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  245.  @Stephen85  That is true, but that is also a minutia issue. Peter creates videos everyday covering a huge variety of topics and conclusions supported by data and presents them in a train-of-thought manner with no notes or prompts while filming himself and often while walking on a mountain trail. More importantly if you review some of his older videos, he’s been correct more time than not and certainly way more that others that do the same thing. I’m not suggesting to trust everything he says, but certainly his point of view warrants consideration.
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  246. One of the reasons Pao is so good is because its made from tapioca flour, not wheat flour
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  247. It’s definitely what started the Terminator series. We’re living Skynet 2.0 before the fall.
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  248. That Cisco incident was a court case, where they left ‘CISCO’ in some of the coding lines
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  249. I was thinking the same thing. Where did all the money go and why didn’t it benefit me or anyone else that I know.
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  250. As a Texan, in the industry, the timing did seem very punitive, but the actual impact in the near- to mid-term is less than negligible. As Peter mentioned, I guess it but did placate the greenies, which to me seem like some of the dumber folks in today’s society. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for well thought out means to move to a more sustainable society, but the radical green agenda would destroy the very system that enables us to intelligently move in this direction over time.
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  251. I used to live in Nevada City, before moving back to Texas. You’re right about the smog, but I don’t know if having seasonal gas mixtures makes this better, or not. Regardless, NC/Grass Valley is a nice little area
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  252. Chicago’s nickname ‘Windy City’ is not derived from the wind
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  253.  @E4439Qv5  I’m a gen Xer, but yea, this is definitely from the gen Z crowd
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  254. …..and economically he was a disaster
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  255. I can’t believe Peter didn’t know this. Also the 10-12 folks on the right can’t stop anything if a few of the 200+people on the left decide to get something done
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  256. That’s a good comment and its even more dire than that. It’s whether AI can do individual things that people currently get paid to do better than humans. The answer to this is unequivocally ‘yes’. When add that AI does get sick, doesn’t go on vacation, doesn’t go on strike, doesn’t complain about benefits and wages, doesn’t file law suits, does change jobs, and so on…..the decision for businesses is going to be extremely easy to make.
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  257.  @danielhouse1053  you don’t understand the business. As an engineer, I’ve worked for a very very big AV company (hint, hint) in their battery in solar group and a new battery is not right around the corner, but even if it was, that’s not the issue. It’s also not a matter of the big three diving into EV, however, Ford and GM have just publicly announced they’re backing away from their EV commitments as a means to appease the UAW strikers. The real issue is the grid, charging stations, and raw materials. The grid and a national network of charging stations is decades and trillions of dollars away, and at this time there is no bridge to cover the shortfall in raw materials. EV sales are beginning to slow down, because most people that want them and can afford them, already have them. As the economy continues to get worse for the next few years, this is going to put downward pressure on the EV sales. In any case, you don’t have to believe me, and I could be wrong, but time will tell.
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  258. Wow, the number of commenters trying to suggest that the chosen field of study between liberal arts and engineering doesn’t really matter is astounding and telling. The sheer level of effort required to achieve each degree should be clear to everyone. If that doesn’t convince you, the job offers and average salaries for each grad immediately following graduation and throughout their career should.
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  259. Peter made his election prediction months ago. His view is that Biden will win easily and based on his rationale would mean that Kamala will also win easily.
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  260. I grew up in Austin where I went to HS and UT when the city population was 350,000. I now live in New Braunfels after spending 16 overseas and then a decade in California. It’s changed so much and definitely not for the better. I wouldn’t say it’s quite as bad as you’ve stated, but directionally we’re in agreement.
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  261.  @r13hd22 No, he’s right about this. If you think he’s left information out, please feel free to add, but your vague comments sounds like you really don’t know anything and are just throwing out a BS comment.
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  262. As a Southerner and an engineer, all these comments are fascinating. I obviously didn’t grow up with coal, but knew of was used extensively up North, however I didn’t grasp how integral it was to everyone’s lives. Very interesting.
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  263. Yes. Same here. The search algorithms will corner your content into a very biased view. Whether or not this is intentional or unintentional can be debated, but so far they are essentially amplifying the way people think or they way they chose to view the world which isn’t healthy for an one. Peter isn’t perfect but he does represent a more balanced view than most.
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  264. Did you retire in Portugal? If so, where were you before? The reason I ask is because a buddy of mine did so a couple years ago and loves it. He lives in a small town and I’m going to meet him there this summer to check it out.
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  265. You and your spouse do you thing. We’re way below replacement rate in the kiddo department
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  266.  @watchthe1369  I am in the oil industry and it’s a lot more complicated than that. We have enough volume, but shale oil is very sweet and most of our refining capacity is for sour. Sweet oil can’t be refined in a sour facility. So currently, most of the oil that we extract is exported to sweet facilities, and we import sour to re fine in our facilities. Yes we can do this, but we need major infrastructure investments in the refining space.
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  267.  @theblackdog2399  You need to listen again. He did mention climate change and its effects, but the focus was on the massive industrial build out underway in the US, which is a far greater source of increased power need than climate change. It’s not even close. Texas is the outsized beneficiary of this industrial build out, so they need to increase their grid capacity. If it was just related to climate change, it would be the same very where.
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  268. I appreciate Peter‘s commentary, however, he views the world through rose-colored glasses when it comes to the competency and effectiveness of the US government. If this was even remotely the case, Trump‘s would have made very different cabinet picks, but the US is gov’t is broken, bloated, and spending itself into oblivion. Trump’s picks are not there to get along with the status queue, but instead to disrupt it. To do this, you have to select people from the outside This is done all the time in corporations. A hatchet man is brought in when companies become inefficient, uncompetitive and are at risk of bankruptcy. This has never happened to the US gov’t and is very badly needed. This is far more important than getting cabinet picks that are familiar with the current people, processes and other elements of the establishment.
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  269. The probability is exactly zero, nada, goose egg, ziltch
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  270. You can turn off ‘Autoplay Next Video’ =====> You > Settings (gear icon) > Playback > Autoplay Next Video
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  271.  @nobhiker  to be honest he didn’t say Russia was losing the war. He’s always stated that it’s Russia’s war to lose and that they are underperforming, which is very typical for Russia.
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  272.  @scottblinn553 No doubt Massachusetts is on the upper end of the US states in math and science, but you still have pockets of ignorance. Southies come to mind.
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  273. As a Yank in the energy sector that travels to Calgary regularly, this sounds more like what I hear from my Canadian colleagues and customers. I know Alberta is conservative and doesn’t reflect the views in Quebec, BC and a few other provinces, but the sentiment is very strong with the few people I know.
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  274. Yea, thankfully he said ‘average’, not ‘median’
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  275. Interesting. Thanks
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  276.  @jacobzindel987  what a bunch of nonsense, in no world do Xers feel threatened by young-bloods in the workplace, unless it’s MMA or the NFL. You need to stop blaming and focus on yourself, junior.
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  277.  @brucek803  all the CA jobs are considered prosecutor jobs. I had forgotten she was a US Senator
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  278.  @Jay-vt1mw  increased displacement, in addition to more equipment and fuel as you mentioned, translates to the ability to include a wider range of aircraft, the ability to remain at sea for much longer period of time and the capability of projecting power over a larger area for a longer period of time. This matters more to the US as there are no security risk areas close to the lower 48, so they are deployed further and for longer periods of time aways from their home berths.
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  279. 86 degrees forecasted today in Austin
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  280. Yea, I found it odd that with all Peter’s knowledge he was unable to come up with ‘rotary’ in that moment, particularly when he lived int his era and that was the common name for it after the ‘touch-tone’ or ‘DTMF’ phones came out
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  281. What a scam. Please stop this nonsense
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  282. SS won’t touched. Not extending the debt ceiling doesn’t necessarily mean the US goes into default. It just means that its not fully funded and the US government must live within its means. They could delay payments to defense contractors with their approval or delay gifts to overseas countries neither of which would represent a default.
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  283. The problem I have is that the Democrats he refers to are no longer centrists. If they would return to this, things would be better.
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  284. In legal circles, this is known as the clock that struck 13. It casts doubt on itself and everything that proceeded it. After his terrible election take, and some videos in the past in which I have more expertise than him, I have begun to ask myself the same types of questions.
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  285. It’s the cost. Organic agriculture does work and is more sustainable for the soil and the overall ecosystem, but with what we know today we can’t economically feed 8,000,000,000 people organically. Its even questionable if we can produce enough food at all organically regardless of cost. So unless we’re willing to reduce variety and pay $8 for a head of lettuce, we don’t have a choice right now
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  286. Ah that brings back memories of old school D&D
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  287. Thank you. Despite some recent annoying trends in the military that will degrade our capabilities somewhat, we are still second to none in the space. China knows better than to tangle with the US. This is the only reason Taiwan hasn’t been invaded. Beyond America’s far superior military, China is in a very precarious position with rapidly declining demographics and very poor food and energy security.
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  288. I watch Peter every day and get a lot from his information, however, we should all recognize he carries a heavy bias. In geopolitics he is overly biased towards the US vs all other countries and regions and in politics he over rotated to Left. As long as we all keep this context in mind, his information is an excellent data point in what’s going on in the world.
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  289. Where was this comment with that Potted Plant began occupying the White House in 2021
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  290. EVs on average are considerably dirtier that’s ICE vehicles. Petroleum-based vehicles utilize ICE (Internal Combustion Engine). EVs should be considered as utilizing ECE (External Combustion Engine) because the combustion is still happening, it’s just happening before it reaches the vehicle. EVs have a much larger carbon footprint than traditional ICE vehicles in all parts of the world, except a few places with a high percentage of green energy generation. China has filthy coal-fired power generation plants and commission a new one every week on average. This combined with EVs much greater material and energy cost to build is what results in a much larger carbon footprint.
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  291.  @SeaUrchinFilms  The US gov’t (left and right) have been driving the country into a ditch for decades now. We need to treat it exactly like turning a company to stop the run away debt, bloated gov’t, and unchecked corruption. We can disagree on this, but that’s how I see it.
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  292. As a Yank, I agree. Our friends from across the pond are definitely a resilient folk. As Americans, we’re a bit too comfortable these days and I’m not sure we’d have the spine if we had to go through the typical European hardships. Strange, because a few hundred years ago, the Americans were the harasses, and the Europeans the softies.
