Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "RealLifeLore" channel.

oddly, there are other survival stories out there where the survivor at one point gave up and or tried to commit suicide, failed to die, and so resolved to live (and did). Human psychology can be strange.
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What blows my mind is his complete lack of navigation skills. Couldn't even tell what direction he was walking.
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climate change didn't hurt Mongolia. you're wildly speculating into the future as to what it Might do, all based on lies. 1-2C warming isn't hurting Mongolia. in the long run, some warming might be a good thing, opening up the waterways and northern regions. extreme weather is not caused by warming. extreme weather is caused by extreme temperature differentials, and such weather has gone one for all of history. The entire earth froze over once or twice, all by itself. Canada used to be covered in forests up north, how could that be unless it used to be warm up there?
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@cocomunga I've been in sandstorms, the middle of wide open deserts, and scorching heat (147F). Very easy to tell which way is north by watching the sun. And even with shifting dunes, in a wide open desert, short distance navigation while maintaining orientation (within 5-10 degrees accuracy of your intended direction even) is possible with no map or compass. Also, in survival, with clear skies like the Sahara, travel at night and use the stars to orient/navigate (extremely easy skill). Modern people are losing their basic survival skills. He was stupid to keep moving in a sandstorm. Seems no one else was stupid enough to continue in the storm. Why he thought anyone else would continue is beyond me. Pause for the storm, like everyone else, move around slightly/periodically if worried about getting buried, and continue after it passes. He couldn't conduct basic navigation with clear skies (day or night), what made him think he could navigate in a sandstorm when he clearly understood the dunes could shift?
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Sometimes it's good to fail at things, like his attempted suicide.
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periodic fluctuations in temps is not climate change. it's just normal fluctuations. these weather events happen periodically. things like "100yr flood" and such happens. same with temps and droughts.
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Next you should make a list of all the countries the US invaded, specifically pointing out which ones we gave back peacefully... Everyone claims we were/are an empire, but when you look how much territory we captured but never claimed, or even gave back later, is astonishing. (Mexico, Philippines, Italy, Germany, Japan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Grenada, Panama Canal, Cuba...) Not to mention countries we occupied with enough forces to conquer, but were there for other reasons (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Korea, England, Australia...).
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winter storm and hurricane devastation? you sure. I live in these parts of the US and never heard of this devastation before. Asked my dad about all the doomsday believers about agriculture in teh US and he just laughed and waved his hand at the fields we have growing this year. Up until my generation, our family has farmed for hundreds of years. Not seeing any of this crisis other than high fuel prices and lack of people willing to work.
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@HW-sw5gb I know, but people act like it is. I was debating a guy on youtube just the other day claiming our crops were failing due to climate change. But we've had record yields year after year for over a decade now.
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@HW-sw5gb Not exactly sure what you mean by "paying more". Are you referring to insurance or something like that?
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@HW-sw5gb Yes, certain countries are affected by the food shortages more than others. But no evidence of climate change being an issue. Sea levels have not risen on average globally. and food production is still high (other than affected by war and stupid politicians) globally and rising year after year. Fewer and fewer people have died year after year from natural disasters and climate than ever before in human history. And this is due to the use of fossil fuels primarily, and the cheap energy it gives us to solve all of these problems. Meanwhile it (CO2) regreens the earth, makes plants more resistant to drought, increases crop yields, etc.
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@HW-sw5gb I agree. My philosophy is that businesses need to play the long game, not the short game. And they need to care about 3 things. Take care of the customer, focus on building and maintaining a reputation, and take care of your employees. Do that, and any business will be hard to beat.
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@Angryblonde US was not at war in Vietnam, never declared war in North Vietnam. defending South only. Also, every major battle was a US military victory. US "lost" politically, not militarily.
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@BlakeTimmonsArt No, I've literally navigated in conditions like this. I've very nearly suffered from heat stroke in a desert and managed to avoid it. Most people who've explored the outdoors enough should be able to do such basic land navigation as well. The locals can navigate the desert just fine, and they are considered "less educated". But they're still smart enough to find their way. I've been to many deserts of the world, and hope to visit all the major deserts at some point in my life. I was born in a desert and am adapted to desert climates.
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@BlakeTimmonsArt I never said they were less educated, especially in regards to survival. I said people like those commenting on these videos might look down on those nomadic desert people as "less educated" in general, but their survival skills and navigation skills are superior to most modern people in developed nations. I was literally praising the locals, and trying to show how people of "higher education" are not always as smart as they think, especially when it comes to real world survival skills.
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Don't forget the other potential Allies against China. South Korea, Philippines, ASEAN, and others.
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the problem with Cuba or an ally (like Russia) threatening the US access to the Atlantic ocean by restricting traffic through the straights, is that unlike China's problems with straights in the south Pacific, the US owns one side of the straight, where as China owns neither side of the straights that strangle it. Also, these "straights" are rather large. Also, the US has a massive navy and no other power can project that much naval might in Cuba. Basically, the US will never lose access to the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico. The Cuban missile crisis had nothing to do with blockading shipping, nor could it achieve that.
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regreening the Sahara is a more worthwile effort
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Vesuvius also erupted in WW2.
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the US didn't invade and conquer Half of Mexico, it invaded and conquered ALL of Mexico, and we annexed half.
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and yet people think Communist China is great.
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People just don't take Geography seriously enough. Why is Africa chronically poor? Geography
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the only reason the CCP fears the Strait of Malacca is because they know they have ill intentions. If the CCP's intentions were good, they would have no issue remaining friendly with nations to have uninterrupted access to teh strait at all times.
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the silk road went to China, but wasn't it more the Europeans that worked to create it, not China?
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UK used to be connected to Europe, and was discovered well before it became an island.
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why do you and others continue to persist spreading the 600+ US military bases lie? Most of these "bases" are nothing more than a handful of advisors or embassy guards in a building.
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13:50 don't forget the UK carriers are manned by US servicemembers, stocked with US fighter jets, and escorted by US destroyers.
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the flood would not be nearly as large a the ancient great flood ~12k yrs ago.
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people need to grow a brain and realize they are taking away the wrong lessons from US involvement in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
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Taiwan used to fly U-2 spay planes over mainland China.
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Canada should just join the US already. They're all huddled up against the US border trying to stay warm ;)
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