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  293. @ true, but very few ships are still built in the US. They could repeal the manufacturing portion and keep the other provisions. This would put many more ships on the water and provide more opportunities for US ownership, crews, and maintenance.
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  294. I don’t disagree with your point, but no one that matters wants affordable housing in the financial district. That’s not going to happen, because too many rich people don’t want their pricy property compromised.
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  295.  @limitlessLtd  I’ve lived in Europe, and loved it, but let’s be honest, your standard of living in Europe vs the US greatly depends on where you live and where in the US you want to compare. Also keep in mind that Europe has been subsidized the by the US since WWII and you’d be speaking German right night, if you had ever been born, had the US not pour billions of dollar and hundreds of thousands of men into the effort. Your welcome
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  296. Peter is correct about citizenship being bestowed on all who are born in the US, but everything else is much more nuanced than Peter articulated.
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  297. Biden’s never had a big-boy job because he’s never had a big-boy mind
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  298. Me too. I’m a tech working so I can work remote and travel about half the year in my Airstream to national and state parks, but I have to be in the trailer connected to my Starlink during working hours. Still pretty great, but not as great as roaming the ranges on a daily basis
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  299.  @letsRegulateSociopaths  He doesn’t travel anywhere near 300 days a year. He’s done 100+ videos this year hiking in CO. I doubt he travels more than 100 days a year.
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  300. 100% correct. It’s also to break down the individual and raise up a platoon. From what I’ve seen, I would be scared to death to go into battle with today’s youth. I hope I’m wrong, but we are softer as a nation then we’ve ever been.
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  301. I understand what you’re saying, but really Alberta is the ‘Texas of Canada’, right?
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  302.  @hkfoo3333 No he’s from the same kingdom as Cinderella
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  303. I don’t disagree with the notion of rehabilitations, particularly for the homeless that are down on their luck for any number of reasons, but a huge portion of the homeless are drug addicts and those with mental illnesses and this segment seems to be a generational challenge that will take decades to fix IF it becomes a priority with the people AND the government. Right now that is clearly not the case. And while there is definitely a portion of this group which can become productive, most don’t have the interest in doing so or are so disparaged and ashamed that they no longer have the will to persevere. I’m not trying to sound callous or heartless. I have two family members in this situation and it’s absolutely heartbreaking, but I just don’t see a way forward. Personally, I feel that a large swath of addicts and those with mental illnesses have been ignored for too long, to the point that there is no return.
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  304. It’s hilarious that the Democrats are suggesting that the Republicans will ruin democracy and yet it’s the Democrats that are actively trying to throw out all the primary votes and insert a candidate of their choosing. Such hypocrites as are the Republicans
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  305.  @jeanlamb5026  I didn’t say RTW states have higher wages. I said their disposable income is higher. Union states have higher wages, but they also have union fees, higher taxes and higher costs of living. On net, for similar jobs workers in RTW states have MORE disposable income which translates generally into les debt and a higher a savings rate.
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  306.  @YoloSwagNinja  You’re correct, he definitely has an anti-Trump bias that clouds his judgment, but more broadly, Peter’s blind spot is near-term events in general. He needs to stick to his forte, which is demographics, geography, natural resources, manufacturing processes and generational geo-politics that can help predict long-term trends.
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  307. That is excellent. Thanks
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  308. Use your slide rule
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  309.  @hydrolifetech7911  Thanks for your comment. I’m an American electrical engineer and worked in Asia for 15 years. I’m older now and still work but repatriated back to the US about 12 years ago. I don’t have current first hand knowledge, but in the 90’s and early 2000s the Chinese EEs were surprisingly ordinary even though many had degrees from top US schools. For some reason they lacked the creativity and ingenuity to get anywhere near cutting edge comprehension. We very underwhelmed when we arrived and had time to assess the local talent
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  310.  @atheistbushman GG&S is one of my favorite books. The chapter on domestication of animals by region is fascinating
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  311. @ wrong. Regardless of point of origin, this does not absolve CA from fighting fires within their jurisdiction. CA has more to loose than the US Forestry Department and in fact cool burns are part of the USFD policy, as they should be. If CA is going to permit residential and commercial property in high risk areas and then refuse to conduct proper maintenance and not have adequate materials on hand, including water, that’s on CA.
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  312. As a Singapore PR who has lived in Jakarta and Sydney, I would like to see that too. In this series it will probably on cover Australia
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  313. Yes, but the only reason the national parks closed along with White House tours is because the Administration at the time chose to inflict as much pain on the public as possible. They could have delayed a couple payments to defense contractors or gifts to other countries or several other areas to cover the gap and no one would have felt a thing.
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  314. That is a much more interesting question
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  315.  @rg-cc5kg  if you don’t understand oil and gas, you probably shouldn’t be commenting on the importance of maintenance.
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  316. The price of gold has been increasing and probably will continue. The uncertainty in the global economy combined with the high debt levels around the world, will probably more than counter the increased supply from Russia. If/when we come out of this time in a year or two, that excess gold will certainly impact the price at that time
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  317. Underrated comment. Based on the lack of thumbs up, I’m not sure anyone understands the irony
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  318. Ukraine has a huge problem too, but those numbers are incorrect. It’s not as bad as you’ve laid out. Also Russia numbers are far worse than you’ve indicated. Russia population not stable at all according to the WHO.
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  319. I think he used a different adjective
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  320. I’m in IT too and you’re right, but coming across ‘any wire’ is a bit of stretch. First of all, without the undersea fiber network there is virtually no capacity. Second, those ‘wires’ can be easily shout down too. Non-terrestrial connectivity is another issue which can also be shut down.
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  321. This is Peter Zeihan coming to you from Mars to discuss the proposed landing site of Elon Mush in 2055
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  322.  @GaryBickford  I have no issue whatsoever when it comes to constructive criticism in areas where improvements are needed, and of course the US has many such areas, provided this includes ideas for improvement and a willingness to engage with others of differing opinions. If this is consistent with your view, I’d avoid calling it ‘whining’ as this is a tactic utilized by children and professional victims. What I do have an issue with is referring to the country as ‘wretched’. It is nothing of the sort and any amateur comparison of past or present superpowers/empires would make this abundantly clear.
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  323. I agree. Content based on facts and logic rather then emotions
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  324. You’re right about Turkey’s economy, but this is a short YT vid, not a college course. Also PZ typically focuses on geopolitics and upcoming economic events, not the current state of an economy.
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  325.  @Allaiya.  100% agree. Well stated. The rights are not exclusive, but America’s commitment to support and defend them is exclusive to Americans.
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  326. Its boils down to legal vs illegal immigrants. If we have labor shortages, let’s identify the skillsets needed and intentionally bring in people with those skills, but it’s total BS just to let everyone in from doctors to hardened criminals, with no controls and hope they find a job. The US is the ONLY country in the world that does this
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  327. ⁠ @losthighway4840  Your comment is an extreme oversimplification of the issue and on balance is incorrect. I worked for Tesla as an engineer in their battery and solar group. Phoenix gets about 2.1 hours more sun on average throughout the year than Denver, however it only gets about 30 mins more of peak solar per day than Denver, which is when about 90% of solar energy is generated from panels. This is because the solar energy is the highest during this time, but more so, because a fixed solar array farms and to the extent possible rooftop installments are aimed in this direction, so early and late sun generates very little usable electric energy. Beyond that hours of sun is only part of the equation. Higher altitude makes a substantial difference as does air-bourne particulates. Phoenix is a substantial. 4,200 ft lower than Denver so the sun’s energy not only has more atmosphere to traverse, but more dense atmosphere as well. Also Phoenix average particulate count is several times higher than that of Denver do to winds, arid climate and surrounding desert terrain. Humidity is another factor, but both areas have low humidity.
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  328. Jeez, this clip didn’t make me feel very good about anything. Okay, off to work. I’ll be waiting for the next ray of sunshine from Peter
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  329.  @aaronstein1  I agree. I have had an amazing life and wake up every morning ready to go and thankful for the place and time in history when we’ve lived, but I’m glad I’m this side of the mid-point. I feel bad for young folks that didn’t have the amazing 70s & 80s and while getting ahead is always hard, I think it’s going to be tougher for them than it was for us.
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  330.  @aaronstein1  Yea, there’s hope, but good decision making is required.
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  331.  @Alphasig336 What about the students that study them and the institutions that lend the money? Ultimately this is on the student. I know they’re young, but the information is readily available to make good decisions. It’s hard to blame a service provider, like a university, for providing a service that is in demand and then cast all the blame on them because people choose to pay for that service.
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  332. I hear you, but Texans pay less overall taxes than most states, particularly compared to other large GDP states, like CA, NY. Property tax is a consumption tax, so the individual has a degree of control over how much they pay based on how expensive of a house they choose to buy and where they choose to buy. Also Texas has lower gasoline taxes than most, so gas is cheaper as is food and other energy dependent products.
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  333.  @colejosephalexanderkashay683  My apologies. I know the process but don’t follow it follow it all. Peter mentioned a handful of Republicans holding thing up, he didn’t say anything about the Speaker of the House withholding the vote. I’ll look into this particular appropriation and comment back if I find anything interesting. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
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  334. Straight off the MSNBC talking points
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  335.  @budmiller7436  Honestly, your comment is the only nonsense on this thread. It definitely doesn’t preclude anyone from being convicted as a traitor, but she should at least be given the courtesy of not being accused without evidence after serving without blemish, including tours in Iraq and Kuwait reaching the rank of Lt. Colonel, while carrying top secret clearance. She was not accused of any of this during her decades as a democrat. It wasn’t until she became a republican in 2024 that this started and yet throughout her confirmation hearings not a shrewd of evidence was produced by the legions of dem politicians that came at her with vitriol.
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  336.  @bsmithhammer  good point. It does have benefits in the areas you mentioned, but that is a side affect of the primary reasons the government is doing this and the costs far out weigh the benefits to the citizenry
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  337.  @galewosten2010  I hear what your saying, but the math doesn’t come close to working out. The O&G subsidies today are tiny compared what how much is being subsidized for green energy (less than 2%). I do agree that the O&G subsidies should go away and if they want to apply them to green energy, that’s fine, but it wont solve the problem.
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  338.  @Marie_West  I’m a gear head too and rebuild 1960 cars in my spare time. I’ve watched all the Top Gear episodes. When you get done, watch ‘Clarkson’s Farm.’ It’s a series of Clarkson running his farm after he no longer has Top Gear. It might sound boring, but its actually pretty good. Also check out ‘James May, our man in Japan’ and season two in Italy.
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  339.  @danielhouse1053  thanks for adding so much value to the discussion. Apologies that I’m an educated professional that can do math.
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  340.  @ItsJoKeZ  but how can you uniformly lump the university experience into nothing more than four years of persistence when some undergrad degrees have starting salaries of $180k/year with multiple offers and others have a 10% chance of finding a job in their field and if they do it pays $35k/year?
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  341. True, it’s very possible that immigrants benefit the corporations, and even the country, while harming the citizens.
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  342.  @johanstinson  yes, it is exactly fluff. It may not appear to those that don’t understand the meek efforts underway or the hooks the US has into every economy, but for those that do know, this is not a serious risk.
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  343. The US has more than enough known reserves to last our lifetimes and there is very likely more to discover and better techniques to maximize outputs.
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  344.  @Apotheosis1113  So is your thesis that all of these well thought out videos with logical think tracks are designed to get us to buy his book? That’s pretty thin isn’t it? I’ll guantee you he makes more off the ad revenue from these videos than he does from his book. That might be a more sound rationale for his motives, but why don’t you do your own research and see what you come with relative to his positions.
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  345. I was based in BA for a bit, and as Texan, I can verify the very high quality of Argentina beef.
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  346. Winner, winner chicken dinner !!!
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  347. 💯 % correct. I was an expat in Asia for 15 years and NO ONE even wants to work for a Chinese company in their own country, but they do, because of limited options. Even citizens in emerging countries in SEAsia, like Indonesia, The Philippines, Vietnam, etc. wouldn’t even consider moving to China. China has treated the world like shit for 50 years, they’re on the decline and on their way towards deindustrialization. Karma’s a bitch.
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  348. Germany should be worried. Solar is terrible for Germany given its latitude, altitude, weather patterns and humidity (about 1/6 effective as Denver, CO). For as smart as Germans are as individual, the decision to make Germany so reliant on Russia for gas was utter stupidity. And lets not talk about the decision to shutdown nuclear power plants in the midst of an energy crisis. Sadly, life is going to get very tough for Germans in the very near future.
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  349.  @LabTech41 That’s a good point. I really appreciate Peter’s content, but there is no denying that this channel is a sidekick and his bread is buttered by US give er meat officials - city, state and federal.
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  350. Make sure to like each video each day.
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  351.  @hill2750  mate, as a cloud architect that has used AI for a decade, I can tell you that AI has been functioning for 20 years and in the works for over 35 years. The public just got its first glance, but this just didn’t pop out of the ground like a weed. AI can and will replace some blue and white collar jobs in the future that have a high degree of redundancy (i.e. Accounting, Translation, Proof Reading, etc.) but not only will most jobs still be around, but more importantly AI can only assist in solving the Supply side of the equation, you still need humans earning money to drive Demand
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  352.  @thomasmoss1066  I guess you’ve pretty much summed up how everyone looks at it. For the time being and the known future, the success of AI is still very heavily a function of the quality of the set up and the constant tweaking of the learning algorithm in use. It will be interesting to see how far and how fast it evolves. For instance in terms of the gaming industry, experts (of which I am NOT) are fairly confident that the games will be indistinguishable from reality within 20 years. That sounds cool, but it comes with some pretty serious social implications as a certain segment of society will opt to live in the game as a superhero, rather than live life as a normal person. I’m glad I’m too old to be making that decision.
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  353. I love Peter and look forward to these videos every morning. He’s easily my favorite YouTuber, however, in this instance he’s not 100% current about the American citizens. Credit card debt is at an all time high. This is at least partially due to the fact that people got used to an elevated lifestyle when the economy was awash with COVID money and now that this has dried up, people are subsidizing their lifestyles with debt. Second, the housing market is in trouble in many metros and foreclosures, while still low relative to historical averages, are up significantly from the bottom and are rising quickly. Worse than this, during COVID the eviction and foreclosure moratorium created a bubble not only by eliminating the normal run rate of evictions and foreclosures, but many people just decided to stop paying rent and mortgages knowing that the landlord/bank couldn’t do anything about it. The moratorium period has now ended everywhere (CA being the last) and eviction and foreclosure filings are extremely high and will impact the market in the near future.
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  354.  @dalac_93  African players are very good but not the best. Look what Argentina did to France and earlier what Italy did to England in championship play. Argentina and Italy fielded almost all local grown talent, where France and England did not.
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  355.  @Taranaki66  damn, I didn’t know that and I used to live in Lincoln Park in the 90s. Good times. Thanks for sharing the link.
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  356. There are a lot of talented Indians, but most Indians with elite talent, skill and knowledge live outside India because they can.
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  357.  @coonazz98  Yea, 130 is a thing of beauty. 80 or 85 MPH, smooth roads, no stops for over 90 miles with very few trucks.
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  358. You missed the point. It’s not Argentina that is changing, it’s the world around it which will weaken its neighbors and do very little harm to Argentina because they have all the natural reasons they need to proceed as globalism winds down. Also, move on from ‘Bruh’, you’re probably better than that. Act like it.
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  359. Correct. They are the B-Team to maintain the status quo, but the A-Team to stop the rot and tear down the bureaucracy. Peter, sees the US gov’t as a finely tuned machine. We can disagree with him and move on to other topics.
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  360.  @jacqueshuot3684  high schoolers
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  361.  @DeePee-vy5vp I don’t disagree wit your comment, but even as a 57-yr old, I picked a lot regarding the geography in play
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  362.  @andersbjrnsen7203 good point. The US is a mess, but energy is the one very bright spot
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  363. You’re statement is correct, except NATO does actively advocate countries to join. The eastern countries of NATO desperately want a NATO ally buffer between them and Ruasia.
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  364. I’m not sure that having the entertainment industry in the US is a positive. In terms of wasting people’s time it definitely has a net negative economic impact. ‘Tik Tok’ brain is a real thing. I know that Tik Tok is not an American company, but short bursts of ‘entertainment’ from any source reduces people’s ability to focus and maintain concentration which is required for any form of innovation.
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  365. It won’t happen. There’s no advantage for the US to do so, and the liquidity between the currencies if sufficient. Its more likely that smaller countries, particularly those with a USD-peg would adopt the USD as their currency. For instance the 1 Panamanian Balboa - 1 Dollar so they are essentially a dollar standardized country
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  366.  @jesan733  Agreed, they are still printing money by the trillions. BTW, I’m willing to wager that inflation will go back up within the next few years. The government needs rates to go way lower than they should, so they can refinance the debt at lower rates. I don’t know if you read much about ‘The Great Melt-up’, but this seems like the most likely path.
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  367.  @jesan733  I promise you the federal debt is a huge problem.
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  368. As a Yank engineer that doesn’t spend much time in this space, what happened to Germany’s 5% Hurde requirement?
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  369. That’s because demographics on a long term perspective, trumps everything else. The media is generally focused on short term hype topics, which in the long run, mean very little. Its akin to focusing on a stream that moves pebbles, while ignoring glaciers that carve mountains.
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  370. Correct. And that’s a great microcosm of why the US should have been pulling back faster from this role for the last three decades
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  371.  @AFuller2020  Who said this would be over in a month?
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  372.  @txrx1060  Just curious, are you a wireless engineer?
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  373.  @pbkobold I feel for you, but the affordability is more a function of house prices being too high rather than salaries too low.
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  374. History would suggest otherwise.
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  375. The filming is so still I would have thought the phone was on a support that was blowing slightly in the breeze, except you can see his arm reflected in his glasses
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  376. You’re kidding right? Yes, boys and girls are different, but they still fit generally into the generational categories.
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  377. Could be but I doubt it. They wouldn’t be investing in thousands of centrifuges if the already had the weapon and its not like Russia trusts Iran on anything.
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  378. I agree that the internet is a mess and primarily used for nonsense, but we all would be negatively restricted to varying degrees if the internet was shut down.
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  379. I wax debt free but knowing interest rates were going to go way up, I took out a 2.5% fix 15-year mortgage and put it into 5 and now 10 year high coupon treasury notes which are now locked in above 5% return rates. Free cash is every month after my mortgage is paid
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  380. The title is BRIC’s, not BRICS. SA joined later and was not in scope for this video
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  381. Ivan, the good news is that you’re still a spy. The bad news is you will no longer be sipping cappuccino with a beautiful women in Vienna, but instead will be sipping gruel with a sheep in the Ural Mountains.
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  382. The ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ should have been called the ‘American Citizen Wealth Reduction Act’
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  383. Yea, F* Ladybird Lake, unless it’s names after Hank Hill’s dog
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  384. Trump didn’t push away the Law & Order voter. He attracted this voter.
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  385. I thought of that song too
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  386. So does inflation, gas tax, food tax, lotteries, alcohol and tobacco tax
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  387. It’s funny how Peter can nitpick everything he thinks Trump does wrong, or doesn’t have the skill to do correctly, and yet very rarely had anything negative to say about that potted plant that occupied the Oval Office for the previous four years
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  388. I agree, I like Peter, but he should stick to his forte, demographics, geography, and the associated economic impacts and opportunities. He is wrong on politics more often than not.
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  389.  @crombee8947  You mean the Bitcoin that El Salvador purchase at $47k and is now worth just over half that? The same Bitcoin that almost made El Salvador insolvent? The Bitcoin that ruined the regime that made that decision? The Bitcoin that was going to support the Bitcoin City which has been shut down? As you much as you and others would like this to be the case, its not going to happen, ever.
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  390.  @eddyr3691  Trafalgar got it right five times ‘16, ‘18, ‘20, ‘22, & ‘24 within the margin for error, but I generally agree with your comment about the citizenry.
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  391. No you’re not, I’m also an American that was expat in NZ for two years in my 30s and I loved watching the All Blacks. That’s ok we can do a duet with and American English accents 😊
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  392. Mate, electronic equipment is more durable, is if higher quality and last longer than it ever has before. Think about how much abuse phones receive and they rarely malfunction. If you’re referring to appliances and other hardware intensive products you have a point.
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  393. This is true, but as an American we also need to recognize that if Hitler hadn’t been so stupid to open up a giant front with Russia and break their accord, the ultimate outcome of WWII would have been very difficult to determine. At a minimum Nazi Germany would have subdued all of Europe, including England and would have had years to rebuild and refortify before the Americans finished off the Japanese, regrouped, and redeployed to Europe and even then in the best scenario it would have been decade longer and/or likely include the nuking Berlin.
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  394. Biden might have seen the entire arc of the nuclear age, but he was never very smart and now he remembers only a small portion of the the little knowledge he had. I love Peter, but to suggest the Biden is the best POTUS to handle this is ridiculous. Trump, Obama, Bush Jr, Clinton, Bush Sr, and Reagan would have all been better choices to handle this.
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  395. @ I do wonder down there a few days a week with some friends from neighborhood on weekday evenings. We avoid weekends because its packed with people from Austin and San Antoine. Visitors love Gruene Hall and so do we, but we hang out at the Gruene Grove which is an nice outdoor area with a huge oak tree in the middle, small stage for bands, a wurst airstream for food and two bars that serve great drinks. It also has a speakeasy downstairs. Check it out if you ever get this way again
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  396. @ ……and she got her ass kicked because she’s an empty suit
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  397. Yea, I really like Peter and I’m not a big Trump fan, but to suggest that Peronism is anything close to what Trump is advocating is wrong on several levels, particularly given the way the left in the US is heavily involved in censorship, de-platforming and trying to use the executive and legislative bodies to circumvent the judicial branch. While I don’t think Trump is a conservative, he is a populist and somewhat of a protectionist, which is far from the socialist and fascist threads the run through Peronism
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  398.  @chriswhite318  100% correct. The US is overly blessed with the best geography on the planet from location, soil, waterways, natural resources, and so on and so on.
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  399.  @xtremezoe  I agree with your comment, but I also stand be mine. America is blessed almost beyond comprehension and for that reason America’s starting point is far beyond that of Nigeria. Additionally we have had exceptional government for long stretches of our history, however, for the past several election cycles corruption, nepotism, graft, wastefulness, and fraud has been seeping into the government at all levels at an alarming rate rate. Our leaders have become lazy, under-qualified, and entitled. I was an expat in Third World countries for over 15 years, so I’ve seen how poorly citizens fair in those circumstances under bad leadership and I want above all things for America to avoid that type of future. Keep in mind, Rome and Greece were once empires, and now neither Italy nor Greece can pay their bills, both have failing economies and have become sideshows on the world stage.
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  400.  @Jay-vt1mw  France and England don’t have super carriers. Plus France has one and England two two compared the the US with 11
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  401. No need to imagine. Just look at how much democrats trust the government to sensor information, its flow, and who to de-platform. Imagine that the democrats in the 60s and 70s were the group that was pushing back against unrestrained government power and oversight authority. What a sad trajectory from tiger to lemmings in just a couple generations
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  402. He’s not implement those tariffs. It’s just a negotiation tactic to get the to stop the flow of illegal aliens to the US.
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  403. Excellent point. More recently, the same can be said for government overreach on vaccines, lockdowns, information and several other topics. The government is not to be trusted regardless of who’s in power.
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  404.  @smuook1969  You either don’t understand English or you lack rational thought. Your comment was if it could be done remotely it can be done in India. Your comment was an absolute which is incorrect. My modifying statement was accurate. Your follow up was also just as inaccurate.
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  405.  @smuook1969  Nice try. Your statements make no sense. I leave it that. Have a nice day
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  406.  @EJH783  he did more than that. He said Biden would easily win and explained that Trump only appealed to a small cohort of people having completely lost independents and many republicans. The exact opposite was true. Republicans voted for Trump by well over 95%, Independents broke heavily for Trump and as did many Democrats. This included seismic movements to the right with Hispanics, black men, and under-30 voters. Peter was completely wrong with all his assumptions…….but I still like him.
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  407.  @kaiwenhe5518 I hope that was sarcasm
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  408.  @intractablemaskvpmGy  You’re 100% right about China imploding often. Of course the big difference the go around is for the first time we live in a globalized economy so their implosion will have a global blast radius at least for some time.
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  409. @ is that all you got? If you have something of substance to bring to the table, bring it and we can discuss. If not, a simpleton comment just undermines your opinion.
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  410. This is the type of stuff I love to hear from Peter.
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  411.  @sebastianprimomija8375 and how do you think that view of life will serve you? You might want to look at what you have to be grateful for, before reality teaches you a very difficult lesson.
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  412. Apologies for no longer being part of your ranks. I’ve got an addiction problem with gaming and had to give it over a decade ago. As a consolation, I am an engineer with AWS and help to build the cloud environment to support your gaming, so I’ll have to live vicariously through you, until my day comes when I have time and funds to feed my addiction. Till we meet again around GTA24
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  413. We can thank the shale revolution for our lack of need of it Sauds
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  414.  @condotiero860 Why don’t add in a comment about why the sky is blue. It would be just as relevant as this comment.
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  415. 100% correct, but I’m sure they trying avoid Hamas now that the IDF is sorting them out. Elections have consequences, but I’m sure many are rethinking this vote
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  416.  @billybob-bd1ub That does not make it excusable at all. You cannot compare a mentally disabled individual to an entire government. That is an incredible weak analogy.
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  417. I could be wrong, but my understanding of the current Algeria-French relationship is that it has declined considerably. I understand a larger number of Algerians live in France (about 10%) which will likely prevent a France invasion, do to to fear of domestic unrest, but we’re heading towards a very strange and dangerous time in our history.
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  418. For all those that think there is any cutting news outside of pop culture on twitter, you really need to re-evaluate your perspective on the world
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  419.  @coonhound_pharoah  mate, no offense, but you are wrong about this. The long tern structural damage to an economy is far more dire and long lasting than you have stated.
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  420.  @alb3978  it means that all of the details he went through to highlight how Trump can’t win, including demographic, geographic and gender shifts was all based upon erroneous information and assumptions. He is still working off the same for understanding that proved to be completely incorrect. Until he goes back and corrects his inaccurate assumptions, he’ll continue to get Trump wrong just like the mainstream media has for the last eight years.
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  421. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a bit. Thanks for resurfacing that from the depths of my fading memories.
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  422.  @daviddavidson1417  Well for one thing two court decisions were decided last week, pending appeal, that Trump did have the authority to release employees. There are 10s of thousands of contractors with no employment guarantees beyond their initial contract, many of which are on a month to month basis, Federal employees cannot be fired without cause, but their jobs can be eliminated and eventually released after due process which differs depending on grade and category, but more broadly the Executive Branch has been consistently usurping power from Congress for decades by POTUS’ from both sides of the aisle. There are many examples of this from POTUS starting wars when the declaration of war is specifically prescribed to Congress. Far more rampant is the POTUS redirecting funds to other purposes or not spending the money at all as was directed in legislation. W did it. Obama did it and even said he was going to do it with his, ‘I have a pen and a phone’ comment after losing majorities in the House and Senate. Trump 45 did it. Biden did it for example by not continuing the the construction of the border wall with the money that was allocated by Congress and Trump 47 is doing it a lot as well. Thanks for asking
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  423.  @slimjim2584  People making $14/hr are not ready for children. They’re not yet able to take care of themselves and don’t yet have the ability to take care of others, particularly children
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  424. Cocaine? I know that’s still a thing and it’s on the rise, but meth and fentanyl are much bigger concerns
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  425.  @dereksollows9783  yea, I’m sure new recruits would hate to avoid the Afghan withdrawal debacle under Biden. Recruiting is at a 15 years high since Trump took office. Try again
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  426. He dropped his election post mortem on Patreon 4-5 days ago, so we the unwashed masses should get it soon
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  427. 100% correct, but the trucking corridor is the western split that goes through Fort Worth. This route is shorter and has less traffic.
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  428. I’m still not sure it was destroyed from the inside, but if it was, it was destroyed by Russia as they control the damn. The best logic that it was destroyed by Russia, is the absence of any video, as Russia would have security footage of the external strike, which would have been massive to destroy the damn so quickly that locals would not have phone video of the plume and follow on strikes and the damn failing. All we have is post destruction video.
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  429. SCAM. Nothing but pathetic losers using sketchy marketing techniques to separate hard working people from their money
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  430. I was wondering the same just because it seems like a tall task for Ukrainian operatives to infiltrate that far east with the material needed to pull this off. Separatists funded/rewarded by the West sounds at least as likely, particularly since the Ukrainian government hasn’t taken credit for it.
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  431.  @easonhuang7117  Inside in that the only buyers will be inside China, because it’s a terrible risk/reward profile if you have options outside of China.
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  432.  @KittyCat-qg4vd  Wow, you’re arrogant, condescending and naive all at the same time. I’m a retired corporate VP from a Fortune 50 company and spent 15 years as an expat in the region and still maintain Permanent Residence status in Singapore, so if you care to talk business, I’m more than your match, but I’ll leave you alone as I have no need to prove myself to you and I’m sure you want to get back to making yourself feel important. All the best
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  433.  @zorkmid1083  I know they can be charged by clean sources, but very few are. China will have the most ECE soon and the will all be charged by inefficient coal generators.
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  434. How does Cindy Crawford still look like she’s 30? I know she takes meticulous care of herself, but still that is some amazing genes she was provided. I’m sure her jeans are still great too.
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  435. Ukraine cannot win a war of attrition with Russia. Even if the West gave them all the weapons they wanted, they don’t have the people to win a multi-year protracted ground war against Russia. Last summer showed that Ukraine cannot push Russia out of the currently occupied territory. Best case, in my view, is an external event outside of the theatre that brings an end to hostilities. It is very unlikely that Russia will cede the territory they’ve gained. It would be the end of Putin if he doesn’t have something to show for the lives and money spent.
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  436. He wasn’t talking about retail equity positions, he was referring to hard assets, human assets, and IP in China. As a retail investor you can liquidate you equity positions in a few minutes. Personally I invest in non-Chinese & non-tech positions since last year, given the Ukraine-Russia war and tightening money supply. If you believe there is still growth in US$ denominated Chinese firms, you can stay in them for the time being
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  437. It’s funny how all these issues seem to have gotten very important since Trump returned to office, but why wasn’t he talking about the grid, with the industrial capacity, the need to organize a government effort when Biden was busy falling off hid bike and eating ice cream?
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  438. It splits and goes through Ft Worth and Dallas, but most trucks take the Ft Worth route because it’s shorter and less conjested
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  439.  @wisenber  His assessments are accurate. Indians tend to be rational and logical and many will agree with this view, so if you think that the truth is condescending and don’t think it should be stated, that is the epitome of the ‘feel good’ culture. That is why I mentioned it and I stand by my statement.
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  440.  @wisenber  I’m fine to agree to disagree on this. Keep in mind that demographics is basically the science of understanding of societies at large (aka painting with a broad brush, in your terms). So my advice is to set your ‘feel good’ approach to the world aside for demographic content and understand this is not a reflection of Indian individuals but rather the society as a whole. All the best
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  441.  @wisenber  Give it up. You’re so far out of your depth on this, it’s getting boring. Have a nice day
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  442.  @WolfMage888  is that who is attributed with this phrase?
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  443.  @Mavi-de2mv  The 500 million Muslims surrounding that area could fix the Palestinian’s problems overnight and yet they stand by for decades doing nothing. Why is that? Because the surrounding Muslims loath the Palestinians. The organ harvesting nonsense is just another garbage story that will fade away with no evidence to support it.
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  444. @ Regarding alliances that don’t involve the West, that might happen in 50 years or longer, but nothing meaningful is on the horizon for several reasons. I love to discuss, but it’s a lengthy conversation and I’m sure we’re both too busy to do it justice.
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  445. The virus danger was over but the Fauci Ouchi was just getting revved up. CA only ended their ridiculous lockdown in early 2023
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  446. Interesting. I’m an electrical engineer but earned my degree a long time ago and have never had anything more than tangential technical knowledge of this space. Sounds like a great topic to do a bit of research.
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  447. Heat has killed off the vast majority of all species that have ever existed, 100% of species will go extinct due a lack of heat. Both are true, just on different timelines
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  448. Love Peter, but it’s funny how he manages to pick something up about Trump’s decline (I don’t watch the rally’s but I did watch his three hour interview with Rogan and he seemed fine), while managing to miss the four years of that vegetable occupying 1600 PA ave.
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  449.  @ashnur  My friend, just because you’re a proponent of H-fuel, doesn’t mean that antidotal evidence can override the countless problems in terms of financial and carbon costs of moving H-fuel to a mainstream mobile energy source. H-fuel is several decades and several trillion dollars away from making a difference and that is why it will NEVER happen during our lifetimes.
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  450.  @douglasembry1630  Very cool. I’m an American too and worked im Sydney and lived in Manly from 2000 to 2003. Great assignment. Taking the ferry into work everyday will never be forgotten
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  451.  @nunyabidness3075 . I can’t speak for areas north of Texas, but there’s plenty of water in Texas to support the growth. Also the trucking of goods through an area only contributes a small percentage of the overall growth. If Texas is going to encounter population growth issues, it will be due to the influx of a huge number of companies, large and small.
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  452.  @fuzzjunky  so wait, you’re complaining about the home building rate in Australia, but also calling Elon a clown. Do you dislike both? Seems like you’d be okay with one or the other. Just asking
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  453.  @bobkoure  oh the fact you used ‘clown’ as a pronoun to describe Elon must be a language barrier on your part
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  454. I’m an ‘America First’ advocate and Peter goes down that path a bit too far for me as well. I like Micheal’s input
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  455. ⁠ @abr00ky Are you kidding? The EU is a dumpster fire and every country in it is being consumed. A UK alliance with the US would be much better for the UK citizens. Among other things, the sheer distance between the US and the UK would enable the UK to maintain its distinct culture and way of life. But beyond that, the US still seeks an ally and a trading partner from the UK, whereas the vision of the EU has always been to run the block like a single country out of Brussels.
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  456. And the Senate just passed their version of a reconciliation budget and the House will have their version ready for debate by the end of Feb
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  457. Is that you Hillary? Still dragging around that old, debunked nonsense, I see. Trump will win, in part because of dumb comments like this.
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  458. No. Submarines are not set up to address hundreds of small landing crafts.
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  459.  @omicron6513 Boomer kids are Millennials, for the most part, so your dilemma is not because your a Millennial, it was your families position on this matter. You situation is more like that of Gen Xers that are kids of the Greatest Generation
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  460. @A B I don’t think that’s correct
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  461. Look up 1905 Russian Navy Catastrophe
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  462.  @himeshwalia9553  that is true, and I respect what Indians, inside and outside, of the country are doing, however, the architects of product designers of semiconductor products are predominantly in the US in Japan with labour being used in India for development. India is still long ways from having a cutting edge fab in country. Currently there are no fabs in India and the first one is expected to come online in 2027, but it’s low tech 40 to 110 nm facility which is 15 to 20 years old.
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  463. ….and yet he routed your party in the election while retaining the House, flipping the Senate, winning the popular vote, and moving over 95% of the counties to right. So…..what does that say about your party? Also, you do realize he’s already been your POTUS and things were better then than under Biden.
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  464. Trump for all his issues, was still very much an ‘America First’ POTUS, which was better than Biden’s ‘America Last’ approach
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  465. Why don’t you go to an occupied country and find out if it’s any different than the US?
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  466. I’m afraid you’re right. I try to compartmentalize what he says between short term trends which he’s wrong most of the time vs longer term trends which is interesting and informative
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  467. @ Pathetic. It just shows you have no resistance. Enjoy the next four years
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  468.  @hkfoo3333 you’re clueless. BRI has its issues, but they are no where near as bad as those in China. If you don’t know this, get off the chat, learn something and come back so you can stop making a fool of yourself
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  469. No, he lost because Ross Perrot was a strong 3rd party candidate. I agree that breaking his ‘Read my lips…’ promise hurt him, but he still would have won in a landslide if Perot wasn’t in the race
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  470. Brilliant session.
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  471. Guns, Germs, & Steel is such a good book
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  472.  @crawkn  That’s a very good way of putting it. I fully agree and I’ve seen this up close and personal with m relatives.
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  473.  @ronarnett4811 What you said.
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  474. Yes,but that someone tanked the entire country and ruined the lives of millions of Venezuelans.
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  475.  @LeiSnows  I agree that the rich have had it too good for too long, but in my view, unions are a waste of time and money. Any gains are more than offset by union fees. Data shows that workers in right-to-work states have more disposable income compared to their counterparts in union states. The union bosses and the politicians they pay off are at least as greedy as the corporate executives.
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  476.  @PWMoze  Yes, they seem to work well in the Uk. I lived in Bath for a couple years and worked in Swindon. I don’t know enough about the differences between here and there to understand why this the case. What I do know that within the US the right-to-work states routinely refuse to be unionize, have more disposable income and generally have higher worker satisfaction ratings. Most importantly the number of new jobs and promotion opportunities is much higher in RTW states
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  477.  @peterclarke7240  The problem is far more attributable to the government overspend, inefficiencies, wastage, and pet projects that don’t benefit the US economy. Of course corporations have to shoulder some of the blame too.
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  478. Uh oh, some one has been taking legal lessons from CNN. The 14th amendment does not permit the POTUS to unilaterally extend the debt limit for any and all obligations. Section four of the 14h amended covers pensions, bounties and the suppression of rebellion. If that is all we were talking about there would be no need to raise the debt ceiling at all. Any POTUS loses in court if they bypass Congress to increase spending. This is just media fluff. Don’t buy it.
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  479. That is interesting, but I’m missing the link to the video. No material. Glad to read your comment
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  480. Obama’s intelligence is average at best. This is the guy that said he’d visited 57 states and has four to go and didn’t know how to pernounce ‘corpsmen’ during a major speech.
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  481. @@invisobull that is such BS! Its arrogance pure and simple. Its a douche move from a punk addressing a room of people that can’t be intimidated and people who he needs to support him. I hope you were joking
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  482.  @TheNemkris WTF? Either your comprehension skills are very poor or you just haven’t been listening. Peter’s position on China for the last 5 to 6 years has been that ‘in the coming decade, China will cease to exist as we know it. If anything this is unfolding faster than he had predicted
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  483. @ …and your standard is one of bias with a lack of perspective and logic, but you do you
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  484. @ clearly delusional. First of all, Trump is extremely active whether or not you agree with his politics or not. Second, keep in mind you voted for that potted plant that has occupied the White House for the last four years. As a reminder, your opinion is the minority and your candidate, and your party was trounced in the last election. Enjoy the next four years.
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  485. @ breath deep, exhale slowly and believe the your TDS affliction will subside. Hang in there, only four years and three days before Trump leaves and JD Vance is sworn in as POTUS.
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  486. @ you’re bias is against people you disagree with and you use anything about them, proven or hearsay, to act like you’re holier than thou, while never mentioning others that you agree with that have been accused of similar. I’ve read your other comments. You’re as phony as they come.
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  487. ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠ @crosslink1493 that is simply not the case. CA took over a month to COUNT some districts. This had nothing to do with CONTESTED RESULTS or CERTIFICATION. I’m not saying anything was amiss, but to suggest that CA counted expeditiously is a joke and it casts doubt on the process. CA neeeds to do a much better job getting the results out quickly.
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  488. Even as a Yank across the pond that is focused on tech, I don’t see how you discuss European politics without at least mentioning how mass Muslim immigration has impacted voter priorities.
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  489.  @mattmccartney5996  a.k.a The Fed does NOT set the Prime Rate
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  490.  @ButterfatFarms  Honestly you’re right. If all the people and all the money was permitted outside of China houses would be much much more expensive than they already are today
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  491.  @badwinkles7896  Mate, if you assessing some onebased upon whether or not they have an avatar, you’re going to remain poor forever
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  492. What’s with the numbers?
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  493. …..Ukraine hasnt given a shit what Biden thinks since Nov5
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  494.  @gror7849  Fortunately for you most Canadians don’t think that way.
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  495. That title is very misleading. There is no doubt that the GOP is changing, but this isn’t a crisis as they are expanding their tent with increased blue collar workers, blacks, Hispanics, and even women compared to the 2020 elections. It’s the Democrats that are in crisis. They’re losing supporters in all the demos mentioned above while adding those in the high-tech sector, billionaires, and social elites.
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  496. Yes, he did not spend five days discusses each and every microcosm of US society. Welcome to demographics. Peter’s general assessment of the US generations is 100% correct.
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  497. I’m 57, so I just on this side of the Boomer-GenX divide. The world has changed so much and the rate of change is accelerating and will continue to do so, well beyond our days.
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  498.  @greenberetdelta  he released an election post mortem video on Patreon a few days ago. It should be released to us, the unwashed masses, in a couple days. Should be interesting
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  499.  @RobinPageGaming  The entire world, outside of die-hard libs knew the extent of Biden’s decline long before the debate
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  500. Peter is always black and white in his assessment. There is a lot of gray space between not being in the EU and having a food embargo or even tariffs. Switzerland isn’t part of the EU either, albeit they have bilateral trade agreements, but both trade tariff free with the EU.
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  501.  @whodat9198  Totally different situation. CNN and MSNBC did have to lie about Trump, because they needed the eyeballs and clicks. Espionage is not Peter’s forte and he gets nothing incremental from this segment in terms of viewers.
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  502.  @Lumpy_Peter  You chose wisely. It took me a few more disappoints, before I learned my lesson, but learn the lesson I have now done.
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  503.  @cowboybeboop9420  No, that is what headline news indicates and while I wish they would address their immigration problem, on the ground in France it’s very different. As a Yank, I’ve developmental a new found appreciation for France and the French people. I really respect that they didn’t go headlong into globalization like the US, Germany and many others, but instead still have a lot of artisan-type smaller industries. I think in the long run this is going to play well for France, as globalization begins to unwind. Also France’s geography is top tier not only in terms of beauty and but in terms of arable land, water ways and other aspects that make countries strong. All the best.
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  504.  @KLRJUNE The Solent Green manufacturing facility
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  505. Great question and Peter does a very good job of discussing these topics in other more focused segments. BTW your assessment of immigration is spot on. WRT to robotics, it can take some of the pressure of the workforce, but more importantly China is in the midst of an implosion which Peter goes into in detail in longer segments.
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  506.  @dandefox  how did you manage to blend such an obnoxious array of arrogance, inexperience, and stupidity?
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  507.  @mikedavey1996  Same in the US. In DEA briefings, they indicate that weed and even gummies are being cut with Fentanyl because weed, by itself, isn’t very addictive. In the past weed wasn’t cut with anything because everything was more expensive, but that isn’t the case with Fentanyl. Those are some evil MFs. Be careful folks
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  508.  @benchang1022  cut means it’s mixed into the another product. They do this because Fentanyl is extremely addictive, much more so than cocaine or even heroin. It ensures the clientele return more often and for larger quantities. It’s even mixed with marijuana, in fact it’s difficult to find weed that doesn’t have trace amounts of Fentanyl in it in many parts of the US.
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  509. Peter, really? I love you, but it doesn’t seem that you understand the definition of ‘Delusional’ or ‘Demented’. If ANYTHING, Delusional applies more to Trump and Demented applies for to Biden. You really should know this
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  510.  @Rob_F8F  yeah but you’re also the guy that believed in the Russian hoax for four years, that Fauci was telling the truth about Covid, that J6 was a insurrection, there was no Hunter laptop. So giving your track record of being completely wrong about Trump, I’m fairly comfortable that you’re not gonna break your streak with this one.
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  511. China couldn’t block the SE Asian sea routes for more than a few days if their lives depended on it. If they tried the US could easily stop it by force, but they wouldn’t. Instead the US would simply and immediately stop all energy and food imports to China, which would shutdown all industry in weeks and create a mass starvation event in less than six months. China knows this which is why they would never attempt this. I’m surprised you don’t know this
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  512. I love Peter, but this is definitely a blind spot for him. The fact that he brings cognition up wrt Trump is nothing short of laughable given that he’s said nothing about Biden in this area. Whatever happens to Trump’s mind over the next four years, he is clearly much sharper than Biden was in 2019 when he began his campaign.
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  513.  @Uzishan Thank God, Hitler thought he knew more than his generals. The Russian invasion is one of the greatest blunders in the history of warfare
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  514. As someone in the industry, I understand why you it looks this way on the surface, however, this will never happen in our lifetime and adoption rates are well on their way to flattening out. There are huge limitations in several areas that will become apparent to everyone in the near future. This includes availability of materials, logistics, capital, economics, and most of all the majority of people around the world either don’t want this type of solution or don’t care about it. Even today in the US electricity demand is increasing at a rate faster than renewable energy sources are being deployed, so they are actually increasing their need for fossil fuels.
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  515.  @vicmontes7314  100% correct. It is driving the need, but it’s also outpacing the supply. I was addressing the bit about not needing much oil and gas on a longer time scale. Oil & gas is here to stay will beyond our lifetimes and I didn’t even address how O&G intensive the manufacturing process is for ‘green’ products.
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  516. ⁠ @meteorknight999  Russia has been marching towards oblivion for several decades. You’re free to think otherwise, but it’s pretty obvious if you look at the facts
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  517.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 . Nope, but try again
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  518.  @pugilist102  it’s geography and it has never been geography. Try again
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  519.  @saysimonsaid1576  given that you voted for that potted plant that occupied the White House for four years and then word-salad heels-up Harris, you have absolutely no room to talk about Trump pandering to anybody. Compared to who you voted for, Trump is the greatest negotiator that’s ever walk the planet.
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  520. ‘Trump is singularly obsessed with the trade deficit’, I’m sure everyone can think of at least a dozen other areas where Trump is focused. On the otherhand, what was Biden focused on outside of ice cream, Cornpop, and hair sniffing
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  521. That’s why we need Indian Migrants. Too many US students are getting degrees with the word ‘Studies’ in it, which is essentially a 4-year $150,000 lesson in how to become a barista with a poor work ethic and bad attitude.
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  522.  @stevensko9153  no, ICBMs are much worse, but I get your point
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  523.  @petermerelis  Yes he gets paid, and paid a lot to forecast outcomes, but his forecasts are based on extensive global data and strong analytics.
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  524.  @taylormajors5677  Its better in some ways and much worse in others
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  525. Peter’s only real strength is in long term trends in the areas of demographics, geopolitics, economic shifts over time. He’s proven many times that he’s poor at short term analysis. You can’t measure a river with the same tools used to measure a glacier
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  526.  @rg-cc5kg You’re kidding, right?
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  527. That is true if you’re following things closely. No so much if a few minutes a week is all you want. Plus, if you’re watching the regular news, they are so clueless and biased that it’s almost useless.
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  528.  @LewisPulsipher  if you think Trump is stupid and lazy, you’re just telling the world that your IQ is below 80. You can disagree with Trump all you want, but that man came out of nowhere to annihilate the Democrat establishment as someone who had never run for office. Most recently, he completed the greatest political comeback in US history and nothing else is close. While doing so, he moved the entire nation to the right by winning all seven swing states and making significant gains in the Hispanic, black men and the under 30 vote. I will guarantee you that alone is 100 times more than you’ll accomplish in your lifetime.
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  529.  @vinnyvinson  haha, I heard that guy now has a few followers now. I think Joe might have introduced Peter to me as well. I can’t remember.
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  530.  @henrikjohansson6666  if that’s what you think, you’re not at all involved in IT or any tech field
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  531. 100% correct. This is a political stunt and has nothing to do with getting food to Palestinians.
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  532.  @protorhinocerator142  100% correct, particularly because one of the main proponents for leaving the Jones act in place was the EPA, which is about to be neutered.
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  533.  @zopEnglandzip  They absolutely do have those vehicles. The Russians moth-ball everything. They’re crap and they’re broken and in need of repair but they do have them. The world has massive supply chain issues and the Russian are genetically, for what ever reason, horrible at logistics and supply chain management and have been forever.
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  534. Not nearly as weird, though. Texas has reasonable electricity prices.
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  535. @ yes, for a hundred year freeze there are issues with an isolated grid. Many of these issues have been resolved since the last one, but Texas won’t and shouldn’t build their grid in a manner done in Calgary or Cleveland where hard freezes are common.
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  536. @DanRather Let’s not pray to him and let’s not call him a god
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  537.  @jsjm7519 Thanks for posting this. I hadn’t heard of this closing before the post. I think the full story makes the situation look more dire than the original comment.
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  538.  @stevechance150 is that all got? Socialism has killed tens of millions of people and kept hundreds of millions in poverty with no chance to improve their lives, but in your mind that is all offset by one storm, in one city nearly 20 years ago. Good luck with that
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  539.  @rolfonso  if you knew the telltale signs of Fascism, instead of just parroting MSNBC talking points, you would know the Left exhibits these traits to a much greater degree than Trump.
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  540.  @chinesecrested9528  Yea, I know democrats always want to circumvent the will of the citizenry and Trump has put that at risk for you, but still he has a mandate, so he’ll stay. But you can move to Russia with your leftist friends. After all, Russia is more closely aligned with your political beliefs than America.
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  541. @ I’m getting what I want every day. Thanks for asking. How about you? Canada has already agreed to what Trump wanted and the tariff has been removed. $1.3B additional committed towards border security and the appointment of a fentanyl czer. We will all be safer You’re welcome.
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  542.  @NoPe-no4sn  PBS isn’t the main problem because they are tiny compared to all the other options, but if PBS was the only source it would be the biggest problem.
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  543.  @NoPe-no4sn  I’m glad you have finally joined the others and now understand my initial comment
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  544. You clearly have very little understanding of the situation. The relationship is cordial and trade takes place, but there is no trust of China by the Vietnamese people or the government.
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  545. Well, we can agree to disagree on this. I’ve spent a couple of hundred in VN and conducted several million USD in business with state-owned entities over the last 20 years and my view is that there is plenty of commerce between VN and China but very little trust. We’ll see what the future brings. All the best
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  546. It was Biden
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  547. As an American that lived in Thailand for nearly a decade, what you’re seeing now is a result of the Russian mafia moving into Thailand en masse in the early 2000s. There were large communities of Europeans there before which have left because of the Russians. Also Thailand sold their soul to China in the beginning around 2008 and unfortunately the Thais are suffering because of it.
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  548.  @michaelm4597 Yea, you’re right Texas is the only place where people complain about teacher’s salaries.
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  549.  @medraut6599  Wow, you clearly don’t understand the concept. I feel for you. Please go educate yourself so you have a chance at getting ahead in life.
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  550. ⁠ @QuantumAscension1 I appreciate your position, but unfortunately voices like yours are drowned out by the militants that are willing to tear down the entire system to achieve their green nirvana which doesn’t exist and will never exist
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  551.  @colejosephalexanderkashay683  Correct, but the Democrats are allowed to participate in the vote to fund the Ukrainian war effort, so the problem is all the Democrats and the 10-12 holdouts on the right.
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  552.  @brianhillier7052  when did he say that? I saw the video about a year ago where he said Biden would win easily but don’t recall he mentioned he was bad at predicting elections
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  553. @theredscourge  I agree. I disagree with Peter on this, but my comment was that I don’t recall HIM mentioning he was bas at forecasting elections
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  554.  @DrTTube  Apparently. The UK and France seem to have a stronger fighting spirit than the Swedes now, based on the comments
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  555.  @mugin11223344 The problem is that a balanced future is not at all what the rabid Greens are insisting upon. They want and expect a future completely free of fossil fuels.
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  556.  @akitadog01  That’s awesome. There are definitely places where you can lower the price of electricity with solar, like CA, HI, and others, however this is a function of market prices, not costs. Some states have very expensive grid electricity and solar panels are currently subsidized. I’m an engineer in the industry and while I’m a fan of solar and wind in the right place for the right applications, the costs for input, manufacturing, maintenance, disposal, etc. are still higher than fossil fuel generated electricity unless these technologies are deployed in certain areas. For instance solar panel efficiency is a function latitude, altitude, humidity, air particulates, and other factors. Glad to hear you’re saving money.
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  557. Consequential? Absolutely, but overall Carter was the worst POTUS of our lifetime, closely followed by Biden. Equally bad was his constant meddling in politics for decades after his failed political career which was thankfully cut short as a one-termer, also similar to Biden.
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  558. So low trying to scam someone in the name of Jesus - from a Christian
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  559.  @ButterfatFarms  yea, you’re right. I did forget about that he has no jurisdiction in state matters. I stand corrected
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  560.  @vantage789  I love your comment
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  561. Those that think AI will no wipe out enter sectors are fooling yourselves. Robots have replaced millions of repetitive blue collar jobs over the last few decades and AI will do the same to many repetitive white collar jobs, like accounting, taxes filings, translations, editing in the short term, longer term it will replace much of the repetitive mechanical job like driving buses and trains. It’s coming in the next decade
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  562.  @danielhouse1053  EV are not the future in our lifetime. it’s not an emotional issue (like it, or not), it has to with the facts, not fairytales. We can’t get there from here in our lifetimes.
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  563.  @nole8923 Please. You think either side is better than the other? They’re not. Both sides are equally corrupt and proponents of laws that are contrary to the best interest of Americans.
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  564.  @SkyDiver-wd5oj According to several sources Ukraine has $38M people and an estimated 3-4M immigrated out during the war, some of which will return whenever it is over.
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  565.  @yt-xe8ws what a moronic comment. I don’t know if you’re a bot or just dumb
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  566. I watch PZ every day, and I’m sure he’s very busy, but he’s not that busy. Also this looks staged like he’s getting ready to promote that bag on the bed.
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  567.  @РубероидОтважный everyone knows Russia is weak, poorly trained, poorly led, poorly equipped, and poorly motivated.
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  568. @ I agree with that 100%
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  569.  @dixonhill1108  interesting points. So you believe there will be a reversal in the trend of ever increasing screen times? Personally, I don’t see it as long as we are so comfortable in life, but I truly hope you are correct. I’m a big believer in the phrase, ‘Bad times create strong men, strong men bring good times, good times creates weak men, weak men bring bad times’. We are definitely in the ‘good times creates weak men’ part of the cycle, so you might just be right.
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  570.  @u2beuser714  I get it, but apparently you don’t. It’s not about this country or that country, it’s about long term vs short term trends. Besides, if you think he’s wrong on everything, why are you here watching videos, reading through comments and making snarky responses? Just asking
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  571.  @johnstrauch8949  Countries aren’t going to bet their existence on digital currencies. And politicians aren’t going to be their careers, their lives, and the lives of their families on digital currencies
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  572.  @michaelbarnes736  You don’t get it. If the US debt was all that is at risk, this would have happened 30 years ago, They do care about the US Navy not protecting their vessels. If the US stops, their insurance premiums increase by 20x overnight. If China tries to circumvent the Petrodollar, the US won’t protect those shipments, their inbound shipments of food and outbound shipment of products they sell to the world. And that is just a passive response. If the US actively needs to shut this down, which they won’t, the US can easily cut China off from world and China industrial output drops to zero and starves to death in 3-6 months,
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  573.  @KRAMITDFROG Remember using Encyclopedia Britainica for school papers in grade school and HS? Also one big reason college grads have increased since Gen X is because of student loans being so easy to get after Gen X went through their education years. The down side of student loans also caused ‘education inflation’ because there were too many students chasing too few spots in universities. The other downside of student loans is the advent of useless degrees that have no value to society.
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  574.  @onewillow8511  he didn’t reply to you. It was to the original comment 😊
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  575.  @onewillow8511  cool. Just letting you know. Have a good one
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  576.  @MyMagicalPeanut  nice
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  577. Biden might have seen the entire arc of the nuclear age, but he was never very smart and now he remembers only a small portion of the the little knowledge he had. I love Peter, but to suggest the Biden is the best POTUS to handle this is ridiculous. Trump, Obama, Bush Jr, Clinton, Bush Sr, and Reagan would have all been better choices to handle this.
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  578.  @r13hd22  Wrong. You don’t understand this topic at all. China does not import most of their oil for Russia. They import more from Saudi’s Arabia than Russia. Only about 16% of Chinas oils comes from Russia. Over 80% of China’s oil arrives from the and the US could shut down 100% of the sea imports in less than six hours. China is deathly afraid of an oil embargo and a food embargo.
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  579.  @dixonhill1108 I agree with most of what you say however its more than just the assumption of logical actors. China has degraded to a stage where growing and gaining wealth is no longer a possibility. The CCP is now worried about retaining power, so their logic is they can’t do anything to risk an oil (or food) embargo and still keep the people of China under their thumb. Peter has factored this into his calculus.
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  580. There are over 500 million Muslims in the immediate area. They could have easily absorbed the 2 million Palestinians decades ago and assimilated them into their societies, but they won’t because the surrounding Muslims hate the Palestinians, view them as sum-humans, and want nothing to do with them.
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  581.  @charleshill7184 Yes, but their scope should be limited to those things which can only be done by the government. We don’t need the Department of Energy wading into every facet of the economy that is related to energy
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  582. so is AWS and I suspect Azure and GCP
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  583. Mr Sunshine strikes again
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  584. Same
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  585. When you combine greed and a lack of accountability, this is the likely outcome.
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  586.  @hg2.  He’s is definitely not drinking the Green Kool-Aid. He’s the one throwing a wet blanket on it, with facts and logic. As they say, there are two types of people that are not invited to Green conferences. This first are non-believers, the second are those that can do math. PZ is the later on the surface, and may or may not be the former on the inside.
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  587.  @hill2750  No actually, its the human influence on AI that is the real danger, not the AGI itself. In any case, from what I know about AI, I think PZ gets most of it and he has a good stream of data to learn from over time, so given the breadth of knowledge he has, its still pretty impressive to me
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  588. Was thinking the same. Amazing
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  589.  @shutinalley  where do you think almost all the tech comes from? Come on you the answer. Correct, it comes from the capital generated by captialism. Without capitalism, tech wilts and dies. You don’t have to like and are free to keep wishing for socialism, but that is how things work and will continue to work for as long as you alive
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  590. ⁠ @Jac0bIAm  Things are going to get worse for everyone, but the Yanks have much better demographics than Europeans, are completely self sufficient when it comes to food and fuel, and are far less industrialized than countries like Germany. North America in general including the Canadians and the Mexicans are going to fair far better that Europeans
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  591.  @ernestmac13  First of all the recession was caused by a Democratic Congress and in particular Barney Frank who chaired FanneMae and FreddyMac and assured The Americans that the housing market stable despite the loose lending terms. He did this for years prior to the crash and continue to do so right up to the crash. Second, the recovery should have been V-shaped given the money that was thrown at the problem. Instead it was L-shaped and the slowest recovery in the history of the US.
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  592.  @calc1657  no one is crying, other than leftists. In fact, we’re thrilled and we like Peter for geopolitics, but when he’s completely wrong in an area where he has very little expertise, a mea culpa moment is in order to restore his credibility and our confidence in other predictions which are still several years out.
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  593. Correct. EVs should be called ECEs - External Combustion Engines
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  594.  @buckbenelli8  You are such arrogant POS! These people live their lives as productive Americans that contribute to our economy, and you presume to know what is best for them. You are the precise reason why the Democratic Party lost the unions. In your tiny mind, you think you understand everything and therefore are comfortable with these idiotic claims. You do the same if people of color, women, the poor make any decision that doesn’t align with your political bias.
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  595. Yea I agree. Peter’s strength is in the area of long-term trends based upon a breath of data across a surprisingly broad set of topics. However, he is much less accurate when it comes to short term predictions, because first of all his data becomes less useful and it’s difficult to keep personal bias out of the equation.
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  596.  @naghanass2430  100% agree. I’m an engineer that’s been on the business side of the equation for a few decades and love to learn about areas where I have little knowledge or experience. While I don’t put as much credence on Peter’s short term assessments, he has vastly expanded my knowledge of demography, geography, geopolitics, global logistics, and several processes like mining, manufacturing, etc and in general how I view and think about the world.
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  597.  @JM-gu3tx Balochi is the language, Baluch are the people
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  598. Yes, but that isn’t needed in China. The CCP’s control over its citizenry is so complete that they can stoke a nationalistic frenzy with just a few propaganda hit pieces
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  599. Yea, I love Peter, but he is clueless when it comes to near-term events and in particular when it comes to Trump. Trump is far from perfect, but he is smart to leave all options on the table. Threatening to pull out of NATO was a negotiation tactic, that worked and NATO is better off for it. Also Russia would have never invaded Ukraine had Trump been on office. Russia took over the Crimea when Obama was in office, was completely silent while Trump was in office, and then resume hostilities right after Biden took the oath. The same is true about threatening tariffs.
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  600.  @stotheh  you need to look up the word ‘literal’ and check your delusion. Do you find it at all strange that Tulsi was embraced by the left for years as a hero when she was one of your leaders and as soon as she changed sides, she’s all of a sudden a Russian asset? Do you think the Federal background check before becoming a dem rep in The House would have picked up her involvement with Russia? If this was the case do you think she might have been charged, indicted, and sentenced or is the federal government so asleep at the wheel that they would let this go? Wake up, snowflake and use any logical thought process you have left in you.
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  601.  @Crockdaddy1074  aside from what the public thinks, Trump is gaining captial with billionaires, media heads, heads of state,etc.
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  602.  @yopyop3241  That is true, but it is a very poor solution and they still require some heavy sour in the mix. Its so poor that the industry would prefer to ship our oil across the seas and import oil from across the seas rather than refine it our facilities. The solution that is needed is to build sweet refineries on-shore. Oil companies won’t pay for this, but the government might if it seen as an existential threat. They would take 8-10 years to build assuming the environmental studies were waived or fast tracked.
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  603.  @_PatrickO What are you smoking? If the US oil production comes off line, oil would be $200/bbl and gas would be $10-20/ gallon, depending on the state. There is NO path forward for mass EVs adoption to replace ICEs for next 50 years at least. There is insufficient raw materials on the plant to build them, EVs aren’t suitable for people outside large metro areas, the EV manufacturing process is several times more energy intensive than that of ICEs, and the plastics produced from fossil fuels are required throughout EVs and everything else we use, including that device used to type your ridiculous comment. It is a very good thing that you’ll never be in charge of this decision.
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  604.  @Leadbelly. Canada cut off the US? WTF? Beyond the fact that to US and Canada have always been close allies, that would be economic suicide for Canada, not he US
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  605. The Kremlin
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  606. I’m not a fan of Trump, the person, but he did advise Germany not to rely on too heavily on Russian NatGas and wanted to supply LNG from the US. In turn the German contingency laughed and snickered at the UN forum. Had this moved forward this capacity would have been coming on line soon.
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  607.  @chimera5054  that’s interesting. I need to look into to this.
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  608.  @AGenerationJones  yes we all know that you think that that potted plant occupying the White House for the last four years or his DEI VP pick would have been better, but the people disagreed and gave Trump a mandate, so sit back and relax 😎
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  609.  @joeharris9426  yea, you missed the point too
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  610. Yea, ok. That makes a lot more sense
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  611.  @niemi5858  Your TDS is getting in the way of rational thought, again. Trump did more to strengthen alliances in his first term, than Biden did, by far. He’ll do more in this term than he did in his first
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  612. Yea, the interview was for propaganda, but a lot of what the US does is propaganda too. I’m just prefer to hear both sides knowing that each has a clear agenda
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  613.  wecanjump7512 We’re all suspicious and we should be, but why wouldn’t we want to hear what he has to say. We know it’s propaganda. You do know that all governments engage in propaganda.
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  614.  @johnstenhouse7960  Exactly my point. Putin does not permit the Russian people to hear outside views. They are communists, we are not. Why would you advocate following Putin’s lead in this or any other area?
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  615.  @SoulStar2332  You should be suspicious of people that want to tell you that you already have the information you need and don’t need another perspective.
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  616.  @Meton2526  The short answer is no I don’t have a strong data source for unrented units. It terms of having enough dwelling this is very clear when taking the aggregate numbers of units based upon occupancy permits divided by the census bureau assessment of the number of families and subtracting out the estimated number 2nd/vacation homes. In terms of unrented units, foreign buying to park money offshore is a small portion of this, but the bigger contributors are due to the spike in the number homes that were purchased during covid to be used as short terminals rentals (vrbo, etc) and a larger supply of new inventory that was held up during covid due to a shortage of materials and workers which has one hit the market but is too expensive given current interest rates.
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  617. Chubby Indian Assassins? Really? I can hardly imagine fit Indian assassins. I know it’s a serious issue, but I can’t stop thinking this sounds like a cartoon.
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  618.  @jesan733  nice try at cherry-picking data. Yes, the M2 is about the same as it was 3 years ago, but it’s increased by $500 billion in the last year and more importantly over $6 trillion in the last five years. Is that enough statistics or would you like to cherry-pick another date range?
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  619. Wars will not be won by drones. Drones play an important role, but play a similar role as smart bombs, but do not capture or hold ground
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  620.  @MisterWaldo  Really? Why didn’t you have the same question for the original commenter that believes that whoever has the better drones will win? Show me a land war that has ever been one with airpower. Drones are currently used for intel, reconnaissance, battlefield support, and small surgical engagements. They are not even close to being the deciding factor in this war or any war in the foreseeable future. There is a path to get there, but it is decades away. I’ll leave at that.
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  621. As apposed to that potted plant you voted for that occupied the White House House for the past four years
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  622.  @yellow01umrella  Sorry, I’m not familiar with their link to the Roman Empire. What’s the basis? I’d love to read up on this. Thanks
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  623.  @wilhelmheinzerling5341 100% wrong. Business that act like governments go bankrupt and are replaced my more efficient, better run companies. Also companies are continuously working to come up with better solutions to obsolete existing ones. You need to learn this lesson
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  624.  @ReductioadVeritas That is how it works. 99% of companies that fail go out of business. The ‘too big to fail’ was used on a handful of companies 15 years ago. In my opinion they should have been let to fail, but regardless that is not the norm. Businesses are much better run that the government because they have substantially smarter people that are more motivated and they have the threat of competition and obsolescence.
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  625.  @letsRegulateSociopaths Total BS, just like all the other dooms-day predictions that have come and gone. When are you going to objectively look at the track record and realize that the Cimate Industrial Complex has been over exaggerating the issue for decades. Follow the money. I am not at all a climate change denier, but I am also not an alarmist either. We need to move to a better energy source, but this cannot crater the economies before they are ready for mainstream application. Fossil fuels will configure to be the primary energy source for several decades. This is not contested by anyone with knowledge that is being honest.
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  626.  @gigglehertz  Is that all you got? Pretty sad, particularly after supporting that potted plant that occupied the White House for four years and then his DEI selection for vice president.
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  627. @ there’s not a MAGA voter that feels that way, but you’re welcome to your delusion
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  628. @ eggs? Is all you got? You do realize that the Biden admin culled 100m chickens before he left. Bring up eggs again in six months and let’s see where we are. You’re grasping at straws. I just hope you know it.
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  629.  @edbouhl3100  so your comment was baseless. Thanks for setting the record straight
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  630.  @BobfromSydney I’m a Singapore Permanent Resident and it is definitely not in the micro-state category 6 million people, 25miles x 45 miles is to large to be a micro-state
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  631.  @SkyRiver1  Yea, I’ve read about this before, but its not supported be facts, but rather loose data, stretched to drive a narrative
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  632.  @gzsprout  Biden caused the prices to go up in the first place, by hamstringing the US O&G industry. The SORs are not to be used as a political lever. Also they had a chance to refill the SORs when the price low, but didn’t. Cluster-Fvck all around.
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  633. Wow, your comment and those that responded (except the moronic socialist @marvingardenproduce798) to you really add context to the situation. Thanks for taking the time. God bless
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  634. ⁠ @0wn-nothing-be-happy  You are such a typical leftist and as usual you’re incorrect. Chavez was the problem, not America. He socialized the economy and that’s why it collapsed. I know you’re a big fan of socialism, but socialism fails 100% of the time. The hard working, highly educated Venezuelans that left their beloved homeland, didn’t do so because of America, in fact many of them cam to America to flee their oppressive government.
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  635.  @jesan733 terrible comparison. Think about it. You’ll figure it out
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  636. Wow, that is a naive comment. Why don’t you ask the French? They have aligned with the US since their battle for independence and both have help each other for decades, not least of which included freeing France from NAZI control. Any thought that the US role in NATO for the last 75 years might have contributed to France’s current security?
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  637. He has addressed the election. It dropped on his Patreon channel about 4-5 days ago. So, we the unwashed masses should get it in a couple days.
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  638. Great comment. As a Yank my first reaction is that his argument is way too binary. In particular, an agreement with continental Europe would not preclude UK agriculture. Europe’s cost point is high and the supply is somewhat at risk at present. I can’t comment on the impact of lower cost goods from N.A., but it seems crazy to lose the ability to feed your own people.
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  639. Another comment from this Yank. I’ve traveled all over the world including being an expat in Asia for over 15 years. This included about 20 trips to England in support of financing for our projects abroad. I can say with confidence that British food is as good as you’re willing to spend. Even Shepard’s Pie with Mushy Pees and a couple of pints at the local pub is pretty good and always a good time. Fine dining is available in all the cities and many of the small towns.
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  640. @ easy there, lefty. We understand you’re still butt hurt that the worst candidate in US history lost, but hang in there.
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  641.  @LRRPFco52  Not everyone said that. Everyone agreed Russia would likely win but the timeframes varied a lot
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  642. Your comment is very interesting. I’m a few years from retirement and I’m consulting now, but earlier in my career I managed a large team of mostly engineers and project managers. Some of my friends still manage considerable teams of non-STEM employees and they echo the exact same sentiment as you.
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  643. I was thinking the exact same thing. I was watching the horizon and for being and held with no gimbal it is incredibly stable.
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  644.  @aklimar2208 Nice reference! How did you have that ready to go for just such an occasion. Well played
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  645.  @utahcornelius9704  And what does your comment say about you and you’re life? To me you appear more irrelevant and a lot less happy than those having this conversation.
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  646. It’s not even breakers. It’s just turning off digital ports on inbound connections. Takes a few seconds and can be restored much faster than cutting the electiricty.
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  647.  @fwfeo  No, I didn’t buy the sales pitch. I had personal friends that went to Russia as part of the SALT II treaty on 1984 to inspect their ICBMs and most of them had been frozen in ice for several years (they took core samples of the ice) and the expansion in the silos from water to ice had compromised the exteriors of the launch vehicles such that they would have disintegrated before they reached the upper atmosphere. You clearly don’t understand the business, because if you did, you would know that flying cosmonauts/astronauts to dock with the space station is trivial compared to managing an arsenal of launch ready ICBM for decades. Don’t f* with me in this area. You’re out of league. Take the ‘L’ and learn something, Youngblood.
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  648.  @wisenber  Standard procedure for Patriot batteries to relocate after each use. The reason is because satellite imaging and in the case of Ukraine even local CCTV can be tapped to triangulate the missile trajectory to pinpoint the launch location. If Russia knows where they are, they would be very easy to neutralize. The exhaust trails remain observable not only in the visible spectrum but also in the infrared band for several minutes after launch. The fact that they vehicle mounted is not to move than into position, but rather to get them out of harm’s way after they have done their job.
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  649.  @devalapar7878  I agree that most of this is within or tangential to geography, but there isn’t a geographer out there with the breadth and relative depth of knowledge of Peter’s
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  650.  @devalapar7878  Please, stop the BS. If you knew as much as Peter you wouldn’t be watching this channel and you’d have your own consulting company, like Peter, making millions a year, like Peter. It is laughable that would make this comment.
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  651.  P A  Not in this video. From the reflection in his sunglasses you can see his arm holding the phone
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  652. Thanks. Interesting
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  653. No you were’t
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